Sunday, February 22, 2009

2009 Oscars: PM Predicts Winners for Sci/Tech Categories

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From Popular Mechanics: PM takes to the red carpet to find out who movie industry experts expect to win for audio and visual achievement at ...

NASA Delays Space Shuttle Launch A Fourth Time

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NASA workers watch as the space shuttle Discovery is moved to the launch site at the Kennedy Space Center in January. NASA has postponed the...

Is Genius Born or Can It Be Learned?

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Albert Einstein. Photo from Corbis From Time Magazine: Is it possible to cultivate genius? Could we somehow structure our educational and so...

Single-celled Algae Took The Leap To Multicellularity 200 Million Years Ago

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Pleodorina starrii has an incomplete division of labor. Although the 12 small cells near the top of this colony only swim, the 20 larger cel...

What's An Oscar Really Made Of?

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From Live Science: On Sunday, nominated movie stars will show up at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre hoping to walk away clutching one of those glo...

Scientists Make Advances On 'Nano' Electronics

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Axial quadrupole nanostructures in an illustration courtesy of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Two U.S. teams have developed new ma...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

As The World's Languages Disappear, Basque Revives

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From McClatchy: ST. JEAN DE LUZ, France — The world is losing languages at an alarming rate, a United Nations agency reported Thursday, with...

It's All Systems Go For Europa

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Europa, dwarfed by Jupiter, is in the center of this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 7, 2000. "Europa is tremendously exc...

Arctic Sea Ice Underestimated For Weeks Due To Faulty Sensor

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From Bloomberg: A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (...

Cosmic Stage Set for Comet Lulin's Fly-By

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Comet Lulin as photographed by amateur astronomer Jack Newton in Arizona. Jack Newton/NASA From FOX News/Space.com: A recently discovered co...

Atlantis Revealed At Last... Or Just A Load Of Old Googles?

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False hopes: Google said the grid-like markings, thought to reveal the location of mythical underwater city Atlantis, are an artifact of its...

NASA's Kepler Mission To Seek Other Earths

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Artist's concept of Kepler in space. (Credit: NASA/JPL) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Feb. 20, 2009) — NASA's Kepler spacecraft ...

Most Wars Occur in Biodiversity Hotspots

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Photo from My Daily Clarity From Live Science: More than 80 percent of the world's major armed conflicts from 1950-2000 occurred in regi...

Pentagon Official: U.S. Is Not Developing Space Weapons

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The USS Lake Erie launches a Standard Missile-3 at a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite as it traveled in space at mor...
Friday, February 20, 2009

Lessons In Survival

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Illustration by Josh Cochran for Newsweek From Newsweek: The science that explains why elite military forces bounce back faster than the res...

Why Would A Chimpanzee Attack A Human?

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A DANGEROUS COUSIN: This chimp from the Knoxville Zoo bears its teeth to visitors, who observe from behind glass. Chimpanzees have been know...

Telescope Spies Cataclysmic Blast

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Photo: Main facts of the Fermi Mission: Spacecraft was launched in June 2008 on a five-year mission It is looking at the Universe in the hig...

Lost In Space: 8 Weird Pieces Of Space Junk

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From Wired: Humans have ventured into space over the last 50 years, and all manner of junk has been left behind. From tiny bolts to whole sp...

New Atlas Shows Dying Languages Around The World

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Click On The Image To Enlarge (Image from Thinking Shift ) From Yahoo News/AP: PARIS – Only one native speaker of Livonian remains on Earth,...

How Steroids Work

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From Live Science: A $252 million contract to play baseball causes "an enormous amount of pressure ... to perform at a high level every...