In our EVER-tedious effort to highlight the latest News in Science, here's our latest Science Saturday post
According to the online Journal of Cosmology, Dr. Richard B. Hoover (Ph.D. NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center) has discovered evidence of microfossils similar to Cyanobacteria, in freshly fractured slices of the interior surfaces of the Alais, Ivuna, and Orgueil CI1 carbonaceous meteorites. The implications are that life is everywhere, and that life on Earth may have come from other planets:
We'll Chalk this up as another Big Win for science, amidst the lame-brained furor of some political nitwits to take our World Culture back to the pre-Renaissance 13th Century.
On another Science topic, this is fairly tantalizing too:
Unsure about what the potential discovery of this "Higgs boson particle" really represents for science? Here's a helpful rundown for all you "lay" non-physics-trained readers... from that old standby... Wikipedia:
One thing for sure... it ain't just anthropologists who are searching for that elusive "missing link."
Gotta add that we're envious of scientific researchers who get to ply their trade at the most fantastic science lab in human history!
That's it for now, WCF science fans.
In closing, we''ll invite all GOP members of the Utah Legislature to chime in with their own competing crackpot science theories.
Saturday, March 05, 2011
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