Global Warming is Changing the Way the Earth Rotates

April 15, 2016
It might only have a subtle effect, but it's still measurable: the distribution of Earth's glacial ice has an impact on how the planet spins, both in terms of the speed of our blue sphere's rotation, and in the slow... continued

John Podesta Says the American Public Can Handle Disclosure

April 14, 2016
In a recent interview with CNN, John Podesta reiterated the intentions regarding UFO disclosure stated earlier by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Clinton had previously pledged that, if elected president, she will obtain and declassify as many records as the... continued

Ancient Yellowstone Eruptions have been Found to be Bigger than Previously Thought

April 13, 2016
A recent study has unveiled a new perspective on the ancient eruptions that formed the region now known as the Snake River Valley in Idaho and the Yellowstone Caldera in Wyoming. The study, conducted out of the University of Leicester,... continued

Aussie Surfers Develop Ocean-Filtering ‘Seabin’

April 12, 2016
One of the growing problems on our oceans is the proliferation of garbage floating on the surface, plaguing not only shorelines but also forming into large patches of debris in the open ocean. This impacts not only aquatic wildlife, but... continued

The Building Blocks for Life Have Been Created in a Lab-Grown Comet

April 9, 2016
While life was once thought to just be a happy accident by mainstream science, the building blocks of DNA and RNA are proving to be not only tenacious, these organic molecules also appear to be able to form in the... continued

Exoplanets With Saltier Oceans Might Be Better Candidates for Alien Life — Perhaps Even More Likely Than for Life On Earth

April 8, 2016
The study of planets found outside our solar system has been booming over the past few decades, with over two-thousand of these fascinating exoplanets having been cataloged. One of the next obvious steps for researchers is to attempt to detect... continued

Human Carbon Release Rate is Greater than Any Other Event Since the Extinction of the Dinosaurs — By Ten Times

April 7, 2016
While the idea that human-generated carbon emissions are nothing new, and the impact of greenhouse gasses on global warming have been evident for quite some time, there has been a great deal of debate over exactly how much humans have... continued

New Study Highlights the Risk of a Solar Superflare

April 6, 2016
In 2012, Whitley Strieber released an ebook titled Solar Flares: What You Need to Know, that explained the potentially disastrous effects on our civilization that a large-scale coronal mass ejection, or solar flare, could have. In 1859 a large flare... continued

Same Problem, Different Effects: Two Temperature Consequences from the Ends of the Earth

April 5, 2016
There's really no place to hide from the heat: new reports from both ends of the world show just some of the consequences of a steadily warming planet. The NSIDC and NASA have announced a new record low in the... continued

Moderate G2 Geomagnetic Storm Watch Issued for Today

April 3, 2016
Both NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.K. Met's Space Weather Operations Centre have issued a G2-Moderate geomagnetic storm watch for April 2, due to the presence of a negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (or CH HSS)... continued