Jun 16 Dinosaurs were neither cold-blooded nor warm-blooded, study says By Justin Scuiletti New research published Friday by the University of New Mexico postulates that dinosaurs were not cold-blooded creatures as previously believed, yet not warm-blooded like mammals either. Instead, the study claims that dinosaurs were mesothermic -- an intermediate stage… Continue reading
Jun 14 World’s largest ocean may lie below the ocean floor By Hari Sreenivasan, Vic Pasquantonio A study in Science reveals that a massive reservoir of water -- in its molecular form -- may lie hundreds of miles below the earth’s surface and may hold more water than the earth’s oceans. Continue reading
May 31 Watch Looking within the mind of a rampage killer By PBS News Hour What Science Can Tell Us About the Minds of Rampage Killers… Continue watching
May 26 Internet program helps veterans reconnect with civilian life By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy After months or years on the battlefield, soldiers can feel isolated as they cope with PTSD and trauma in day-to-day civilian life. At VetsPrevail soldiers can get online and chat with other veterans about how they're adjusting, and help them… Continue reading
May 23 Girls in STEM to take center stage at White House Science Fair By Elizabeth Jones Next Tuesday, students from around the country are headed to the 2014 White House Science Fair hosted by President Barack Obama. In an effort to address gender gaps in scientific research and careers, this year’s fair will focus specifically… Continue reading
May 22 Watch a wall of dense fog creep across Lake Michigan By Lorna Baldwin Two fishermen on Lake Michigan caught more than a big fish yesterday. They caught on camera a massive fog bank making its way across the lake. Andrew Ballard and his father Spencer were out for a leisurely day of fishing near… Continue reading
May 11 Dunes on Mars resemble Starfleet logos By Annie Sneed, Scientific American The resemblance is uncanny, but no, these aren't Starfleet logos emblazoned on planet Vulcan. Perhaps fittingly, though, this nasa Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image shows a section of an active dune field on Mars. Strong winds blowing in a single direction… Continue reading
May 08 The ants who make rafts out of their buoyant babies to escape floods By Annie Sneed, Scientific American When a flood arrives, some ant species evacuate their nest and self-assemble into rafts made out of their offspring to float to dry ground. Continue reading
Apr 30 On tiny racetrack, scientists test self-driving cars of the future By Frank Bi, Joshua Barajas In a robotics lab at George Washington University, there’s a small-scale race track, complete with a loop-the-loop. A battery-powered car hurls itself around the room, flipping over jumps and around the vertical spiral. “They are really robust, so when a… Continue reading
Apr 24 Gene therapy shows promise to help people regrow auditory nerve cells By Robert Pursell A new study outlines how gene therapy could reverse hearing loss and deafness. This may be music to the ears of the roughly 300,000 patients across the globe that depend on cochlear implants to hear. Australian researchers… Continue reading