BBC discusses the challenges faced by Rodrigo Souza, a man who’s dedicated himself to saving an endangered species – the lethal, heat-seeking venomous snake called the Atlantic… Read the rest “Save the (10-foot-long, venomous) snakes!”
No, not quoting that classical sot Li Bai, but the (mostly) sober-minded folks at Outside, who are now celebrating Dogfish Head’s latest special beer… made with moon dust … Read the rest “This beer has the moon in it.”
Yep. Virgin Galactic has announced that it’s sending a reality TV show contestant into space while cameras roll:
… Read the rest “Reality TV colonizes space.”“Space Race” is a groundbreaking, elimination competition series
Space.com reveals the weirdness of water – neither ice, nor liquid, nor vapor – found on a faraway planet:
… Read the rest “A Super-Earth (with Plasma Water Skies).”Astronomers have determined that the atmosphere of super-Earth
Nature has the details on the bionic limb wired to an amputee’s nerves:
… Read the rest “Mind-controlled robot leg. An actual one. Not made up.”A 32-year-old man whose knee and lower leg were amputated in 2009 after a motorcycle accident is apparently
Says it all right there. You want to see inside the world’s largest particle accelerator? Street View will take you into the underground tunnels:
… Read the rest “Google Street View goes inside the Large Hadron Collider.”We’re delighted that CERN opened
ABC (the American network) asks why send a toolbox into orbit when you can send one tool that makes all the other ones?:
… Read the rest “NASA launching 3D printer into space.”In NASA labs, engineers are 3-D printing small satellites that could
A plate from the American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 19, “French Figure Sculpture on Some Early Spanish Churches.”
Photographed from below a deep basement. That’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Sangüesa, S. Maria La Real, Portal, Queens on West Side, by Georgiana Goddard King, 1915.”
Space.com has more on the Wet Red Planet:
… Read the rest “Curiosity found water on Mars. Like, a lot.”NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has found that surface soil on the Red Planet contains about 2 percent water by weight. That means astronaut pioneers
ABC (the Australian one) reveals a whale of a prehistoric puzzle piece – or at least a missing link that paleontologists have finally reeled in:
… Read the rest “Jaws. (As in what you eat with.) This fish had ’em first.”A team of scientists, including an
Washington Post rousingly reports on a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and, um, aromatic approach to deep-seated anxiety – with a psychological trick to beat fear with smells while … Read the rest “Catch a snooze, take a whiff and conquer fear.”
SONG: “Better Man” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Just thinking about science triggers moral behavior,”… Read the rest “SONG: “Better Man””
The Beetle (ASIC) is a chip designed for the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator designed to recreate the Big Bang.
It’s part of the quark-detection equipment … Read the rest “Science Art: Beetle (ASIC) by Sven Loechner”
Outside has an enticing offer for the world’s fittest couch potatoes and La-Z-Boy astronauts. A new NASA project wants YOU to lie in bed for 70 days:
… Read the rest “Stay in bed for 70 days, get paid $18,000, help the cause of space exploration. Hat trick!”According to NASA news chief Kelly
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