The evolution-creationism debate has spread to South Korea. While the creationist side wants evolution expunged from school textbooks, the evolutionists’s side has struck back. Not so fast will evolution go off the academic platter.
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The web has been buzzing with the probable discovery of the Higgs Boson and the upcoming CERN press conference has generated a lot of interest. We aim to caution you – tread lightly on Higgs discovery news, as there isn’t enough data yet to make that claim. Here’s a thought…
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The latest in the long line of attempts to subvert the well-established theory of evolution by the creationist movement involves the Loch Ness monster. By claiming the existence of this creature, the creationists are saying that Darwin was wrong. No, no, we aren’t joking.
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The giant of the Pinta island of the Galapagos archipelago, Lonesome George, has died. This brings to end his entire species. RIP
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China have successfully performed a manual docking of an unmanned space craft with their own space station module. This is one of the hardest maneuvers to perform and the Chinese have a lot to celebrate about!
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The Higgs boson search status will be announced in the upcoming CERN conference to be held in Geneva on the 4th of July. Incidentally, ICHEP, one of the biggest high energy conferences, is also supposed to start on the same day.
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The Kepler Space Telescope has again come up with something that has spurred on the imagination of the astrophysics community. It has discovered two exoplanets which couldn’t have formed if we believe current planet formation theories. What’s going on?
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The Higgs Boson search has advanced from where it was in December, but it has still not attained the position of a discovery. The LHC simply doesn’t have enough data to provide the tag of a ‘discovery’ to the Higgs particle. Don’t believe the rumors, here’s the real deal.
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The latest data from the BaBar experiment at Stanford Linear Accelerator has turned up data which contradicts the Standard Model and predicts an anomalous rate of decay for certain types of mesons. Is this the first real sign of Physics Beyond Standard Model?
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China jumps into the space race with an important launch of a spacecraft that will dock with the Chinese Space Station module soon. The manned mission also comprises the first Chinese female astronaut.
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A 10-year old became the world’s first recipient of a major vein replacement using Stem Cells. Her own stem cells were used to graft a 9-cm long vein into her liver, saving her a liver transplant. The stem cell revolution continues to deliver…
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The Nobel Committee has reduced the Nobel Prize money by 20% to safeguard its future prospects. Academia gets hit by the world market tumbledown!
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The makers of the ultra-tough Gorilla Glass have now made the ultra-flexible Willow Glass – a glass sheet that can be rolled up like tough paper! What does this herald for the smartphone industry of the future?
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