Pretend You’re an Astronaut and Wake Up To Shatner
Unless you have a very specific interest in space program journalism, the NASA news feed is usually on the dry side–headlines like “Crew wraps up flight” or “Guy you never heard of just left his job.”...
View ArticleWhat’s Up With Tranquillityite?
A moon mineral has been discovered in Australia. Tranquillityite was named after the Sea of Tranquility, site of Apollo 11’s 1969 landing site. Like the other two minerals found in rocks brought...
View ArticleWhat Finding the Higgs Boson Means
There has been a rise in speculation from the international physics community about the contents of a press conference that has been called by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be held...
View ArticleMeet Pluto’s Hidden Moons
While Pluto may have been demoted to dwarf planet status, it seems that the little celestial body has plenty more secrets to share. A fifth moon was found during a July 7th infrared observation, using...
View ArticleCan You Hear the Higgs?
Have you ever wondered what one of the greatest scientific discoveries of our time sounds like? Wonder no longer! After the announcement of the Higgs boson discoveries last week, researcher Domenico...
View Article6 TV Networks That Aren’t What They Started Out to Be
More than a few TV networks aren't what they set out to be. Here are six, along with a few videos to take you back to the way things were.
View ArticleDocumentary Stages Plane Crash for Science
Last night I saw a fascinating documentary aired on Channel 4 in the UK, one that aired last weekend in the US. The channel has gained a reputation for broadcasting interesting and unique experiments...
View ArticleBBC Stargazing Live Discovers New Martian Terrain
Last week saw the third annual broadcast of BBC Stargazing Live in which a crowdsourcing campaign helped classify more than 2 million Martian planetary features and discovered a brand new type of...
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