Scientists 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…
Questions 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.
Common 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…
An artist’s rendition of XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx space plane high above the Earth. Roughly the size of a small private airplane, the craft is designed to make several flights a day into a zero-gravity environment. (Mike Massee/XCOR) Thrill seekers looking for the ultimate rocket ride may soon turn that dream into a reality aboard a…
Prometheus watchers may find that this looks familiar. It is a H.R. Giger design for a production of ‘Dune’ that was never filmed. Salvador Dali was also involved in the concept designs for the abandoned film.
The discovery may change the way we imagine and depict dinosaurs. A new method for measuring the weight and size of dinosaurs has found that these animals weighed less than previously estimated. A huge Brachiosaur, once thought to weigh 176,370 pounds, is now believed to have weighed 50,706 pounds. The researchers believe all dinosaurs were…
