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The summer of 2023 has been one of the hottest on record, with temperatures soaring well above average in many parts of the world. This has led to a number of extreme weather events, including heat waves, droughts, and wildfires. These record-breaking temperatures are a sign of a warming planet...

The article is about a UFO whistleblower named David Grusch, who claims that the US government has recovered "intact and partially intact" alien vehicles. Grusch, who is a former intelligence official, says that he has seen classified evidence of these vehicles, and that he has provided this...

A new report published in the Journal Nature Sustainability found that Earth has already crossed seven out of eight planetary boundaries, which are thresholds that define the safe operating space for humanity. The only boundary that has not yet been crossed is the one for chemical pollution...

The article published in the journal Nature suggests that modern humans may have originated from multiple populations in Africa, rather than a single population. The study's authors analyzed genetic data from present-day African populations and found that there is more genetic diversity within...

If something exists, it is by definition natural. The article from Big Think discusses the possibility that ghosts may be real, but not supernatural. The author, Dean Radin, is a parapsychologist who has spent his career studying the paranormal. He believes that there is evidence that ghosts...

A recent study published in Nature Energy has revealed that the U.S. Oil Patch is home to tens of thousands of inactive offshore oil and gas wells that remain unplugged, posing the risk of possible leaks into the ocean. 14,000 Inactive Oil & Gas Wells In U.S. Unplugged Plugging and abandoning...

Worries over sudden ocean warming spike The world's oceans have suddenly spiked much hotter and well above record levels in the last few weeks, with scientists trying to figure out what it means and whether it forecasts a surge in atmospheric warming. Some researchers think the jump in sea...

In this fascinating video, the evolution from ape to man is traced, beginning with the Proconsul, a fruit-eating creature that lived in African trees about 20 million years ago. As the African jungle became sparse due to climate changes, these tree-dwelling creatures were forced to leave their...

MTG explains climate change…

Concept of artificial chloroplasts and mitochondria within a liposome for self-sustaining energy generation through photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Credit: Biological Interface Group, Sogang University Assessing how energy-generating synthetic organelles could sustain artificial...

Young Earth creationist organisations are united in rejecting the secular science of climate change. This science, they say, incorporates the study of positive feedback loops as demonstrated by data from Ice Age cores (true). But all of this is part of the secular science that regards the...

Although people call it a theory, it's really just a hypothesis. But -- a very alluring one. How we got to be here is one of humanity’s most enduring questions. And it comes in many layers: first in understanding how the Universe formed, then how life appeared on Earth, and how we, humans...

A skull of a new hominin species named Homo naledi, which was alive sometime between 335 and 236 thousand years ago. Photograph: Xinhua/Alamy The technique – known as proteomics – could bring new insights into the past two million years of humanity’s history Tiny traces of protein lingering in...

A slew of mid-twentieth-century Nobel Prizes were awarded for discovering a seemingly unifying molecular basis for all life on our planet. Abstract In the mid-twentieth century, multiple Nobel Prizes rewarded discoveries of a seemingly universal set of molecules and interactions that...

A branch of the tree of life that includes the time when the propatagium, vital to flight in future birds, came about. "Modern birds capable of flight all have a specialized wing structure called the propatagium without which they could not fly. The evolutionary origin of this structure has...

Several Montana middle- and high-school students said Monday that a lawmaker did not correctly interpret scientific theory and that his bill would ban common theories, like gravity, from being taught in schools – hampering their education and futures in STEM fields. They, along with several...

Neanderthals are generally classified by palaeontologists as the species Homo neanderthalensis , but some consider them to be a subspecies of Homo sapiens ( Homo sapiens neanderthalensis ). The first humans with proto-Neanderthal traits are believed to have existed in Europe as early as...

The implications are staggering. A language model AI created proteins as good as ones honed over a million years of evolution. Salesforce’s ProGen designed sequences based on the “sentences” of biological proteins. Scientists are investigating whether the AI could identify treatment for...

Dinosaurs to Birds: Few fossils bridge the gap between dinosaur and bird. This one could help fill in some details Cratonavis, a newly discovered bird from 120 million years ago, might have filled a similar niche as today’s raptors. A 120-million-year-old...

Martian meteorite’s organic materials origin not biological, formed by geochemical interactions between water and rock. The search for life on Mars can teach us about the reactions that led to the building blocks of life on early Earth. Organic molecules found in a meteorite that hurtled to...