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01/13/2024

The asteroid impact that ended the Cretaceous gave our mammalian ancestors, the therians, an edge over their mammalian competitors

01/02/2024

Halley's Comet reached its farthest point from Earth earlier this month, which means it’s hurtling back toward Earth. So what if it smashes into Wyoming? We examine the potential impact...

12/14/2023

Researchers unearthed a new mosasaur in Japan, the "blue dragon," that rivals the size of a great white shark, dating back 72 million years.

12/02/2023

Recent research documents the latest instance of a strange but not unheard-of phenomenon in which swordfish impale sharks with their bills

11/23/2023

A tradition as American as apple pie, and older than the Constitution.

11/23/2023

The James Webb telescope's extraordinary resolution has allowed astronomers to investigate the galaxy's dense center like never before.

11/03/2023

Have we reached peak stupid...?

Ferdinand Magellan, who murdered and enslaved indigenous people, was not an astronomer nor the clouds' discoverer.

10/24/2023

An exploration of the innovative sailing methods of Christopher Columbus.

10/06/2023

Not all cheese is created equally. Any American who has been around long enough to taste a slice of "government cheese" can tell you that. While the phrase sounds surreal, and is often used as a derogatory shorthand for any form of welfare, the original concept of government cheese lives on today in

09/29/2023

And yet our government fails to take any meaningful action about it...

A new study made the the bold prediction that in about 250 million years, all of Earth’s major land masses will join together as one.

09/28/2023

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a distant supernova that appears three times in the same photo. The new observations could help solve one of the universe's biggest inconsistencies.

09/26/2023

Only 1,280 breeding individuals may have existed at the start of this ‘ancestral bottleneck’ that lasted thousands of years.

09/13/2023

For further discussion in November...



#1963

Former Secret Service agent Paul Landis made a shocking claim about the Magic Bullet theory from John F. Kennedy's assassination.

09/12/2023

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPP!

Black holes have been caught "burping" up star remains in a discovery that raises more questions about these objects.

09/12/2023

Hmph... here's the problem... it only has to work once...

The news that North Korea has modified an ageing Russian diesel submarine to fire nuclear weapons has been met with some mirth amongst the underwater community. The boat’s hull form now resembles a child’s drawing of a submarine, and it “will handle like a pig, dived or surfaced” according t...

09/09/2023

Must have been all that global warming or Trump's fault...

Scientists have reconstructed what might have happened beneath the Pacific’s violently strewn waves after this volcanic action.

09/08/2023

The short answer is that it is the only theory that fits ALL of the available facts. Frankly, I believe it... it's well worth researching it to see for yourself.

Hard to say, really.

09/06/2023

Only 1,280 breeding individuals may have existed at the start of this ‘ancestral bottleneck’ that lasted thousands of years.

09/05/2023

08/19/2023

Just minutes off Interstate 80 about 20 miles east of Laramie is the Ames Monument, a 60-foot pyramid in the middle of Wyoming pastureland.

08/18/2023

Solar System Climate change in action...

Decades of telescope data from the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories reveals that solar radiation triggers Neptune’s clouds.

08/07/2023

Stay with me here... find a way to incorporate the Tourist Tossing bison from Yellowstone and I bet the strike addled tv networks would be all over this...

Sheridan went medieval recently with the Knights of Valor, who pride themselves on competing in full-contact jousting, charging each other on 2,000-pound war horses.

08/07/2023

I’m just saying that there’s more than a couple of submarine captains who are running the total tonnage sunk numbers in their heads…

07/29/2023

Remember when the whole theory was that by supporting the Ukes we were "depleting the Russians?" There's a reason we HAD to give them cluster munitions... and now it's gonna get worse...

Biden administration is concerned about Chinese military activity in the region

07/24/2023

Over the weekend, Cami was asking me if I was worried about the future of the country. I mean… yes, I am. I also tend to take the Mickey Rivers approach to life, which means that generally sp…

07/22/2023

Is anyone really surprised that Hollywood doesn't tell the whole story?

Today, many nuclear weapons are more powerful than the one tested at Trinity—or the two bombs used on Japan.

07/20/2023

Cool!

Cooler than a campfire and smaller than Jupiter, this brown dwarf is a rare find. University of Sydney astronomers have studied the star and found it emits radio waves, helping us further understand the evolution of stars.