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As the year 2011 comes to a close, some might wonder what is looming sky-wise for 2012? What celestial events might we look forward to seeing?
Read More »Operations Suspended at Hazardous Fluid Wells after 11 Quakes
By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Ohio has suspended operations at five deep-well hazardous fluid disposal sites after a series of 11 earthquakes in the Youngstown, Ohio, in the past year, including one on Saturday with a magnitude of 4.0, officials said. [More]
Read More »How Cosmic Rays Can Image the Throat of an Active Volcano [Video]
The volcano that buried Pompeii in A.D. 79 still rumbles deep down
Read More »Your Appendix Could Save Your Life
Your appendix may save your life that is, if you have one. If you don t, well, I will get to that. First I want to tell you about a guy I know, Bill Parker Bill Parker grew up in Arkansas and is, by my precise calculation, fifty percent pure backwoods Arkansan and fifty percent intellectual wild man
Read More »The Value of the Designer Who Codes
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Read More »Giraffes Eat Bones–and Other Things I Learned on Safari [Slide Show]
Forgive me.
Read More »Walking or running efficiently, your locomotor muscles might not agree
Humans walk well.
Read More »Welcome to the Year of the Lightbulb
Happy New Year! And welcome to the year of light…bulbs. Why you ask?
Read More »Out-of-Body Experiences Linked with Poor Sense of Own Body
Many individuals report having an out-of-body experience at some point in their life, and now scientists are homing in on the cause. [More]
Read More »Silicon Superego
The most buzzed-about new feature in the latest iPhone is Siri, the virtual minion. You can give her an amazing range of spoken commands, without any training or special syntax, and marvel as she does your bidding
Read More »Most Popular #SciAmBlogs Posts of 2011
OK, this is totally unscientific. On July 5th we launched the new network.
Read More »5 alcohol-isms for New Year’s
1. Drunk walking contains a bigger risk factor than you might think. The journal of Injury Prevention cites January 1 with the high incident rates of pedestrian-motor vehicle crashes (PDF)
Read More »The Elderly React Slowly Because They Want To Be Right
Older folks may appear to react or process info slowly. But there may be a method to their meander-ness: they’re making sure they get it right.
Read More »Faster-than-light neutrinos: a timeline
2011 has been a busy year for particle physicists. They’ve found a new particle , closed in on the elusive Higgs boson , and witnessed some neutrinos acting pretty strangely, amongst other things.
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