Archive for the ‘science’ Category
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Michael Benson is proposing that NASA send the ISS to the moon instead of leaving it in low earth orbit. (While we're at it, we should re-brand it as the 'International Space Ship.') He points out that it's already designed to be moved periodically to higher orbits so instead of ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Spanish attempts to grant rights to apes parallels our coverage of Ecuador's constitutional attempts to grant rights to nature. Read the full story
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
A volcano erupted Saturday with little warning on a remote island in Alaska, sending residents of a nearby ranch fleeing from falling ash and volcanic rock. The Okmok Caldera erupted late Saturday morning, just hours after seismologists at the Alaska Volcano Center began detecting a series of small tremors.Read ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
I like waking up each day wondering if NASA is going to announce the discovery of bacterial life on Mars.Read the full story
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
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: There's a 50-50 chance that the North Pole will be ice-free this summer, which would be a first in recorded history, a leading ice scientist says. The weather and ocean conditions in the next couple of weeks will determine how much of the sea ice will melt, and ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Amazon Indians from one of the world's last uncontacted tribes have been photographed from the air, with striking images released on Thursday showing them painted bright red and brandishing bows and arrows.Read the full story
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
On Monday, NASA released a black-and-white image captured during Phoenix's descent by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which had a bird's-eye view of the lander hanging from its parachute. It's the first time a spacecraft had taken an image of another craft during landing.Read the full story
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
With eight months left in 2008, it might be premature to choose the weirdest book of the year, but "The Woman Who Can't Forget," the memoir of a 42-year-old California woman named Jill Price, will be hard to beat. It poses a thought-provoking question-what would it be like to recall ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Can't they just make me into a green battery? ... Getting the public to accept a process that strikes some as ghastly may be the biggest challenge. Psychopaths and dictators have used acid or lye to torture or erase their victims, and legislation to make alkaline hydrolysis available to the ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
There are genes for egg laying, evidence of the animal\\\\\\\'s reptilian roots. Genes for making milk, which the platypus does in mammalian style despite not having nipples. Genes for making snake venom, which the animal stores in its legs. And there are five times more sex-determining chromosomes than scientists know ...
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