Feb 26 2010
Travel to Mars in 39 Days?
Reaching the Red Planet could take dramatically less time than once thought using the high-tech VASIMR rocket, according to one scientist.
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Feb 26 2010
Perfect Insulator Could Eliminate Heating Bills
With this insulator, the body heat produced by one person would be enough to warm an entire home.
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Feb 26 2010
FUmanoids Prepare for RoboCup 2010
If you're a soccer fan, you can almost taste the excitement, right? I mean, the World Cup is coming up in just a few months time in South Africa. Ah....but it you're robotic soccer fan (and let's face it, who ...
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Feb 26 2010
Massive Iceberg Collision Could Alter Ocean Currents
A 60-mile-long iceberg roughly the size of Luxembourg shaved off a new iceberg after crashing into a glacier.
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Feb 26 2010
Ancient Bible Manuscript Fragments Reunited
Only a handful of Hebrew biblical manuscripts have survived the era in which they were written.
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Feb 26 2010
Whales, Like Trees, Slow Warming
Whales are the largest animals on the planet, and when it comes to storing carbon, they act like trees in a forest.
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Feb 26 2010
Why Is Climate Change Denial So Seductive?
Gentle reader: The roots of all witch hunts, as we learned centuries ago, are buried in human psychology. Sadly, the current crescendo in the witch hunt against climate scientists is no different. Happily, however, there are people who study these ...
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Feb 26 2010
Phoenix is Still Dead
Despite its best efforts, NASA's orbiter Mars Odyssey hasn't heard a beep from the thawing Phoenix lander, the US space agency announced today.
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Feb 26 2010
Carnivorous Plants Could Yield Life-Saving Drugs
If you came across a plant in the wilds of India that trapped and ate insects by dissolving them in a broth of treacly nectar and bacteria, your first reaction probably would not be to drink it. But some locals ...
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Feb 25 2010
Whaling Deal Redux: Australia Makes Counter Proposal
The Small Working Group of the International Whaling Commission meets in Florida next week, to discuss the controversial draft "deal" that would permit commercial whaling, at reduced levels, for the next ten years. One member has already signaled that it ...
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