Astronomy still very popular in the modern age.

The BBC has hosted an astronomy night which resulted in the discovery of another exoplanet around a distant star. This is good news in the search for interstellar life. The Universe would have to be trillions of light-years across by now, the edges travelling faster than the speed of light, due to the initial acceleration … Read more

Formaldehyde link to early life on Earth.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/04/29/3203610.htm The poisonous organic compound Formaldehyde has turned out to have been a deciding factor in enabling life on Earth to survive the gigantic impact that created the Earth`s moon. The impact would have melted the entire crust of the Earth and vaporised any water and organic materials that existed on the planet at that … Read more