Reuters reports on an innovative response to a space helmet malfunction:
… Read the rest “Astronauts to use space snorkels.”U.S. spacewalks have been suspended since July after a spacesuit helmet worn by Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano
Nature has more on the math whizzes of the South Pacific:
… Read the rest “Polynesian polynomials? Islanders counted in binary.”Binary arithmetic, the basis of all virtually digital computation today, is usually said to have been invented at the start of the
Nature has reached the point where they’re worrying about how clean we can keep our ships and rovers, so they don’t track our chemicals all over the Red Planet’s pristine… Read the rest “Water on Mars. Not traces, but actual wet stuff.”
In 1660, Dutch-German cartographer Andreas Cellarius created an atlas of the stars.
This map shows how people thought the moon moved in 1660 – in epicycles. Before… Read the rest “Science Art: Theoria Lunae from Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius.”
New Scientist imagines a fabulous new look for Edmontosaurus (the platypus of the dinosaur era) based on a new fossil finding – the duck-billed dinosaurs had combs like roosters… Read the rest “Duck-billed dinosaur redrawn – because they had “rooster-like” combs.”
Nature uncovers the secret lives of creatures that never grow old:
… Read the rest “Everybody ages… well, except when they don’t. Meet the Peter Pans.”A comparison of standardized demographic patterns across 46 species, published today in Nature, suggests that the vast
Reuters reports on Curiosity’s latest discovery – the dried bed of what was apparently once a mucky, life-filled lake on Mars:
… Read the rest “Martian Lake: Life was (probably) here.”The lake, located inside Gale Crater where the
Shades of Philip Larkin…. Washington Post has more on how mice, at least, pass fear down with their DNA:
… Read the rest “Trauma can be inherited.”In the experiment, researchers taught male mice to fear the smell of cherry
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 *through* it. The Hubble Space Telescope… Read the rest “Science Art: Cumulative Absorption Spectrum, Hubble Telescope by NASA/STScI.”
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 a lot we can do today, now that we’ve… Read the rest “Oldest ancestor’s DNA is sequenced.”
International Business Times hints at what the first commercial satellite means for the future of space:
… Read the rest “Space-X launches a satellite. Meaning: they’re in money.”After two failed launch attempts due to technical glitches last week, the 22-story
Science Daily has Hubble’s latest clue to finding life elsewhere in space. The telescope has found five distant, watery worlds:
… Read the rest “Wet planets – we’ve got their names.”The five planets — WASP-17b, HD209458b, WASP-12b,
Nature gets the lowdown on the anatomical secret behind the koala’s deep, deep voice:
… Read the rest “The Barry White organ. It’s how koalas get low.”Benjamin Charlton, a biologist at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, wanted to know what
Mashable looks to the skies at Amazon’s latest innovation in delivery – a fleet of flying robots bringing YOUR Christmas present:
… Read the rest “Amazon’s fleet of flying robots”A video of how the service will work has already
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… Read the rest “Science Art: Solar System by Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum”
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