• If You Stick an Mp3 Player to Your Palate, You Can Feel Music in Your Bones | 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 : Deathly drool : evolutionary and ecological basis of septic bacteria in Komodo dragon . mouths If You Stick an Mp3 Player to Your Palate , You Can Feel Music in Your Bones The intersection of art and science can be a bit on the weird side tiny jackets made of stem cells anyone But if this new art project works as advertised , it’s pretty . neat This piece of retainer-like jewelry is the creation of Aisen Chacin a student at Parsons School of Design in New York . It differs in one very important way from the standard rapper’s grill it includes a motor hooked up to

  • Video of California Daytime Fireball Surfaces

    Updated: 2012-05-31 15:47:57
    Video footage has finally surfaced of the daytime fireball that illuminated the sky over the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California back in April. NASA and the SETI Institute had asked the public to submit any amateur photos or video footage of the event, and previously a just few photos were taken of the event, even [...]

  • SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Returns to Earth Today

    Updated: 2012-05-31 15:35:00
    After making its iconic journey as the first commercial spacecraft to visit the International Space Station, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will return to Earth today. Dragon is the only spacecraft capable of returning a significant amount of cargo from the space...

  • View Today's Hot Tech News Video from IDG

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  • Dragon Heading to Ocean Splashdown

    Updated: 2012-05-31 12:02:05
    History’s first commercial cargo ship ever to visit the International Space Station (ISS) has safely and successfully departed the orbiting lab complex after astronauts released the craft from the grip of the station’s robotic arm at 5:49 a.m. EST (949 GMT) this morning, May 31, 2012 for the return trip to Earth to conclude a [...]

  • Ghostly gamma-ray beams blast from Milky Way's center Astronomy Magazine

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  • Ghostly gamma-ray beams blast from Milky Way's center Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA lunar spacecraft complete prime mission ahead of schedule Astronomy Magazine

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  • NASA lunar spacecraft complete prime mission ahead of schedule Astronomy Magazine

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  • Guest blog The Bucket List Astronomy Tour Class the Very Large Array and onto Australia Local Group

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  • On the road Hawaii and the transit of Venus Dave's Universe Astronomy Astronomy Community

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  • A Tribute to Hubble… and Humanity

    Updated: 2012-05-31 03:38:47
    Here’s a excellent video compilation featuring images from the Hubble Space Telescope, along with music by Kanye West and quotes from astronomers Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lawrence Krauss and Carl Sagan reflecting on our place in the Universe… and the Universe’s place within each of us. Uploaded to YouTube by video editor Brandon Fibbs, this is [...]

  • World Science Festival: Resilience and Books This Weekend | 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 Thanks to readers World Science Festival : Resilience and Books This Weekend It’s hard to believe that the World Science Festival is now in its fifth year . What started out feeling like an experiment is now a New York institution . I’m looking forward to participating yet again , and hope you’ll be able to join . me On Friday I’ll be moderating an event called Illuminating Resilience . 8221 Four experts will discuss how people withstand life’s hardest shocks , and manage to bounce . back When : Friday , June 1 10 to 11:30 AM Where : NYU Global Center , Grand Hall . 238

  • Video of the daylight California fireball | Bad Astronomy

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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 Timeline for the fall of the Dragon Video of the daylight California fireball On April 22, 2012, a chunk of asteroid one or two meters across burned up in Earth’s atmosphere . It came in over California and was seen by a lot of people , despite it occurring at about 8:00 a.m . local time and in broad daylight . I just became aware that some footage was taken of the event , and as far as I know is the only video we have of it . It was taken by Shon Bollock , who was making a time-lapse kayaking video just outside Kernville , California as part of his Shasta Boyz adventuring :

  • NCBI ROFL: Deathly drool: evolutionary and ecological basis of septic bacteria in Komodo dragon mouths. | Discoblog

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  • Worlds Without Suns: Nomad Planets Could Number In The Quadrillions

    Updated: 2012-05-30 23:42:22
    The concept of nomad planets has been featured before here on Universe Today, and for good reason. Not only is the idea of mysterious lone planets drifting sunless through interstellar space an intriguing one, but also the sheer potential quantity of such worlds is simply staggering. If some very well-respected scientists’ calculations are correct there [...]

  • NASA's Black-Hole Hunter Being Readied for Launch

    Updated: 2012-05-30 23:15:00
    NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch no earlier than June 13 on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. The mission will study everything from massive black holes to...

  • The Moon Affects the Solar Wind

    Updated: 2012-05-30 22:26:05
    From a NASA press release: With the Moon as the most prominent object in the night sky and a major source of an invisible pull that creates ocean tides, many ancient cultures thought it could also affect our health or state of mind – the word “lunacy” has its origin in this belief. Now, a [...]

  • Meteorites Could Provide New Explanation for Mars Methane

    Updated: 2012-05-30 21:22:34
    Where does the methane on Mars come from? That has been one of the biggest unanswered questions in planetary science since the discovery of large plumes of methane gas in the Martian atmosphere. Scientists have been trying to figure out how the planet’s environment or geology can keep replenishing this short-lived gas, and of course, [...]

  • SpaceX Dragon Sealed for Earth Return on May 31

    Updated: 2012-05-30 21:17:50
    The historic flight of the first private spaceship to ever connect to the International Space Station (ISS) has entered its waning hours and by all accounts it’s been a resounding success thus far ahead of the imminent return trip to Earth. All objectives have been fully accomplished and all that remains is for the unmanned [...]

  • Timeline for the fall of the Dragon | Bad Astronomy

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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 art of exploring Mars Video of the daylight California fireball Timeline for the fall of the Dragon Tomorrow morning , Thursday May 31, the SpaceX Dragon capsule will undock from the International Space Station , perform a series of maneuvers , and then come back home to Earth . Over at The Planetary Society Blog Jason Davis has a great writeup giving the times of the key events . The preliminary stuff happens in the middle of the night for me in Colorado , but the actual descent to Earth happens at a much more palatable time . At 14:51 UTC 10:51 a.m . Eastern US time the

  • Why Do Bubbles in Guinness Sink? | Discoblog

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  • Robots Use Sophisticated Programming to Bust Moves Like It’s 1982 | 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 : The dangers of butter-flavored microwave . popcorn Why Do Bubbles in Guinness Sink Robots Use Sophisticated Programming to Bust Moves Like It’s 1982 When bacteria attack a host , they aren’t a conversation about whether to go after a particular cell they’re doing something called quorum sensing which means that just by sensing what others around it are doing , an individual starts doing a certain thing . Social insects use a similar technique to pick out a new nesting . site Now , thanks to some elegant nature-inspired programming by MIT researchers a pack of

  • The art of exploring Mars | Bad Astronomy

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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 Everything you need to know about next week’s Transit of Venus Timeline for the fall of the Dragon The art of exploring Mars My friend Dan Durda astronomer , asteroid researcher , and artist drew a pretty cool digital painting of what it will look like , sometime hence , when humans explore the rugged landscape of Mars for : themselves Cool , huh It’s based on pictures he took in Death Valley , which has a lot of similarities to the Red . Planet I love Dan’s stuff more of his work is featured in the links listed in Related Posts below He’s put this in his 3D Impact store where

  • This post is written in a font made of DNA | Not Exactly Rocket Science

    Updated: 2012-05-30 18:00:22
    For more about these DNA sculptures, how they work and what they might be used for, see my piece at Nature News.

  • Arctic Ecology Provides Clues to Life on Jupiter's Moon, Europa

    Updated: 2012-05-30 15:30:00
    In a Canadian fjord scientists have found a landscape similar to one of Jupiter's icy moons: Europa, consisting of a frozen and sulphurous environment, where sulphur associated with Arctic bacteria offer clues for the upcoming missions in the search for...

  • Image of the Day: Spectacular Ring of Stars Orbit a Monster Black Hole

    Updated: 2012-05-30 15:00:00
    NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged this coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center. The 'eye' at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared...

  • 3 Quarks Daily Science Blogging Prize | Cosmic Variance

    Updated: 2012-05-30 14:56:14
    Each year, 3 Quarks Daily sponsors prizes for blogging in different areas: science, arts & literature, politics and social science, and philosophy. This year, the excitement surrounding the science prize will be even greater than usual, since it will be judged by me! Previous judges include Stephen Pinker, Richard Dawkins, and Lisa Randall. Not sure [...]

  • Comment of the Day: New Research Confirms Mysterious, Invisible Dark Matter Exists

    Updated: 2012-05-30 14:00:00
    "I love how people think dark matter and dark energy have something to do with each other just because they are both labeled as dark properties of the cosmos. They don't. And as for dark matter, dismissing it is just...

  • SpaceX Dragon attached to space station in spaceflight first Astronomy Magazine

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  • Location chosen for world's largest telescope Astronomy Magazine

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  • Jason Ware nails Omega Centauri Dave's Universe Astronomy Astronomy Community

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  • July 2012 How we could travel to the nearest star Astronomy Magazine

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  • NCBI ROFL: The dangers of butter-flavored microwave popcorn. | Discoblog

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  • Astronomy Magazine

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  • The different types of supernovae Astronomy Magazine

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  • Astronomy tests Orion†s grab-and-go refractor Astronomy Magazine

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  • New “Flame” Malware is One of the Most Complex Cyber Weapons Yet | 80beats

    Updated: 2012-05-29 18:16:18
    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 How Crystals Could Help Scientists Predict Eruptions New Surveillance Program Listens For Gunshots , Get Police There in Minutes New Flame” Malware is One of the Most Complex Cyber Weapons Yet A massive piece of malware , nicknamed Flame” by security researchers at Kaspersky Lab has been discovered attacking computers in Iran and the rest of the Middle East The scale and sophistication of the malware suggests that it was commissioned by a nation-state , perhaps by the same parties that built StuxNet which destroyed Iranian uranium centrifuges several years ago , and Duqu a

  • The Outermost Ocean in Our Solar System: Neptune's Triton

    Updated: 2012-05-29 16:03:43
    A new study suggests the presence of an ocean under the icy shell of Neptune's moon, Triton, which will make it the outermost known ocean in our solar system. At an average temperature of -97° C, this ammonia-rich ocean was... </a

  • How Crystals Could Help Scientists Predict Eruptions | 80beats

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  • Rainbow Pinwheel galaxy | Bad Astronomy

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  • NCBI ROFL: The general age of leadership: older-looking presidential candidates win elections during war. | Discoblog

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  • Hubble Captures Odd Spiral Within a Spiral Galaxy

    Updated: 2012-05-28 22:59:06
    NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the spiral galaxy known as ESO 498-G5. One interesting feature of this galaxy is that its spiral arms wind all the way into the center, so that ESO 498-G5's core looks like...

  • Another tiny rock will pass Earth tomorrow | Bad Astronomy

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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 Memorial Day 2012 Rainbow Pinwheel galaxy Another tiny rock will pass Earth tomorrow tl dr A small 5-10 meter asteroid will pass us tomorrow it poses no danger to us . UPDATE May 29, 16:30 UTC The JPL website for this asteroid has been updated the rock passed us at the predicted distance of about 14,500 km from the Earth's surface . The new numbers use 50 observations of the asteroid the earlier orbit calculations used far fewer so this looks pretty solid to me . As we knew all along , it was a close pass , but nothing to worry about . I recently wrote about near-Earth asteroid

  • Thanks to readers! | The Loom

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  • Week's Hot Tech News Video from IDG

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  • Dragon hunting above, dragon hunting below | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-05-27 14:10:20
    , 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 last chance to see Venus for the next few weeks Memorial Day 2012 Dragon hunting above , dragon hunting below On May 23 the day after the SpaceX Dragon capsule launch International Space Station astronaut André Kuipers snapped this shot of the : Earth Click to ensmaugenate . André who’s Dutch put this up with the caption Er zit een draak achter ons aan There’s a dragon after us That’s a funny pun , given the name of the capsule that was already on its way . there But he didn’t say what this feature was I wanted to find out , and wound up with a fun . story Because I was

  • Your last chance to see Venus for the next few weeks | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-05-26 14:00:06
    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 In which I SEE the light Dragon hunting above , dragon hunting below Your last chance to see Venus for the next few weeks As I usually do when I go outside at twilight , I glanced over to the west to look for Venus and it was much lower toward the horizon than I was expecting . I shouldn’t have been surprised in two weeks it’s due for a close encounter with the Sun . On June 5 6, it’ll pass directly between us and the Sun in an event called a transit . I’ll have more info on that later , though you can read up about it at the Transit of Venus website I set up my binoculars and

  • Earth's shadow on the Moon Astronomy Magazine

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  • Don't miss June's rare transit of Venus Astronomy Magazine

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  • The week in pictures May 19–25, 2012 Astronomy Magazine

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  • The week in pictures May 19–25, 2012 Astronomy Magazine

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  • NCBI ROFL: Color and women attractiveness: when red clothed women are perceived to have more intense sexual intent. | Discoblog

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  • Gale Crater 'Curiosity Mission' Landing Site Formed During Mars' "Water Epoch"

    Updated: 2012-05-25 17:05:00
    Crater counts show that the western portions of the Medusae Fossae formation on Mars—an intensely eroded deposit near the northern edge of the cratered highlands-- are much older than previously thought, originating near the end of the Hesperian geologic epoch...

  • Image of the Day: ISS Robotic Arm Completes 1st-Ever Hookup with SpaceX's Dragon --Launching Commercial Space Era

    Updated: 2012-05-25 16:00:00
    The International Space Station's crew reached out today with a robotic arm to grab SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule and brought it in for the orbital outpost's first-ever hookup with a commercial spaceship.The unmanned capsule is carrying 1,000 pounds of supplies...

  • Organic Carbon Found on Mars --From Volcanism Not Biology

    Updated: 2012-05-25 15:00:00
    Molecules containing large chains of carbon and hydrogen--the building blocks of all life on Earth--have been the targets of missions to Mars from Viking to the present day. While these molecules have previously been found in meteorites from Mars, scientists...

  • Open cluster NGC 6067, planetary nebula NGC 6072, and barred spiral galaxy NGC 5921 Astronomy Magazi

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  • Could the Quadrillions of Nomad Planets in Milky Way Sustain Life? Astrobiologists Say "Yes"

    Updated: 2012-05-24 16:00:00
    A recent study proposes the galaxy is crowded with nomad planets adrift in space. If this is the case, nomad planets may play a dynamic role in the universe. Titled "Nomads of the Galaxy," the authors proposed an upper limit...

  • Searching Earth for Clues to What Mar's Curosity Rover Might Find

    Updated: 2012-05-23 18:55:00
    Carl Sagan made a point of saying that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." If life ever existed on Mars, evidence of its presence may be signaled by a distinctive magnetic signature as a definitive test for Martian life that the...

  • Image of the Day: Human-Made Shadow on Mars

    Updated: 2012-05-23 18:45:00
    NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity catches its own late-afternoon shadow in this dramatically lit view eastward across Endeavour Crater on Mars. The rover used the panoramic camera (Pancam) between about 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. local Mars time to record images taken...

  • "Stellar Extremophiles" --Found Where Star Formation Isn't Supposed to Happen

    Updated: 2012-05-23 07:00:00
    "We’re finding stars in extreme galactic environments where star formation isn't supposed to happen," explains NASA GALEX project scientist Susan Neff of the Goddard Space Flight Center. “This is a very surprising development." The image above is Hubble’s close-up view...

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  • Magnetic bacteria may help build future bio-computers

    Updated: 2012-05-14 20:41:58
    Magnet-making bacteria may be building biological computers of the future, researchers have said. A team from the UK’s University of Leeds and Japan’s Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have used microbes that eat iron. As they ingest the iron, the microbes create tiny magnets inside themselves, similar to those in PC hard drives. The research may lead to the creation of much ...

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