Surtsey is an island volcanically formed just 45 years ago off the coast of Iceland. Science Illustrated has highlighted this unique island in its May/June 2008 issue. “Surtsey always provides surprises,” remarked one of the life scientists who study it. “We discover about 20 new species each year.”

The Genesis Factor
edited by Ron J. Bigalke, Jr.
(Master Books, 2008, 254 pages)

The British science journal Nature has reported that scientists have discovered remains in a cave in northeastern Spain that are now considered “the earliest known remains of a human in Europe.”

Researchers have recently “ruled out a hypothesis” that has been taught as dogma in schools, colleges and universities worldwide: the cause of the Permian extinction, allegedly “the mother of all mass extinctions.”

A team of astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History will be reporting in the June issue of Astrophysical Journal that a new "object" in space has been discovered that some believe bring scientists “one step closer to understanding how new planets form.”¹
 
Could this be another planet? Not exactly. It could be a brown dwarf.