Hotspot for Die-Offs
By alton Parrish.
Massive tree die-offs due to drought have ravaged forests across the American West and left ecologists struggling to predict how and when tree deaths will happen, and how rising temperatures due to climate change [...]
Comets ISON & PanSTARRS in the “X”-Treme
By Alton Parrish.
For millennia, people on Earth have watched comets in the sky. Many ancient cultures saw comets as the harbingers of doom, but today scientists know that comets are really frozen balls of dust, gas, and rock [...]
When Stars Attack! Near-Earth Supernova Explosions Threat, Effects and Kill Zone
By Alton Parrish.
Two new papers appearing in the journal Nature this week are “slam-dunk” evidence that energies from supernovae have buffeted our planet, according to astrophysicist Adrian Melott of the University [...]
Is that Horse or Zebra Hooves I Hear Behind Me?
– By Mike Sutton –
On Sutton’s Law: First consider the obvious
Sutton’s Law:
“When diagnosing, one should first consider the obvious. Therefore, one should first conduct tests that could either confirm, or else [...]
Trigger for Milky Way’s Youngest Supernova Identified
By Alton Parrish.
Scientists have used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the NSF’s Jansky Very Large Array to determine the likely trigger for the most recent supernova in the Milky Way. They applied a new technique [...]
Human Organ Transplant Pioneer Despised Darwin’s Dishonesty
– By Mike Sutton –
Dempster (1985) reasoned with a multitude of his own evidence that Patrick Matthew should be hailed as the true discoverer of natural selection, simply because he most certainly did more than merely [...]
Extreme-Weather on Oddball Planet Raises Questions About Hot Jupiter Origins
By Alton Parrish.
For centuries, the solar system was viewed as a standard blueprint for planetary systems in the universe, with a star (our sun) at the center of a circular track, and a planet orbiting within each lane. Smaller, [...]
Fingerprint of Milky Way Found Far from Home in Galactic Neighbor
By Alton Parrish.
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have found faint chemical traces of the Milky Way Galaxy lurking inside one of our cosmic neighbors, a massive, starless cloud hurtling through space at nearly 700,000 miles [...]
New Horse-Sized Tyrannosaur with Big Brain Reveals How “T. Rex” Became Top Predator
Pop quiz! Name the first five dinosaurs that come to mind. Chances are good that one you named was Tyrannosaurs rex, a popular favorite perhaps best known for its large size, fearsomeness and starring role in the “Jurassic Park” movies.
Life [...]
Why the Dundee Courier is the ideal newspaper to print the truth about Patrick Matthew and Charles Darwin
– By Mike Sutton –
Today the Scottish newspaper the Dundee Courier reports on the discovery of Charles Darwin’s plagiarism of Patrick Matthew’s prior-published discovery – and cites my BestThinking book that [...]
Canny Failure of the English to Engage with the New Data Amounts to Anti-Scottish Discrimination in Science
– By Mike Sutton –
Building on the New Data first revealed in my Best Thinking book, Nullius in Verba and further ideas first formulated in a Best Thinking blog post in Jan 2015, my very latest peer reviewed journal article [...]
Mercury’s Mysterious ‘Darkness’ Puzzle Solved
By Alton Parrish.
Scientists have long been puzzled about what makes Mercury’s surface so dark. The innermost planet reflects much less sunlight than the Moon, a body on which surface darkness is controlled by the abundance [...]
Global Warming Increases Rain in World’s Driest Areas
By Alton Parrish.
Global warming will increase rainfall in some of the world’s driest areas over land, with not only the wet getting wetter but the dry getting wetter as well.
New research published today in Nature Climate [...]
New source of intense gamma-radiation in the sky
By MSU.
Analyzing the data collected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Maxim Pshirkov (The Sternberg Astronomical Institute, MSU) discovered a new source that confirmed the fact that binary systems with strong colliding stellar [...]
American South West is getting drier
Alton Parrish.
The weather patterns that typically bring moisture to the southwestern United States are becoming more rare, an indication that the region is sliding into the drier climate state predicted by global models, according [...]
Dark “noodles” and invisible lumps challenge understanding of the Milky way
The Daily Journalist.
New discovery by Australian scientists radically challenges our understanding of gas conditions in the Milky Way.
Invisible structures shaped like noodles, lasagne sheets or hazelnuts could be floating around in our [...]
Black Hole Activity Visible with Backyard Telescope
The Daily Journalist.
All you need is a 20 cm telescope to observe a nearby, active black hole.
An international research team reports that the activity of such phenomena can be observed by visible light during outbursts, [...]
The real King Kong
By Alton Parrish.
Scientists from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment in Tübingen and from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt examined the demise of the giant ape Gigantopithecus. In their [...]
Potatoes on Mars
By NASA.
A team of world-class scientists will grow potatoes under Martian conditions in a bid to save millions of lives.
The experiment, led by the International Potato Center (CIP) and NASA, is a major step towards building [...]
The Royal Society Darwin Medal Scandal: You won’t win a Darwin Medal for writing the truth about the discovery of natural selection
– By Mike Sutton –
It is universally accepted by leading evolutionary biologists that Patrick Matthew was first to go into print with the full and detailed hypothesis of natural selection almost three decades before Wallace [...]