Oct 29
What happens if you let a genome hacker—a kind of computer scientist-turned-biologist—loose on the world’s online genealogy sites? The world’s biggest family tree is what, which shows how over 13 million people are related.
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Oct 29
NASA has been targeting the first test flight for the Orion space capsule to happen in 2014 since July of 2012. Orion is a multipurpose crew vehicle that is designed to take astronauts to the ISS and possibly beyond. NASA has recently said that the Orion is on target for its inaugural test flight to […]
Oct 28
It’s the season of fear! Horror movies, haunted houses, spooky costumes, we find anything and use everything to scare ourselves senseless. But why? What is the science behind fear? What the hell is fear? Bytesize Science explains how fear is our anticipation of something bad happening and how it works in our brain. Spooky! [Bytesize Science via Neatorama]
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Oct 28
For the past few millennia, the dewy rainforests of Australia’s Cape Melville have remained totally isolated from human interference. That is, until a team of scientists from James Cook University took humanity’s first steps into a land untouched by time. What they found there was almost beyond belief.
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Oct 28
Everyone knows what it feels like to be absolutely terrified. And while it might not be your favorite flavor of fun, you can’t deny it’s a rush. That’s because your brain takes fear as a cue to start dishing out its own kind of halloween candy in the form of delicious neurotransmitters.
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Oct 28
We’ve been hearing about the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica since the 80s. This thinning out of Earth’s important ozone layer is what resulted in many aerosols being reformulated to help reduce the rate that ozone is being depleted. Scientists report that satellite data has now revealed a slight shrinking of the ozone […]
Oct 28
A team of scientists has created a material that’s enough to confuse fellow researchers and the Predator alike: a substance which looks cold when viewed using infrared light even when it’s getting hotter.
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Oct 28
Ice Age Fossils Are Still Abundant at La Brea Tar Pits after 100 Years of Digging
Posted in: Today's ChiliWhen a lot of us think about fossils, we think about ancient skeletons found in faraway places. Many of us don’t think about discovering fossils in the middle of one of the most heavily populated areas of the United States. Yet, one the biggest caches of fossils in the entire world is found that the […]
Oct 28
Betrand Russell once wrote that "[m]athematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music." In this video, Yann Pineill and Nicolas Lefaucheux prove him right.
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Oct 28
Titan is the largest moon orbiting the planet Saturn in our own solar system. Titan is one of the most interesting celestial bodies in our solar system. Last summer, the weather on Titan cleared long enough to allow the orbiting NASA Cassini spacecraft to take some interesting photographs and beam them back to earth for […]
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