Archaeologists working at the site of La Corona in Guatemala have discovered a 1,300-year-old-year Maya text that provides only the second known reference to the so-called "end date" of the Maya calendar, December 21, 2012. The discovery, one of the most significant hieroglyphic finds in decades, was announced June 28 at the National Palace in Guatemala. Marcello A. Canuto, director of ...
With shifting continents, rain, and wind, finding traces of ancient impact craters on Earth has been, literally, astronomically low. Now, an international team of scientists say they have found a massive impact crater in Greenland a billion years older than other known asteroid impact on Earth. Scientists found the remains of the giant 100-kilometer (62 [...]
On July 1, 1962, the Launch Operations Center in Florida officially became operational. The name was later changed to John F. Kennedy Space Center in honor of the president and his vision of Americans visiting the Moon. This video looks back at the many launches and space exploration highlights that occurred at KSC, so enjoy [...]
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 New flu gene found hiding in plain sight , and affects severity of infections I’ve got your missing links right here 30 June 2012 Why supermarket tomatoes look great but taste bland If you’ve ever bitten into a wild tomato , you’ll have enjoyed a sweet , intense explosion of flavour . The tomatoes that line most supermarket shelves are a world apart . They look great a wall of even , ripe red but they taste like . cardboard These two facts are . related Ann Powell from the University of California , Davis has found that farmers have inadvertently ruined the taste of tomatoes by
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 Singing the praises of Carl Sagan Privately and publicly looking for Earth-threatening asteroids Stellar tantrum blasts away part of its planet’s atmosphere Life must suck for HD . 189733b It’s a planet orbiting the star HD 189733, about 63 light years from Earth . It’s similar to Jupiter , being slightly more massive and slightly bigger . Unlike our own big brother , though , HD 189733b is far closer to its parent star , orbiting just about 4 million kilometers about 2.5 million miles above its surface That means the cloudtops of the planet are at a scorching 840°C 1500°F so
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 Virtual Star Party featured at big Google+ meeting Stellar tantrum blasts away part of its planet’s atmosphere Singing the praises of Carl Sagan One of my favorite quotations of all time is by Carl Sagan : If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch , you must first invent the Universe . quot The poetry and lyrical nature of that line are wonderful , and the sentiment well . He was exactly right . Sagan was one of many people who influenced me , and of course so many of us who promote astronomy to the public owe our careers to . him That’s why I was so pleased when I found
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 Will Amateur-Controlled Drones Take Over the Skies Louisiana Set to Use Public Funds to Teach Creationism Climate Denialism Why Stealing 10 of Pencils Doesn’t Seem as Bad As Stealing 10 Most of us would consider ourselves honest people—but that doesn’t stop us from fudging the rules in favor of our team , giving an inflated report of our own performance , or buying knock-off accessories rather than the legit version . At Wired Joanna Pearlstein talks to behavioral economist Dan Ariely about what leads us to lie , cheat , and steal—and rationalize our behavior to ourselves as
The interior of Mars holds vast reservoirs of water, with some spots apparently as wet as Earth’s innards, scientists say. The finding upends previous studies, which had estimated that the Red Planet’s internal water stores were scanty at best — something of a surprise, given that liquid water apparently flowed on the Martian surface long ago. "It’s been puzzling why previous estimates ...