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Your PsiVid hosts, Carin Bondar and Joanne Manaster, will be watching the world of science film and video, and sharing our great finds with science enthusiasts like you.
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Fun with Gravitational Waves
Even the Earth – sun system radiates gravitational waves, but just how powerful are they?...
The Return of Apollo 13's Plutonium - It Happened in Space #13
There were more complications on Apollo 13's failed lunar mission than most people realize. The astronauts carried plutonium on the lunar module they brought back to Earth with them.
Gravitational Waves at the Beginning of Everything
Scientists from the Center for Astrophysics have found evidence of gravitational waves created mere moments after the dawn of the universe. These waves were created in a period of rapid expansion called cosmic inflation...
Is Our Universe a Hologram?
We take for granted that we exist as 3-D beings in a 3-D universe, but physicists suggest that our world is just the projection of a reality written in 2-D. Scientific American editor Michael Moyer explains...
Urban Lore Debunked in New E-Book: Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths
Did NASA really spend millions creating a pen that would write in space? Is chocolate poisonous to dogs? Does stress cause gray hair? These questions are just a sample of the urban lore investigated in our newest eBook, Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths...
High-Flying Frog Was Not The First Amphibian To Reach For Outer Space
The internet loves animals, and loves animals in surprising places even more. So when a photo emerged showing a frog flying alongside NASA’s Minotaur V rocket as it lifted off from it’s launchpad in Virginia earlier this month carrying the LADEE spacecraft towards the moon it was an immediate hit...
Bora’s Picks (September 13th, 2013)
Guppies lie about mate choice to trick rivals by Anne-Marie Hodge: When it comes to sex among guppies, competition is high for those at the top of the game.
#SciAmBlogs Thursday – IgNobels, tech in classrooms, purple centipedes, ketamine, Voyager, obscure trigonometry, and more.
- Jody Passanisi and Shara Peters – Digital Natives Looking to Unplug, Connect - Anna Kuchment – Teachers and App Designers Join Forces - Kyle Hill – Excerpts From The Mad Scientist’s Handbook: So You’re Ready to Vaporize a Human - John R...
Voyager Has Entered The Interstellar Medium
After many claims and statements over the past few years that Voyager 1, our most distant operating spacecraft, has ‘left the solar system’ (it hasn’t, as I explain here), it does now seem that as of August 2012 this extraordinary vehicle has entered the interstellar medium...
#SciAmBlogs Monday – belly button biodiversity, disease spread simulation, HIV dignity, coccaine vaccine, radioactive spiders, waxbows, newts, and more.
Yes, the Food Week is over, but that does not stop our bloggers from writing fascinating posts on a whole range of other topics! But first check out the new Best of the Blogs video: - Erin C...
Chasing the trajectory of science, both Big and Small: A panel discussion
Here is the link to the YouTube video of my panel discussion with Steven Weinberg, Sara Seager and Neil Turok. I was very pleased to have a productive conversation about the future of science with such sparkling and provocative thinkers...
To Jupiter
On October 9th, 2013, NASA’s Juno mission completed an Earth ‘flyby’ to gain a little extra velocity (a gravitational slingshot maneuver that steals a tiny bit of Earth’s momentum) to get it to Jupiter in 2016...
Smog shuts down Harbin, China, as seen from space.
NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an image of smog that paralyzed the northeastern Chinese city of 10 million.
#SciAmBlogs Thursday – frozen microbes, global sex tally, heritage apples, a retraction, stink bugs, Lady Gaga’s goals, Jaguar perfume, and more.
- Paige Brown – Colder than Ice: Researchers Discover How Microbes Survive in Sub-Freezing Conditions - Tim Lahey – HIV and the Global Sex Tally - Layla Eplett – The Heir And The Spare: Preserving Heritage And Heirloom Apples - Pamela Ronald – Lab Life: The Anatomy of a Retraction [...]..
SciAm/Read Science! Hangout with Astronaut Chris Hadfield!
If you are on the internet and have not heard of recently retired Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield, commander of ISS expedition 35, then I suspect you are using the internet all wrong...
Are physicists individualists or collectivists?
Ricardo Heras has a well-written and thought provoking essay in Physics Today in which he asks whether physicists should be individualists or collectivists.
Khalil’s Picks (1 November 2013)
Candy! Candy corn? What exactly is candy corn?! This week’s picks points you to the answer as well as to some super science writing filled with dolphins, octopuses, zombies, rhinos, corals and, umm, engineers!...
#SciAmBlogs Thursday – climate change education, fast food marketing to kids, seedlings from space, fish evolution, and more.
Enjoy the latest Video of the Week. - Mary Ann McGarry – Stepping Into the Arena of Climate Change Education. - Adam Kucharski – Keep it simple, stupid: maths doesn’t have to be ‘complex’ - Princess Ojiaku – It’s what you see at the concert, not what you hear - Krystal D’Costa [...]..
The Most Breathtaking Video of the Weather
Video of the Week #107, August 29th, 2013: From: The Most Breathtaking Video of the Weather You’ll Watch This Week by Evelyn Lamb at Roots of Unity.
