The story of Earthrise
Stop what you are doing and watch this: One of the most famous photographs of all time- the earth rising above the moon as seen from Apollo 8′s lunar orbit- was a lucky accident.
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Something’s Cooking on Mars
What do you get when you cook buried martian mudstone in your oven? The answer appears to be the kind of gases you’d expect if you cooked organic material here on Earth.
Candid Camera (Trap): The Worlds Rarest Big Cat
“The Amur or Far Eastern leopard, Panthera pardus orientalis, is the worlds most endangered big cat, and the only one known to be adapted to the cold, snowy environment in which it lives...
The House of Representatives Committee on Science is turning into a national embarrassment
A few days back I wrote a post explaining why I am all for private support of basic science, especially in an age when government funding and support is flagging.
Zoom Through a Stunning Panorama of the Milky Way
Do yourself a favor. Don't read this article just yet--first, take a moment to zoom around this incredible panorama of our galaxy and soak in the splendor: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/glimpse360/aladin...
My God, Man! XPRIZE Unveils Medical Tricorder Teams
In the Star Trek universe, handheld medical tricorders became standard issue for Starfleet vessels as early as the mid-22nd century. Here in a little place we like to call “reality,” a competition seeks to help deliver such all-in-one health analyzers at least 100 years ahead of schedule...
Miniature Big Bang Created in Ultra-Cold Lab, and More – The Countdown, Episode 30
More to explore: Earth life ‘may have come from Mars’ (BBC News) Maybe Mars Seeded Earth’s Life, Maybe It Didn’t (Scientific American Blog Network) China Plans Its First Unmanned Moon Landing This Year (New York Times) China to launch lunar probe for landing mission (Xinhua) NASA Data Reveals Mega-Canyon under Greenland Ice Sheet (NASA) Space [...]..
#SciAmBlogs Friday – Test-Tube Burger, Sea Otter Cam, Behavioral Genetics, #Dysonfest, Jargon Viruses, and more.
- Paul Knoepfler – Stem Cells Promise Noah’s Ark of Test-Tube Burger Choices - Jag Bhalla – The Most Dangerous Jargon Viruses - Ashutosh Jogalekar – #Dysonfest: Origin of life, climate change (denial), number theory and nuclear weapons - John R...
Dirty Food, Dirty faces and the Dirt on Trigonometry!
Video of the Week #112, October 2nd, 2013: From: Dirty Faces, Dirty Vegetables and the Dirt on Trigonometry – BOB for September is Live! by Carin Bondar at PsiVid.
Putting the Illustrations Before the Text
We’re wrapping up the daily sciart posts today. We hope you’ve enjoyed them! Stay tuned tomorrow for a round-up of the month’s artists and images.
#SciAmBlogs Friday – Citizen Food Safety Project, Conservation Tillage, American Lager, Weird Deep Sea Organisms, New IPCC Report, and more.
- Ben Chapman – The Citizen Food Safety Project - Jag Bhalla – Words Are Thinking Tools: Praxotype - John Cook – Turing Award genealogy - Dana Mackenzie – A Happy Mathematical Birthday and The Talk That Wasn’t - Markus Pössel – The creation of the Internet, privacy, and a geek [...]..
Scientists Find First Neutrinos from Distant Space [Video]
The world has heard the first faint whispers of the most powerful cataclysms in the universe. Scientists working on the IceCube experiment in Antarctica report that they have found 28 neutrinos that must have come to earth from explosions in the distant universe—the first time scientists have found neutrinos coming from outside our own solar [...]..
The Fundamental Physics prize continues to be bad for physics.
The Fundamental Physics prize has again been awarded to sophisticated mathematical speculation disconnected from experimental evidence. The 2012 Fundamental Physics prize was shared among nine physicists, most of who were string theorists. String theorists continue to dominate the awardees of this year’s New Horizons and Frontiers in Physics prizes...
Bora’s Picks – Science Notes edition (August 30th, 2013)
It is that time of year when I’d be remiss not to highlight all the amazing Science Notes articles written as final projects by students of the Science Communication Program at UC Santa Cruz...
#SciAmBlogs Tuesday – D-Wave, brain-eating amoeba, sexting, giant water bug, squid tentacle, nuclear waste, and more.
- Jesse Dunietz – Quantum Computing Disentangled: A Look Behind the D-Wave Buzz - Judy Stone – Where’s the Real Danger from Infection This Summer?
Book Reviews: Smart Implants, Ultralight Aerogels and Other Innovations
Here is a selection of book reviews from recent issues of Nature on scientific daring, entrepreneurial brio and finely tuned judgment of social need.
A discussion on Big Science, Small Science and the future of all science
Tomorrow I have the privilege of joining a panel discussion on Big Science with three very distinguished scientists: Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg, MIT astrophysics professor Sara Seager and Perimeter Institute cosmologist Neil Turok...
5 Amazing Exoplanets – The Countdown, Episode 33
More to explore: Exoplanet colour confirmed for first time: it’s blue, but not pale — and nothing like Earth (Scientific American Blog Network) http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/b… Diamond ‘Super-Earth’ May Not be Quite as Precious (University of Arizona) http://uanews.org/story/diamond-super… Strange Exoplanet’s ‘Backwards’ Orbit Explained by Extra Star, Planet (Space.com) http://www.space.com/19421-backward-a… Astronomers Find Most Ancient Planet Yet (Scientific [...]..
Belief in multiple universes requires exceptional vision. So does belief in telepathy.
I exaggerate with the title of this post, but only slightly. The title is a reaction to a strange article on multiple universes written by Tom Siegfried at Science News.
Summer Vacation! – Best of the Blogs #7
Video of the Week #105, August 14th, 2013: From: #SciAmBlogs Thursday – glass sponges, dog sounds, sharks friends, med school interviews, and more.
