Most people have a problem in looking at a problem from a different point of view than their own. Curiously enough the our species has the same problem; scientists have found more than 240 planets in the past two decades, none likely to support Earth-like life. But just recently did the whole astronomic community as [...]
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Titan is a constant point of interest and scientists find out more fascinating things about this moon of Saturn almost every week. By analyzing images from NASA’s Cassini Radar instrument, a Brigham Young University professor helped discover and analyze mountains on Saturn’s largest moon, additional evidence that it has some of the most earthlike processes [...]
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
The carbon dioxide problem has been give much less attention than alternative fuel or biomass-derived energy production yet it is very important as chemical production creates billions of tons of carbon dioxide each year. But fear not as an analysis has concluded that use of existing biotechnology in the production of so-called bulk chemicals could [...]
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
We live in a world which we think we know everything about but that is obviously not true; people believed the same thing about a hundred years ago and well we have discovered some things since then. Such would be the case with an expedition which explored one of the largest remaining blocks of tropical [...]
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Since there are still a big number of things we fail to understand about our brain it is somewhat understandable that such theories appear. They turn into myths and thanks to the oh so well documented media everybody thinks that they are true; and such a belief is hard to shatter even when it reffers [...]
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
We have just began to understand our genome yet there are still numerous things we fail to understand; there is a very big number of genes of which we know very little about. How we act and do and think is influenced by our genes but how exactly is this possible in some cases is [...]
Monday, December 10, 2007
The quest for understanding planets and stars seems to be more intense than ever. Things we could not have imagined not years but months ago are proven valid today. Really big planets have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years from numerous reasons. Planetary scientists at UCL have identified the point at which a star causes the [...]
Monday, December 10, 2007
There is no need to recap the petrol problem as just about everybody knows it and you are faced with it everyday. But scientists are trying to find other fuel alternatives and they seem to find more interesting things everyday. The latest is using concentrated solar energy to reverse combustion. This means that we could be [...]
Monday, December 3, 2007
So how could we achieve this is hard to say. But according to Sir Nicholas Stern trading and targets should be at the heart of a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He made this statement during the Royal Economic Society’s annual public lecture at The University of Manchester ahead of the world summit [...]
Monday, December 3, 2007
In some ways Venus could be consider to be the twin sister of our planet but in other ways it is pretty much opposite. High temperatures and crushing air pressure make it resemble a place christians would rather not visit than a planet. But now scientists have received images which confirm the fact that Venusian [...]
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