Astronomers say they have, for the first time, spotted a planet beyond our own in what is sometimes called the “Goldilocks Zone” that may be ripe for life:  not too hot, not too cold, juuuust right. Not too far from its star, not too close.  So it could contain liquid water.  The planet itself is […]

It’s been called a slow-growing monster:  a huge lake that has steadily expanded over the last 20 years, swallowing up thousands of acres, hundreds of buildings, and at least two towns in its rising waters. Devils Lake keeps growing because it has no natural river or stream to carry away excess rain and snowmelt.  Now […]

Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according to a comprehensive study of fossil records.  The findings suggest humans will live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because the loss of each species can alter […]

The eminent British theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, has declared that God did not create the universe.  According to Hawking, the “Big Bang” was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics.  In his new book, The Grand Design, co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made the creation of […]

Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car, and keep track of everywhere you go.  This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment Right because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway–and no reasonable expectation that […]