CAPE TOWN, South Africa, January 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Local students of Ramtha's School of Enlightenment remember Philippe Meniere and Agnes Jardel as different. Ineke Buskens has lived in the…

Has anyone else heard of a "massive 20ft. octopus" washing ashore in the Bahamas last week? I hadn't until this article, which also comments on a recent octopus stranding in Portugal (presumably the…

Erik Klemetti (of the Eruptions Blog) posted about this paper (An extraordinary episode of Yellowstone caldera uplift, 2004–2010, from GPS and InSAR observations) that has been causing a bit of a…

In a recent paper, by blah and blah, we have been asked to vote for an official definition of a galaxy. That's easy, I hear you cry: you proceed to draw me an S shaped squiggle on a piece of paper,…

This is the first posting on the Simulating Life's Origins column. Not much more to say here except to test whether this feature is working!

Ashwani Kumar1 and Sven Schubert2 Abstract Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPcase) catalyzes the first step in the fixation of atmospheric CO2 during C4 photosynthesis. Under saline conditions,…

Frédéric Chopin, composer of "The Last Waltz" and poet of the piano, suffered from tuberculosis and regularly hallucinated. Even for those in the Romantic Revolution, like Liszt, Schumann and Victor…

In  , it was noted that happiness spikes when wealth increases but then gradually levels off as a factor.   Money does not buy happiness, it was always said, and it may be that money does…

A software that can drastically reduce CO2 emissions (and energetic costs) on computers all over the world has been developed by Portuguese scientists and is freely available to anyone interested.…

Without question, a booming worldwide population and the need to feed them have resulted in greater greenhouse gas emissions.   The goal of any civilized society has always been to make food…