Jan 30 2010

India is Sinking into Earth’s Mantle

Tag: Geology,GeophysicsMichael Reilly @ 8:19 pm
Fun fact for you: scientists don't really know how the Himalayas formed. I mean yeah, they realize that the India tectonic plate is slamming into the Eurasia plate and has been for about 50 million years, but the mystery is ...

Jan 30 2010

Derailing the Airlines: Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Tag: Public Transportation,TransportationChris Davis @ 4:05 pm
Air travel nowadays is all about the delay. From two conversations yesterday, tales of miserable delay. A family visiting a friend stretched a two hour flight into twelve, getting home at two a.m. And then, from a road warrior the ...

Jan 30 2010

Derailing the Airlines: Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Tag: AviationChris Davis @ 4:05 pm
Air travel nowadays is all about the delay. From two conversations yesterday, tales of miserable delay. A family visiting a friend stretched a two hour flight into twelve, getting home at two a.m. And then, from a road warrior the ...

Jan 30 2010

Brown Dwarf Hunt Hits Record Low

Tag: Astronomy,Space Telescopes,Stellar Phenomena,TelescopesIan O'Neill @ 4:51 am
Brown dwarfs are curious objects. Although they can weigh up to 80 Jupiter masses, they are too small to be called stars yet too big to be called planets. Until the late 1980's they were purely theoretical objects. However, as ...

Jan 30 2010

Brown Dwarf Hunt Hits Record Low

Tag: Astronomy,Space TelescopesIan O'Neill @ 4:51 am
Brown dwarfs are curious objects. Although they can weigh up to 80 Jupiter masses, they are too small to be called stars yet too big to be called planets. Until the late 1980's they were purely theoretical objects. However, as ...

Jan 29 2010

Friday News Feedbag Info for January 29th, 2010

Tag: FeedblogJames Williams @ 10:32 pm
If this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on iTunes and chat ...

Jan 29 2010

Electric Car Charging Stations En Route

Tag: Batteries,Cars,Electric Cars,Green TechAlyssa Danigelis @ 9:12 pm
With all the electric vehicles on deck, I wonder how recharging them all on the road will actually go. Fast and easy, or like searching an old airport terminal for a place to charge a laptop? New stations could settle ...

Jan 29 2010

Bee My Friend? Depends on Your Face

Tag: Animal Behavior,Animals,Insects and Arachnids,PhotographyLauren Effron @ 8:03 pm
Bees can be trained to sniff out explosives and cocaine, and here's something else they can be trained to do: tell apart one human face from another, according to a study published in the February issue of Journal of Experimental ...

Jan 29 2010

Forget Gingko: Try Blueberries for Improved Memory

Blueberries contain an antioxidant that could prevent mental health decline as you age.

Jan 29 2010

Facebook Status and the Imperfect Alibi

Rodney Bradford is a lucky guy. Charged with committing a robbery in Brooklyn last November, Bradford was freed when his lawyer proved that Bradford's Facebook status updated a minute before the robbery began. The computer that sent the update was ...

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