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Watch This Spectacular Launch of the Soyuz Rocket From Space

New Research Has Concluded That All Humans Are Descendants Of Just One Couple Who Lived 200,000 Years Ago

In a groundbreaking new study, scientists from The Rockefeller University in New York City and the Biozentrum at the University of Basel in Switzerland have concluded that each and every human alive today descended from just one couple who lived from between 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. As the Dai...

While Searching For Alien Life, Astronomers Detected Water In The Atmosphere Of Gas Planet HR 8799c

While astronomers were busy seeking out alien life at the Keck Observatory in Maunakea, Hawaii, they were able to learn more about the gas planet HR 8799c, one of four planets that orbit their parent star HR 8799 at a distance of 179 light years away from Earth. This planet was, surprisingly, found...

Scientists have discovered the fossil remains of a giant, toothless mammal ancestor

Scientists suspect they were toothless and as big as elephants—a super-sized cross between a rhino and a turtle. They are Lisowicia bojani, a mammal-like reptile that walked alongside dinosaurs in the Triassic period about 200 million years ago. Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden this week...

2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #47

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sunday, Nov 18 through Saturday, Nov 24. Editor's Pick Climate Change Puts U.S. Economy and Lives at Risk, and Costs Are Rising, Federal Agencies Warn The National Climate Assessment de...

Wisconsin School Official Says Viral 'Nazi Salute' Teens Protected by First Amendment

The school plans on holding meetings to address hate with students and the community

Russia Sets Out to Prove the U.S. Moon Landing Happened

Russia space agency promises to check whether US moon landings really happened

The head of Russia’s national space agency has proposed a mission to the moon to verify whether the American moon landings really took place. Dmitry Rogozin responded to a question about whether Nasa’s Apollo programme actually put men on the moon back in the 1960s and 1970s during a conversation w...

How the Space Mining Industry Came Down to Earth

Women's fight for toilets in rural Pakistan

For as long as she can remember, Ayeesha Siddiqua has fought her male relatives for access to toilets -- but a sanitation drive by new premier Imran Khan could make life easier for women in patriarchal Pakistan. "I told them: 'You can go where you want, but me, my movements are restricted!'," said...

NASA just published a detailed timeline for the Monday landing of Mars InSight

On Monday, November 26th, NASA's newest piece of high-tech space hardware will finally find its way to the surface of Mars. It's the InSight lander, and it's going to listen closely to the heartbeat of the planet and hopefully reveal a whole bunch of awesome secrets about Mars, but befor...

How Sir Ashton Lever Curated The World—Then Lost It All

His obsession with collecting artifacts and specimens would eventually lead to his financial ruin. But first he amassed an impressive collection of curiosities.

Fossil of plant-eating reptile found in southern New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The earliest known example of a plant-eating reptile has been found in the fossil record in southern New Mexico, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History said.

NASA sets a date for first SpaceX crew capsule test flight

The race between Boeing and SpaceX to launch their first crewed space missions is heating up. NASA has announced an updated schedule for the two companies on the road to sending astronauts to space from American soil. On January 7th next year, SpaceX will send its Crew Dragon capsule on its maiden...

The Government's Massive New Climate Change Study Challenges Trump's Policies

It warns of dire consequences across the U.S.

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