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Feed SubscriptionRescue and Cleanups Continue in Tornado Zone, 39 Dead
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Read More »Is it possible to use more of our brain?
Is it possible to use more of our brain? [More]
Read More »Aerostats in 1912: A Look in Scientific American’s Archives [Slide Show]
In 1912 airships and balloons, powered and unpowered, were being developed to explore, to entertain, to travel, and to wage war. Aerostats (any lighter-than-air craft) remained highly sensitive to weather and many were floated by flammable hydrogen (at least until the destruction of the Hindenburg in May 1937) but despite the limitations, great hopes were placed on these frail craft. [More]
Read More »100 Years Ago: Lighter Than Air
March 1962 [More]
Read More »Ponytail Physics: How Competing Forces Shape Bundles of Hair
Ponytails in motion. Credit: Mike Adams/Flickr via Creative Commons BOSTON At long last, one of the hairiest problems in modern physics has been solved. Researchers have devised a theoretical model to describe the shape of a ponytail.
Read More »Live Blogging: Dangerous Tornado Outbreak in U.S. Midwest and South
Storms are pushing into the southern Appalachians, bringing the potential for
Read More »Best Mars Sky Show of 2012 Occurs Saturday: How to Watch Online
UPDATE: See our latest skywatching tips to see Mars at opposition here: Mars Visible in Night Sky, But Its 2 Moons Are Hard to Spot [More]
Read More »Mars Swings Into Opposition March 3
Now's a great time to break out that backyard telescope. Because Saturday, March 3, is the Mars Opposition . It's one of the times that the Earth and Mars pass the closest to one another
Read More »Twisted Radio Waves Could Expand Bandwidth for Mobile Phones
By Edwin Cartlidge of Nature magazine The research on which this story is based has now been published in the New Journal of Physics . [More]
Read More »Japan’s Post-Fukushima Earthquake Health Woes Go Beyond Radiation Effects
After the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, worry about the unfolding nuclear accident quickly commandeered international headlines.
Read More »Nine Flying Robots Play 007 Theme
Check out this video, where nine palm-sized
Read More »The Risks and Benefits of Mutant Flu Studies
By Ed Yong of Nature magazine Two teams of scientists, led by Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have created mutant strains of H5N1 avian influenza. [More]
Read More »Tar Sand Companies Aim to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The world's largest oil sands producers signed an agreement yesterday to waive their intellectual property and patent rights in order to reduce the industry's impact on greenhouse gases, agriculture and waterways. [More]
Read More »Earth Formed from Diverse Meteorite Mix
Earth's building blocks were more eclectic than once thought, according to a new study suggesting our planet formed from collisions of many different types of meteorites.
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