Nov 19 Ancient Volcano Holds Clues to Earth’s Deeper Mysteries In a landscape of rolling hills and flat cow fields, Mole Hill Mountain is a peculiar sight. Jutting severely above the west Virginia countryside, it is an outlier; it is Harrisonburg's sore thumb. Mole Hill is the remnant… Continue reading
Nov 18 What We’re Reading: Venomous Snakes, Urban Gardens and Antimatter Extragalactic Expat: Newfound Exoplanet Likely Came from Another Galaxy This week, the journal, Science has a study on an exoplanet more massive than Jupiter that came from another galaxy and then got consumed by ours. It's the first… Continue reading
Nov 18 ‘Night at the Museum?’ Chicago Resident Settles in for a Month Some nights, Kate McGroarty slept in a German submarine. Other nights, in a giant hamster wheel. Earlier this fall, the 24-year-old Chicago resident beat more than 1,000 applicants to win the "Month at the Museum" contest… Continue reading
Nov 17 Atlantic Bluefin Tuna in Danger, International Commission On the Hot Seat The Atlantic bluefin tuna has been devastated to near extinction by overfishing, pollution and lagging confidence in the agency tasked with protecting it. Conservationists have slammed the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas for mismanaging the… Continue reading
Nov 17 Introducing an All New Science Page It's official: our revamped Science page has launched. Straight from the newsroom, here's a primer on what you'll get: DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s4574qfc4', '2-MY57RBnz8', '29'); We'll be featuring the reports from our science correspondent, Miles O'Brien, along with online… Continue reading
Nov 15 CNET Editor Explains Highlights of Facebook’s Titan Messaging Service EmbedVideo(3434, 482, 304); Just before Mark Zuckerberg closed a Monday news conference with a Q&A, he wanted to clarify something. "This is not an e-mail killer," he told reporters. Zuckerberg was talking about Facebook's new messaging system,… Continue reading
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