Russia's Obsession with Mars' Mystery Moon --A New Mission to Phobos?
Updated: 2012-01-31 22:43:51
Russia will send another sample mission to the Martian moon Phobos if the European Space Agency (ESA) decides not to include Russia in its ExoMars program, the head of Russia’s space agency said on Tuesday. The space agency also announced...
Getting Big Takes Time…Millions and Millions of Generations, Say Biologists | 80beats
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Updated: 2012-01-31 18:29:46
Russia says “eish odin ras”* for its Mars moon lander mission, according to Roscomos chief Vladimir Popovkin. If the European Space Agency does not include Russia in its ExoMars program, a two-mission plan to explore Mars via orbiter and lander and then with twin rovers (slated to launch in 2016 and 2018, respectively), Roscosmos will try [...]The Crux: My response to Jonathan Franzen’s e-book rant | The Loom
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Q&BA: Getting kids into science | Bad Astronomy
Updated: 2012-01-30 21:24:55
A few years ago, I started doing a weekly video question-and-answer session I called "Q & BA". It was a series of short videos that were a lot of fun to make. Unfortunately, the overhead got to be too high — it took all day to edit them! — and I had to stop. But [...]Earth's Largest Telescope Soon to Scan Cosmos for Extraterrestrial Signals
Updated: 2012-01-30 19:04:08Strange yet cool VLA time lapse video | Bad Astronomy
Updated: 2012-01-30 17:20:30I’m sure what I can say about this, except that it’s oddly engaging. I’ve been to VLA*, many years ago to do a video for an educational activity, and I don’t recall seeing them behave quite this way. Maybe I should’ve waited until night time. Tip o’ the side lobe to my pal and science [...]Boycott Elsevier | Cosmic Variance
Updated: 2012-01-30 16:56:26While I have the blog open, let me throw in a quick two cents to support the Boycott Elsevier movement. As most working scientists know, Elsevier is a publishing company that controls many important journals, and uses their position to charge amazingly exorbitant prices to university libraries — and then makes the published papers very [...]Mind = Blown | Cosmic Variance
Updated: 2012-01-30 16:37:14Apologies that real work (to the extent that what I do can be called “work”) has gotten in the way of substantive blogging. But I cannot resist sharing the amazing things I learned this weekend — amazing to me, anyway, although it’s possible I’m the only one here who wasn’t clued in. Thing the first [...]Dione and Mimas have a mutual event | Bad Astronomy
Updated: 2012-01-30 14:00:08
As Cassini weaves its way around the multiple moons of Saturn, it’s not really a coincidence when one gets in the way of another. As a matter of fact, it’s a guarantee. These are called mutual events, and when Cassini dove past Dione, it saw this terrific view of Mimas peeking out from behind it: [...]Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship
Updated: 2012-01-30 02:46:16Over the past 50 years, billions of dollars have been spent visiting our nearest neighbor in space, the moon. It’s the only extraterrestrial body humans have ever walked on. Besides the United States and Russia, Japan, China, India and the European Space Agency have all sent robotic spacecraft moonward. Probably the most prolific of these missions, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...OEx - Ocean Explorer USO imaged by side-scan sonar in the Baltic
Updated: 2012-01-30 02:45:48Project - OEx OEx - Ocean Explorer USO imaged by side-scan sonar in the Baltic. Overview: Baltic Sea Unidentified Sunken Object (USO) originally imaged by the crew of the Ocean Explorer using its side-scan sonar. Seven viewers, five professional and two trainees, were tasked to work this target, all on camera. Preliminary analysis suggests that the target site is not ...Sun Unleashes Strongest Flare Yet of 2012
Updated: 2012-01-30 02:44:57A massive solar flare - the strongest one so far this year - erupted today (Jan. 27) from the same active region of the sun that triggered a raging solar tempest earlier this week. The solar flare was rated an X1.7-class eruption, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). X-class flares are the most powerful type of solar ...Most people don’t understand “heritability” | Gene Expression
Updated: 2012-01-29 21:08:23
According to the reader survey 88 percent said they understood what heritability was. But only 34 percent understood the concept of additive genetic variance. For the purposes of this weblog it highlights that most people don’t understand heritability, but rather heritability. The former is the technical definition of heritability which I use on this weblog, [...]Mesmerizing, towering loops of solar magnetism | Bad Astronomy
Updated: 2012-01-29 14:02:58
I know I’ve been writing about the Sun quite a bit lately, but I have a followup to yesterday’s cool video of the big solar flare… and you’re gonna like it. I was fooling around with helioviewer.org, watching the flare in different wavelengths of light detected by NASA’s Solar Dynamics observatory, when I switched to [...]NASA Smackdown -- 2011 Mono Lake Arsenic-Based Life Claims Refuted
Updated: 2012-01-28 19:22:16Image of the Day: Pandora's Cluster --The Most Colossal Known Galaxy Mashup
Updated: 2012-01-28 18:18:38Strange Red Galaxy --Harbors a Monster Black Hole 100 Million Times Mass of Sun
Updated: 2012-01-28 17:40:27The Sun’s still blasting out flares… BIG ones | Bad Astronomy
Updated: 2012-01-28 13:35:22
Active Region 1402, the same sunspot cluster that blew out a solar flare and caused all the ruckus last week, is still being feisty: just before rotating to the other side of the Sun, it erupted in an intense, pulsing solar flare that actually was much more powerful than the one that happened last Monday. [...]Friday Fluff, 01/27/2012 | Gene Expression
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They’re bbbaaaccckkkk!The week in pictures January 21–27, 2012 Astronomy Magazine
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Updated: 2012-01-27 18:07:32Open clusters NGC 2266 and NGC 2331, barred spiral galaxy NGC 2336, and emission nebula Sharpless 2â
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Open clusters NGC 2266 and NGC 2331, barred spiral galaxy NGC 2336, and emission nebula Sharpless 2â
Updated: 2012-01-27 14:09:45Weekly Space Roundup for January 26, 2012 | Bad Astronomy
Updated: 2012-01-27 14:05:59Yesterday was the weekly live video Space Roundup, run by Fraser Cain from Universe Today. This week we had Pamela Gay, Alan Boyle, Nicole Gugliucci, and Ian O’Neill. We talked about the solar storm, black holes, arsenic life, Newt Gingrich, Phobos-Grunt, and answered some questions from the listeners. Here’s the video: We do these every [...]Search for Twin Earth Getting Hotter! --NASA Announces 11 New Planetary Systems Hosting 26 Confirmed Planets
Updated: 2012-01-27 00:25:41NCBI ROFL: Your rug is so ugly it makes me sick. Literally. | Discoblog
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: . . Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS NCBI ROFL : Does it take one to know one Endorsement of conspiracy theories is influenced by personal willingness to . conspire 3,500-Year-Old Jokes Have Something to Say About Yo Mama NCBI ROFL : Your rug is so ugly it makes me sick . . Literally The sickening rug : a repeating static pattern that leads to motion-sickness-like . symptoms The nauseogenic properties of a patterned rug that reputedly caused motion-sickness-like symptoms in those who viewed it was the topic of this study . Naive observers viewed a 1:1 scale image of the black-and-white patterned rug and aThousands of Infrastructure Computer Systems are Online, Unprotected | 80beats
Updated: 2012-01-26 21:04:55, Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Your Laptop is Not Your Mind , Says Judge New Plan Proposes Protecting New Orleans By Restoring the Delta Thousands of Infrastructure Computer Systems are Online , Unprotected We’ve written before about hapless business owners practically handing hackers customers’ information by failing to observe basic computer security Subway , we’re looking at you But this is a security fail on a whole different level . A researcher has just revealed that about ten thousand systems controlling water plants , sewage plants , and other infrastructure are online , mostly unprotected andViruses learn new tricks, in real time: my story in tomorrow’s New York Times | The Loom
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, : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Archaeopteryx : The Embargoed Tattoo Life turned upside down Viruses learn new tricks , in real time : my story in tomorrow’s New York Times Charles Darwin recognized that natural selection can make eyes sharper , muscles stronger , and fur thicker . But evolution does more than just improve what’s already there . It also gives rise to entirely new things—like eyes and muscles and fur . To study how new things evolve , biologists usually have to rely on ancient clues left behind for hundreds of millions of years . But in a study published today , scientists at Michigan"The Earth Strain" --Could NASA's 'Curiosity' Probe on Its Way to Mars Contaminate the Planet?
Updated: 2012-01-26 18:03:28Image of the Day: "Bright Blue Dot" --A Spectacular Life-Bearing Planet from Space
Updated: 2012-01-26 16:20:31World's Most Powerful Laser Unlocks Clues to Extreme Matter in Stars & Giant Planets
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Updated: 2012-01-24 21:40:12What Would Earth Look Like to Alien Astronomers in the Age of Dinosaurs? --New Research Models History of Earth's Climate
Updated: 2012-01-24 16:59:49EcoAlert: Massive Solar Radiation Hitting Earth Now
Updated: 2012-01-24 16:22:00A Previously Hidden Solar-System Particle in Earth's Atmosphere May Improve Weather Forecasting
Updated: 2012-01-24 08:21:40Catch May's annular eclipse Astronomy Magazine
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The first test of Einstein's gravity Astronomy Magazine
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Glowing Stellar Cluster Cloaks a Neutron Star
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Updated: 2012-01-23 16:00:00Episode 12 The search for extraterrestrial intelligence Astronomy Magazine
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Mars rocks fall on Morocco
Updated: 2012-01-18 16:40:02
Scientists are confirming a recent and rare invasion from Mars: meteorite chunks from the red planet that fell in Morocco last July. iThis is only the fifth time scientists have confirmed chemically Martian meteorites that people witnessed falling. Scientists are confirming a recent and rare invasion from Mars- meteorite chunks that fell from the red planet over Morocco last summer. Photo: AP ...Scientists Set to Drill to Buried Antarctic Lake
Updated: 2012-01-18 16:39:35A team of four British engineers recently returned from a 10-day trip to a desolate, windswept plain in Antarctica, setting the stage for a project that could uncover previously unknown life that has been cut off from the world for millennia.Kids It’s time to tell us what you love most about astronomy Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online
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Updated: 2012-01-12 16:10:40
Watch2Pay devices include prepaid MasterCard PayPass technology to let consumers pay for purchases with a swipe of their watch anywhere PayPass is accepted. Contactless credit cards have been around for several years already through the likes of RFID-enabled offerings such as MasterCard PayPass and VISA PayWave. What we hadn’t seen until recently, however, is a wrist watch offering similar capabilities. ...Astronomy and NEAF announce the 2012 Youth Essay Contest Astronomy Magazine
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Rare moon rock samples found in Australia
Updated: 2012-01-09 22:03:48
Scientists in Australia discovered the mineral, which was named after the Sea of Tranquillity, in rocks at six sites scattered across the west of the country. Two other minerals, armalcolite and pyroxferroite, were found on earth within a decade of the moon landing. "This was essentially the last mineral which was sort of uniquely lunar that had been found in ...Alien hunters: Searching for life
Updated: 2012-01-09 17:03:44
The hunt for signals from intelligent extraterrestrials has been in full swing for half a century. But the effort’s flagship facility recently came to a grinding halt. The first of a two-part series on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) takes a look at the facility and what it means for Seti’s future.Unwell Hawking misses 70th birthday celebrations
Updated: 2012-01-09 17:03:35British scientist Stephen Hawking has had to miss a symposium to mark his 70th birthday because of ill health. Professor Hawking was discharged from hospital only on Friday, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, told the event. A recorded speech was played to the symposium, at the university, instead. In it, Prof Hawking, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease aged ...