Ancient times have it that a group of people of heritage called the "Sumerians" has documented information about a planet that's beyond Pluto in our solar system in a different orbit. They have it documented as the 12th planet because they counted Earth's moon as a planet and als...

How Life Began On Earth About 4.6 billion years ago the Earth was a fiery mass of liquid matter. As the hot mass began to cool, a rock crust formed on the Earth's surface, and the gases escaping from the newly made rocks formed the early atmosphere. The early atmosphere was made up of methane, ammo...

At the beginning of the project, the Human Genome Project was compared to the Manhattan Project or the mission to put men on the moon. It was considered so broad and so complex that the funding could only come from the government. The Human Genome project is now in the hands of private labs. Th...

Gorillas are apes and, since apes are man\'s closest relatives, they hold a very special fascination for us as humans. Animals have existed on earth for around 600 million years followed by mammals some 200 million years ago, and finally the first primates about 70 million years ago. When it comes t...

HOW TOOLS TRANSFORMED PROTO-HUMANS INTO MODERN HUMANS According to archeological and physical record, tool use has had an enormous effect in the transformation of proto humans into modern humans. What stimulated tool use was the proto humans intrest in new and easier ways to do things. With the int...

HOW TOOLS TRANSFORMED PROTO-HUMANS INTO MODERN HUMANS According to archeological and physical record, tool use has had an enormous effect in the transformation of proto humans into modern humans. What stimulated tool use was the proto humans intrest in new and easier ways to do things....

Cloning Technologies and More Science, in the past few years has made great strides in the field of mammal reproduction. They've worked for years to find out exactly what happens during a pregnancy, and also how it works. We've come so far in these stages as to gain the knowledge ne...

Reading over the original scientific study, we discover that the research team came to a rather important conclusion for the study of the development of biological species. Traditionally, it has been hypothesized that the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (the KT boundary) was the precipitating even that...

Human cloning isn't as scary as it sounds. In late February 1997 a British scientist named Ian Wilmut and his research team had cloned a lamb named Dolly from an adult sheep. Dolly was made by replacing the DNA of one sheep's egg with the DNA of another sheep's udder. This was an amazing announcemen...

In today\'s society, we have made great strides towards living longer, healthier, and more productive lives. With current medical technology, we have stopped smallpox, eradicated polio, restored vision to the blind, and transplanted a human heart. Now it seems that we have made these great efforts t...

A few years ago, Dr. Ian Wilmot came out with the first living thing to ever be cloned, a sheep named Dolly. People realized that Cloning was not something you found only in a Star Wars movie. From then on out, cloning was all people talked and debated about. Most who like the idea of cloning think...

From cucumbers and carrots to white rice and wheat, we humans have altered the genes of almost every food we eat. For almost 10,000 years we've been engineering plants by keeping the seeds from the best crops and planting those the next season. Following this practice year after year has resulted ...

A Feminist Encounter of the Eleventy-Billionth Kind... Whoa... In the distant future of a parallel universe to the first star on the right and straight on til' something, there is an alternate Earth, or, as the inhabitants of the planet call it, U.T.E.R.U.S.(P.), the acronym standing for; ...

Extremophiles The term extremophiles is applied to groups of microorganisms that live and thrive in places where most living creatures could not survive. Extremophiles can be grouped into two categories; Bacteria, simple celled creatures whose cells lack a nucleus, and eukarya, whose cell...

Background The term 'Designer Baby' is not a scientific term, it is a term created by the media to describe conception techniques other than traditional. The techniques used give parents more control over what their babies will be like. These techniques have been available due to adva...

Cloning Twenty-five years ago, scientists thought that cloning was virtually impossible. In the last five years, the science of cloning, has come to realization. What is a clone? A clone is a duplicate - much like a photocopy is a duplicate, or copy, of a document (Kolate, 238). A good example of co...

Imagine not worrying about being perfect. Having IQ levels better than Einstein, but with an appealing appearance, singing better than the Backstreet Boys, and playing a favorite sport like a professional. Well, fortunately, scientists have found a way of making those imaginative thoughts into rea...

Good morning (TEACHER) and class.We all know about vampires. Stock characters of fiction, guarenteed box office hits. The media vampire has been familiar to us since childhood. But the most important fact, is that there are no such things. Yes, there are no such things as vampires. At this point y...

Good morning (TEACHER) and class.We all know about vampires. Stock characters of fiction, guarenteed box office hits. The media vampire has been familiar to us since childhood. But the most important fact, is that there are no such things. Yes, there are no such things as vampires. At this point y...

Good morning (TEACHER) and class.We all know about vampires. Stock characters of fiction, guarenteed box office hits. The media vampire has been familiar to us since childhood. But the most important fact, is that there are no such things. Yes, there are no such things as vampires. At this point y...

Good morning (TEACHER) and class.We all know about vampires. Stock characters of fiction, guarenteed box office hits. The media vampire has been familiar to us since childhood. But the most important fact, is that there are no such things. Yes, there are no such things as vampires. At this point y...

Good morning (TEACHER) and class.We all know about vampires. Stock characters of fiction, guarenteed box office hits. The media vampire has been familiar to us since childhood. But the most important fact, is that there are no such things. Yes, there are no such things as vampires. At this point y...

Genetic Engineering Two years ago Scottish scientists announced that they had successfully cloned a sheep. They named it dolly and it was an exact copy of the original sheep. Is cloning morally right? Is it ethical? Some people think that it is wrong and that it shouldn't be pr...

I'm sitting down at a computer that has very vast capabilities. It is capable of almost any application, but it being only the size of my history textbook, leaves it fragile and vulnerable. With a few light slams, or the pass of a powerful magnet, it's very existence could be destroyed. Ancien...

Capital punishment-the death sentence-has a long and controversial history. Throughout centuries, countries have been using capital punishment as a way of dealing with criminals whose crimes were so outrageous, only death was a way of proving justice was served. Due to the fact t...