Are we living in a designer universe?

The creators of the world were closer to men than to gods, argues John Gribbin...more

Stroke of insight

Researchers create 'quantum cats' made of light

A "cat state" is a curiosity of the quantum world, where particles can exist in "superpositions" of two opposite properties simultaneously...more

Hammock - I can almost see you

Alien hunters 'should look for artificial intelligence'

A senior astronomer has said that the hunt for alien life should take into account alien "sentient machines"...more

Who lives in the 11th dimension?

 Discovered beyond the sun: Solar system with seven planets

A solar system containing up to seven planets orbiting a sun-like star has been detected 127 light years from Earth...more

Jim Carrey awakening

 'Junk' DNA battles HIV

About 95% of the human genome has once been designated as "junk" DNA. While much of this sequence may be an evolutionary artifact that serves no present-day purpose, some junk DNA may function in ways that are not currently understood...more

Eckhart Tolle - Not reacting to content

Metaphysics and the limits of science

Serious scientists know that they cannot explain all the major puzzles of existence...more

Latest Quantum Evolution

Two ways

There always seems to be two ways in dealing with personal problems, both those in the present or those flowing from the past...more

New study finds new connection between yoga and mood

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that yoga may be superior to other forms of exercise in its positive effect on mood and anxiety...more

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The Flopsy & Jimmy Show

Connected and compelled to act in certain situations the circus of our lives are dependent related...more 

 IBEX spacecraft finds discoveries close to home

Imagine floating 35,000 miles above the sunny side of Earth. Our home planet gleams below, a majestic whorl of color and texture...more

Secrets of the Universe

Japan's 'Hayabusa 2' to explore asteroid to learn if organics have any relation to life on Earth

Like its predecessor, it will visit an asteroid to collect dust samples. But whereas Hayabusa visited the 500-metre-wide asteroid Itokawa to collect silicon- and iron-rich dust, Hayabusa 2 will visit a kilometre-sized space rock called 1999 JU3, in search of organic molecules that might have seeded life on Earth...more

Will AI powered robots discover life on Mars in 2012?

2012 will be an exciting year for astronomers.  While everyone on Earth pretends to care about the Olympics we'll be scanning Mars and Vesta. The plutonium-powered Mars Science Laboratory will touch down, and at ten times the weight of previous rovers it's the Humvee of interplanetory offroading...more

Dissecting Venus for signs of early life

Many astronomers believe that Venus was once inhabited by life. Some believe that life might even exist today high in Venus's clouds. Scientists are now reproducing the environment of Venus so that they can better understand the climate systems of Earth and the habitability of rocky planets...more

Rocks on Mars may provide link to evidence of living organisms roughly 4 billion years ago

A new article in press of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars...more

More than 100 'Earth-like' planets discovered in past few weeks

The discovery was made by the space telescope Kepler which has been scanning the skies for planets that are orbiting stars since it was launched in January last year. The breakthrough raises the tantalising prospect that we may not be alone in the Universe...more

There's water on the moon's surface, but interior could be dry

A new analysis of eleven lunar samples from the Apollo missions by Zachary Sharp from the University of New Mexico and his colleagues indicates that when the Moon formed, its interior was essentially dry...more