Through technology, we’ve developed the ability to reach out into the distant corners of the universe. Rovers, orbiters and deep-space probes. But regardless of how far away from us they extend, they all reach from a single point of origin: Earth. More »
This image was captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter while flying over the Bonneveille Crater on January 29, 2012. There’s a spaceship hidden in plain view, sightly red because of the planet’s dust. Can you see it? More »
How do you create the world’s largest virtual optical telescope and the most advanced visible-light astronomical observatory? Teamwork. The Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory combines the visual prowess of four huge telescopes — for the first time ever — to mimic a 130m wide mirror. More »
After watching this 14 years of weather time-lapse in the United States, I’ve confirmed the one thing I already knew: every state’s weather sucks except for California’s. Watch it and you’ll agree with me. More »
Remember the old Crazy Glue commercial where the guy suspended himself from his hard hat with just a dab of the adhesive? If he had been using the sugary compounds this bacteria naturally produces, he could have suspended a dump truck with the same amount. More »
We just reported a few weeks ago on the successful masking of objects from microwaves. Now a research team from Hamburg, Germany has figured out how to make iron (57Fe) transparent to X-rays — and presumably Superman. More »
Qantas’ grounding of one A380 aircraft and Airbus’ subsequent plans to check all flying A380s might have made some flyers nervous, but one Australian expert says the move reflects “teething problems” and shouldn’t stress travellers. More »
Fuel efficiency, noise reduction and looking like they could hide Batman are obviously high on NASA’s priority list. More »
Scientists believe that this is the animal from which everything else evolved. The first multicellular being that spawned every living being in this world through billions of mutations, from fish to amphibians to reptiles to birds to mammals to you. More »
I’m sure Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos doesn’t know about this, but he’s funding a seemingly ultra-Christian search engine that is anti-abortion and anti-evolution. It’s called ChaCha, and it powers Android’s most popular Siri competitor, Iris. More »
