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Over the past few years, more and more experts have begun wondering whether the Big Bang model is indeed the most efficient one at explaining how the Universe came to be. Data are beginning to pile up showing evidence to contrary, and increasing numbers of astronomers are starting to listen. This theory holds that th... |
17 March 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Last year marked an important event for people fighting against global warming and climate change. The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) acknowledged the validity of theories related to the two phenomena, and put them on par with such theories as Earth's age, the Big Bang and evolution.These are some of the ... |
3 February 2011
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A new theory proposes that the earliest Universe, which formed immediately after the Big Bang, expanded in the space around it in an extremely chaotic manner. This is not by far a new idea. It was proposed for the first time more than seven years ago, by Adilson E. Motter, who is a physics expert at the Northwestern ... |
8 September 2010
09:12 GMT |
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The question of where and how life on Earth started has been with humans ever since the earliest days. Numerous shamans, witches, alchemists, priests and scientists attempted to uncover the answer, but their ideas and proposals oftentimes failed to produce any evidence of what they were arguing for. Over the past cen... |
6 August 2010
04:07 GMT |
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Investigators in Sweden recently took on a theory devised by Italian colleagues, which sought to explain the causes of the brain disease known as multiple sclerosis (MS). The new paper demonstrates that neither blood flow nor the flow of spinal fluid in the human brain play any role in the onset and development of th... |
4 August 2010
11:05 GMT |
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A new scientific study turns many a Hollywood sport films into fantasy and fiction. The investigation has revealed that the underdog theory is in fact wrong, and that the favored team is usually the one focusing most on its training, rather than the least favored one. In other words, members of large teams give all t... |
10 February 2010
02:59 GMT |
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One of the most enduring theories in science is the one stating that life emerged from a primordial soup, a mix of chemicals that promoted over eons the creation of organic molecules, amino-acids, and eventually proteins. But some researchers are arguing at this point that it's time for this theory to be discard... |
9 February 2010
03:53 GMT |
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Researchers have recently set forth a very bold new idea on why large flightless birds such as the ostrich lost their ability to fly. The hypothesis holds that, as the dinosaurs went extinct during the K-T event, more than 65 million years ago, they left behind an open niche, which these animals occupied. And, accord... |
28 January 2010
11:48 GMT |
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The Giant Impact Hypothesis (GIH) is the main theory we have at this point about how the Moon formed. It is generally agreed upon by astronomers and planetary scientists, although alternative explanations about how our faithful companion appeared have been set forth over the years. At this point, a new idea is gainin... |
27 January 2010
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The golden ratio is a concept that has been passed down through the generations, and is generally regarded as a set of numbers that can be translated into existence via different constructions. The Ancient Egyptians believed that the ratio was the key to building aesthetically pleasing pyramids and other monuments, w... |
21 December 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Evolutionary biologists have recently proposed that, in the case of some species, evolution may actually be taking place in sudden “bursts,” rather than through the continuous accumulation of small differences. The latter approach was held to be the norm among all living things until recently. It was beli... |
10 December 2009
06:44 GMT |
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According to some researchers, experts looking for the origins of multiple sclerosis (MS) may have been looking in the wrong place all along. They argue that the terrible disease may be caused by blockages along blood vessels, which physically prevent blood from reaching the brain, thus producing all the effects that... |
27 November 2009
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Since the beginning of mankind, people have been wondering where we came from and where we are headed, if we were made or if we evolved, the same questions that now spark heated debates among astronomers, as well as between creationists and evolutionists. In an attempt to answer this question, Kansas State Universit... |
10 June 2009
08:40 GMT |
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Scientists at the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently discovered a fundamental flaw in our understanding of transistor noise, which is a phenomenon that appears inside a transistor's on and off switch. The team that found the problem says that, unless solved, the iss... |
22 May 2009
10:57 GMT |
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The late UC Santa Cruz scientist Donald Coyne and Almaden Research Center expert D. C. Cheng proposed some time ago the hypothesis that all particles in existence were nothing more than mini-black holes. While disregarded at the time, the idea has gained some support in the academic community over the past years, wit... |
18 May 2009
10:19 GMT |
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Ever since the fist science-fiction books and movies came out, people have been fascinated with the idea of traveling faster than the speed of light. One could say that it's just a psychological thing, brought forth by theories stating that nothing in the Universe can travel faster than the speed of light. But, ... |
9 May 2009
06:35 GMT |
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The concept of “continuous evolution,” which more and more anthropologists are beginning to rally behind, states that the current stage of our species, Homo sapiens, will not remain the same in the distant future. That is to say, our genes will evolve in such a manner over the next centuries, that a new t... |
14 April 2009
04:53 GMT |
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The events that unfolded about 250 million years ago, at the Permian-Triassic boundary, are some of the most mysterious in history. At that moment, over a short period of time, more than 90 percent of all animals and plants on the surface of the planet died off, in a massive extinction event, for which satisfactory e... |
30 March 2009
10:39 GMT |
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For us, wanting to go back in time is as natural as thinking and breathing. Around the world, countless people, myself included, believe that a simple trip to a certain point in our past would most likely change the course of our lives, maybe for the better, because I imagine no one would like to go back and make thi... |
14 February 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Every once in a while, I stay up a bit later than usual, and just wonder about what's beyond us, over the stars and far away. Although I have a pretty clear notion of the size of the Universe and its age, and I know that it looks somewhat like a bubble, I still find it hard to integrate its vastness into my head... |
17 January 2009
05:00 GMT |
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