NASA space junk experts have refined the forecast for the anticipated death plunge of a giant satellite , with the U.S. space agency now predicting the 6 1/2-ton climate probe will plummet to Earth around Sept.
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Autonomous mini-sailboat drones ply the ocean and mop up oil spills, gather information on marine life in crisis and clean up floating plastic trash. [More]
Read More »Parenting is not just for the ladies: on testosterone, fatherhood, and why lower hormones are good for you
This morning was a bit rough.
Read More »Video-Game Studies Have Serious Flaws
Mo Costandi of Nature magazine Research showing that action video games have a beneficial effect on cognitive function is seriously flawed, according to a review published this week in Frontiers in Psychology .
Read More »World’s Dams Unprepared for Climate Change Conditions
Over the past four years, John Matthews has been traveling the world to better understand freshwater and climate change issues. He found that poor planning is creating one of the biggest water-related threats.
Read More »What If the Moon Didn’t Exist?: The Fun of Counterfactuals in Science
On the razor edge between reality and fiction, there is a realm in which worlds we have never seen could, indeed might, exist. [More]
Read More »Recommended: The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination
The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination by Julie Anderson, Emm Barnes and Emma Shackleton. University of Chicago Press, 2011 [More]
Read More »Tokiwa T. Smith: Exposing an encouraging urban youth in science and math
This month’s issue of Scientific American Magazine is a special edition about Cities:
Read More »Clues Emerge to Explain First Successful HIV Vaccine Experiment
By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine After decades of dashed hopes, AIDS vaccine developers are allowing themselves some cautious optimism. [More]
Read More »Time on the Brain: How You Are Always Living In the Past, and Other Quirks of Perception
I always knew we humans have a rather tenuous grip on the concept of time, but I never realized quite how tenuous it was until a couple of weeks ago, when I attended a conference on the nature of time organized by the Foundational Questions Institute.
Read More »Experimental Vaccine Targets Malaria Parasite When It Tries to Enter the Bloodstream
The malaria parasite is one of the most widely studied disease-causing organisms, yet there is still no effective vaccine available to prevent the deadly illness.
Read More »Reuters/Ipsos: More Americans Believe World Is Warming
* 83 pct believe planet is warming, up from 75 pct * Republican climate skeptics, record warming cause change * 15 pct Americans say climate their top issue-professor By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - More Americans than last year believe the world is warming and the change is likely influenced by the Republican presidential debates, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Thursday. The percentage of Americans who believe the Earth has been warming rose to 83 percent from 75 percent last year in the poll conducted Sept 8-12
Read More »The 61st Annual Lindau Meeting: Inspiration for Science’s Next Generation
More than 20 Nobel laureates and about 550 young researchers from 77 countries met at Germany's Lindau Island on Lake Constance from June 26 to July 1 to discuss the future of science and innovative thinking [More]
Read More »My 2 Suns: Bounty of New Exoplanet Discoveries Includes a World Orbiting a Binary Star
The hundreds of distant worlds, some large and some small, that are known to dot the galaxy provide plenty of intrigue for the scientists who hunt them. But the catalogued planetary population has just gotten a lot larger and more diverse, thanks to word this week of a newly identified planet orbiting two suns, more than a dozen newfound "super-Earths," and strong indications that the Milky Way Galaxy is home to an almost unfathomable number of planets awaiting discovery. [More]
Read More »Photographer Vincent Fournier Opens Eerie Window on the World’s Space Programs
There’s a reason that so many sci-fi thrillers are set in space. [More]
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