Monthly Archives: May 2016

10 Ways Climate Science Has Advanced Since an Inconvenient Truth

As the world comes up on the 10th anniversary of George W. Bush’s Kyoto Protocol and Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth that both addressed the issue of climate change, every scientist who had taken down data concerning climate changes has reviewed his or her scientific notebook. It was found that at least 10 significant changes […]

Science Explains Why Giraffes Have Such Long Necks

What comes to mind when you think of a giraffe? The first thing you likely think of about a giraffe is its long neck. Did you know that a newborn giraffe calf is born with a height of about 2 meters? That’s a big baby! About 4 years ago, scientists whipped out their research notebooks, […]

Oxygen Detected in Martian Atmosphere

There may be no busier research notebook than the one in the hands of a scientist exploring information concerning the Red Planet these days. Mars is a hot topic in the scientific community and with each discovery it gets a little bit hotter. Evidence of water on the planet was exciting enough, but now there […]

Did You Know There Are 390,900 Species of Plants Known to Scientists?

In an 80-page report that was based on a wealth of data collected from reports, notes in laboratory notebooks, and any other means of listing plants, it was revealed that the Earth has at least 390,900 species of plants. Those are just the known species across the globe. In areas that are untouched, above and […]