‘Science’ Archives
Optical Illusion Science Project
An optical illusion is first of all an illusion. An illusion is a false understanding of information perceived from reality. Optical means that it pertains to the sense of vision. The oldest optical illusion ever to exist is the rainbow. It is a refraction of sunlight through the prism of raindrops. Much more complicated is one of mankind’s [...]
Will We Clone a Dinosaur?
If you use DNA taken from its myriad wing descendants, the idea is not as farfetched as it first appears The short answer is no. The slightly longer answer is definitely not. The Jurassic Park idea „ amber, insects and bits of frog dna „ would not work in a million years, and it was by far the most ingenious suggestion yet made for how [...]
Evolution: The next 200 years
Richard Dawkins Which facts about evolution had to be true, and which just happen to be true? Did the genetic code have to be digital in order for natural selection to work? Could any other class of molecules have substituted for proteins? How inevitable was the evolution of sex? Eyes? Intelligence? Language? Consciousness? Was the origin of life [...]
Did dark energy give us our cosmos?
OUR universe may have arisen from seeds preserved in a universe that existed before the big bang - all thanks to dark energy. One of the models put forward to explain how the universe began proposes that it is just the latest phase in a never-ending cycle. Proposed in 2002 by Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University and Neil Turok from the [...]
US laser warplane under threat from Barack Obama
The future of a US warplane that fires lasers at the enemy is under threat from Barack Obama's administration. One of first the first decisions of US defence that the President-elect will face in office will be whether or not to continue funding for the futuristic Airborne Laser weapons programme. The system aims to send an invisible, [...]
Obama Abandoning Science Fiction as He Announces “Science Team”
We should all be elated that President-elect Barack Obama and his administration will be abandoning “science fiction” in favor of “science fact” so that future action can be based on reality and not politics. President-elect Obama’s selection Saturday of a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist for science posts is a sign he [...]
BlackLight Power claims novel energy source
BlackLight Power, a company that claims to draw energy from a disputed form of hydrogen, said on Thursday that it has licensed its technology to a customer. New Jersey-based BlackLight Power said a subsidiary of a small New Mexico utility, Roosevelt County Electric Cooperative, has licensed its technology and the rights to buy its [...]
Scientists Solve 16th-Century Mystery
More than 400 years after Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe challenged established wisdom about the heavens by analyzing a strange new light in the sky, scientists say they've finally nailed down just what he saw. It's no big surprise. Scientists have known the light came from a supernova, a huge star explosion. But what kind of supernova? A new [...]
Spanish Inquisition couldn’t quash Moorish- Jewish genes
Finding suggests modern history, not just prehistory, can leave a strong mark on a region’s genetic signature Hold the history book presses. The Moorish invasion of Spain was never completely repelled, a new genetic analysis reveals. As many as one in 10 men from Spain and Portugal still carry genetic evidence of North African ancestry, [...]
