Monday, September 29, 2008

Detect Epidemics Before They Start

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Colorized transmission electron micrograph depicting the A/New Jersey/76 (Hsw1N1) virus, while in the virus’ first developmental passage thr...

Will We Soon Find Life in the Heavens?

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Allen Telescope Array From U.S. News And World Report: Alien-hunting scientists have had an eventful year, and they're about to get busi...

Learning From Mistakes Only Works After Age 12, Study Suggests

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From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2008) — Eight-year-old children have a radically different learning strategy from twelve-year-old...

Video Gamers Surprisingly Fit And Older

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Players team up to fight a monster in the online role-playing game EverQuest II. Credit: Sony Online Entertainment From Live Science: Drop t...

Sunspot-Hurricane Link Proposed

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From Nature News: Controversial research hints that solar cycle affects cyclone intensity. A new study suggests that more sunspots mean less...

SpaceX Did It -- Falcon 1 Made It To Space

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From Discover Magazine: SpaceX has made history. Its privately developed rocket has made it into space. After three failed launches, the com...

Skywalking Heroes: Best Spacewalks of All Time

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From Wired Science: The spacewalk is the ultimate space experience. And among skywalkers, a few have risen above the rest and set the bar hi...

Tesla's Impact On Everyday Life

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Host Bre Pettis and his Tesla coil on the set of his show "History Hacker." History Reveals: Tesla Totally Awesome! -- MSNBC Circ...

Why Old Athletes Come Back

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In this July 23, 2005 file photo, overall leader Lance Armstrong, of Austin, Texas, crosses the finish line to win the 20th stage of the Tou...

Even Viruses Catch Viruses

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From Live Science: Among pathogens, viruses are unique in their collective ability to infect all types of organisms. There are plant viruses...

What Goes Into Naming A New Species? A Lot

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An American scientist named Charles Paul Alexander is said to have named 10,000 species of crane flies, like the one above. From NPR: Septem...

A Trip Inside The "Big Bang Machine"

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Steve Kroft descends into the Large Hadron Collider some call it the "big bang machine" - that took billions of dollars and 9,000 ...

Are Some Solar Projects No Longer ‘Green’?

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Workers install solar panels on the roof of an Austin, Texas, homeowner. (Ann Hermes / The Christian Science Monitor / FILES) From The Chris...

Einstein's long-lost telescope goes on display after being restored

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In this undated photo made available by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on Monday, Sept. 22, 2008, an unidentified man adjusts a telescop...

When Wind Power Goes Wrong

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Wind Power -- Watts Up With That I was in a conversation today at lunch with a fellow who told me that “wind power is better than anything w...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

New Era Dawns At Home Of The Internet

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A network of supercomputers called the Grid will allow information to be downloaded quicker than ever. Tasks that took hours will now take s...

CERN Rivals See Melting Magnets As Par For Course

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A Sept. 10, 2008 file photo shows European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) scientists working at computers in the Cern's contro...

Why The Large Hadron Collider Is Already On The Fritz

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From Time Magazine - Science: Anyone who has struggled to change a fuse in their home should pity the scientists at the CERN laboratory in G...

PHOTOS: Best Science Images of 2008 Announced

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First Place, Photography: "The Glass Forest" From The National Geographic: September 25, 2008--Tiny green diatoms create the illus...

Top 10 Scrapped Spaceship Designs

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Space: the final frontier, and a veritable graveyard of wacky, premature or impossible concepts for getting people there. From radioactive M...