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Get up close and personal with the gibbous moon in a search for the impact crater left behind by the biggest explosion from a meteorite impact seen on the lunar surface. This live show starts comes via the Slooh Space ...
Wed, 22/05/2013 - 8:07pm
This dramatic new image of cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion reveals what seems to be a fiery ribbon in the sky. The orange glow represents faint light coming from grains of cold interstellar dust, at wavelengths too long ...
Wed, 22/05/2013 - 7:36pm
Tiny spiders with oversized rumps have been discovered in China. The little arachnids, each about a mm long, represent two new species of orb-weaving spider. They belong to the Mysmenidae family of orb-weavers, and were described on May 21 in ...
Wed, 22/05/2013 - 12:30pm
Right now, as you read these words, your life is in danger. Somewhere within the vast self-contained micro-universe known as you, in one and possibly more of your trillions of cells, something is going wrong. A vital protein, perhaps, is ...
Tue, 21/05/2013 - 10:32pm
Camera traps placed in the Javan rainforest have captured striking images of beautiful and critically endangered Javan leopards.
Tue, 21/05/2013 - 8:58pm
Valhalla Crater This close up of Callisto shows the heavily cratered surface and the prominent ring structure known as Valhalla. It was acquired by Voyager 1 on March 6, 1979. Valhalla’s bright central area is about 300 kilometers across with ...
Tue, 21/05/2013 - 8:46pm
Curiosity's adventures on Mars continue with another drilling operation: On May 20, the rover drilled into a rock named Cumberland, creating a hole measuring a bit more than half an inch across.
Tue, 21/05/2013 - 8:27pm
Starting this Friday, you can watch the conservation of historical Apollo Saturn V engines that were recovered from the bottom of the ocean. That is, if you live near or are planning to visit Hutchinson, Kansas.
Mon, 20/05/2013 - 10:25pm
This beautiful, glittering swirl is named, rather unpoetically, J125013.50+073441.5. A glowing haze of material seems to engulf the galaxy, stretching out into space in different directions and forming a fuzzy streak in this image. It is a starburst galaxy — ...
Mon, 20/05/2013 - 7:55pm
An unknown mathematician, Yitang Zhang, has revolutionized his field and helped move forward a 2,000-year-old conjecture about prime numbers. His counterintuitive findings show that special pairs of primes, called twin primes, can never be more than 70 million places away ...
Sun, 19/05/2013 - 12:30pm
Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that the sizes and patterns of dunes on Saturn's moon Titan vary as a function of altitude and latitude. The dunes in areas that are more elevated or are higher in latitude, such as ...
Sat, 18/05/2013 - 12:30pm
How many rings do you see in this new image of the galaxy Messier 94, also known as NGC 4736? While at first glance one might see a number of them, astronomers believe there is just one. This image was ...
Fri, 17/05/2013 - 8:37pm
These two global images of Iapetus show the extreme brightness dichotomy on the surface of this peculiar Saturnian moon. The left-hand panel shows the moon's leading hemisphere and the right-hand panel shows the moon's trailing side. While low and mid ...
Fri, 17/05/2013 - 7:00pm
NASA scientists recorded the biggest explosion from a meteorite impact on the moon that they have seen in eight years of monitoring.
Fri, 17/05/2013 - 6:35pm
Nature takes the long view, mankind the short. Nature picks diversity; we pick standardization. We are homogenizing our crops and homogenizing our people. And Big Pharma seems intent on pursuing a parallel attempt to create its own brand of human ...
Fri, 17/05/2013 - 6:30pm
Tomorrow marks the official release of the DSM-5, a hugely influential diagnostic guide that defines disorders of the mind. Many experts say it's fundamentally flawed, and efforts to develop a better alternative have begun.
Fri, 17/05/2013 - 3:30pm
A roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.
Fri, 17/05/2013 - 1:31am
NASA has just released this cute chart depicting the various distances traveled by wheeled machines on other worlds.
Thu, 16/05/2013 - 7:58pm
Polygons are of great interest because they often indicate the presence of shallow ice or of desiccation such as in a mud flat. However, nature sometimes seems too clever for us.
Thu, 16/05/2013 - 6:00pm
Studying and practicing math is so difficult and boring that very few people do it. A new study suggest there may be an easier way. Scientists stimulated volunteers' brains with mild electric current while they learned new arithmetic operations based ...
