Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Global Warming Is Irreversible, Study Says

Climate change is essentially irreversible, according to a sobering new scientific study.

As carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, the world will experience more and more long-term environmental disruption. The damage will persist even when, and if, emissions are brought under control, says study author Susan Solomon, who is among the world's top climate scientists.


Read or Listen to the rest at NPR.org
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99888903

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Monday, January 12, 2009

Life As We Know It Nearly Created in Lab

Life As We Know It Nearly Created in Lab is an interesting article about some scientist that created molecules that self-replicate and even evolve and compete to win or lose. This only proves is that life can be designed.

The big mystery of life is how it began. It's pretty evident that life has evolved from the simple to the complex through natural selection, but how did it start?

If life occurs randomly then complex life is likely to be extremely rare. I'd like to think that early life was designed with the ability to evolve as a built in mechanism to increase its chances for survival.

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Neutron Star



This is a pretty cool rendering a neutron star that was left over from a supernova explosion.