Lemons are Good!

I always knew lemons were good. Not because my momma told me (she probably did) but because of a lemon day that has always stuck with me. When I was young and carefree and life revolved around college, pizza and wasting money, I felt a headcold coming on. Throat was sore, eyes were watery, I could feel the sniffles starting […]

Planets more common than stars

A galactic survey of epic proportions has concluded there are more planets than stars. The downside is that the survey only used a sample size of one – our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Which means the survey could be highly unreliable. A team of scientists led by Arnaud Cassan at the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris, published their research […]

Doomsday Clock moves one minute closer to doomsday

The Mayans are beginning to look like a race of geniuses. Thousands of years ago they were able to predict the end of the world and now the best brains in the world are catching up. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS), which includes Nobel Prize winners as its members have moved their symbolic Doomsday Clock one minute closer to […]

Researchers map dark energy

Scientists have released their biggest image yet of dark energy or dark matter – an elusive substance despite it occupying 85% of the universe’s mass. A team from the Canada-France Hawaii Telescope took four different images, each at a different season of the year – when combined, the images represent over 10 million galaxies.