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Science can answer moral questions
ByStevenQuestions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can — and should — be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.
Cyborg Snail Power!
ByStevenSnails have joined the growing ranks of animals whose own metabolism can be used to generate electricity. The dozen or so brown garden snails crawling around the plastic, moss-filled terrarium in Evgeny Katz’s laboratory look normal, but they have a hidden superpower: they produce electricity. Into each mollusc, Katz and his team at Clarkson University…
Higgs boson: scientists 99.999% sure ‘God Particle’ has been found
ByStevenScientists believe they have captured the elusive “God particle” that gives matter mass and holds the physical fabric of the universe together. The historic announcement came in a progress report from the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator. Professor John Womersley. chief executive of the Science and technology Facilities Council, told reporters at a briefing in…
Where Humans Split from Sharks
ByStevenCommon Ancestor Comes Into Focus ScienceDaily — The common ancestor of all jawed vertebrates on Earth resembled a shark, according to a new analysis of the braincase of a 290-million-year-old fossil fish that has long puzzled paleontologists.New research on Acanthodes bronni, a fish from the Paleozoic era, sheds light on the evolution of the earliest…
Cygnus Loop Nebula
ByStevenTaken by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer in ultraviolet, the Cygnus Loop Nebula looks like some kind of deep-sea phosphorescent creature.

