Science Art: Meridiani Water, 27 Feb 2006
Click for larger image For the last of our month-of-Sputnik space art posts, here’s more imagery of the hematite plains of Mars. This false-color infrared […]
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HIV defeated?
Science Daily reports that AIDS might finally be on the way out: With the latest advances in treatment, doctors have discovered that they can successfully […]
China Moon
Reuters reports that China is taking its next step into space with the Chang’e One lunar orbiter launch this week: The launch of the Chang’e […]
Biofuel from a bush.
Nature brings news of a potential fuel for tomorrow growing wild in Africa and India. It’s called jatropha, and it could possibly be ideal for […]
Sputnik DIY
The BBC has published directions for building your own history-making satellite: In simple terms, the Sputnik satellite was a metal sphere almost 2ft (61cm) in […]
Science Art: Opportunity on Meridiani Planum, 8 May 2005
The dusty hematite plains of Mars, as seen by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. This is, more or less, the place where Opportunity found evidence […]
The Ares V
Behold the mighty propaganda of a mighty space agency! NASA’s (computer generated) video of the very big (notional) Ares V rocket, launching a Very Large […]
Asteroid-Zapping Space Mirrors
We’re all worried about the sudden destruction of planet Earth and every living thing upon it by a sudden, cataclysmic collision with a hurtling mass […]
Maps of Cosmic Bliss.
You might remember reading, a few years ago, about some controversial claims made by Dr. Michael Persinger, who was researching how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation […]
Time. And an OTHER time.
Feeling pressed for time? A New Scientist interview reported by the Telegraph posits that we have more time than you think: Time is no longer […]
Stick *salps* in your pipe and smoke it!
So James Lovelock, he of the Gaia Hypothesis, has come up with a novel way to beat global warming – using little jellyfish-like creatures called […]
Science Art: Astronaut Bruce McCandless on the Canadarm, February 1984
See more space walks (or, erm, space “surfs”) at NASA (of course), at a site belonging to someone named “Texas Jim” (showing Endeavour over Hurricane […]
Smart Helmet for Smarter Football
Rugby players will have one more reason to sneer at American football players, if ABC News is right about this new football helmet. It doesn’t […]
Stripper Experiment Finds Invisible Mating Signals
The idea that humans can somehow be unconsciously yanked around by pheromones – invisible, odorless, airborne chemicals – tends to make a lot of scientists […]
Sensitive Spice.
Like it hot? Sure you do. Nature reveals how hot peppers can make anaesthetics work more potently – and more selectively – by “opening the […]