An itsy-bitsy teensy-weensy planet
Sometimes even the smallest discoveries can be a big deal. Like the Thomas Barclay and his team at the NASA Ames Research Center using the Kepler space telescope to uncover […]
Monthly Archives: February 2013
The science of the thank you
The Oscars are coming up this weekend, a night so perfectly choreographed and polished to a high sheen that it’s basically a multi-million dollar wedding cake. But it can also […]
‘Super mega-pod’ of dolphins
The coast of San Diego got about 100,000 new visitors last week, though they won’t be checking out the famous zoo. Capt. Joe Dutra of sightseeing company Hornblower Cruises and […]
Mirror mirror in the trees, is that a leopard that I see?
We use mirrors to fix our hair and make sure we don’t change lanes into another car on the highway. Some people use them to measure cats’ intelligence. As exhibited […]
Greening the Shedd
It’s easy enough for we normal folk to buy LED lights, re-seal our windows or use the cold cycle in the wash to save some energy. But how do you […]
A busy mind is a happy mind
Sounds like something your grandfather would say, right? Well to a certain extent, it’s true. When writing his book Time for Life, which addresses stress and the time crunch people claim […]
Russian meteorite fragments found
Scientists think they’ve found the remains of the 7,000-ton meteor that caused a ruckus in Russia on Friday. A 20 foot-wide hole was discovered in frozen Lake Chebarkul, about 50 […]
A new kind of supernova
Who wants to be normal and run with the crowd? Not this proud-to-be-me supernova. W49B is a supernova remnant that may be home to the galaxy’s newest black hole, but […]
Crowd-sourcing snowfall
People pretty much tweet, Instagram and Facebook their entire lives these days, so it’s not shocking that they should report snowfall that way too. A team at the University of […]
Is the appendix extraneous?
Everyone knows you don’t need your appendix…or do you? Okay, it’s been proven by the millions of people without one that you don’t need it, but they could be missing out […]
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