Sunday, July 5, 2009

NASA Reconsiders Its Moon Plans

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Ares Rocket : courtesy of NASA From Popscicom: The Constellation system, which includes the Ares rocket and Orion crew module, could lose...

Late Blight -- Irish Potato Famine Fungus -- Attacks U.S. Northeast Gardens And Farms Hard

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Leaf lesions due to late blight. (Credit: Copyright College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University) From Science Daily: Scien...

Even Cockroaches Get Fat On Bad Food

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Gromphadorhina portentosa--the Madagascar hissing cockroach. Credit: Natural History Museum, London From Live Science: Cockroaches may be ti...

Can Aging Be Solved?

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Credit: UCSF From Technology Review: At the World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics later this week in Paris, amid sessions on Alzheime...

Web In Trouble? The Hidden Cables Under A Cornish Beach Feeding The World's Internet

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Pictured above is the Atlantic's newest and most advanced submarine cable system. It is so powerful that it could carry the entire inter...
Saturday, July 4, 2009

Revealed: How Pandemic Swine Flu Kills

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From The New Scientist: As the H1N1 swine flu pandemic continues to spread around the world, most cases are still mild. But reports are star...

What Did Einstein Know, And When Did He Know It?

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Albert Einstein From Newsweek: What newly released papers reveal about the physicist. On July 22 the Einstein Papers Project, located at the...

Climate Change And The Mystery Of The Shrinking Sheep

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Milder winters are causing Scotland's wild breed of Soay sheep to get smaller, despite the evolutionary benefits of possessing a large b...

The Strange Ingredients In Fireworks

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Copper produces blue sparks. Barium, also used in rat poison and glassmaking, makes green. A mix of strontium salts, lithium salts and other...

Marie Curie Voted Greatest Female Scientist

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Marie Curie has been voted the greatest woman scientist of all time. Photo: PA From The Telegraph: Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning n...

Hunting For Life In Alien Worlds

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An artist's impression of the exoplanet HD 189733b transiting its sun. Astronomers have detected both water vapour and methane in its at...

Vegetarian Diet 'Weakens Bones'

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A vegetarian salad. Australian researchers have said that people who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eat...

Don't Look Down: Terrifying View From Glass Box Balcony Jutting Out From Skyscraper's 103rd Floor

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Long way up: Even the floor of the platforms are glass - few were brave enough to look straight down From The Daily Mail: If you're scar...
Friday, July 3, 2009

New Form Of El Nino May Increase Atlantic Storms

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From Yahoo News/AP: WASHINGTON – El Nino may have a split personality. The warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean has long been known to affe...

Computer Reveals Stone Tablet 'Handwriting' In A Flash

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Archaeologists have discovered more than 50,000 stone inscriptions from ancient Athens and Attica so far. However, attributing the pieces to...

Sea Ice At Lowest Level In 800 Years Near Greenland

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There has never been so little sea ice in the area between Svalbard and Greenland in the last 800 years. (Credit: NASA/GSFC) From Science Da...

How Earth Got Its Oxygen

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Cyanobacteria scum is now considered a nuisance, but these microbes oxygenated our planet over 2 billion years ago. Credit: Washington State...

Fit Body, Fit Mind? Your Workout Makes You Smarter

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Photo: Noah Clayton Getty Images From Scientific America: How can you stay sharp into old age? It is not just a matter of winning the genet...

The Truth About Water on Mars: 5 New Findings

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Lesson 4: The Lack of Perchlorate Streaks Contradicts Evidence of Liquid Water Deposits Underground From Popular Mechanics: In its few month...

International Space Station To Get A Big, Beautiful Window

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International Space Station Cupola Window: NASA From Popsci.com: We've seen private tourists and urine-recycling water filters make the...