Nov 15 Watch CNET Editor on Facebook’s Titan Messaging Service CNET Editor on Facebook's Titan Messaging Service… Continue watching
Nov 15 Scientist Studies Exploding Star’s Insides, Explains Birth of Supernova DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s454eqfc4', 'YI7Rx9T7g3g', '29'); Some 168,000 years ago, in a nearby galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, a massive star collapsed and then spectacularly exploded, releasing 100 times the amount of energy than the sun will release over… Continue reading
Nov 15 Photomicrographs Capture Beauty, Complexity of Life Beneath the Lens By Julia Griffin Want to see a mosquito heart? A starfish embryo? The crystals in crystallized soy sauce? Then behold the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, an annual contest for photomicrographs, or images taken through a microscope. The subject matter… Continue reading
Nov 15 Harvard Astrophysicist Answers: What Is a Supernova? By Jenny Marder Robert Kirshner, an astrophysicist from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, answers the question, "What is a supernova?" A supernova explosion is something where you see a star that you hadn't seen before suddenly turn billions of times brighter… Continue reading
Nov 15 Robot Butlers and Jet Packs: How Close Are We Really? A man with a jetpack makes a spectacular landing before Super Bowl I in 1967 at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. Photo by Vic Stein/NFL I will confess right up front that I wasted a lot of time… Continue reading
Nov 15 Just 30 Years Old, Youngest Nearby Black Hole Discovered A team of Harvard astrophysicists has discovered what they believe is an infant black hole, the youngest ever found in our cosmic backyard. The data indicate that it is just 30 years old (for some historical context, that's… Continue reading
Nov 15 What We’re Reading: Deaf Dolphins, Shuttle Trouble, Cat Fluid Mechanics Beached Dolphins Often Deaf, Study Finds "In a world where hearing is as valuable as sight," deafness may be a major factor in what's stranding dolphins on seashores, The Washington Post reports. Researchers studied dolphins and other marine… Continue reading
Nov 12 Diplomacy and 21st Century Statecraft While the title of Senior Adviser for Innovation at the State Department may sound vague, the problems Alec Ross and his colleagues tackle are very real; from poverty to pandemics, from disaster to diplomacy. Continue reading
Nov 09 Obama Visits Indonesia; Hearings on Oil Spill Resume; Afghans Back Taliban Talks President Obama is in Indonesia Tuesday for a brief visit that will include meetings with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and a major speech to the Muslim world, his second after his address in Cairo last year. The… Continue reading
Nov 08 Who (Still) Doesn’t Have Broadband? This interactive requires your browser to have Java installed. Click here to check if you need Java. High-speed Internet went mainstream in the last decade -- home access grew from 9 percent of American households in 2001 to… Continue reading