Daylight robbery occurs every spring when clocks are moved forward one hour and people lose an hour’s sleep. When Daylight Saving Time was first introduced in Britain, protesters demanded the return of the stolen hour. Patrons of late night bars…
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Ever wonder what it’s like to soar the beautiful blue skies with your family, look down at your own house, go on an epic cross country flight in your retirement? Why not go for it? If you think you are…
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Depending upon the aircraft that you wish to fly, the cost of obtaining a pilot’s license can vary from $5,000 to over $250,000. To be a commercial jet pilot, flying 777’s, Airbus A380’s, and other big, luxury airliners would take…
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Sometimes, science can explain every weird thing encountered. That picture of a ghost may have been just edited or overexposed. A UFO is just a child’s toy or some weird flying animal. Bigfoot? Just a random chimpanzee lost in the…
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Energy is the universal driver; and mechanics is its channel into the material world. It is little wonder then that we should look back on the history of the greatest man-made milestones in these areas to appreciate how they influence…
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Early 21st century science has detected many Earth-like solar systems, some with non-gaseous worlds that could support life. Even our interplanetary probes and other scientific methods have detected water on the moon, Mars and on Jupiter’s moon Europa. If water…
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The last 10 years have seen a large number of major scientific discoveries, from the construction of an extensive database of genomic information to the discovery of other planets in our galaxy. Below is a brief list of the most…
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The Top 10 inventions of the 20th century is a pretty subjective concept. It would be easy to simply name ten inventions that are most used in our modern world. It would also be simple to simply name the 10…
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Strange Discovery. Imagine this: waking up one morning, you walk out to get the early paper. Looking up, suddenly you see at least 25 Mammoths surrounding you. Twenty-five gigantic Mammoths, walking around, splashing in the lake, taking care of their…
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Science is the practice of obtaining new knowledge. However, it is rare that knowledge of something is obtained to its fullest extent, which is why science dwells in the realm of the theoretical. For example, atomic theory has been a…
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