Missing link in human evolution

Human Nature

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 May 2009 23:21 Written by InfoWeb Wednesday, 20 May 2009 13:12

Scientists have discovered a 47-million-year-old fossil which could provide the missing link between animals and humans.

The skeleton was discovered 26 years ago in Germany and lost in museums, until a paleontologist realized that it could be the missing link in human evolution chain.

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Methane May Point to Life on Mars

Space

Last Updated on Friday, 01 May 2009 14:57 Written by InfoWeb Saturday, 21 February 2009 18:12

If you roll out of bed and see the headline "Life on Mars," is it because: a) it's a hoax, b) NASA got lucky, c) scientific genius won out, or d) it is written in a British tabloid?

The British Sun received a slap on the wrist from the journal Science, but news sites buzzed cautiously over a new NASA study about methane gas detected on Mars in 2003. Methane plumes traced to three specific regions could signal active geological processes—or possibly even gas-emitting microbes, said scientists during yesterday's press conference.

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Is God created by our brains?

Human Nature

Last Updated on Friday, 01 May 2009 14:57 Written by InfoWeb Thursday, 05 February 2009 21:02

The idea of a god or goddess, no matter how old, has always been responsible for a single thing, namely bringing people together, especially in times of need. Religion may have very well played a part in the aggregation of the first human societies, when people were much more exposed to the whims of nature than they are today. At this point, the main religions of the world are fairly elaborate, and have tens and hundreds of millions of followers worldwide. But, in the old days, such “complex” gods were not yet invented, and people only believed in the natural forces they saw, as in the Sun, the wind and the Earth itself.

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