Life on Saturn’s moon.
The Telegraph teases me with the promise of life on Enceladus:
… Read the rest “Life on Saturn’s moon.”Nasa’s Cassini spacecraft flew through icy plumes created by ice volcanoes and detected negatively charged water
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Spiny eyes. With legs and mouths.
LiveScience illuminates a mystery I’m not sure I even knew existed – how is it that sea urchins can see without eyes:
… Read the rest “Spiny eyes. With legs and mouths.”Although sea urchins don’t have any problems avoiding
SCRUBBED.
So much for that final night shot: low clouds over the launch site.
So not only have the moon program and Ares rockets been shelved, but now the ground crew a/ didn’t get to light the big… Read the rest “SCRUBBED.”
Science Art: Opportunity at Concepcion Crater.
This image was ganked mercilessly from the brilliant Road to Endeavour blog.
That celebration of the Mars rovers is put together by the same person who appears to do something called Astropoetry… Read the rest “Science Art: Opportunity at Concepcion Crater.”
Last chance to see.
On 4:39 Sunday morning, go out and turn to face Cape Canaveral. It’s your last chance to ever see a space shuttle launch.
Last. Chance.
EDIT TO ADD: Space.com has video of what to expect… Read the rest “Last chance to see.”
Ships on Titan.
Well, this is a news item from before this week’s NASA budget came out. Think of it as a kind of desperate inspiration, perhaps, from the BBC. But it could be… maybe, somehow…… Read the rest “Ships on Titan.”
Hydrogen: a different perspective.
Yeah, so I kind of really want this poster now.
Running barefoot.
ScienceDaily keeps up with the latest research into the health benefits of running without shoes:
… Read the rest “Running barefoot.”[S]ays Daniel E. Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University
SONG: A Tiny Golden Mean
SONG: “A Tiny Golden Mean” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Golden Ratio Discovered in Quantum World: Hidden… Read the rest “SONG: A Tiny Golden Mean”
Grant B on Pocket: Remixing Danny Seim
This is not explicitly a song about science (although it’s getting harder and harder for me to draw that line), but I’ve got a remix coming out as part of the fascinating project… Read the rest “Grant B on Pocket: Remixing Danny Seim”
Extinct bird alive and well.
That, according to the Telegraph, is the good news. The bad news is that it’s in war-torn Afghanistan:
… Read the rest “Extinct bird alive and well.”The birds were then spotted again in June last year by workers from the Wildlife
Science Art: Dragon Lake, Siberia
This is Dragon Lake, a body of very cold water near the city of Bratsk. It’s a reservoir, like Arizona’s Lake Powell, formed by the damming of a river,… Read the rest “Science Art: Dragon Lake, Siberia”
A moment of silence for NASA?
ScienceBlogs (and the Orlando Sentinel) are not sounding very pleased about Obama’s proposed budget for NASA:
… Read the rest “A moment of silence for NASA?”As a final frying pan upside the head, you might require that NASA maintain
A GoST steampunk cameo.
I’ve just received word that the Guild of Scientific Troubadours has a brief walk-in part in the latest novel being drafted by this fine author. It’s an early draft, so who knows… Read the rest “A GoST steampunk cameo.”
A moment of silence for Spirit.
The Mars rover has been officially abandoned.
… Read the rest “A moment of silence for Spirit.”The Tech Herald:
However, although the Mars rover has now been written off in terms of fulfilling its core purpose of exploring the Red Planet’s