Science Mar 26 What We’re Reading: Spotting Venus, Lunar-Like Sub Dive, and Hitchhiking in Duck Guts By Jenny Marder
Science Nov 22 Extreme Weather, Krypton 81 and Bunnies with Terminator-like Vision Science panel: Get Ready for Extreme Weather A special report issued on Friday from the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change focused on heat waves, floods, droughts, storms and other extreme weather events resulting from climate change. By Jenny Marder
Science Oct 24 Stellar Vampires, Snake Sperm and Optomechanics Did Giant Stars Feed Blue Stragglers? Last week, scientists presented new theories on blue stragglers, stars that are bluer and brighter than other stars. The origins of how these stars formed have long confounded scientists. Astrophysicist Aaron Geller… By Jenny Marder
Science Oct 10 DIY Genetics, Dwindling Water and Seismologists on Trial Updated 6:00 pm Are We Entering a New Geologic Age? Some scientists say human activity has pushed the planet into a new geologic age. It has it's own name: Anthropocene, or Age of Man. (Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen coined… By Jenny Marder
Science Aug 22 What We’re Reading: Brain Walls, Critter Vision and Microfossil Wars NASA To Share Telescope Cost The threatened James Webb Space Telescope, which is "perilously overbudget", may get a financial lifeline from other parts of NASA's budget, Nature News reports. As of now, the telescope is funded through the… By Jenny Marder
Aug 15 Black Planets, Moon Blasts and Octopus Camouflage By Jenny Marder Darkest Planet Found: Coal-Black, It Reflects Almost No Light A Jupiter-size gas giant planet so black that it is less reflective than "the blackest acrylic paint" has been discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope. This National Geographic News… Continue reading
Jul 18 What We’re Reading: Quantum Quirks, Dying Oaks and Victorian Women By Jenny Marder Raffaello Cargo Module Returned to Shuttle Bay The Atlantis astronauts have loaded nearly three tons of trash and broken hardware onto the Raffaello cargo module and moved it to the shuttle's payload bay in preparation for the… Continue reading
Jul 13 What We’re Reading: Superbugs, Second Thumbs and Potato Genomes Worries About a Gonorrhea 'Superbug' Gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to the only drugs used to treat it. Resistant strains of the common sexually transmitted disease have failed antibiotic treatment in two cases now -- one in Japan,… Continue reading
May 05 3D Transistors, Fertilizer Runoff and Frappuccino Straws How Intel's 3D Tech Redefines the Transistor (FAQ) Intel* announced today it will base all upcoming processors on 3D, or tri-gate transistors. This marks a move toward computers getting cheaper and faster. But we're waging that not a… Continue reading
Apr 25 What We’re Reading: Human Brain Map, PhillieBot and ‘Brain Time’ Can Fear Slow Time? When David Eagleman fell from the roof of an Albuquerque construction site, time seemed to slow down. Now 39, and an assistant professor of neuroscience at Baylor University, he is studying the brain's biological… Continue reading