JUNO Orbiter Mated to Mightiest Atlas rocket for Aug. 5 Blastoff to Jupiter
Updated: 2011-07-31 03:54:59
In less than one week’s time, NASA’s $1.1 Billion Juno probe will blast off on the most powerful Atlas V rocket ever built and embark on a five year cruise to Jupiter where it will seek to elucidate the mysteries of the birth and evolution of our solar system’s largest planet and how that knowledge [...]
History has proved time and again that mathematical modelling is no substitute for a telescope (or other data collection device). Nonetheless, some theoreticians have recently put forward a statistical analysis which suggests that life is probably very rare in the universe – despite the apparent prevalence of habitable-zone exoplanets, being found by the Kepler mission [...]
, 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 No , new data does not blow a gaping hole in global warming alarmism” The Sun lets out a brief flare Shooting satellites , new and old I’ve mentioned in the past that the International Space Station is easily visible to the unaided eye when it passes through the sky . That means it’s not hard to get pictures of it . Unless you have pretty fancy equipment you’ll only see it as a bright dot of light , but that’s still pretty cool , and worth a . try This shot of the ISS is from a webcam at the Tellus Museum of Science in Georgia , which is part of the All Sky Fireball Network That’s a collection of four cameras in
If you’re looking for another popcultury podcast to listen to, here’s a link to the most recent episode of the Caustic Soda Podcast, featuring me. They wanted to talk about comets, meteorites and asteroids, so they thought I’d somehow be able to elevate the conversation. Did I? You be the judge. Here’s a link to [...]
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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 Vine lures bats with leaves that act as sonar dishes I’ve got your missing links right here 30 July 2011 Our patchwork origins my new feature in New Scientist The sequencing of the complete Neanderthals genome was one of the highlights of last year , not just because of the technical achievement involved , but because it confirmed something extraordinary about our own ancestry . It showed that everyone outside of Africa can trace around 1-4 of their genes to Neanderthals . Our ancestors must have bred with Neanderthals on their way out of . Africa Then , later in the year , the same team revealed another ancient
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 How to feed your freakish brain : My new column for Discover Writing about Science and the Environment : My seminar coming up this fall at Yale The ocean microbe within us Our cells are packed with various protein-stuffed sacs , each dedicated to carrying out essential tasks . One kind of organelle is peculiar , though . Mitochondria are jellybean-shaped structures whose jobs include making the fuel that our cells use to power everything they do . What makes mitochondria strange is that they carry their own DNA . It’s not a lot of DNA–just 37 genes–but mitochondria can make extra copies of it as they grow and divide
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Clarification: This show does not air until Monday. I was getting reader suggestions for interview questions. We pre-record the show, usually the week before it airs. Stand by for the link… In about three and a half hours, I interview David Frum of FrumForum.com and Kenneth Silber, a frequent contributor on science over there. The [...]
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