By Michael Bastasch Two recent reports warned that global warming threatens polar bear populations across the world, but the warnings in those reports obscure today’s reality about polar bears — they are doing just fine, according to experts. “They appear to be as abundant and as productive as ever, in most populations,” Dr. Mitchell Taylor, a polar…
By Thomas Phippen NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) are looking for someone to research and answer one of the most basic questions in the world: How did life begin? In a request for proposals released Tuesday, NASA and NSF announced an $8 million research grant for organizations willing to tackle the “Origin of Life.” The grant winner will be…
Chris White According to one noted scientist and academic, the world’s most belligerent and dictatorial countries on Earth — North Korea — also happens to be the “greenest” nation in the world. Environmentalists should love the kind of world North Korea has created for itself – crippled industries, a lack of a consistent electrical grid…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Sen. Rand Paul It is my duty as a senator to uphold and defend the Constitution. One of my most important responsibilities in this role is to provide advice and consent on treaties, a check and balance on the Executive Branch. It gives us the opportunity to make sure the…
By Guy Bentley Inhaling vapor from E-cigarettes is as safe as breathing air, according to a new paper that compared two E-cigarettes with regular cigarettes and air. Research published in Toxicology in Vitro used a combination of tests to find out whether E-cigarette vapor is harmful to people’s airways. To model the possible harmful effect of E-cigarette vapor,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Geoffrey Ingersoll Scientists have developed a simple chemical test that’s 10,000 times better at detecting life than current experiments on NASA rovers. Researchers developed a chemical technique capable of detecting amino acids commonly associated with life on Earth. The method is capable of simultaneously analyzing 17 different amino acids. “Our method…
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