We're running out of Universe to measure, physicists caution and other top stories.

• We're running out of Universe to measure, physicists caution

  Physicists are used to quantum mechanics limiting how much we can know about the fundamental constituents of matter. But now, a couple of physicists have suggested that there are walls in the other direction too - someday, we'll have measured the biggest stuff in the Universe about as well as we can possibly measure it. And even then, we won’t know everything - and that's a problem.  Imagine a potato cannon that always shoots potatoes at exactly the same speed. Any high school physics student w..

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• Where in the world does lightning strike the most?

  

  In a new study using 16 years of satellite data, NASA reveals that the number one spot gets almost 300 thunderstorms per year; these other hotspots are wild as well.We didn’t need NASA to tell us that Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, pictured above, wins the prize for being the place on the planet riddled with the most lightning. We’ve written about this playground for Zeus before, and how could any other spot top it? Located along the Andes Mountains, it is the largest lake in South America and is ..

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• Swift parrot: Tasmania's logging agenda under pressure as bird ruled 'critically endangered'

  

  Swift parrot: Tasmania's logging agenda under pressure as bird ruled 'critically endangered' Updated May 06, 2016 19:04:14 Pressure is mounting on the Tasmanian Government to stop logging native forests inhabited by swift parrots after the Federal Government reclassified the species as "critically endangered".Scientists at the Australian National University put the case for the upgraded listing to Environment Minister Greg Hunt, who confirmed it yesterday.It came after ..

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• Rising sea temperatures cause massive coral bleaching off Christmas Island, researchers say

  

  Rising sea temperatures cause massive coral bleaching off Christmas Island, researchers say Updated May 06, 2016 18:41:17 Between 70 and 90 per cent of coral in the shallow water around Christmas Island are bleached due to rising ocean temperatures, researchers say.Over the past month, sea temperature around the island has jumped from the usually 28 degrees to above 31 degrees.It has pushed corals to expel the algae that give these organisms their vivid colour, and toda..

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• Hell Proved to Be Located in the Center of Earth

  

  The expression, “hell on Earth,” proves to have some possible truth. The intense pressure of the Earth's core is revealing hell like properties. The biblical sense of hell has always been turned into a smoldering hot pit of demise. Anyone who follows ...

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