Does the Earth Have Two Moons? http://news.yahoo.com/earth-two-moons-not-think-232945891.html Giant Tsunami-Shaped Clouds Roll Across Alabama Skies: A series of huge breaking waves lined the skyline in Birmingham, Alabama, last Friday (Dec 16), with their crests surging forward in slow motion.  Experts say the clouds are examples of “Kelvin-Helmholtz waves.”  This type of turbulence occurs when a fast-moving […]

Alien Planet in Habitable Zone Confirmed by NASA Telescope: NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has confirmed the discovery of the first alien world in its host star’s habitable zone–the zone that is just the right distance from a host star that could allow liquid water to exist.  The find is among 1,000 new explanet candidates researchers announced.  […]

OCTOPUS CRAWLS OUT OF WATER, WALKS ON DRY LAND: A family visiting the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in Moss Beach, California, caught an incredible video of an octopus crawling out of water and onto dry land where it proceeded to walk around.  The video is especially unique because octopi are notoriously shy with humans, other creatures, […]

THE NEW PHYSICS?  ATOM SMASHER GETS ANTIMATTER SURPRISE: The world’s largest atom smasher, designed as a portal to a new view of physics, has produced its first peek at the unexpected: bits of matter that don’t mirror the behavior of their antimatter counterparts. The discovery, if confirmed, could rewrite the known laws of particle physics […]

In carefully negotiated language worked out among scientists from many countries, a new report on the effects of a warming climate on the world’s weather by the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that much of the world is already seeing more weather “extremes” – stronger hurricanes and more intense heat waves – […]