Oct 15 Full-length video of Felix Baumgartner’s 24.2-mile jump released one year later .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 Red Bull… Continue reading
Oct 15 Help write women scientists into Wikipedia Long before the iPhone or Google were part of our everyday lives, Ada Lovelace penned what many consider to be the first computer algorithm. The 19th century programming pioneer made her mark on the early history of computer science… Continue reading
Oct 11 Discovery of water-rich asteroid may mean life exists outside solar system An icy asteroid was eaten by the remains of a dead star 150 light years from Earth, say Dr. Jay Farihi of the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy and Dr. Boris Gänsicke of the University of Warwick. This discovery, made… Continue reading
Oct 09 The new climate normal: coming soon to a city near you Map displaying years when cities around the world will cross the climate threshold. Created by Mora Lab/University of Hawaii Manoa By 2047, the global climate will have veered drastically off course from weather as we know it,… Continue reading
Oct 08 Englert and Higgs win top physics prize for explaining how matter acquires mass CERN scientists celebrate after the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday. Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images. Britain's Peter W. Higgs and Belgium's Francois Englert jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for explaining how… Continue reading
Oct 08 Diving into the particle that ‘won’ the Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Tuesday to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs, the theorists who in 1964 predicted the existence of what is known as the Higgs boson, the particle that gives mass to the… Continue reading
Oct 07 Your dog really does love you, study indicates Photo by Flickr user mikebaird A skinny black terrier mix, named Callie, steps into an MRI wearing earmuffs, places her head in a custom-fitted chin rest and holds completely still. The rescue dog belongs to neuroeconomics professor Gregory… Continue reading
Oct 07 Nobel Prize in medicine honors discoveries on how cells move ‘cargo’ .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%; } A press conference will be… Continue reading
Oct 07 New Disney technology can add texture to completely smooth touch screens .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%; } By regulating a flow of… Continue reading
Oct 06 Watch Nobel Prize alternative celebrates the funny and unusual Every year the Ig Nobel prizes are awarded for achievements in science that first make people laugh, then think. Actual Nobel laureates are drafted to present awards to research into research on topics like the effects of opera on mouse… Continue watching