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Microbes Found in 86 Million-Year-Old Clay Deep Beneath the Ocean

“Researchers have found bacteria inside 86 million-year-old clay deep beneath the seafloor of the North Pacific Gyre. The bacteria are surviving on tiny amounts of nutrients and oxygen that has been trapped in the clay since the days of the dinosaurs. The bacteria down there breathe 10,000 times as slow as a common E.coli bacterium. [...]

Michio Kaku rebuttal

Michio Kaku rebuttal to John Horgan’s Response to his Wall Street Journal Opinion Editorial “The God Particle and the Origins of the Universe” http://bigthink.com/ideas/41681

Real science vs. fake science: How can you tell them apart?

“Pseudoscience is the shaky foundation of practices–often medically related–that lack a basis in evidence. It’s “fake” science dressed up, sometimes quite carefully, to look like the real thing.” http://doublexscience.blogspot.com/2011/12/real-science-vs-fake-science-how-can.html?spref=tw

Good Science Always Has Political Ramifications

“Every time a scientist makes a factual assertion… it either supports or challenges somebody’s vested interests” http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=good-science-always-has-political

The mystery of the magnetic cows

http://www.nature.com/news/the-mystery-of-the-magnetic-cows-1.9350

Giant space bubbles baffle astronomers

November 12, 2010 - Original Source:  The Telegraph Two giant gas bubbles – each one 25,000 light-years wide – discovered in our galaxy are baffling astronomers. The two vast structures, stretching to the north and to the south of the centre of the Milky Way, are so big that a beam of light, travelling at 186,282 [...]

The Multiverse Has 11 Dimensions

November 10, 2010 - Original Source: Dr. Kaku’s Universe | Big Think Dr. Kaku addresses a question: Are there only three dimensions in other universes, or could there be more?

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