Sunday, February 1, 2009

Water Plays Surprising Role in Climate Change

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The twisting road up Mauna Loa's lava fields rises above the clouds. Credit: CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder From Live Science:...

The Tech That Makes The Super Bowl Super

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From CNET: At its core, football represents the polar opposite of technology: A bunch of large men run around a field, battling for position...

Science May Explain Our Love Of Sports

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Super Bowl 42 From Kansas City: A relatively recent discovery in science may explain our country’s obsession with watching sports — like the...

Scientists To Football Players: Give Us Your Brains

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Brains! Brains!!: Gaetan Lee (CC Licensed) From Popular Science: Amidst a growing body of evidence tying severe health problems to multiple...

Do Huge NFL Players Help Teams Win?

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From Live Science: When the Arizona Cardinals meet the Pittsburgh Steelers in Sunday's Super Bowl, every starting offensive lineman will...

2009 Super Bowl Tech

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Cool Science News Editor: Popular Mechanics has posted a number of fun and interesting links to the game of football, and to the Super Bowl....

The Physics of ‘The Hit’ -- Superbowl Science

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Baltimore running back Willis McGahee was seriously injured after a collision with the Steelers' Ryan Clark in the A.F.C. championship g...
Saturday, January 31, 2009

How Ancient Greeks Chose Temple Locations

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The ancient Greek Temple of Hera in Selinunte, also knowns as "temple E", at Castelvetrano, in Sicily, Italy. Image from Wikipedia...

Ancient Creature Points To Parallel Evolution

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Light optical microscope images of placozoans. (Image from NASA Astrobiology Institute ) From New Scientist: AN UPDATED family tree of the ...

Is Google Broken? -- News Updates On Google's Glitch Today

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Google Error Sends Warning Worldwide -- New York Times Google’s Internet search service malfunctioned for nearly 55 minutes Saturday morning...

Action Sunrise At The Very Large Array

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From Live Science: Astronomers recently used the NSF's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope (above) to help find the most distant wate...

Inside Alaska's Explosive Redoubt Volcano

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Mount Redoubt volcano in Alaska as seen from the northwest on March 4, 1990. Steam commonly vents from the dome in the crater in between eru...

The Biology Of Dating: Why Him, Why Her?

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From Time Magazine: Ah, the eternal question: why is HE with HER? Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher thinks she has found the answer aft...

How Does A Dog Walk? Surprisingly, Many Of Us Don't Really Know

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How do dogs walk? It turns out that all four-legged animals step with their left hind leg followed by their left foreleg. Then they step wit...
Friday, January 30, 2009

Neil Armstrong Walking On The Moon Is Most Memorable Television Moment

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From The Telegraph: Astronaut Neil Armstrong walking on the moon is the most memorable television first, according to a survey of 3,000 peop...

Rising Acidity Is Threatening Food Web of Oceans, Science Panel Says

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From New York Times: The oceans have long buffered the effects of climate change by absorbing a substantial portion of the greenhouse gas ca...

Time To Dive Into Google Ocean?

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From PC Pro News: Google is rumoured to be delving underwater with a new upgrade to its Google Earth software. Having already conquered the ...

Stem Cell Transplant Reverses Early Stage Multiple Sclerosis

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From Eureka Alert: CHICAGO --- Researchers from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine appear to have reversed the neurol...

Fight Brews Over How To Build A Better Internet

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Switch and Data’s PAIX in Palo Alto is a primary Internet exchange point in North America. (Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor) From ...

Forecasting Guru Announces: “No Scientific Basis For Forecasting Climate”

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Photo : J. Scott Armstrong, founder of the International Journal of Forecasting From Watts Up With That? It has been an interesting couple o...