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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 Desktop Project Part 6 : Psychedelic topographic Moon Neil Tyson’s congressional testimony My old friend and colleague Neil Tyson has long been an advocate for exploration , for basic investment in science , and for pushing the boundaries of what we know and can do . In early March , he got a chance to make his stand official : he testified before the Senate . Here’s what he : said Not bad , not bad at all . His passion for this is clear , and his thinking true . There is a lot of room for the devil in the details he and I agree that doubling NASA’s budget would be A Good Thing
This semester I’m teaching General Relativity, and as part of discussing gravitational waves, this week I briefly discussed pulsars. It was quite timely therefore when I learned of a new proposal that pulsars may ultimately provide a perfect navigation system for spacecraft far from Earth. Here on Earth, the Global Positioning System (GPS) gives us [...]
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 Declining Bees and Toxic Insecticides : Sources for A Complex Story The Mysteries of the Dinosaur Tattoo Brian Switek , writes I have an Allosaurus on my arm . Heart of Gold Tattoo artist Jon McAffee put it there a few weeks ago . I think the tattoo—designed for me by friend and artist Glendon Mellow—came out beautifully . Contorted into the classic dinosaur death pose , the Jurassic apex predator is an expression of my passions and . aspirations Paleontologists have uncovered scores of fascinating dinosaurs . I would have been proud to carry almost any dinosaur on my sleeve .
: 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 Rosetta : mission to land on a comet Neil Tyson’s congressional testimony Desktop Project Part 6 : Psychedelic topographic Moon Over the past few weeks , I've collected a metric ton of cool pictures to post , but somehow have never gotten around to actually posting them . Sometimes I was too busy , sometimes too lazy , sometimes they just fell by the wayside . but I decided my computer's desktop was getting cluttered , and I'll never clean it up without some sort of incentive . I've therefore made a pact with myself to post one of the pictures with an abbreviated description
: . 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 Ancient Ichthyosaur Carcass Did Not Explode , According to Study of 100 Bloated Human Corpses NCBI ROFL : Factors affecting college students’ perceptions of sexual relationships between high school students and . teachers This study explored the effects of respondent gender , gender combination male teacher female student versus female teacher male student and teacher age 24 versus 39-years-old on the perception of a sexual relationship between a teacher and a 16-year-old . student Participants were 80 male and 80 female undergraduates . A MANOVA yielded significant main
Does Earth have a dust build-up problem? Estimates vary of how much cosmic dust and meteorites enter Earth’s atmosphere each day, but range anywhere from 5 to 300 metric tons, with estimates made from satellite data and extrapolations of meteorite falls. Thing is, no one really knows for sure and so far there hasn’t been [...]
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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 The Craziest Would-Be Data Center Fake Island Nation Adventure Story You’ll Ever Read NCBI ROFL : Factors affecting college students’ perceptions of sexual relationships between high school students and . teachers Ancient Ichthyosaur Carcass Did Not Explode , According to Study of 100 Bloated Human Corpses In 2004, a street in Taiwan got showered in whale guts The putrefying whale was on route to a necropsy when pent-up gas blew a hole in its body and entrails spewed onto unfortunate passersby . One hundred to 200 million years earlier , an ichthyosaur a dolphin-looking
Researchers from The Australian National University are suggesting that Earth didn’t form as previously thought, shaking up some long-standing hypotheses of our planet’s origins right down to the core — literally. (...)Read the rest of Shaking Up Theories Of Earth’s Formation (360 words) © Jason Major for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | 9 comments [...]
: 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 Desktop Project Part 5 : The mighty , mighty Dragonfish Desktop Project Part 6 : Psychedelic topographic Moon Rosetta : mission to land on a comet In 2014, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe will enter orbit around a comet the first time this will have ever been done and then drop a lander on it and oh yeah , that’s the first time this will have ever been done , too . I’m pretty excited about this mission , and NASA and ESA have put together this really well-done video explaining the mission and what it’ll : do I found this on the Rosetta Blog which has been a great
Over the past few days NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has performed flybys of several of Saturn’s moons. From the ostentatious Enceladus with its icy geysers to the rugged relief of Rhea, the sharp peaks of Dione’s frigid craters and even diminutive Janus, Cassini has once again returned a stack of stunning views from the Saturnian system, [...]
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First discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, the globular cluster Messier 9 is a vast swarm of ancient stars located 25,000 light-years away, close to the center of the galaxy. Too distant to be seen with the naked eye, the cluster’s innermost stars have never been individually resolved… until now. (...)Read the rest of Hubble [...]
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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 A Smithsonian Q A with E . O . Wilson : complete with outtakes The Mysteries of the Dinosaur Tattoo Declining Bees and Toxic Insecticides : Sources for A Complex Story Earlier this week , my editor at the New York Times asked if I’d write a story about a pair of new papers in Science detailing experiments on how insecticides affect bees . Bees have been in decline in many places , and scientists have been trying to figure out the cause–or causes–of their fall . These two new experiments represent a new wave of more realistic tests , taking place on farms instead of in labs .
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Large features on Mars called outflow channels have been a point of contention among planetary scientists. “Most Mars scientists accept that outflow channels were carved by water, but alternate hypotheses persist, especially that lava carved the outflow channels,” said Alfred McEwen Principal Investigator of the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. McEwen said that [...]
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The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images and video of a spectacular rotation of material from the Sun in a solar prominence. The whirling, dancing prominence created a massive tornado-like feature on the Sun, five times bigger than the Earth. “This is perhaps the first time that such a huge solar tornado is filmed by an [...]
How best to represent data is a question that physicists spend a lot of time thinking about. While theorists like myself are not the primary examples of this, I do find it striking when I stumble upon an example of data visualization that gets the pertinent facts across in a significantly clearer way than I’ve [...]
: . 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 The Cutest Little Doll-Shaped Molecules You Ever Did See NCBI ROFL : Gelotophobia : more common than you might . think NCBI ROFL : Why walking blindfolded in the Sahara desert might get you . lost Walking straight into . circles Common belief has it that people who get lost in unfamiliar terrain often end up walking in circles . Although uncorroborated by empirical data , this belief has widely permeated popular culture . Here , we tested the ability of humans to walk on a straight course through unfamiliar terrain in two different environments : a large forest area and the
Recently, I took part in a debate about improving science journalism, hosted at the Royal Institution. It was somewhat mixed, but at least, it allowed a variety of viewpoints to rise to the surface. The videos are now up. I’m at 31:00 in the first one, acting as a first-responder to the initial two speakers. [...]
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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 Flushing out an equatorial fraud Desktop Project Part 3 : The massive massiveness of M54 Rekindled flame Brad Goldpaint is a professional photographer who takes devastating photos of the sky like the amazing one of the Milky Way over the Venus Jupiter conjunction and he specializes in putting amazing foreground objects in his shots . I saw this particular picture on his Google+ page and asked him if I could post it here . He said : yes This photo , Rekindled Flame was shot on May 3, 2011 at Balanced Rock in Arches National Park . I asked Brad about the glow on the horizon , and
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