Science Daily: Human-driven changes in the earth’s atmospheric composition are likely to alter plant diseases of the future. Researchers predict carbon dioxide will reach levels double those of the preindustrial era by the year 2050, complicating agriculture’s need to produce…
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Scientist believe that the universe started as a “perfect” liquid when the Big Bang occurred.
What is the Big Bang? Cosmologists use the term Big Bang to refer to the idea that the universe was originally extremely hot and…
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Tuesday night I saw an excellent documentary on Arctic Dinosaurs found in Alaska on Nova. This program showed that the paleontologists were able to determine the average annual temperature of the region 70 million years ago using the ratio of…
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