International Business Times hints at what the first commercial satellite means for the future of space:

After two failed launch attempts due to technical glitches last week, the 22-story Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 5:41 p.m. EST. The rocket carried a 7,000-pound communications satellite called “SES-8,” owned by Luxembourg-based SES S.A., [...]

Science Daily has Hubble’s latest clue to finding life elsewhere in space. The telescope has found five distant, watery worlds:

The five planets — WASP-17b, HD209458b, WASP-12b, WASP-19b and XO-1b — orbit nearby stars. The strengths of their water signatures varied. WASP-17b, a planet with an especially puffed-up atmosphere, and HD209458b had the strongest signals. The signatures for the [...]

Nature gets the lowdown on the anatomical secret behind the koala’s deep, deep voice:

Benjamin Charlton, a biologist at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, wanted to know what gave these marsupial Barry Whites their rumbling bass voice. “The first time I heard a koala bellow, I was genuinely amazed that an animal this small could produce such [...]

Mashable looks to the skies at Amazon’s latest innovation in delivery – a fleet of flying robots bringing YOUR Christmas present:

A video of how the service will work has already been posted to YouTube, showing the process of the package being taken from the warehouse floor and on to the front steps of the customer’s home. The idea is [...]

In the book Mysterium Comsmographicum, Johannes Kepler started mapping out how planets worked.

The idea here is that the solar system is structured according to the Platonic solids, one nesting in the other.

Later on, Kepler figured out how gravity worked and that the real geometry of planetary motion was a circle with two centers – an

Yes, technically not a theremin, but one of its children.

Bruno Perrault played the ondes Martenot and Matteo Ramon Arevalos played the piano, recorded on 21 February 2006.

Murail is a “spectral” composer – he creates melodies based on the shapes of the sounds as represented mathematically… or visualized on a spectrogram.

Martin Ulikhanyan composed this dreamy piece, which was recorded on 16 March 2013, conducted by Zaven Vardanyan. Ulikhanyan has a YouTube channel and a Soundcloud account.

Happy listening.

Untamed Science has the skinny on Siats meekerorum, an early Cretaceous predator the size of a bus:

So imagine a world where the giant Siats is top dog, and ancestors of the T. rex (tyrannosaurs) about the size of great danes were running around. How adorable is that? It wasn’t until Siats and other Carcharodontosaurs went extinct that T. [...]

Remember the superhero fashion designer in The Incredibles? Nature unfolds the true story of a “super-material” that repels liquids so well, it resists molten metal:

Kripa Varanasi, a mechanical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and his colleagues used a water-repellent material which they further engineered by adding tiny ridges 0.1 millimetres high.

They then recorded water [...]