Science Art: Cumulative Absorption Spectrum, Hubble Telescope by NASA/STScI.
This is how spectroscopy works – how you can tell what’s floating around in space even when you can’t see it, only light that passes […]
Month: December 2013
Oldest ancestor’s DNA is sequenced.
Meaning, although PhysOrg stops short of saying so, that we could maybe someday build a hominin from scratch. As it is, though, we’ve still got […]
Space-X launches a satellite. Meaning: they’re in money.
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 […]
Wet planets – we’ve got their names.
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, […]
The Barry White organ. It’s how koalas get low.
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, […]
Amazon’s fleet of flying robots
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 […]
Science Art: Solar System by Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum
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 […]