Sci/Environment

Russia conducted the first ever rocket launch from its brand new Vostochny cosmodrome. On Thursday, a Soyuz 2.1a rocket blasted off from the civilian cosmodrome in Russia’s far east, on the 51st parallel north in the Amur […]

NASA’s Hubble Space telescope has found a previously unseen moon around the dwarf planet Makemake. The very bright dwarf planet lies beyond the planets of the Solar System in the Kuiper Belt, catching the last rays […]

The world is woefully underprepared for the inevitable natural disasters that are about to strike, according to the UN’s head of disaster planning.  Robert Glasser has warned that in the coming years the world should […]

The world that humans see around them is nothing more than a very convincing illusion, according to one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists.  Donald Hoffman, a scientist at the University of California, claims that […]

Celebrity astronomer and American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says that our universe is very likely a simulation within a simulation, making instantaneous time travel a possibility. The director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is refusing to pay compensation to two Idaho families who say a pesticide treatment contaminated their crops and poisoned their cows.  The USDA told the families to file a […]

New York narrowly missed being struck by a meteor on Saturday night, which subsequently caused a small 90 foot tsunami to occur.  Due to the fact that the tsunami occurred in very deep water – […]

The Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman has spoken out against climate change politics, saying that the science behind man-made global warming is complete junk.  Coleman wrote a rebuke in USA Today to Bill Nye “The […]

Bill Nye “The Science Guy” should probably think about changing his name to Bill Nye “The GMO Guy” after it emerged that the TV science celebrity suddenly changed his skeptical stance on GMOs after he […]

China is working on a mission to land a rover on Mars by 2020 aiming to become a global aerospace power by 2030. China’s National Space Administration envisages a joint China-US cooperation on a Mars rescue […]