May 16 2011

Youthful Ingenuity Honored at Intel Science Fair

Tag: Animals,Asteroids,Bacteria,Building,Ceremonies,Chemistry,Community,Devices,Disaster Scenarios,Earth,Engineering,Experiments,Family Members,Fear,Fish,Flies,Fruit,Hearing,High School,Inventions,Kids,Laboratories,Meteorites,Nobel Prize,Nuclear Science,Particles,Plants,Plastic,Recipes,Science,Scientists,Sight,Spiders,Technology,Transportation,Tumor,Yeast and Bread Machine — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 6:24 pm
Young scientists receive awards in international competition.

May 13 2011

Last Line of Asteroid Impact Defense: Evacuation

Tag: Asteroids,Comets,Doomsday,Earth,Impact Craters,Meteorites — Ian O'Neill @ 6:10 pm
Sometimes, Earth just needs to take one for the team. But how can we mitigate the worst an asteroid impact can inflict?

Apr 25 2011

Poison Key to Early Life

Tag: Chemistry,Comets,Earth,Meteorites,NASA,Organic,Polymers,The Moon — Irene Klotz @ 5:07 pm
How did Earth manage to hold onto its organics after being slammed by a Mars-sized object 4.4 billion years ago?

Mar 13 2011

In Praise of (Yes, You Heard Me) ‘Battle: Los Angeles’

Tag: Alien Life,Current Events,Doomsday,Extrasolar Planets,Life Science,Meteorites,Meteors,Military — Ian O'Neill @ 5:39 am
Despite the bad press, I really enjoyed 'Battle: Los Angeles.' It is, after all, just a movie about war, aliens and mankind's desire not to be exterminated without a fight.

Mar 07 2011

NASA Refutes Alien Discovery Claim

Tag: Alien Life,Current Events,Meteorites,Mystery,NASA,Skepticism — Ian O'Neill @ 5:24 pm
On Saturday, aliens invaded. On Monday, NASA denied their existence.

Mar 06 2011

Has Evidence for Alien Life Been Found?

Tag: Alien Life,Current Events,Evolution,Meteorites,NASA,Solar System,Space Culture,Space People — Ian O'Neill @ 1:38 am
Fossilized alien microbes have been discovered in a sample extracted from a meteorite, according to research carried out by a NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center astrobiologist.

Mar 01 2011

Life Elements Came from Space

Tag: Carbon,Earth,Hydrogen,Meteorites — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 4:47 pm
A meteorite offers new clues into how essential biomolecules laid the foundation for life on Earth.

Feb 28 2011

How Do We Dodge the Next Incoming Asteroid?

Tag: Asteroids,Disasters and Accidents,Impact Craters,Meteorites — Mark Thompson @ 7:45 pm
We are constantly reminded about the asteroid threat to Earth, but what can we really do about it?

Feb 27 2011

Oh Mars, What Strange Craters You Have

Tag: Asteroids,Impact Craters,Mars,Meteorites,Meteors — Ian O'Neill @ 11:51 pm
What could be worse a meteorite hitting you? Two meteorites hitting you! At the same time!

Jan 07 2011

It’s Behind You, Mark!

Tag: Astronomy,Current Events,Meteorites,Meteors — Ian O'Neill @ 11:08 am
What was that? A meteor? Mark Thompson looks the wrong way during a superbly timed live BBC astronomy event.
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