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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 Hot Planet and a Twisted Gut : Catching Up With Download the Universe Nature’s Latest Flu Experiment : My Story in Today’s New York Times On A New Virus In Seals Last September , harbor seal pups in Massachusetts and New Hampshire started to die in droves . In today’s New York Times I write about what killed them : a new influenza strain that evolved from shorebirds to seals , possibly as recently as last summer . While controversy swirls around scientists experimentally nudging flu viruses across the evolutionary between birds and mammals Nature has been doing some
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 2001 : A Space Thriller and the flags ARE still there One of the more enduring questions about the Apollo Moon missions is seemingly simple : after 40+ years , are the flags the astronauts planted on the lunar surface still there It’s an interesting question . Buzz Aldrin claims he saw the flag blow over when the ascent module carrying him and Neil Armstrong lifted off from the Moon which was never confirmed until now hang on for that but the fates of the flags from the other five missions have never been ascertained . In 2009 there was tantalizing evidence the flags from
: . 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 : Hard core spiders fight better after . self-castration NCBI ROFL : Having kids makes men see themselves in random . children Fathers See Stronger Family Resemblances than Non-Fathers in Unrelated Children’s . Faces Even after they have taken all reasonable measures to decrease the probability that their spouses cheat on them , men still face paternal uncertainty . Such uncertainty can lead to paternal disinvestment , which reduces the children’s probability to survive and reproduce , and thus the reproductive success of the fathers themselves . A theoretical
, 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 I’ve got your missing links right here 28th July 2012 You can thank wasps for your bread , beer and wine If wasps didn’t exist , picnics would be a lot more fun . But the next time you find yourself trying to dodge a flying , jam-seeking harpoon , think about this : without wasps , many of your ingredients might not exist at all . Irene Stefanini and Leonardo Dapporto from the University of Florence have found that the guts of wasps provide a safe winter refuge for yeast specifically Saccharomyces cerevisiae the fungus we use to make wine , beer and bread . And without those 
, 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 Icebergs off Greenland 2001 : A Space Thriller Portland , Oregon talk OF DEATH I’m very excited to be heading up to Portland , Oregon on Wednesday , August 1, to give my Death from the Skies talk at the Bagdad Theater This is part of the OMSI Science Pub series , a laid-back event where people like me talk to people like you about stuff like science . In my case , I’ll be talking asteroid impacts and crispy dinosaurs and making fun of the movie Armageddon and then saving the world . This talk is open to the public and starts at 7:00 p.m . doors open at 5 Tickets are 20 and
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 Southern skies time lapse : Nocturnal Icebergs off Greenland The scars of a Colorado fire A few weeks ago , Colorado fires raged . They are still there , but mostly out and contained the Boulder fire is completely contained , but pockets of fire will probably burn at a low level for weeks and be put out as they’re . found South of us , in Colorado Springs , the wildfire was apocalyptic . It destroyed over 18,000 acres 72 square kilometers , 28 square miles and many buildings and houses . The scar it left behind is visible even from space , especially in the infrared , as in
Actually, popular music is arguably “better” today. But in the Sixties it was more creative — or at least more experimental. So says science. (Via Kevin Drum.) The science under consideration was carried out by a group of Spanish scientists led by Joan Serrà, and appeared in Scientific Reports, an open-access journal published by Nature. [...]
If you can’t get to a Mars Science Lab landing party, one website aims to bring the party to you. Explore Mars, a not-for-profit, has joined up with several space-faring organizations and firms to create Get Curious. It’s a one-stop shop for all things concerning Curiosity, the centerpiece of MSL. “Curiosity will rock the world” [...]
Image Caption: NASA’s Mars Odyssey will relay near real time signals of this artist’s concept depicting the moment that NASA’s Curiosity rover touches down onto the Martian surface. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and ESA’s Mars Express (MEX) orbiter will also record signals from Curiosity for later playback, not in real time. Credit: NASA It’s [...]
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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 Helping save the planetary space program Southern skies time lapse : Nocturnal Globsmacked Globular clusters are some of the most stunning objects in the sky . Composed of hundreds of thousands of stars , over 150 of these compact beehives orbit our Milky Way galaxy alone . Some are close enough that even through a small telescope they reveal a breathtaking beauty , individual stars sparsely distributed in their outskirts becoming more cramped and crowded until they blur into a generalized smear in the middle . When you use a bigger telescope to look at them , you get wondrous 
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 There’s a Zombie in My Treehouse Globsmacked Helping save the planetary space program You won’t hear this from me much , but sometimes , just sometimes , I really love Congress Especially my own Representative , Jared Polis D-CO Here’s . why A few months ago , President Obama and the White House came out with their 2013 budget for NASA There were a lot of cuts , but most devastating was a 300 million slashing of the planetary sciences budget a huge 20 reduction in funding . The Mars program alone got cut nearly 40 The planetary science community felt betrayed , and took action 
: 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 Meet Phallostethus cuulong The Fish With Elaborate , Multi-Part Genitals On Its Chin NCBI ROFL : Hard core spiders fight better after . self-castration NCBI ROFL : Do cops make good human breathalyzers Police officers’ detection of breath odors from alcohol . ingestion Police officers frequently use the presence or absence of an alcohol breath odor for decisions on proceeding further into sobriety testing . Epidemiological studies report many false negative errors . The current study employed 20 experienced officers as observers to detect an alcohol odor from 14 subjects who
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 Cancer drug shocks HIV out of hiding How the rhino beetle got its horn and why it cannot lie Aging termites put on suicide backpacks full of chemical weapons Termite workers don’t get to peacefully retire . As they age and their bodies can work no more , some of them are fitted with suicide backpacks and conscripted for . war There are thousands of termite species , and many engage in chemical warfare Some squirt noxious chemicals from nozzles on their heads . Others violently rupture their own bodies to release sticky immobilising fluids , sacrificing themselves for the good
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 Coathook to the stars Helping save the planetary space program There’s a Zombie in My Treehouse My friends Ken Plume , Len Peralta from Geek-A-Week and John Robinson have created a fun and creepy children’s book called There’s a Zombie in My Treehouse Poor Johnny wants to have adventures in his treehouse like he does every day after school , but today there’s a zombie in it so he claims and no one in his family believes . him They learn the truth , though . One by . one Ken , John , and Len printed this book on their own , and now they’ve put together a Kickstarter to a make an
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 Attack of the Pluto There’s a Zombie in My Treehouse Coathook to the stars In the constellation of Vulpecula , the fox located high in the sky this time of year for northern hemisphere observers is a fun little asterism : a collection of stars formally known as Brocchi’s Cluster , or Collinder 399. Greek astrophotographer Anthony Ayiomamitis took a grand picture of it just a few days ago that I have to share with : you Click to enhaberdasherate . It’s very pretty , isn’t it The asterism itself is composed of the ten or so brightest stars you see the rest are background stars .
We’ve made available for free, a gem from our archives, the interview with Ian Crane about "The New World Order’s Quest for Zion in 2012". This program started a lot of the focus that consequently has been put on the Olympics and the 2012 - Zion connection. We continue our excellent program with Ian R. Crane and dive into the subject ...
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