Dinosaur Demise Theory Is Soaking Wet

Dinosaur doomsday was wetter than scientists have thought, according to new images of the crater where the space rock that likely killed the dinosaurs landed.
Sixty-five million years ago the asteroid struck the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, and most scientists think this event played a large role in causing the extinction of 70 percent [...]

Dissent Grows as Scientists Oppose NASA’s New Moon Mission

NASA’s plan for manned space exploration focuses on establishing a base on the moon, as a vital stepping stone for a visit to Mars. The initiative has been trumpeted by the Bush administration, which wants the first mission to launch by 2020. But trouble is brewing as a growing group of former mission managers, planetary [...]

10 Best Stephen Hawking Quotes

I have recently been reading up a bit on the life and work of British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. In my reading, I have run across a number of his famous quotes that are both funny and insightful. He is widely considered to be among the most intelligent people living today. Here is what he [...]

Awesome New History Channel Show: Life After People

What would happen to planet earth if the human race were to suddenly disappear forever? Would ecosystems thrive? What remnants of our industrialized world would survive? What would crumble fastest?
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Electronic contact lenses offer superhuman eyesight

Engineers have managed to combine a flexible contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights. The new contact lens could superimpose computer displays onto a person’s eyesight.
Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or [...]

Mars rovers find new evidence of ‘habitable niche’

Inch by power-conserving inch, drivers on Earth have moved the Mars rover Spirit to a spot where it has its best chance at surviving a third Martian winter — and where it will celebrate its fourth anniversary (in Earth years) since bouncing down on Mars for a projected 90-day mission in January 2004.
Meanwhile, researchers are [...]

Asteroid may hit Mars in next month

LOS ANGELES – Mars could be in for an asteroid hit. A newly discovered hunk of space rock has a 1 in 75 chance of slamming into the Red Planet on Jan. 30, scientists said Thursday.
“These odds are extremely unusual. We frequently work with really long odds when we track … threatening asteroids,” said Steve [...]

Researchers develop 2-D invisibility cloak

A University of Maryland research team has used plasmon technology to create the world’s first invisibility cloak for visible light.
Harry Potter may not have talked much about plasmonics in J. K. Rowling’s fantasy series, but University of Maryland researchers are using this emerging technology to develop an invisibility cloak that exists beyond the world of [...]

The Mystery of Antarctica’s 15-Million Year-Old Lake

Researchers have thawed ice estimated to be perhaps a million years old or more from above Lake Vostok, an ancient lake that lies hidden more than two miles beneath the frozen surface of Antarctica using novel genomic techniques to determine how tiny, living “time capsules” survived the ages in total darkness, in freezing cold, and [...]

Morning Jolt Of Caffeine Might Mask Serious Sleep Problems

With the holiday season’s hustle and bustle in full swing, most of us will race to our favorite coffee shop to get that caffeine boost to make it through the day. However, that daily jolt that we crave might be the reason we need the caffeine in the first place.
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SETI has a protocol on how to respond to First Contact with ETs

The “Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence” advises what to do and who to call if aliens are finally found.
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Incredible Comet Bigger than the Sun

A comet that has delighted backyard astronomers in recent weeks after an unexpected eruption has now grown larger than the sun.
The sun remains by far the most massive object in the solar system, with an extended influence of particles that reaches all the planets. But the comparatively tiny Comet Holmes has released so much gas [...]

Soap and good Hygiene can Kill

If cleanliness is next to godliness, modern America is the land of the faithful — fighting the good fight against today’s so-called superbugs with sparkling countertops and well-washed hands.
Our culture’s cleanliness obsession has been fed by a booming business in household products that promise the virtue of sterility. According to estimates by the Environmental Protection [...]

Are asteroids a threat to Earth?

Hollywood thrillers such as Deep Impact helped to jump-start America’s interest in knowing what our “deflection strategy” would be if a giant asteroid was on a potentially catastrophic collision course with Earth.
Chris Palma, senior lecturer in astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, says that such events are statistically highly probable. “Throughout Earth’s [...]

King Tut’s face unveiled to world

The face of Egypt’s most famous ancient ruler, King Tutankhamun, has been put on public display for the first time.Archaeologists took the mummy from its stone sarcophagus and placed it in a climate-controlled case inside his tomb in Luxor’s Valley of the Kings.
The event comes 85 years to the day after the pharaoh’s [...]