The Solar System once had five giant gaseous planets rather than the four it has today. That's the conclusion from a computer simulation of the Solar System's evolution, which suggests the fifth giant was hurled into interstellar space some 4 billion years…
On 13 Jul 2011, the group Adbusters released this call: Occupy Wall Street! In Solidarity, and as a response to this call, a planning group was formed , and an info sharing site established. The protests started on Sept. 17.OccupyWallSt.org is the unofficial de
In the next 20 years, more than 590,000 square miles of land globally – more than twice the size of Texas – will be gobbled up by cities, a trend that shows no signs of stopping and one that could pose threats on several levels, says a Texas A and M University
Comet Elenin (C/2010 X1), widely known for inaccurate reports of its threat to Earth, appears to be breaking apart. Observations by amateur astronomer Michael Mattiazzo of Castlemaine, Australia show a rapid dimming and elongation of the comet's nucleus akin to
The Fifth Night of the Ninth Wave starts as of August 18th of 2011 and many are wondering what this energy will carry. When we look back at history the fifth night usually appears as a very destructive time period and this naturally adds drama to the interest.
The drought in Texas has gotten so severe municipal water managers have turned to a once untenable idea: recycling sewage water. Water for the town’s 27,000 residents comes through the Colorado River Municipal Water District, which has broken ground on a plant to
We only believe what we see with our own eyes and then even then, if we do not want to see something, we will not see it even if it’s there. Lately, I have been taking virtual journeys down to the Antarctic Circle to the Neumayer Station, which has a 24/7…
An ocean exploration team led by Swedish researcher Peter Lindberg has found interesting discovery on the 300-foot-deep ocean floor between Finland and Sweden, near Gulf of Bothnia. Lindberg’s team was using sonar to look for the century-old wreck of a ship that went
It’s Monday morning and everyone is nervous about what will come this week from Europe and the United States. Japan is quietly being dragged down by the radiation disaster as well as by her debt but on both sides of the Atlantic things are exceedingly noisy. The heart
Many people have now heard about the upcoming entry to the inner solar system of the comet Elenin (http://elenin.org) and there is a whole range of ideas and speculations about what this might entail. Comets have always been seen as harbingers of auspicious or (more
