A new experiment that reproduces the magnetic fields of the Earth and other planets has yielded its first significant results. The findings confirm that its unique approach has some potential to be developed as a new way of creating a power-producin…
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Seeking to preserve the site where humans first set foot on the moon, a California state panel on Friday registered a collection of 106 objects left by the Apollo 11 mission as an historical resource.
A California preservation panel votes to put Tranquility Base on a register of historical resources, even though it’s 221,000 miles away.
Tranquility Base – Apollo 11 – California – Moon – Neil Armstrong
Scientists have discovered new clues to how and why groups of atoms and molecules may favor less symmetrical and more complex, flexible geometric patterns. The answer relates to a familiar concept in physics — entropy. The researchers literally fir…
The U.S. officially committed in writing yesterday to the greenhouse gas emission cuts proposed by President Obama in Copenhagen –4 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. The letter to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)…
President Barack Obama is expected to deliver his budget request for fiscal year 2011 on February 1, but to hear many commentators tell it, the sky has already fallen on NASA.
Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: Mobile devices such as Apple’s iPad are providing new platforms for enjoying the crown jewels of space imagery. Check out some of the brightest gems.
Apple – Mobile device – Alan Boyle – Technology – Education
Toronto Police dealt with an unusual call from an east-end residence on Thursday — they encountered five snakes, including one that’s highly venomous.
Ever wondered why your friends seem so much more popular than you are? There’s a reason for thatThis is going to be awkward, but someone has to tell you, so it may as well be me: you’re kind of a loser. You know that feeling you sometimes have that your friends have more friends than you? You’re right. [...]
‘We were scraping away in a corner of the burial chamber when we noticed something glinting in the lamplight’In 1972, when I was six, my aunt took me to see the Tutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum. I’ve been hooked on Egypt and archaeology ever since – I spent most of my childhood looking for [...]