Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Dying Languages Archived For Future Generations

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Cambridge University From The Telegraph: A Cambridge University project to safeguard the world's 6,000 spoken languages has been launche...

SKorea Satellite Lost After Launch: Officials

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The Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 blasted off into space on Tuesday. Korea Aerospace Research Institute, via European Pressphoto Agency From ...

Where Did You Get Those Lovely Spirals?

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Mystery no more. Astronomers think they've figured out how spiral galaxies, like the Milky Way, form. Credit: NASA/JPL From Science Now...

Lower-cost Solar Cells To Be Printed Like Newspaper, Painted On Rooftops

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Researchers apply the nanoparticle “inks” as a spray on the solar cells. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Texas at Austin) From Sci...

Robotic Fish Could Patrol Waterways

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Mechanical engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Pablo Valdivia have designed the sleek robotic fish to more easily maneuver into areas where tra...

Islay To Be Entirely Powered By tides

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Philip Maxwell, chairman of the Islay Energy Trust, by the Sound of Islay where the ScottishPower turbines will be sited. Photograph: Murdo ...

Fill Her Up! The World's Highest Garage Attendant Prepares Space Shuttle Discovery For Launch

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Perched 153ft above the ground a Nasa technician prepares the liquid oxygen tank on the US space shuttle Discovery. Today's launch was s...

Climate Tipping Point Defined For US Crop Yields

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From The New Scientist: While news reports and disaster movies remind us about tipping points for Arctic melt and sea level rise, some thing...

Jessica Biel Most 'Dangerous' Celeb In Cyberspace

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From CNET: Through no fault of her own, actress Jessica Biel is now the most hazardous celebrity on the Internet. Fans searching online for ...

Wikipedia To Launch Page Controls

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From The BBC: The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia is on the cusp of launching a major revamp to how people contribute to some pages. The site...

Why Craigslist Is Such A Mess

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From Wired News: The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful. So how come when...

Hernandez To 'Tweet' From Discovery In Space

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From L.A. Times: If you want to get the latest developments about the launch of the space shuttle Discovery and the adventures of its crew,...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

World's Last Great Forest Under Threat: New Study

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Canadian evergreen forest. (Credit: iStockphoto/Stacey Newman) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2009) — The world's last remai...

New Theory Questions Why We Sleep

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From Live Science: The purpose of sleep remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science. Although we spend roughly one-third of li...

US Plans For Science Outreach To Muslim World

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From Nature: White House to send scientists as envoys. The administration of US President Barack Obama is ramping up plans to develop scient...

Shuttle Launch Delayed By Valve Problem

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Space Shuttle Discovery sits on launch pad 39-A From Reuters: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug 25 (Reuters) - NASA delayed a Wednesday morning lift...

Scientists Design Plant Filtration System That Lets You Drink Your Own SHOWER Water

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From The Daily Mail: Eco-thinkers have come up with an amazing new way to create drinking water - by putting plants in the bottom of a showe...

Survival In A Post-Apocalypse Blackout

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Surviving a blackout (Image: WestEnd61/Rex Features) From New Scientist: NATURAL catastrophes such as asteroid impacts, massive volcanic eru...

3 New Farm Bots Programmed To Pick, Plant And Drive

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From Popular Mechanics: Intelligent, manned machines aren’t just for warplanes and border guards—they can be found on the farm too. Increasi...

Chevron Wants To Power Oil Fields With Solar Energy

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Mirror Power: BrightSource Energy From Popular Science: In a move that might seem oxymoronic on the surface, Chevron has plans to install a...