Author: Jonas D.

This new discovery just published in the journal Current Biology started on March 21, 2011, at the Suncor Millennium Mine in Alberta, Canada, when a mining machine operator in an oil sand mine noticed something odd about some of the rock formations.  The Royal Tyrrell Museum was called in and Curator of Dinosaurs Donald Henderson, realized that the rocks contained an armored dinosaur and so much more.  The 110-million-year-old fossil is a newly found species of nodosaur called Borealopelta markmitchelli, and is regarded as the best-preserved armored dinosaur in the world.  After more than 7,000 hours of slowly and gently removing rock the fossilized remains revealed armor,...

It is interesting to find so called respected scientists that insist either global warming doesn’t exist or the later argument that if it does that our carbon emissions are not the cause.  What is staring us in the face is that 2016 is the 3rd year in a row of record high surface temperatures since modern recordkeeping began in 1880 according to NASA.  All part of an 80 year or more long warming trend that has already slowly raised earth’s temperature. Well if we do nothing or very little like our current U.S. leadership seems to be steering us toward, things are...

Most of us are familiar with that iconic scene where Doctor Victor Frankenstein, on succeeding with his attempt to create human life cries out dramatically, “it’s alive”.  In reality, scientists are still on a quest to understand how to design life from scratch, long after it was imagined a possibility. Scientists today are able to alter and repair DNA, but not create new life.  Researchers led by project director Jef Boeke, are taking the radical perhaps controversial step to create entirely man-made, custom-built DNA at New York University lab in the Alexandria Center for Life Sciences in New York as part of the Synthetic...