Saturday, December 13, 2008

Supermassive Black Hole Dissected With Natural Magnifying Glasses: 1,000 Times Clearer Than Best Telescopes Can Do

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Close-up of the Einstein Cross, as observed with the SINFONI instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope. SINFONI makes use of the adaptive...

Dreams Imaged, Scientists Claim

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From Live Science: Japanese researchers say they've imaged thoughts and dreams and displayed them on a computer screen. At the web site ...
Friday, December 12, 2008

Hubble's Replacement Now Taking Shape

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Technicians gingerly handle the honeycombed beryllium mirror segment that will eventually join 17 others to form the primary mirror of the J...

Year's Biggest Full Moon Friday Night

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From Space.com The full moon Friday night will be the biggest one of the year as Earth's natural satellite reaches its closest point to ...

Satellites Spy On Washington From On High [Slide Show]

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OBAMA'S NEW ADDRESS: From its orbit 423 miles (681 kilometers) above Earth, the GeoEye 1 looks down on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The sat...

The Shopping Mall: A 2,000-Year-Old Tradition

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An archaeological team found the very first traces of an Illyrian trading post that is more than 2,000 years old, including more than 30 boa...

Does Obama Want to Ground NASA's Next Moon Mission?

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Barack Obama and NASA administrator Michael Griffin, Charles Dharapak / AP; NASA; Matt Stroshane / Getty From Time Magazine: Getting into a ...

Look Up Tonight For A Spectacular Treat In The Sky

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From Times Online: Biggest full moon for years enhanced by shooting stars If the full moon tonight looks unusually large, it is not your ima...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

Ancient Indian Ocean Coral Points To Another Disastrous Tsunami

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From Times Online: The eastern Indian Ocean could be due for another earthquake rivalling the one that caused the deadly tsunami in December...

Hubble Finds Carbon Dioxide On An Extrasolar Planet

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This is an artist's impression of the Jupiter-size extrasolar planet, HD 189733b, being eclipsed by its parent star. Astronomers using t...

Wind, Water And Sun Beat Biofuels, Nuclear And Coal For Clean Energy

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Wind power is the most promising alternative source of energy, according to Mark Jacobson. (Credit: LM Glasfiber) From Science Daily: Scienc...

The Energy Debates: Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion

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From Live Science: The Facts Most of the planet is covered by the oceans, and they absorb a staggering amount of energy from the sun each da...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

The Dirty Side Of Clean Coal

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DIRTY COAL Mountaintop removal mining pollutes communities in Appalachia. Courtesy of Douglas Fischer, The Daily Climate From Scientific Ame...

1/5 Of Coral Reefs Lost Due To Acid-Filled Oceans

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From National Geographic: The world has lost nearly one-fifth of its coral reefs, and much of the rest could be destroyed by increasingly ac...

Henry M. Dies At 82; Victim Of Brain Surgery Accident Offered Doctors Key Insights Into Memory

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From The L.A. Times: For 55 years, he was known to the world at large only as HM or Henry M., the survivor of brain surgery that went catast...

The Physics Every President Should Know

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BROOKS KRAFT/CORBIS (Photo from Businessweek ) From NPR: From gravity to the greenhouse effect, Richard Muller, a physicist at University of...

What's Inside A Black Hole?

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Image from NASA From The Guardian: At the centre of the Milky Way lies a giant black hole, but can we shed light on what lurks in the darkne...
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Unprecedented 16-Year-Long Study Tracks Stars Orbiting Milky Way Black Hole

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This is the central parts of our galaxy, the Milky Way, as observed in the near-infrared with the NACO instrument on ESO's Very Large Te...
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Sugar Can Be Addictive, Study Suggests

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From Live Science: A study of rats finds they show all the signs of addiction to sugar. The finding could help better understand eating diso...

Google Doubles Street View Coverage

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US coverage by Google Maps Street View. (Google) From The Christian Science Monitor: Memphis, Maine, Birmingham, Charleston: Google’s been w...