Times of India reports that they’ve just found some pterosaur footprints in north India’s Jaisalmer Basin:
… Read the rest “Rarer than pterodactyl footprints…”“Near the Thaiyat Village on the Jaisalmer-Jodhpur highway
A visualization of every solar system discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope as of February 2012 – that’s 885 plaents in 361 systems. There’s… Read the rest “Science Art: The Kepler Orrery II”
Laboratory Equipment has more on the Helmholz coil (a bit of antique lab machinery) and how one of its strange qualities might help Sandia’s “Z machine” fusion experiment… Read the rest “Steampunk solutions: 19th-century tech used by Sandia fusion researchers”
SEN has us baffled by a recently discovered planet that shouldn’t be there:
… Read the rest “The impossible planet.”The new world is the farthest out from its home star of any previously found. It is 11 times more massive than
Nature looks at the widening gap in understanding earthquake lights… not a gap in our knowledge, but in the ground, as fault lines pull apart to create eerie lights before quakes: … Read the rest “Earthquake lights go deeper”
The Guardian polls scientists to get their favorite (and corniest) science jokes:
… Read the rest “A positron and an electron walk into a bar…”? A weed scientist goes into a shop. He asks: “Hey, you got any of that inhibitor of 3-phosphoshikimate-carboxyvinyl
This is where European scientists work on experiments for the Compact Muon Spectrometer and Atlas, the project that found the Higgs boson.
Which is to say, smart people… Read the rest “Science Art: Bldng40cropped.jpg (CERN office building 40), by Gillis Danielsen.”
The Telegraph marvels at physicists learning how to levitate and move solid objects using sound waves:
… Read the rest “Sound levitation. No magnets. Sound.”They then levitate match heads, drops of water, screws and nuts.
The researchers
I can’t even begin with this one. But yes, researchers at the Czech University of Agriculture have determined that dogs orient themselves to magnetic north when excreting:
… Read the rest “Dogs poop in alignment with the Earth’s magnetic field”We measured
Universe Today is showing off NASA snapshops of China’s Chang’e3 lunar lander and Yutu lunar rover:
… Read the rest “Hey, You Two on the Moon – You and Yutu!”According to School of Earth and Space Exploration professor Mark Robinson’s
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