Article Archive for April 2009
Flu Pandemics can be Sparked by Researchers
New Scientist said:
It’s emerged that virulent H5N1 bird flu was sent out by accident from an Austrian lab last year and given to ferrets in the Czech Republic before anyone realised. As well as the …
Asteroid Tsunamis Not So Bad After All?
A new computer simulation has determined that if a 200 metre wide asteroid lands in the ocean, where the water depth is 5 kilometres, the following will occur:
Initial tsunami with a height of hundreds of …
Mammoth and Rhino in Ancient Scotland
The main thrust of the article from The Scotsman is that human settlements dating to 14,000 years ago have been unearthed in Scotland – the oldest yet. But what stood out, for me, was this …
Space Storm Alert
It is midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light. Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is …
Supernova Theory Wrong?
It looks like the previously accepted theory regarding the life cycle of Luminous Blue Variable (LBV) stars is faulty. It had been thought that LBVs needed to first evolve a massive iron core of …
Flightless Sea Duck – Not Tasty?
The extinction of so many species during the great global cataclysm of 10-12,000 years ago has regularly been put down to lots of hunting, by orthodox science. Supposedly humans crossed the Bering Strait, worked their …
