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You'd think these guys have gone to tremendous lenghts for nothing. Well, if you count proving a point about fact-checking and scientific veritability as "nothing", that is.

It's not just about the true total length of blood vessels in the human body, mind you:

You'd think these guys have gone to tremendous lenghts for nothing. Well, if you count proving a point about fact-checking and scientific veritability as "nothing", that is.

It's not just about the true total length of blood vessels in the human body, mind you:

Giant Structure Lurking in Deep Space Challenges Our Understanding of The Universe

A colossal structure in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved.

In light that has traveled for 6.9 billion years to reach us, astronomers have found a giant, almost perfect ring of galaxies, some 1.3 billion light-years in diameter. It doesn't match any known structure or formation mechanism.

New studies, which utilized AI to monitor the effects of climate change on Earth's spin, have shown that our days are getting increasingly longer and that our planet will get more wobbly in the future. These changes could have major implications for humanity's future:

Earth is wobbling and days are getting longer — and humans are to blame

Amazing. Here are the best photos of the April 8 total solar eclipse over North America

These must be exciting days for archeologists and history junkies in general...

Exhibit 1.
An ancient, massive urban complex has been found in the Ecuadorian Amazon

The site includes thousands of human-made mounds along with roads and agricultural fields



Exhibit 2.
Discovery of immense fortifications dating back 4,000 years in north-western Arabia

The North Arabian Desert oases were inhabited by sedentary populations in the 4th and 3rd millennia BCE. A fortification enclosing the Khaybar Oasis -- one of the longest known going back to this period -- was just revealed by a team of scientists. This new walled oasis is, along with that of Tayma, one of the two largest in Saudi Arabia.

Meet the lost continent of Zealandia in its full glory! Scientists have created a new and detailed map of the world's 8th continent, a landmass that is largely submerged now in the southwestern Pacific:

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Mysterious Lights Flashed in The Sky Before Morocco's Devastating Earthquake

Mysterious lights appear to have been spotted in Morocco before a devastating earthquake hit last week – and scientists still can't figure out what caused them.

Crying wolf or a real threat?

The Gulf Stream Is Slowing Down. What Would Happen If It Stopped?

"The AMOC is presently in its weakest state for more than 1,000 years".

The First Synthetic Human Embryos Now Exist

But they immediately raise serious ethical questions.



Here's the short version:
“They are embryo models, but they are very exciting because they are very looking similar to human embryos and very important path towards discovery of why so many pregnancies fail, as the majority of the pregnancies fail around the time of the development at which we build these embryo-like structures.”

Great stuff - go science! Also, human stem cell research offers incredible life extending possibilities. Science needs the freedom to execute free of the religious rhetoric that has held critical research back. Christopher Hitchens spoke eloquently of this during his cancer battle years back.

Of course there's the question about ethical boundaries being transgressed in the pursuit of this organ transplantation technology. Creating living animals (and humans in particular) for use as “organ transplant feedstock “ strikes many as problematic.

Last year I watched the results on the news on this vote in Austin on abortion, which was won by pro-choice voters with a 50% margin. The response from a pro-life voter was devastation because it was against her religion and her feelings.

I think feelings are good to have as they point you to a moral dilemma, which ideally you can then rationally think through to come to the right conclusion in terms of your dilemma, and the implications of your decision about that and the effect of that on other people's fundamental rights.

So let's not kill science like this prematurely.