by Admin | Sep 25, 2015 | Articles, Climate Change
Humans have been looking for other inhabitable planets for about as long as we’ve understood what planets actually are. Unfortunately, we’ve largely been looking for other planets that remind us the most of home, and while that kind of makes sense, it eliminates from...
by Admin | Sep 24, 2015 | Articles, Climate Change
For some years now, the plight of the polar bear has looked pretty grim. As climate change continues to accelerate Arctic ice melting, the seasons where they must stay on land, instead of being able to hunt for seals on ice floes, has seemed to doom the species. Some...
by Admin | Sep 23, 2015 | Articles, Uncategorized
It’s time to set another place at the table of human ancestry. A recent discovery in South Africa revealed a new humanoid ancestor, called Homo naledi. This newly discovered species was smaller than humans, with a brain size not much larger than that of a chimpanzee....
by Admin | Sep 22, 2015 | Articles, Green Energy
In Germany, professor Hermann Heilmeier and his team have figured out a way to extract germanium from plants. Germanium is an element once used in transistors, and is now used in computers, smartphones, and fiber-optic cables. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to...
by Admin | Sep 16, 2015 | Articles
In what sounds like the start of a horror film, scientists are working to awaken a “giant” virus they found in Siberia, which has been frozen for over 30,000 years. They’re going to make sure that it can’t harm humans first. Mollivirus sibericum, as this virus is...
