Jun 14 2011

Is the Sun About to Fizz Out?

Tag: Meetings,Mystery,Stars,Stellar Phenomena,Stellar Physics,The Sun — Ian O'Neill @ 7:40 pm
The sun is changing, but scientists aren't sure why.

May 24 2011

Kepler’s Insight to Physical Nature of Planetary Systems

Tag: Astronomy,Current Events,Extrasolar Planets,Kepler Mission,Meetings — Ray Villard @ 11:30 pm
Of the170 multiple-planet systems of two or more planets found so far by Kepler, many have remarkably flat orbits.

May 17 2011

Hawking: Surprise! There’s No Heaven

Tag: Cosmology,Current Events,Humor,Meetings,Physics — Ian O'Neill @ 5:22 pm
Death, according to Hawking, is even more of a drag than we thought.

Mar 03 2011

Eye-Controlled Laptop and ‘Telepresence’ Robot Debut

Tag: Business,Car Safety,Environment,Eye,Internet,Laptops,Meetings,Music,Robots,Saving Energy,Technology,The Future,Walking — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 7:56 pm
The future is here at CeBIT, the world’s top tech fair in Hanover, Germany.

Feb 20 2011

Milky Way Stuffed with 50 Billion Alien Worlds

Tag: Alien Life,Astronomy,Extrasolar Planets,Kepler Mission,Meetings — Ian O'Neill @ 4:17 am
Using Kepler observations, an estimate of the number of exoplanets populating our galaxy has been made.

Jan 18 2011

TED-X Caltech Pays Tribute to Feynman

Tag: Life Science,Meetings,Particle Physics,Quantum Physics — Jennifer Ouellette @ 6:40 pm
At a recent Caltech conference, there was a celebration of the human urge to explore our world and find things out. There were also bongos.

Sep 28 2010

UFOs Spying on Our Nukes, Airmen Claim

Tag: Alien Life,Current Events,Doomsday,Meetings,Mystery,Rockets,Science Fiction,SETI,Skepticism,Technology — Jorge Ribas @ 8:51 pm
Glowing red orbs dripping molten metal, giant cigar-shaped objects, and fully illuminated discs are among the descriptions of the unidentified flying objects that have been seen hovering over nuclear weapon sites for the last 65 years. These seemingly sci-fi tales ...

Feb 23 2010

Wake Up and Smell the Science, Hollywood!

Tag: 2012 Phenomenon,Alien Life,Humor,Meetings,Skepticism — Ian O'Neill @ 11:37 pm
The cast of The Core, looking baffled by bad science. Neutrinos? You're going to kill the Earth using... neutrinos?! That was the thought echoing through my brain during the November 2009 screening of Roland Emmerich's disaster orgy, 2012. However, I ...