• Scientists to go Suborbital for Research

    Updated: 2011-02-28 22:39:37
    Think again if you believe the suborbital space market is exclusively for well-heeled tourists. The Southwest Research Institute has just inked deals with Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace to fly up to 17 scientific research flights. Three scientists, including Dr. Alan Stern, former head of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA and current New Horizons [...]

  • Indexed takes on antivaxxers | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-02-28 21:29:55
    Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Blogs Bad Astronomy Peeking past Rhea Indexed takes on antivaxxers Jessica Hagy has a terrific website called Indexed , where she uses simple , hand-drawn charts and Venn diagrams to make some pithy point in a funny way . She’s tackles all kinds of topics , and recently , to my heart’s delight , made a very simple point about vaccines Yup . Hard to be any more succinct than . that Speaking of succinct points , check out a strip from last week's Frazz webcomic sent to me by my brother Sid Related : posts Index card of truth The intersection of pareidolia Getting sick of Jenny McCarthy I got shot February 28th , 2011

  • Answer Now Posted for WITU #138

    Updated: 2011-02-28 21:14:19
    A launch image, but of what spacecraft? Find out the answer to last week’s Where In The Universe challenge back on the original post. We’ll have a new WITU challenge for you later this week. © nancy for Universe Today, 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Where In the [...]

  • Meteorites May Have Delivered First Ammonia for Life on Earth

    Updated: 2011-02-28 20:01:42
    Researchers have teased ammonia of a carbon-containing meteorite from Antarctica, and propose that meteorites may have delivered that essential ingredient for life to an early Earth. The results appear today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and add to a growing body of evidence that meteorites may have played a key role [...]

  • Peeking past Rhea | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-02-28 17:00:21
    Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Blogs Bad Astronomy Ridiculously awesome pic of Discovery and the ISS taken from the ground Indexed takes on antivaxxers Peeking past Rhea If I had to pick a single word to describe the system of moons swarming around Saturn as seen by Cassini , it would be bizarre amazing exquisite jaw-dropping and Holy Haleakala See for yourself Click to enchronosenate . Wow I love these shots showing perspective The moon at the top is Rhea , which is about 1500 km 950 miles across . We’re looking past its south pole here . The moon farther away is Dione , which is 1100 km 700 miles in size . And since Cassini was very nearly in

  • Incredible Video of Shuttle Approaching ISS, Taken from Earth

    Updated: 2011-02-28 16:51:11
    Award winning photographer Theirry Legault sent us a note about some amazing new video he shot of the space shuttle Discovery getting ready to dock with the space station. Legault took the video on Saturday evening (Feb. 26, 2011) at 18:40 UT from Germany, showing Discovery and the ISS about a hundred meters apart, 30 [...]

  • How to implement structured cabling?

    Updated: 2011-02-28 15:39:59
    This is a simple guided meditation to help you meet your Guardian Angel. Read through the meditation a few times, picking out the key steps and images, before trying it for yourself.

  • Point of Inquiry This Week Features Neil DeGrasse Tyson | The Intersection

    Updated: 2011-02-28 15:20:44
    We’re just finishing up edits of the show for this week, featuring a guest who needs no introduction: Neil DeGrasse Tyson. That show will go up later today. In the meantime, check out this famous YouTube clip that we discuss in depth on the show–a brilliant (and hilarious) exchange between Tyson and Richard Dawkins that [...]

  • Cameras Catch Young Javan Rhinos, Boosting Hopes for a Comeback | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-02-28 15:20:30
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  • Haynesville: A Nation’s Hunt for an Energy Future | The Intersection

    Updated: 2011-02-28 14:00:25
    CM already discussed Gasland, and I want to encourage readers to check out another film called Haynesville: A Nation’s Hunt for an Energy Future. This documentary explores the discovery of the largest natural gas field in the United States – a 170-trillion cubic foot reserve located in northwestern Louisiana. Director Gregory Kallenberg and producer Mark [...]

  • Ridiculously awesome pic of Discovery and the ISS taken from the ground! | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-02-28 13:30:58
    Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Blogs Bad Astronomy A shadow across the Shuttle Peeking past Rhea Ridiculously awesome pic of Discovery and the ISS taken from the ground At some point , you look at a picture and think , it is seriously insane that we can do . this Behold : the Orbiter Discovery approaching the International Space Station , as seen from the ground I think I remember that scene from Star Wars This remarkable picture was taken by Rob Bullen on Saturday February 26 from the UK , using an 8.5 telescope . I’ll note that’s relatively small as telescopes go But the ISS is now over 100 meters long , and if it’s directly overhead that is ,

  • The Search for Elusive 'Wormhole Stars'

    Updated: 2011-02-28 09:30:00
    Scientists usually imagine wormholes connecting regions of empty space, but a new study led by Vladimir Dzhunushaliev at the Eurasian National University in Kazakhstan suggests that wormholes might exist between distant stars. Instead of being empty tunnels, these wormholes would...

  • News Roundup: Gmail Crashes, Fire Ant Invasions, & Scientists in Space | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-02-28 08:41:13
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  • "WOW!" The Infamous 1977 'Extraterrestrial Signal'

    Updated: 2011-02-28 08:20:00
    August 15, 1977: the night before Elvis Presley died, at 11:16 p.m. an Ohio radio telescope called the Big Ear recorded a single pulse of radiation that seemed to come from somewhere in the constellation of Sagittarius at the 1420...

  • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fracking | The Intersection

    Updated: 2011-02-27 23:49:02
    I just watched this video of Cornell University engineering prof Anthony Ingraffea giving a lecture on fracking–a long, long lecture. But it’s tremendously informative, gives more perspective than I’ve found anywhere else, and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about the issue:

  • The Alien Moon - Why NASA Never Returned To The Moon

    Updated: 2011-02-26 23:39:46
    The Alien Moon Why NASA Never Returned To The Moon 2011 02 26 From : youtube.com Part 1 Part 2 See Part 3 on Flying Serpents here Videos From : youtube.com Pyramids on the Moon NASA's Apollo lunar coverup Yes , they went to the Moon , and yes , they also lied about it . And why did they need to lie In order to hide the truth about what is REALLY up . there Moon Bases The stunning Apollo 10 coverup The Music Behind The Moon Apollo 10's amazing encounter with a VERY bizarre anomaly while behind the far side of the Moon . This segment will give you an up-close look at an astounding audio transcript from the Apollo 10 mission that has never before been publicly analyzed and that NASA and the Apollo 10 astronauts to this day still refuse to talk about . You will follow Tom Stafford , Gene

  • From the 'X Files' Dept: : "Apollo 18 -The Secret Mission"

    Updated: 2011-02-26 17:16:59
    Apollo 18 is a totally realistic and terrifying movie about a secret Apollo 18 mission to the moon and the discovery of intelligent and deadly extraterrestrial life. This movie, directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego, scheduled for release at a theater near...

  • NCBI ROFL: And the grossest study award goes to… | Discoblog

    Updated: 2011-02-26 00:00:42
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  • NASA's shuttle Discovery heads to space station on its final mission Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA's shuttle Discovery heads to space station on its final mission Astronomy Magazine

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  • PS1 telescope establishes near-Earth asteroid discovery record Astronomy Magazine

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  • PS1 telescope establishes near-Earth asteroid discovery record Astronomy Magazine

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  • iOptron iEQ45 Astronomy Magazine

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  • Orion SkyQuest XX14g Astronomy Magazine

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  • World Science Festival TV: Another afternoon shot | The Loom

    Updated: 2011-02-25 18:59:51
    : Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Blogs The Loom Science Home Movies and Technical Ships in a Bottle The Mere Existence of Whales World Science Festival TV : Another afternoon shot I really do have work to do . So I’m profoundly resentful in the best way possible that the World Science Festival has launched a video site called WSFtv Here’s seven minutes of neuroscientist Giulio Tononi subject of my recent New York Times profile talking about his theory of consciousness . There is a lot more where that came from February 25th , 2011 1:59 PM by Carl Zimmer in Brains Link Love Writing Elsewhere 3 comments RSS feed Trackback 3 Responses to World

  • Our Galaxy May Have 50 Billion Exoplanets–and It’s Still Making More | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-02-25 18:27:39
    Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Blogs 80beats NASA’s Space Shuttle Robot Astronaut Go Up , but Glory Stays Down Promising Cystic Fibrosis Drug Targets the Cause , Not the Symptoms Our Galaxy May Have 50 Billion Exoplanets–and It’s Still Making More Young . Old . Scalding hot . Icy cold . Terrestrial midgets . Gas giants . As the cavalcade of planets spotted beyond our solar system continues to grow , we get to see worlds of all sorts—and we get to speculate on the staggering number of exoplanets that might inhabit just our own . galaxy Today’s first piece of otherworldly news involves baby exoplanets Astronomer Christian Thalmann says his team may

  • NASA’s Space Shuttle & Robot Astronaut Go Up, but Glory Stays Down | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-02-25 17:21:44
    , Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Blogs 80beats How Turtles Use Earth’s Magnetic Field To Navigate Ocean Voyages Our Galaxy May Have 50 Billion Exoplanets–and It’s Still Making More NASA’s Space Shuttle Robot Astronaut Go Up , but Glory Stays Down For NASA , this was a week of launches and lack of launches . The space shuttle Discovery successfully blasted off yesterday on its final mission , but NASA’s climate-watching Glory satellite which was scheduled to launch on Wednesday , is still stuck on the . ground With an estimated 40,000 viewers at the Kennedy Space Center , Discovery launched at 4:53:24 p.m . ET on Thursday . Its crew of six is bound

  • Planet formation in action Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-02-25 15:18:17
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  • Videos from the 2011 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community F

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  • Zhumell's 25x100 binoculars capture lots of light Astronomy Magazine

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  • Open cluster NGC 2421, open cluster NGC 2477, and emission nebula Sharpless 2–311 Astronomy Magazi

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  • How Turtles Use Earth’s Magnetic Field To Navigate Ocean Voyages | 80beats

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  • Did Earth Once Share Its Orbit with a Mars-Sized Planet? New Kepler Data Suggests "Yes"

    Updated: 2011-02-25 09:00:00
    Hidden in the mass of data from the Kepler telescope is a planetary system that has two of its apparent planets share the same orbit around their star. If the discovery is confirmed, it would support the theory that Earth...

  • Superfluid and superconductor discovered in star's core Astronomy Magazine

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  • The Moons of Asteroid Kleopatra

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    An image of the 217 kilometer long asteroid Kleopatra, discovered in 1880, taken by the Keck II telescope with adaptive optics, before (left) and after processing. The asteroid, shaped like a dog bone, has two moons, the outer Alexhelios and...

  • NASA Launches Antarctic Balloons to Study Radiation

    Updated: 2011-02-24 08:10:00
    A research balloon launched in December of 2010 from McMurdo Station in Antarctica (below), as a test run ay 112,000 feet for launches in 2013 and 2014 of 20 such balloons to float in the circular wind patterns above the...

  • NASA’s first robot astronaut set to blast into space Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Communi

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  • The Milky Way's 50 Billion Planets: Do Odds Increase that Advanced Technological Civilizations Exist at the Edge of the Galaxy?

    Updated: 2011-02-23 18:00:14
    The Kepler space telescope has mapped more than 1,200 planets in one tiny corner of our Milky Way Galaxy. Based on that sample, scientists say that there are approximately 50 billion planets in the entire galaxy based on a conservative...

  • Thousands of Tombs in Saudi Desert Spotted From Space

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  • Will NASA's WISE Space Mission Prove that 'Tyche' -Planet X- Exists?

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    In November 2010, the scientific journal Icarus published a paper by astrophysicists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire, who proposed the existence of a binary companion to our sun, larger than Jupiter, in the long-hypothesized "Oort cloud" -- a faraway repository...

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    NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is in final count down to the final launch of the space shuttle Discovery this Thursday. The 11-day mission will deliver Robonaut, a humanoid robot, to the International Space Station, along with a new...

  • Solved: Mystery of Earth's First Breathable Atmosphere

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    Scientists studying the origin of Earth's first breathable atmosphere have show how plankton provided a critical link between the atmosphere and chemical isotopes stored in rocks 500 million years ago. The study builds on the team's earlier discovery that upheavals...

  • Life in the Hadal Zone: Earth's Extremeophiles Could Foreshadow What Lies Beneath Jupiter's Europa

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    Wonder what life of Jupiter's moon, Europa, might look like? Checkout a new species of archaebacteria, Pyrococcus CH1,discovered thriving on a mid-Atlantic ridge within a temperature range of 80 to 105°C and able to divide itself up to a hydrostatic...

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  • Huge New Planet (Brown Dwarf?) Discovered in Our Solar System - Tyche Echoes of Planet X or "Nibiru"

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    Largest planet in the solar system could be about to be discovered - and it's up to four times the size of Jupiter. Scientists believe they may have found a new planet in the far reaches of the solar system, up to four times the mass of Jupiter. Its orbit would be thousands of times further from the Sun than the Earth's - which could explain why it has so far remained undiscovered. Data which could prove the existence of Tyche, a gas giant in the outer Oort Cloud, is set to be released later this year - although some believe proof has already been garnered by Nasa with its pace telescope, Wise, and is waiting to be pored over

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    So you've probably heard the news, but just in case I thought I'd mention it here. The Kepler observatory, up there in orbit keeping an eye on things for us, has found a bumper crop of planets orbiting a sun-like star a mere 2000 or so light years away. It is amazing what you can see if you look closely. Every now and again the star's brightness dips ever so slightly, and that tells you something has passed in front of it - another planet. Or in this case, once you've analyzed the pattern of dips, as the team of astronomers did, six planets! These are not earths, although the headlines all over the news sure try to grab you in [...]

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