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Rocket delivers supplies to the ISS

12 years ago from BBC News: Science & Nature

A Russian rocket, carrying essential food, fuel and supplies, docked at the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday.

Mysterious night-shining clouds get brighter

12 years ago from MSNBC: Science

Clouds bright enough to see at night are not as hard to find as they once were. These so-called night-shining clouds are still rare — rare enough that Matthew DeLand,...

New mathematical model of brain information processing predicts some of vision peculiarities

12 years ago from Physorg

The human retina -- the part of the eye that converts incoming light into electrochemical signals -- has about 100 million light-sensitive cells. So retinal images contain a huge amount...

Greenwich observatory sets admission fee

12 years ago from UPI

LONDON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Visitors to Britain's Royal Observatory will pay $16 beginning in March to stand with one foot in each of the eastern and western hemispheres,...

Asteroid said cause of Jupiter 'scar'

12 years ago from UPI

PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- An asteroid the size of an ocean liner caused a scar observed in Jupiter's atmosphere, U.S. and U.K. studies say.

Obama Honors Astronauts Lost in Space Exploration

12 years ago from Space.com

President Obama honored those astronauts lost in space disasters on Jan. 27.

Coming Soon: Hopping Moon Robots for Private Lunar Landing

12 years ago from Space.com

A privately funded team trying to win a multimillion-dollar race to the moon has scored a big grant to help develop its hopping lunar landers.

Mars Hides More Water Than Thought, Study Suggests

12 years ago from Space.com

The poles of Mars might not be the only place where water ice might be hidden on the Red Planet

NASA Comet Hunter Spots Its Valentine

NASA's Stardust spacecraft is closing in on a Valentine's Day date with comet Tempel 1.

Hot Stuff! New Fire-Breathing World Record

12 years ago from Live Science

The highest blown flame record was broken by a fire-breather who made a fireball that flew higher than 26 feet.

Can There Be A 'Universal' IQ Test?

12 years ago from

Measuring 'intelligence' is a much art as science.   Even using the word intelligence sends people down a philosophical rabbit hole, disagreeing about what the word means. So can there be...

Space Pictures This Week: Bow Shock, Mars Moon, More

12 years ago from National Geographic

A speeding star makes waves, a pitted moon gets its closeup, Jupiter's scar is diagnosed, and more in the week's best space pictures.

2 rockets set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range

12 years ago from

Scientists from Virginia Tech and the University of Colorado are preparing to launch two NASA sounding rockets for two experiments at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks. The launch...

New research stems from the sun

12 years ago from Physorg

Sometimes, you have to go back to go forward. Sounds strange, but it's what one National High Magnetic Field Laboratory physicist did when he harnessed the primal power of the...

Explained: Transiting exoplanets

12 years ago from Physorg

In the quest to find life elsewhere in the universe, planetary scientists have detected more than 500 planets outside the solar system, or exoplanets, over the past 15 years. About...

NASA's new lander prototype 'skates' through testing

12 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA engineers successfully integrated and completed system testing on a new robotic lander recently at Teledyne Brown Engineering’s facility in Huntsville in support of the Robotic Lunar Lander...

Inquiry into UK cuts in science

12 years ago from BBC News: Science & Nature

The House of Commons science committee has launched an inquiry into the cuts announced in astronomy and particle physics funding.

Touchscreens made of carbon

12 years ago from Science Blog

Just touching it slightly with the tips of your fingers is enough. You can effortlessly write, navigate, open menu windows or rotate images on touchscreens. Within fractions of a second...

Call for Media: witness Mars500 crew emerge onto alien surface

12 years ago from European Space Agency

PR 05-2011 After more than eight months ‘flying’ to the Red Planet, the isolated Mars500 crew will finally take their first steps onto a mock-Mars surface on 14 February –...

Approaching the Red Planet

12 years ago from European Space Agency

In this 11th Mars500 Mission Diary Diego writes about the preparations for the 'arrival' at Mars on 1 February and about his feelings now that the action is hotting up.

Hubble Photo Highlights in Galactic Color

12 years ago from CBSNews - Science

Gallery: For More than 20 Years, the Hubble Space Telescope Has Been Shooting Up the Universe

An astronomer's field of dreams

12 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- An innovative new radio telescope array under construction in central New Mexico will eventually harness the power of more than 13,000 antennas and provide a fresh eye to...

Bright Venus Shines And...

12 years ago from

This morning, as I walked out of home headed to work, the sky was clear and still dark. As I looked up, I immediately noticed the bright light of Venus...

Pass notes No 2,917: Sputnik

12 years ago from The Guardian - Science

A symbol of Chinese ambition, according to Barack ObamaAge: 53.Appearance: A silvery sphere orbiting the Earth every 96 minutes. Not just the world's first artificial satellite, but an awesome symbol of Chinese ambition.Soviet...

A Fizzy Ocean on Enceladus

12 years ago from Science @ NASA

Evidence is mounting that Saturn's moon Enceladus harbors a bubbly subterranean ocean where conditions might be friendly to life.

Oldest galaxy is lone ranger

12 years ago from News @ Nature

Discovery of the most distant known object hints at empty early Universe.

Airport power outage delays Venezuela flights

12 years ago from AP Science

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Flights have resumed at Caracas' international airport following an eight-hour shutdown caused by a loss of power for runway lights....

An Astronomer's Field of Dreams

A group of JPL researchers and their colleagues will hunt for new and exotic objects in the sky by using ceiling-fan-size antennas.