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Collecting all digital data on people could yield key insights into our nature, but violate privacy In "Too Hard For Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated.
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Feed SubscriptionWhy can most people remember a color, but only a few can remember pitch?
Why can most people remember a color, but only a few can remember pitch? --David Hardie, Perth, Australia [More]
Read More »Dr. No Money: The Broken Science Funding System
Ever since Johannes Kepler traipsed over half of Europe wooing aristocratic patrons, scientists have grumbled about money.
Read More »Reading The Mind To Restore Speech
It may still sound futuristic, but the era of mind-controlled machines is here. An electrode is implanted in or sits on top of the brain, and records patterns of neurons firing; this pattern is then translated, via an algorithm, into computer language
Read More »Giant Energetic Bubbles Adorn The Milky Way
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Read More »Coast Guard cites Transocean lapses in Gulf spill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Serious safety lapses by oil rig owner and operator Transocean Ltd contributed to the massive blowout and spill at a BP Plc well in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said in a report on the 2010 disaster.
Read More »Budget crunch mothballs telescopes built to search for alien signals
The hunt for extraterrestrial life just lost one of its best tools. The Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a field of radio dishes in rural northern California built to seek out transmissions from distant alien civilizations, has been shuttered, at least temporarily, as its operators scramble to find a way to continue to fund it.
Read More »What makes the luminous star known as Object X look so dim?
One might think that it would be hard to hide a star some 500,000 times more radiant than the sun, but distance and dust seem to have conspired to do just that.
Read More »When Cars Are Greener Than People
Hybrid cars have become so eco-friendly they now trump at least one form of human locomotion. [More]
Read More »A rose is a &ellip; galaxy collision: Hubble Space Telescope sends the people of Earth a flower on its 21st anniversary
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Read More »Black Plant Life Could Thrive On Other Planets
Most plants capture sunlight.
Read More »Rock out with your Erlenmeyer flask out: 10 random songs inspired by science [Video]
Songs about or just inspired by science are by no means hard to find, but it seems the same few are continually bandied about (e.g., "I Am a Scientist" by Guided By Voices), so we thought it would be fun to list what are, depending on your level of music knowledge, perhaps some lesser known examples.
Read More »Telescope will track space junk
By Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib of Nature magazine A ground-based telescope that can scan the skies faster than any other of its size could help to protect satellites from collisions with space debris and each other. [More]
Read More »Too Hard for Science? Philip Zimbardo creating millions of heroes
If outside influences can make people act badly, can they also be used to help people do good? In "Too Hard for Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated. For instance, they might involve machines beyond the realm of possibility, such as particle accelerators as big as the sun, or they might be completely unethical, such as lethal experiments involving people.
Read More »Dye of the Needle: How Safe Are Kids’ Temporary Tattoos?
Dear EarthTalk : My daughter loves those press-on tattoos, and they’re frequently given out at birthday parties and other events. But I’ve noticed the labels say they’re only for ages three and up
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