Nov 07 It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s an asteroid with six tails? Image by NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (UCLA) In September, the NASA Hubble Space Telescope captured a strange sight: an asteroid with six comet-like tails radiating from the flying space object. Why is this strange? Well, normally, asteroids… Continue reading
Nov 07 Science is a piece of cake, a tumor cell cake that is Cakes are delicious. This is a fact. But did you know they can also be used for science? Enter the Great Science Cake-Off, sponsored by Cancer Research UK, an organization that funds nearly half of the cancer research… Continue reading
Nov 06 Watch Americans afflicted with ‘phantom noise’ seek relief from ringing in their ears By PBS News Hour Americans afflicted with 'phantom noise' seek solace from ringing in their ears… Continue watching
Nov 06 Neuroscience may offer hope to millions robbed of silence by tinnitus By Jenny Marder Chronic tinnitus affects millions of Americans, and is the most widely reported disability among veterans. New research reveals the roots of the disease lie deep within the brain, and experimental therapies are providing hope for a cure. Continue reading
Nov 05 Watch Discovery of Earth-size planets rouses search for intelligent life Discovery of Earth-size planets incites the search for intelligent life… Continue watching
Nov 04 NASA finds billions of Earth-like planets, but we won’t live there anytime soon .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Video by University of California… Continue reading
Nov 04 When clocks turn back, we gain an hour but what are we losing? Many of us are working our first Monday after the end of daylight saving time. Though we gained an extra hour during the "fall back" switchover of the clocks, do we end up losing elsewhere? Discovery News has… Continue reading
Nov 02 Rare hybrid solar eclipse to happen Sunday Some North American residents on the East Coast will be able to witness a rare hybrid solar eclipse on Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 6:45 a.m. EST. A hybrid solar eclipse occurs when disks of the sun and moon… Continue reading
Nov 02 Can environmentalists and frackers be friends? EmbedVideo(7877, 514, 320); In an unlikely alliance, natural gas companies and environmentalists have decided to work together to make fracking safer. Rick Karr travels to Pennsylvania to explore the tensions this has created among environmental groups. Continue reading
Oct 31 Dogs get cues from other dogs’ wagging tails Photo by Flickr user Junayed Sadat Research has long shown that dogs communicate through their tails. A happy dog wags its tail more to the right, and an anxious one will favor its left. But new research, published Thursday in… Continue reading