Wednesday, September 2, 2009

FAQ: The Science And History Of Wildfires

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From Live Science: The Station Fire, the largest of eight wildfires roaring through parts of California, began on Aug. 26 and has since burn...

Future Robot Soldiers?

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The Exoskeleton: Extreme Technological Innovation -- Raytheon Raytheon Company’s research facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, is developing a ...

Studying Ancient Man To Learn To Prevent Disease

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iStockphoto From The Philadelphia Inquirer: Health care as we know it didn't exist 3,000 years ago. But along the Georgia coast, the Pac...

As Wildfire Threatens L.A., Satellites And Supertankers Hover

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Smoke Monster: Smokey won't like this. NASA From Popular Science: Los Angelenos have recently watched billowing clouds from a nearby wi...

Milk Drinking Started Around 7,500 Years Ago In Central Europe

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Map showing origin of milk drinking in Europe. (Credit: Image courtesy of University College London) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Sep. ...

Dogs Descended From Wolf Pack On Yangtze River

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From The Telegraph: Today's dogs are all descended from a pack of wolves tamed 16,000 years ago on the shores of the Yangtze river, acco...

We Are All Mutants Say Scientists

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From The BBC: Each of us has at least 100 new mutations in our DNA, according to research published in the journal Current Biology. Scientis...

Discovery Of Novel Genes Could Unlock Mystery Of What Makes Us Uniquely Human

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A baby chimp (Pan troglodytes) and his handler looking at each other. (Credit: iStockphoto/Warwick Lister-Kaye) From Science Daily: ScienceD...

What Happens When an Astronaut Sneezes?

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No kidding! This CDC photograph captured a sneeze in progress, revealing the plume of salivary droplets as they are expelled in a large cone...

Space Mission To Mercury: How An Ion Engine Works

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Photo courtesy NASA This image of a xenon ion engine, photographed through a port of the vacuum chamber where it was being tested at NASA...

First Baby Born From New Egg-Screening Technique

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From Breitbart/AFP: Meet Oliver, the first baby in the world born using a new egg-screening technique that could double the odds of an impla...

Great Ball Of Fire? No, Just A 'Sun Dog' Scampering Across The Sky

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Blazing light: The flash was photographed by Matthew Pinless near his home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire From The Daily Mail: Matthew Pinle...

First Spacewalk Complete

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Credit NASA From Red Orbit: The first spacewalk of the STS-128 mission came off without a hitch on Tuesday, as spacewalkers Danny Olivas and...

Maintenance Error Causes Two-Hour Gmail Outage

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From ZDNet: Google's nearly two-hour Gmail outage yesterday was the result of a miscalculation regarding the capacity of its system, the...

Finding Smells That Repel

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Michael C. Witte From The Wall Street Journal: If you're one of those people whom mosquitoes tend to favor, maybe it's because you ...

Keeping Genes Out Of Terrorists' Hands

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Photo: Low standards could mean that hazardous genes get through screening more easily. W. Philpott/Reuters From Nature: Gene-synthesis indu...

Global Warming And The Sun -- A Commentary

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From L.A. Times: Recent studies seem to show that there's more to climate change than we know. Assuming there are no sunspots today, a 9...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

World's Smallest Semiconductor Laser Heralds New Era In Optical Science

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Image: The schematic on the left illustrates light being compressed and sustained in the 5 nanometer gap -- smaller than a protein molecule ...

Why Pacific Hurricanes Hit The Americas So Rarely

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Hurricane Jimena was heading west-northwest toward Mexico’s Baja Peninsula on August 30, 2009, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectror...

The Race To The Higgs Boson: LHC Versus Tevatron

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Tevatron Fermilab From Popular Science: While the LHC's in the shop for repairs from its massive breakdown last September, an older pa...