Rap about world's largest science experiment is YouTube hit
09/07/2008 02:10 PM
The start up of the biggest experiment on the planet has inspired a science rap song that has become an unlikely global hit.
 
Dual Citizenship for the Woolly Mammoth
09/07/2008 01:00 PM
Woolly mammoths migrated to North America, then back to Siberia, according to a new scientific analysis.
 
Hubble Repair Mission More Risky than You'd Ever Imagine
09/07/2008 11:00 AM
If you think that the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope is going to be boring, you haven't seen this yet.
 
Building the 'Big Bang machine'
09/07/2008 08:26 AM
The Large Hadron Collider is not just an extraordinary science experiment, it is also a remarkable engineering undertaking. Just getting it built is an astonishing story in itself.
 
How Much Will Vanishing Glaciers Raise Sea Level
09/07/2008 08:20 AM
Greenland, the world's largest island, holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by 23 feet (seven meters).
 
A Fine-tooth Comb To Measure The Accelerating Universe
09/07/2008 08:20 AM
Astronomical instruments needed to answer crucial questions, such as the search for Earth-like planets or the way the Universe expands, have come a step closer with the first demonstration at the telescope of a new calibration system for precise spectrographs. The method uses a Nobel Prize-winning technology called a 'laser frequency comb', and is
 
Feds Warn Climate Change Could Harm Giant Sequoias
09/07/2008 06:40 AM
Federal researchers are warning that warming temperatures could soon cause California's giant sequoia trees to die off more quickly unless forest managers plan with an eye toward climate change and the impact of a longer, harsher wildfire season.
 
Steins: A Diamond in The Sky
09/07/2008 05:40 AM
The first images from Rosetta’s OSIRIS imaging system and VIRTIS infrared spectrometer were derived from raw data this morning and have delivered spectacular results.
 
Scientists Can Read Your Mind
09/07/2008 04:00 AM
For the first time ever, scientists at Israeli universities were able to watch patients remembering individual memories. More so, they were able to predict which memory their patients' brain would recreate. A fundamental finding in the memory puzzle.
 
GM Going 50% Landfill-Free By 2010
09/07/2008 03:20 AM
GM says by the end of 2010, half of its major global manufacturing operations will be land-fill free. The facilities plan to achieve that landfill-free status when all production waste or garbage is recycled or reused. So far, the company says 33 of its operations recently reached that status for a total of 43.
 
Looking On as the Brain Remembers the Simpsons(Infographic)
09/06/2008 11:40 PM
Interesting that the memory of the Simpsons is more resilient than the Statue of Liberty.
 
Amazing Pictures as They Break The Sound Barrier
09/06/2008 11:00 PM

 
Yeah But Have You Ever Fought Bacteria - On Weed?
09/06/2008 09:40 PM
Researchers in Italy and Britain have found that the main active ingredient in marijuana — tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC — and related compounds show promise as antibacterial agents, particularly against microbial strains that are already resistant to several classes of drugs. Digg it for the thumbnail of the THC-Enhanced Bacteria Devourer!
 
Gorgeous View of Space Shuttle Atlantis and Surrounding Area
09/06/2008 05:50 PM
Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 4 September 2008--Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-125) has passed the bend in the crawlerway taking it to Launch Pad 39A, above left, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The crawlerway is flanked by the Banana River at right and Banana Creek at left. The Atlantic Ocean stretches across the horizon. Photographer: Kim Shiflett
 
How the Human Got His Thumbs
09/06/2008 12:00 PM
For decades, people referred to the non-coding bits of DNA between genes as junk DNA. Then, in the eighties scientists discovered that some of that junk DNA served an important purpose. Now scientists have just found that one of those gene enhancers may be what separates humans and chimps.
 
Asia Pollution May Boost U.S. Temperatures
09/06/2008 11:20 AM
Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday.
 
Neurophilosophy: Lessons about memory from Homer Simpson
09/06/2008 10:14 AM
In this clip from The Simpsons, Homer explains to Marge why he does not want to take an adult education class: "Every time I watch something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain." Watching the clip, or any other, engages multiple brain regions that act in parallel to generate a coherent conscious experience. For example, the visual cortica
 
NASA's Contribution to the War on Terror: Spy Satellites
09/06/2008 10:06 AM
Are you having trouble with funding? Is your research unable to attract major media attention? Just add Terror (TM)! That's what Dr Stoica of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory did, and it could work for you too. Dr Stoica's research is based on gait analysis - the idea that everyone has a distinctive walking pattern, and no matter how many fake
 
Large Hadron Collider will not turn world to goo
09/06/2008 06:06 AM
They say it won’t be four horsemen that spell the end of the world as we know it but the flick of a switch next Wednesday, when the Earth will be consumed from inside out and turned to a pile of grey goo. Doomsayers are so worried about the impending end of the universe that they have been to court to try to stop it...
 
NASA to Explore the "Secret Layer" of the Sun
09/06/2008 05:00 AM
Next April, for a grand total of 8 minutes, NASA astronomers are going to glimpse a secret layer of the sun. Researchers call it "the transition region." It is a place in the sun's atmosphere, about 5000 km above the stellar surface, where magnetic fields overwhelm the pressure of matter and seize control of the sun's gases.