• 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 [...]

  • Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Unlikeliness Of Being

    Updated: 2011-07-30 22:26:21
    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 [...]

  • The Sun lets out a brief flare | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-07-30 18:25:48
    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 Shooting satellites , new and old We are temporarily vaccinated against Jenny McCarthy The Sun lets out a brief flare Around 02:00 UTC last night July 30, 2011 a sunspot named Active Region 1261 erupted with a short solar flare , which was caught by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory . Using Helioviewer I created a short video of the event Make sure to set the resolution to at least 720p Those bright regions are actually sunspots , which are dark at wavelengths our eyes can see , but are quite bright in the ultraviolet . Solar flares occur when the Sun’s magnetic field lines get twisted up . They store a lot of energy

  • The week in pictures July 23–29, 2011 Astronomy Magazine

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  • The week in pictures July 23–29, 2011 Astronomy Magazine

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  • Introducing The week in pictures” Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Gal

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  • Bellybutton biodiversity update: Wonderlands upon wonderlands | The Loom

    Updated: 2011-07-30 15:31:59
    : 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 Writing about Science and the Environment : My seminar coming up this fall at Yale Bellybutton biodiversity update : Wonderlands upon wonderlands Last month I contemplated the staggering diversity of microbes in my bellybutton–an experience made possible by my participation in a survey of microbiome diversity carried out by scientists at North Carolina State University . At the time , I thought I was quite the host . I was informed there were 53 species living in my navel , some of which had never been seen on skin before and some of which were altogether new to science . I was even informed that I was a wonderland

  • Weekend Feature: NASA Finds Volcanoes on Dark Side of the Moon

    Updated: 2011-07-30 15:17:26
    According to a recent discovery by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists now have photos showing silicate volcanoes on the far side of the moon. Silicate volcanoes are a type that do not ooze magma; deeming them “dead” by scientists. Hhe...

  • Shooting satellites, new and old | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-07-30 14:00:24
    , 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

  • Fraser on the Caustic Soda Podcast

    Updated: 2011-07-30 02:24:23
    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 [...]

  • NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft mated to its rocket Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft mated to its rocket Astronomy Magazine

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  • Trail of crumbs discovered from potentially hazardous comet Astronomy Magazine

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  • Trail of crumbs discovered from potentially hazardous comet Astronomy Magazine

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  • Friday Fluff – July 29nd, 2011 | Gene Expression

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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 Who is chilled out about warming A world full of children Friday Fluff July 29nd , 2011 1 Post from the : past Why does race matter for women 2 Weird search query of the week hustler buyuk memeli . 8221 3 Comment of the week in response to Smart educated men less likely to think cheating always wrong” BTW the most interesting bit in that chart is the difference between atheists and agnostics . It makes sense when I think about it . To say one is an atheist rather than an agnostic requires a level of certainty towards ones beliefs . If there was a way to tease out relativism I’d lay good odds more agnostics are

  • Use Your Brain to Brake, Not Your Leg | Discoblog

    Updated: 2011-07-29 18:14:25
    , 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 NCBI ROFL : Airplane vacuum toilets : an uncommon travel . hazard NCBI ROFL : The effects of acute ethanol consumption on sexual response and sexual risk-taking . intent Use Your Brain to Brake , Not Your Leg Scientists may soon give your braking leg a break . In a recent study in the Journal of Neural Engineering researchers at the Berlin Institute of Technology monitored the brain signals of drivers and found that they could detect the study participants’ intent to stop before they actually stomped on the brakes . The findings could someday lead to automated braking technologies that help avoid devastating car .

  • Calling All Egyptology Geeks: Help Decipher Ancient Papyri | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-07-29 17:43:09
    : 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 Powerful Magnetic Waves Help Make Sun’s Atmosphere Hotter Than Sun Itself Calling All Egyptology Geeks : Help Decipher Ancient Papyri Is that an alpha or a beta Sometimes you need a little help from your friends . Taking a leaf from reCaptcha s book , archaeologists from the Egypt Exploration Society and Oxford University have taken a voluminous store of ancient Egyptian papyri online in a bid to have web users transcribe the fragments , which come from a lost city known to its inhabitants as the City of the Sharp-Nosed . Fish The papyri were discovered in the early 20th century , and among them have been a lost

  • Powerful Magnetic Waves Help Make Sun’s Atmosphere Hotter Than Sun Itself | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-07-29 13:34:18
    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 Larger Beaks Help Birds Beat the Heat Calling All Egyptology Geeks : Help Decipher Ancient Papyri Powerful Magnetic Waves Help Make Sun’s Atmosphere Hotter Than Sun Itself What’s the : News An international team of researchers , led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research , has learned that large magnetic waves are partly to blame for the Sun’s immensely hot corona The study , published in the journal Nature also suggests that the waves could be the driving force behind the solar wind What’s the : Context The corona is the outer atmosphere of the Sun , which is only visible by the naked eye during a solar

  • Our patchwork origins – my new feature in New Scientist | Not Exactly Rocket Science

    Updated: 2011-07-29 10:55:13
    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

  • Image of the Day: The Unbearable Beauty of the Milky Way's Hidden Star-Birth Regions

    Updated: 2011-07-29 07:16:00
    Astronomers Bania and Loren Anderson of the Astrophysical Laboratory of Marseille in France have discovered about 450 hidden stellar nurseries in the Milky Way where rare colossal stars many times bigger than the sun are being born. The discovery doubles...

  • EcoAlert: Has the World Seriously Underestimated Climate-Change Effects?

    Updated: 2011-07-29 07:10:00
    Cornell University professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, Charles Greene, one of the authors of "A Very Inconvenient Truth," published in the peer-reviewed journal Oceanography, has stressed that: "Even if all man-made greenhouse gas emissions were stopped tomorrow and carbon-dioxide...

  • Writing about Science and the Environment: My seminar coming up this fall at Yale | The Loom

    Updated: 2011-07-29 01:44:47
    : 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 The ocean microbe within us Bellybutton biodiversity update : Wonderlands upon wonderlands Writing about Science and the Environment : My seminar coming up this fall at Yale If you or someone you know is a student at Yale , check out the class I’m teaching this fall . It’s called Writing about Science and the Environment cross-listed as EVST 215 and ENGL 459 You can find out about it on the Yale Online Course Information site where I’ve just posted the . syllabus July 28th , 2011 8:44 PM by Carl Zimmer in Teaching 1 comments RSS feed Trackback One Response to Writing about Science and the Environment : My seminar

  • The ocean microbe within us | The Loom

    Updated: 2011-07-29 00:58:06
    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

  • NCBI ROFL: Airplane vacuum toilets: an uncommon travel hazard. | Discoblog

    Updated: 2011-07-29 00:00:59
    : : . 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 NCBI ROFL : Get angry . Get . noticed Use Your Brain to Brake , Not Your Leg NCBI ROFL : Airplane vacuum toilets : an uncommon travel . hazard Each year , millions of people travel aboard airplanes and cruise ships . A significant portion of the newer larger airplanes the Boeing 767 and the Aerobus and cruise ships now have vacuum toilet systems . There have been no reports in the medical literature on the frequency of injuries associated with the use of these toilets , but serious injury , including soft tissue trauma and organ evisceration , may be associated with the use of such devices . The investigators

  • NASA's WISE mission finds first Trojan asteroid sharing Earth's orbit Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-07-28 21:17:03
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  • The Solar Dynamics Observatory spots extra energy in the Sun's corona Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA's WISE mission finds first Trojan asteroid sharing Earth's orbit Astronomy Magazine

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  • The Solar Dynamics Observatory spots extra energy in the Sun's corona Astronomy Magazine

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  • The Omega Nebula Graff†s Cluster and planetary nebula IC 1295 Astronomy Magazine

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  • Larger Beaks Help Birds Beat the Heat | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-07-28 21:10:19
    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 Building New Life in a Lab May Succeed Before We Find It Among the Stars Powerful Magnetic Waves Help Make Sun’s Atmosphere Hotter Than Sun Itself Larger Beaks Help Birds Beat the Heat The marsh-loving song sparrow uses its beak to stay . cool What’s the : News Scientists have long known that the size and shape of a bird’s beak is largely dependent on its diet . A hummingbird s long , thin beak , for example , allows it to reach deep down into a tubular flower to get nectar . But in a new study in the journal Ecography scientists have found that birds in warm climates have evolved beaks larger than their

  • A fiery angel erupts from the Sun | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-07-28 19:27:45
    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 New meteor shower points to a future close encounter A nearly perfect circle in space A fiery angel erupts from the Sun When you build and launch a high-resolution solar observatory that stares at the Sun 24 hours a day , you’re bound to catch some pretty cool stuff . As proof , check out this video of a stunning prominence erupting from the Sun’s surface on July 12, 2011, as seen by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Make sure you set the resolution to at least 720p . That’s really graceful , especially considering that tower reached the staggering height of about 150,000 km 90,000 miles above the Sun in just a few

  • Building New Life in a Lab May Succeed Before We Find It Among the Stars | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-07-28 18:16:57
    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 Researchers Induce Hibernation in Squirrels But Only When the Time’s Right Larger Beaks Help Birds Beat the Heat Building New Life in a Lab May Succeed Before We Find It Among the Stars Early Earth’s chemical seas are presumed to have given rise to the first life , but how could anything so complex have come from such a disorganized stew of molecules That’s the question Gerald Joyce of the Scripps Research Institute is exploring with his swarms of self-replicating RNA , which can evolve over time . Along with Steve Benner Craig Venter Jack Szostak and others , he is on the road to creating life in the lab , thus

  • Charity Update | Cosmic Variance

    Updated: 2011-07-28 16:52:05
    It’s been a while, and I’ve been meaning to provide an update on our little charity suggestion bleg. If you’ll recall, I wanted to take my ill-gotten gains from the 3 Quarks Daily Prize and send them to a worthy charity, but rather than just defaulting to my usual favorites I sought from new wisdom [...]

  • Announcing the Next Point of Inquiry: David Frum and Kenneth Silber | The Intersection

    Updated: 2011-07-28 16:26:02
    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 [...]

  • Researchers Induce Hibernation in Squirrels (But Only When the Time’s Right) | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-07-28 14:20:50
    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 Light-Activated , Injectable Gel Could Help Build New Faces Building New Life in a Lab May Succeed Before We Find It Among the Stars Researchers Induce Hibernation in Squirrels But Only When the Time’s Right Researchers at the University of Alaska , Fairbanks have discovered a way to induce hibernation in arctic ground squirrels by administering a substance that stimulates the brain receptors of adenosine a molecule involved in slowing nerve cell activity . Induced hibernation could someday be used to preserve the brain functions of human stroke victims , though that’s still a ways off as the current technique only

  • News Flash: NASA Sets Launch Coverage Events for Juno Mission to Jupiter

    Updated: 2011-07-28 08:30:00
    The Voyager 2 image above shows Jupiter from the equator to the southern polar latitudes including the Great Red Spot, a storm that has been spinning like a cyclone for hundreds of years. NASA's Juno spacecraft is set to launch...

  • Ignoring One Trillion Galaxies in the Observable Universe: Astrophysicists Use Mathematical Logic to Doubt the Probability of Extraterrestrial Life

    Updated: 2011-07-28 08:30:00
    Carl Sagan said that "extraordinary claims, require extraordinary evidence." In a stunning display of mathematical logic vs common sense, David Spiegel of Princeton University and Edwin Turner from the University of Tokyo have published a paper on arXiv that turns...

  • Was Earth Once Orbited by Several Moons? And, Were They a Key to Life?

    Updated: 2011-07-28 07:20:00
    The history of planet Earth is a fascinating story, involving catastrophic collisions with other small planets and a plethora of asteroid impacts. Recent findings show that our large moon was essential for the origin and evolution of life. Without the...

  • Image of the Day: Hyperwinds of the Universe

    Updated: 2011-07-28 07:14:00
    A superwind, such as the one in stunning spiral galaxy NGC 3079 originates in the center of the galaxy, either from activity generated by a central supermassive black hole, or by a burst of supernova activity. Superwinds are thought to...

  • Found! Earth's Long-Sought Trojan Companion

    Updated: 2011-07-28 07:12:00
    Asteroid 2010 TK7 is circled in green, in this single frame taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The majority of the other dots are stars or galaxies far beyond our solar system. Astronomers discovered this object --...

  • Amateur astronomer images water-laden quasar Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community Forums M

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