Saturday, January 10, 2009

Saturday Night Special: Biggest Full Moon of 2009

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From Yahoo News/Space: If skies are clear Saturday, go out at sunset and look for the giant moon rising in the east. It will be the biggest ...

NASA: Continued Shuttle Use Would Be Risky

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NASA's Space Shuttle STS-1 Columbia launch on April 12, 1981. Photo from NASA From The CBS: (AP) The cost of continuing the life of the ...
Thursday, January 8, 2009

Report: Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months

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Photo: A big solar flare in December 2006. NASA From FOX News: A new study from the National Academy of Sciences outlines grim possibilities...

Astronauts Threatened By Cosmic Rays As Sun Becomes Less Active

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European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang works during his second spacewalk in 2006. The Sun's ability to shield the solar syst...
Wednesday, January 7, 2009

U.S. Scientists Learn How To Levitate Tiny Objects

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Photo : An artist's rendition shows how the repulsive Casimir-Lifshitz force between suitable materials in a fluid can be used to quantu...
Sunday, January 4, 2009

What Science Says About Enlightened Sex By Sally Law, Special to LiveScience

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Women who practiced the Eastern techniques of mindfulness and yoga reported improvements in levels of arousal and desire, as well as better ...

Breakthroughs That Will Change Everything

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From Live Science: Will humans go extinct? Or will we instead evolve into divergent species? Can we stop killing each other? Perhaps old-fas...

Is Anybody In Charge Of Keeping Satellites From Colliding?

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From The Straight Dope: Dear Cecil: As I stare into the beautiful dark sky above my home in Hawaii and see all the stars and satellites, I p...

73.4 Percent of All Wikipedia Edits Are Made By Roughly 1,400 People

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From College On The Record: Most college professors discourage students from using Wikipedia as a reliable source of information, and if you...
Friday, January 2, 2009

Diamonds Offer 'Final Proof' That A Comet Wiped Out The Mammoth

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From Times Online: Sure, 2008 was bad. But for Americans it was nowhere near as bad as 11,000BC – according to research published in Science...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

LIFE Photo Archive Hosted By Google

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From Google: Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and a...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Top 5 Incredible Science Discoveries of 2008

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From Live Science: Science is mostly an incremental process, a slow peeling of the onion to offer small glimpses of understanding. But over ...

The Top 10 Green-Tech Breakthroughs Of 2008

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From Wired News: Green technology was hot in 2008. Barack Obama won the presidential election promising green jobs to Rust Belt workers. Inv...

If Climate Didn't Doom Neanderthals, Did Humans?

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A map of Europe and part of the Middle East depicts the approximate range of the Neanderthals as provided by Richard Klein. The illustration...

One World, Many Minds: Intelligence In The Animal Kingdom

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Jupiterimages From Scientific American: We are used to thinking of humans as occupying the sole pinnacle of evolutionary intelligence. That...

Most Extreme News Stories Of 2008

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From New Scientist: It's been a year of extremes for science and technology. From camera footage of the deepest living fish, swimming so...

Researchers Unlock Secrets Of 1918 Flu Pandemic

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Policemen in Seattle wearing masks made by the Red Cross, during the influenza epidemic in a National Archives photo dated December 1918. (N...

Christmas Star Mystery Continues

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The fabled Star of Bethlehem (shown above in a conceptual photo) may have been a series of events with great meaning for ancient skywatchers...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Julia Roberts Was Born With A Beautiful Smile

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The study found faking a smirk is innate. True smiles like Roberts’ toothsome grin cause the eyes to twinkle and narrow and the cheeks to ri...

Lessons For Other Smokers In Obama's Efforts To Quit

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Franklin D. Roosevelt smoked cigarettes, and John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton occasionally smoked cigars. Gerald R. Ford preferred a pipe. (...