Finding the Ultimate Theory of Everything

Could two lookalike galaxies, barely a whisker apart in the night sky, herald a revolution in our understanding of fundamental physics? Some physicists believe that the two galaxies are the same – its image has been split into two, they maintain, by a “cosmic string”; a San Andreas Fault in the very fabric of space and time. Read more

First Americans May Have Come From Australia

The first time she saw it four years ago in a museum, Silvia Gonzalez knew there was something special about the skull found in Mexico City in 1959. Known as Pe?on Woman III, it was long and narrow, not round and broad cheeked like the usual skulls of prehistoric Native Americans. ?It looked so incredibly different,? Gonzalez says. ?Physically, it was very pleasing to the eye.?

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Yet again I am stunned at the pure idiocy of some people in this country.

Washington, DC ? The Bush Administration has decided that it will stand by its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah?s flood rather than by geologic forces, according to internal documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). read the rest of the article

There is something really, really, really wrong with the direction in which America is heading.

Talks at the United Nations appear to have failed to avert a new U.N. confrontation over a U.S.-led drive to ban all cloning of human embryos including for stem cell research, diplomats said Thursday. article

What is wrong with the US? I seriously don’t get it.

I remember being young and being laughed at because I said dinosaurs evolved into birds (this was pre-Jurassic Park). Of couse as the years go by, more and more evidence comes out, including this: Ancient Bird Fossil May Suggest Link with Dinosaurs.