Apr 09 Watch Vets race to rescue cheetah cubs from their mother By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Continue watching
Apr 09 In space, recycled urine has many uses By Willis Raburu Recycled urine is something astronauts are already psychologically prepared to consume when they go to outer space. But a new report published in the ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering journal suggests that rather than releasing wasted urine into space, scientist… Continue reading
Apr 08 Procrastinators, you can blame it on genetics…tomorrow By Willis Raburu Procrastination is in your genes, according to researchers at the University of Colorado at Bolder. Continue reading
Apr 08 Using ‘gooey’ caps and Bluetooth to keep Parkinson’s patients moving By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy For Parkinson’s sufferers, the connection between the brain and the body breaks down. The disease causes nerve cells to die, which leads to rigid movement and tremors. With the help of computer technology and the brain’s ability to rewire itself,… Continue reading
Apr 07 Watch Researchers track New Hampshire moose in hopes of pinpointing cause of population decline By PBS News Hour In some regions of northern New England, the moose population is down as much 40 percent in the last three years. The cause of this iconic animal’s dramatic die-off is not yet known, but researchers’ main theory is centered on… Continue watching
Apr 07 This is your brain on movies By Willis Raburu Nothing makes a room full of strangers feel united quite like a movie. Now, science is trying to prove that you’re a lot more similar to your fellow popcorn eaters than you might think. Continue reading
Apr 07 NASA explores the fashionable frontier By Margaret Myers Online voters can select one of three designs that will be used as a cover to protect the spacesuit from abrasions while astronauts train in multiple vacuum chamber tests and at a rocky Martian surface analog site at the… Continue reading
Apr 06 NASA sets solar flare images to music By News Desk NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has released dramatic video of a "mid-level" solar flare from April 2. [youtube:http://youtu.be/_8yPQEE2Dnk] Flares are short, powerful bursts of radiation emitted from the sun's surface. NASA says the radiation cannot penetrate the Earth's atmosphere, but on rare… Continue reading
Apr 03 Potentially lifesaving national landslide maps are 30 years out of date By Tony Schick, Earthfix The last time the U.S. Geological Survey made a national map of landslide hazards, it did so on paper. It didn’t use laser imaging for landslide detection and it didn’t render the maps with the high-powered geographic software near-universally… Continue reading