Missing 411 – Examining Unexplained Disappearances In The Wilderness of North America
Missing 411: The Hunted is a film that explores the strange disappearances that are happening all over the North American wilderness.
Alain White
A Marco Polo's tale
The intrepid Marco Polo, his father and uncle were among the first Europeans to set foot in China, arriving at Peking and the court of Kublai Khan in 1275
Serotonin linked to somatic awareness
Patients with heightened somatic awareness often experience unexplained symptoms -- headaches, sore joints, nausea, constipation or itchy skin -- that cause emotional distress, and are twice as likely to develop chronic pain.
The condition is associated with illnesses such as fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis and temporomandibular disorders, and is thought to
Northern lights' 'social networking' reveals true scale of magnetic storms
The researchers, led by Professor Sandra Chapman from the University's Department of Physics, have for the first time characterised the observations from over 100 ground based magnetometers in terms of a time-varying directed network of connections.
They monitored the development of geomagnetic substorms using the same mathematics used to study
Fresh look at mysterious Nasca lines in Peru: Using a taxonomic approach, scientists have re-identified the huge birds drawn on the desert plains of Peru as hermits or pelicans
The lines and geoglyphs of Nasca and Palpa are located some 400 kilometers south of Lima, Peru and form a World Heritage Site covering an area of about 450 square kilometers..
Trump EPA OKs ‘Emergency’ Use of Bee-killing Pesticide On 13.9 Million Acres For The Next 4-6 Years
The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced “emergency” approvals to spray sulfoxaflor — an insecticide considered “very highly toxic” to bees — on nearly 14 million acres of crops known to attract bees. Why do corrupt federal regulatory agencies have the power to do what they please, regardless of how many people oppose
14 Origins of Phrases You Probably Use Every Day but Had No Idea about
Have you ever walked into a tiny room and thought ‘I couldn’t swing a cat in here?’ Have you ever ‘rubbed someone up the wrong way?’ These are examples of phrases we use all the time, but do you know their origins? I love words. I love metaphors, words
NASA's Cassini reveals New Sculpting in Saturn Rings
Although the mission ended in 2017, science continues to flow from the data collected.
Rare 'superflares' could one day threaten Earth
These events occur when stars, for reasons that scientists still don't understand, eject huge bursts of energy that can be seen from hundreds of light years away.
Sun's history found buried in Moon's crust
When the Sun was just a baby four billion years ago, it went through violent outbursts of intense radiation, spewing scorching, high-energy clouds and particles across the solar system..
Bitcoin causing carbon dioxide emissions comparable to Las Vegas or Hamburg: Hardware and IP addresses analyzed to assess the carbon footprint of the cryptocurrency
Although Bitcoin is a virtual currency, the energy consumption associated with its use is very real.
The brain consumes half of a child's energy -- and that could matter for weight gain: New paper proposes that variation in brain energy expenditure during childhood could be linked to obesity risk
In a new paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), "A hypothesis linking the energy demand of the brain to obesity risk," co-authors Christopher Kuzawa of Northwestern University and Clancy Blair of New York University School of Medicine, propose that variation in the energy
Could climate change make Siberia more habitable?
A study team from the Krasnoyarsk Federal Research Center, Russia, and the National Institute of Aerospace, USA, used current and predicted climate scenarios to examine the climate comfort of Asian Russia and work out the potential for human settlement throughout the 21st century.
They published their results today in Environmental
CRISPR baby mutation significantly increases mortality: Two copies of mutated CCR5 gene associated with lower survivability
The researchers scanned more than 400,000 genomes and associated health records contained in a British database, UK Biobank, and found that people who had two mutated copies of the gene had a significantly higher death rate between ages 41 and 78 than those with one or no copies. Previous
Ultimate destiny: How undifferentiated cells commit to their biological fate
This complexity, however, belies the fact that each of the trillions of highly specialized cells start out as a single primordial cell.