One Billion Years Ago: Is This Eden?
Imagine sitting on your comfy couch, closing your eyes, and travelling back through time one billion years into the past. Upon opening your eyes, you'd probably find yourself gasping...
Science
Earth's Impossible Fossils
Today, many of us are aware that fossils are the preserved remains - or, more specifically, traces of remains - of ancient animals, plants, and bacteria that died thousands to millions of years ago. These remains were then absorbed or turned into...
Beyond the Atom
The 1930s had seen monumental advances in atomic science and radiation research and the spectacular discovery of nuclear fission in 1938 was overshadowed by the outbreak of war just a year later. But physicists were quick to realize the devastating...
Before Pangaea
In 1860, Phillip Slater, the secretary of the British Zoological Society, came up with an interesting theory. He discovered over 29 different kinds of lemur species in Madagascar, which was significantly more than just 12 species in the entire African...
The Hidden 95% of the Universe
In the early 1990s two teams of astronomers had set out to measure just what the universe was made of. These two teams known as the "High-Z Supernova Search Team" and the "Supernova Cosmology Project" brought together astronomers from around the globe...
Living in a Quantum Dream
Think of nothing. What do you see? You might imagine a vacuum, a region of the universe drained of all matter and radiation, but go further and try to think of a true nothing, an absolute nothing. This nothing is not just empty but devoid of space and...
Life Beyond 3: In Search of Giants
Life Beyond 3 asks the age-old question about other life forms in the universe but with a twist. It is no longer "Are we alone in the universe?" but "Are we the only intelligent life...
Life Beyond 2: The Museum of Alien Life
The second episode of the Life Beyond series centers around a hypothetical "Museum Of All Life In The Universe." What began as an exploration of how life started on Earth and what it...
Explorer: Space Race
Humans have always looked up into the sky, gazing into the night sky, wondering what lies beyond the billions of twinkling stars. Though we have travelled out into space over the last 70 years, we still can not visit other planets. Many of us dream...
Life Beyond: The Dawn
When we look around the planet, one thing is consistent. Life will thrive even in some of the most extreme places on Earth. These include the driest deserts, the top of frozen mountains, deep trenches within the ocean floor and more. There are always...
Mars Calling
Since man looked up into the heavens eons ago, the planet Mars has always been a source of wonder. From the Ancient Egyptians, Arab mathematicians and astronomers to Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Galileo, many have looked at the fourth planet in...
Manufacturing Ignorance
There are currently over 7 billion people in the world today. Never before has there been this many people all needing homes, food, clothing, technology and more. This unprecedented demand for essential goods now raises supply issues. Is there enough...
The Neanderthals: Tracking our Ancestors
Neanderthals lived in Eurasia for thousands of years before Homo sapiens walked the Earth. Neanderthals were a species of ancient humans that survived for about 300,000 years before...
Losing Sleep
Insomnia is common in at least 10 percent of all adults. Insomnia is defined by a strict criteria based on the frequency and impact it has on the person affected. This type of sleep deficiency affects people of all ages and there are many remedies on...