Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Pictured: The Soap Bubble Nebula Causing Astronomical Excitement Among Star-Gazers

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This startling image of the newly discovered Soap Bubble Nebula has generated enormous excitement among astronomers From The Daily Mail: It ...

The Futility Of Emissions Controls

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A cyclist rides past a China Huaneng Group power plant in Beijing Photograph: China Newsphoto/Reuters China's Three Biggest Power Firms ...

Cheaper Solar Thermal Power

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S un catchers: This is the latest design of a system for focusing sunlight on a Stirling engine to generate electricity. Credit: Sandia Nati...

Kenya To Build Africa's Biggest Windfarm

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A wind farm in the Ngong hills on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya Photograph: Stephen Morrison/EPA From The Guardian: With surging demand fo...

Imaginary Friends: Television Programs Can Fend Off Loneliness

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Photo : By yourself, but not alone Flickering friends count for something. Lukasz Laska/iStock From Scientific American: Stomach growling, b...

Finding King Herod's Tomb

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Herod built an elaborate palace fortress on the 300-foot mountain, Herodium, to commemorate his victory in a crucial battle. Duby Tal / Alba...

Hydrocarbons In The Deep Earth?

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This artistic view of the Earth's interior shows hydrocarbons forming in the upper mantle and transported through deep faults to shallow...

Brain's Potential Explained by Big New Idea

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From Live Magazine: Different species and individuals have limits as to what they can learn. For instance, you can't teach your dog to r...

Food Dye 'May Ease Spinal Injury'

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From The BBC: A dye similar to that used in sweets may potentially minimise the severity of spinal cord injuries. A cascade of molecular cha...

Like Tarzan, Orangutans Glide Through Trees

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DLILLC / Corbis From Time Magazine: Husky and hairy, with the flaming orange coloring of a bad dye job, the orangutan doesn't look like ...

One Quarter Of Giant Panda Habitat Lost In Sichuan Quake

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From CNN: (CNN) -- The earthquake in Sichuan, southwestern China, last May left around 69,000 people dead and 15 million people displaced. N...

Sleeping in Space is Easy, But There's No Shower

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From Space: Astronauts may have some tough jobs in orbit - like building a $100 billion International Space Station - but apparently getting...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Crowd Sees Spaceship Launcher Fly

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WhiteKnightTwo follows two photos planes as it circles Monday, July 27, 2009 above the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual AirVen...

Australia's Swine Flu Fight Holds Lessons For World, Say Scientists

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Credit: AFP From COSMOS: MELBOURNE: Hard-hit Australia has become a global case study for swine flu, with Europe and the United States watch...

Photo: Docked Space Shuttle And Station Cross The Sun

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From Wired News: A photographer has captured a stunning photo of the space shuttle Endeavor docked with the International Space Station cros...

Fertile Crescent 'Will Disappear This Century'

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Photo: The Fertile Crescent is left dry as Turkish dams reduce the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to a trickle (Image: AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) F...

Containing The Sahara With Bacteria-Built Walls

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From Popsci.com: Bacteria that construct walls out of sand could save a third of the world's population from desertification The Sahara,...

Transparent Aluminum Is ‘New State Of Matter’

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Experimental set-up at the FLASH laser used to discover the new state of matter. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Oxford) From Scien...

Divorce Hurts Health Even After Remarriage

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From Live Science: Divorce can wreak havoc on a person's health, even after remarriage, a new study finds. Scientists have known that ma...

Gray Hair Caused by Stress (Cell Stress, That Is)

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DNA damage from chemicals, ultraviolet light, and ionizing radiation can turn hair gray (above, an elderly man in Lincoln, Nebraska), accord...