: Home Sci-Tech Science and Society Science and Society The Latest Developments in Science and Technology Ned Potter is the science correspondent for ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer . He has reported on such topics as space exploration , the human genome and climate change . Subscribe to this blog's feed RECENT POSTS Mars Rover : Spirit May Never Phone Home Climategate' E-mails : Independent Panel Clears Global Warming Researchers Space Station : Russian Cargo Ship Aborts Docking BP's Next Problem : Tropical Storm . Alex Shaking All Over : Earthquake in Northeast Gulf Oil Spill : Where the Slick May Go Gulf Oil Spill : Brace for Hurricane Season Sunstruck : Shuttle and Space Station , Seen From Earth Gulf of Mexico Spill : Worse Than the Exxon Valdez Gulf Oil Slick : Visible From Space
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Update on the NASA Authorization Bill (from Planetary News)
I've been standing in line next to a green monster for more than an hour. This might sound like a bad situation, but the monster is actually a rather nice human in body paint and stunning, neon-green contact lenses.On the Planetary Society web site: Planetary Society Urges Debate on NASA Authorization Bill
"No bucks, no Buck Rogers": That phrase, attributed to Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom, perfectly encapsulates the problem that NASA has faced for decades. Without the requisite money, there's no way America's space effort can do great things.
Cracked: 5 ridiculous ancient beliefs that turned out to be true
New Scientist: Are we living inside someone else's black hole?
ArXiv Blog: Quantum time machine gets around paradox (via GeekPress)
The Guardian: Monkeys are the masters of dental flossing
"Live fast, die young" may sound like a life lesson, but it’ actually an astronomical observation, borne out by a spectacular image of a hot young star from the European Southern Observatory.Here's one more reason why leaving Pluto off the planetary list just doesn't make sense. Caltech astronomer John Johnson and his colleagues say they've found two planetary systems where pairs of Jupiter-scale planets are so close together that their orbits almost certainly cross.
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Science produces formula for perfect handshake (via Slashdot)
ArXiv Blog: Where are the aliens? Math shows the way
Planetary Society Blog: Carnival of Space 163
'Nova' on PBS: 'Who Killed the Red Baron?'
It's hard to believe that we've just crossed the six-month mark on WISE -- seems like just yesterday when we were all up at Vandenberg Air Force Base, near Santa Barbara, shivering in the cold at night while watching the countdown clock. Is immortality possible? Is it desirable? Last week we delved into the topic of extreme life extension with futurist/inventor Ray Kurzweil and took note of an anti-aging initiative proposed by British gerontologist Aubrey de Grey and his colleagues.
'Nova' on PBS: 'B-29 Frozen in Time'
Daily Mail: Crop cubes (via Daily Grail)
Symmetry Magazine: The Large Hadron Collider decoded
Discovery News: The Large Hadron Collider, now in comic form
StarTrek.com: The next generation | Space.com on the relaunch
Bad Astronomy: This w hellip;
NASA: Three pictures add up to one sweet eclipse image
JPL: Tour a hydrocarbon lake on Titan | Death Valley vs. Titan
Thoughtware: Vernor Vinge talks about the singularity
National Geographic: Visions of Earth
Skymania: Carnival of Space 162
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