April Flowers is a wandering gypsy, with a deep-seated conviction that every road she has not yet traveled is an adventure waiting to happen. Mentally and emotionally unable to stay in one place very long, April and her bright yellow Xterra can be found anywhere between Texas and South Dakota, following the wind. When she isn't hiking, kayaking, or flipping a coin to decide which way to turn on the next highway, she can be found writing everything from awesome redOrbit.com articles to a truly terrible novel and some stinky poetry.
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In 2003, Oscar Munoz discovered a tiny skeleton in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The remains became known as the “Atacama Humanoid” – nicknamed Ata.
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of X-ray astronomy and scientists around the globe have been celebrating. The supernova remnant SN 1006 is one of the best celestial objects for illustrating just how far we have come in those 50 years.
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Today is Earth Day, which used to be one of my favorite holidays.
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Astrologers have told us for thousands of years that our birth month made a difference in who we are. A Time.com report reveals that researchers are finding that your birth month has a lot to do with how your immune system functions
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The newest interactive health gadget is a wristband that constantly monitors vital signs and uploads the information to the Internet. The device is slated to enter clinical trials in October and be commercially released around the end of the year.
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The NDOW released a report about the history of the black bear in Nevada, complete with maps and graphs and population estimates. Almost sounds like there should be 27 or so 8x10 glossy color photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, right?
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UFOs, Area 51, Alien Abductions. Americans have been fascinated with the idea of aliens among us for decades.
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If you are like me, you grew up playing "Ring Around the Rosie" and being told that it was about the Black Death. Well, we were wrong.
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Let's face it ladies, over the history of the human race we have used some truly disgusting and troubling ingredients in our makeup. Ingredients that killed us, like lead and radium, to ingredients that are just kind of gross, like urine and whale vomit; we have used anything we could get our hands on to make our faces more appealing.
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Scientists led by Columbia University's Department of Psychiatry have finally started doing science we can all use. Cocktail Party science! Now, they didn't study booze, or women in skimpy dresses, or even how to get the waiter to bring over the damned tray of hors d'oeuvres without yelling. Maybe they will get to those problems next year.
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