Monday, July 13, 2009

The First Earthling To Journey To Mars - Conan The Bacterium

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Victoria crater, an impact crater at Meridiani Planum, near the equator of Mars. Photograph: Anonymous/AP From The Guardian: Pictures from a...

Is Grapefruit Juice Toxic?

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From Live Science: This Week's Question: My daughter heard that grapefruit juice can be toxic for some people. Is that true? The juice, ...

Apollo Special: Mirrors On The Moon

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Photo : Measuring the distance of the moon from Earth is one way of testing Einstein's theory of relativity (Image: Dan Long) From New S...

Multi-Galaxy Collision Caught in Action

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From Wired Science: Four galaxies are involved in this pile-up 280 million light years from Earth. The bright spiral galaxy at the center of...

Top 10 Scientific Music Videos

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From Wierd Science : Music can make the driest scientific concepts entertaining, or even hilarious. Catchy tunes about DNA blend genetics wi...

Human History Written in Stone and Blood

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Figure 1. Hunter-gatherer people living in southern Africa in the Middle Stone Age left behind artifacts in natural rock shelters and caves....
Sunday, July 12, 2009

Super-Slow-Motion Pictures Show Soap Bubble Bursting In Stunning Detail

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After being poked the surface of the breaks up, from one side to another, turning its surface into a multitude of droplets which appear to h...

Herschel Shows Breadth Of Vision

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Herschel-SPIRE's view of M74 (R) compared with that of Nasa's Spitzer space telescope. The larger mirror on Herschel (3.5m vs 0.85m)...

Machines That Heal

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Arms of Steel John B. Carnett From Popsci.com: In the movies, entrusting human life to robot helpers and sophisticated machines inevitably...

Getting More Out Of Crude

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Image : Holey catalyst: Rive Technology is designing a zeolite catalyst with pores larger than those found in conventional zeolites, which a...

New Kind Of Astronomical Object Around Black Hole: Living Fossil Records 'Supermassive' Kick

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This artist's conception shows a rogue black hole that has been kicked out from the center of two merging galaxies. The black hole is su...

Swearing Makes Pain More Tolerable

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From Live Science: That muttered curse word that reflexively comes out when you stub your toe could actually make it easier to bear the thro...

The Moon Walkers: Twelve Men Who Have Visited Another World

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Neil Armstrong in the Eagle after his historic moonwalk. Photograph: Nasa From The Guardian: What did it take to become a member of the most...

Why New Chrome OS Won't Turn Google Into a Monopoly: Analysis

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From Popular Mechanics: As Google announces its intention to create a full Web-based operating system, senior technology editor Glenn Derene...
Saturday, July 11, 2009

When Galaxies Collide, 280 Million Light Years Away

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Stephan's Quintent, Colliding: NASA From Popsci.com: A new image using data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory captures Stephan...

100 Essential Skills for Geeks

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From Geek Dad/Wired: As Geeks we are expected to have a certain set of skills that the majority of the population does not possess. This lis...

U.S. Science Is Tops, But Most Americans Don't Think It Is, A New Survey Finds.

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From Scientific American: Today the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Pew Research Center released results ...

How To Ensure Lost Wallets Are Returned

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Wallets containing the picture of an infant were most likely to trigger an honest reaction from the finder Photo: GETTY From The Telegraph...

Reduced Diet Thwarts Aging, Disease In Monkeys

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Rhesus monkeys, left to right, Canto, 27, and on a restricted diet, and Owen, 29, and a control subject on an unrestricted diet, are picture...

Birds Fireproof Their Homes

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Photo: This somewhat fireproof next is a courting zone of a male great bowerbird. Credit: Tomoki Okida, Japan Ethological Society and Sprin...