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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 In praise of the big old mess Evolution Textbook : The App Grows Evolution : Making Sense of Life the textbook Doug Emlen and I have just published , is now evolving into a full-blown app for the iPad . Once you get the free app , you can download some of the book’s chapters . We’ve now got the first eight chapters in the iTunes store . Chapters 1 the introduction and Chapter 8 natural selection in the wild are available for free . Chapters 2-7 can be purchased individually for between 4.99 and 9.99. The full book will be available December 1st , 2012 all 18 chapters will be
Wow, what a view of the Curiosity rover! This is a self-portrait mosaic made from brand new images taken by the MAHLI (Mars Hand Lens Imager), the high-resolution camera located on the turret at the end of MSL’s robotic arm. The arm was moved for each of the 55 images in this mosaic, so the [...]
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This graphic shows results of the first analysis of Martian soil by the Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) experiment on NASA’s Curiosity rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Ames Soil scooped up by the Curiosity rover has been analyzed by instruments on board similar to what would be used by geologists on Earth in a laboratory, and the results show [...]
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I’m very sad to report that Wallace Sargent, a distinguished astronomer at Caltech, died yesterday. Wal, as he was known, was a world leader in spectroscopy and extragalactic astronomy, with a specialty in studies of quasar absorption lines. He played a crucial role in numerous major projects in astronomy, including serving as the director of [...]
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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 Splashdown Sandy’s Big Night Unfurled aurora Every time I think I’ve posted just the most sensational aurora picture I’ve seen , another one comes along that has me scraping my jaw off the floor . Check out this shot by photographer David Cartier Seriously click to enbirkelandate . I know right That spiral shape is fascinating . Aurorae are formed when charged particles from the Sun slam into the Earth’s magnetic field and interact with it . They’re channeled down into our atmosphere , guided by the Earth’s field , and the shape of the aurora reflects the underlying magnetic
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Apparently, there just aren’t enough genomes for Craig Venter to sequence here on Earth, so he’s making plans to send a DNA sequencer to Mars. "There will be life forms there," Venter said, with his usual confidence. "Now we can rebuild the Martians"
It may sound far-fetched, but assuming that there is DNA to be found on the Red Planet - a big assumption, to be sure - the notion of equipping a future Mars rover to sequence the DNA isn’t so crazy.
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