Here's What We Just Learned About Pluto
Alan Stern, New Horizon’s principal investigator, answered questions on a truly historic event, discussing the team’s latest impressions of Pluto’s surface and much more.
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Alan Stern, New Horizon’s principal investigator, answered questions on a truly historic event, discussing the team’s latest impressions of Pluto’s surface and much more.
Researchers have mapped out the distribution of space dust across three quarters of the night sky using data about 800 million stars/
Radioactivity stirs primal fears in many people—but an undue sense of its risks can cause real harm.
Ebola is a particularly scary disease not only because of the way in which it kills you, but because there’s no cure, and no real vaccine. That’s obviously something scientists are working to change.
Rise of the Pentaquarks.
Volcanic eruptions are awe-inspiring if you’re standing nearby — no wonder the Romans thought an angry god lived under Etna — but to get a real sense of perspective, it helps to be a little higher up. Read more >>
BrainCraft is a YouTube channel exclusively devoted to (zombie voice) braiiiins. It explains “through psychology and neuroscience why this fleshy mass makes you act the way you do."
A sperm’s journey from vagina to egg is only 15 centimetres long, but it’s a race with attrition.
Join us on this voyage of malodorous discovery as we let rip with these flatulent findings, to see which theory trumps all others.
A couple of months ago, I helped out in a lab in which casts were made of dolphin vaginas. You heard me correctly. Dolphin vaginas. Wonder no longer about the internal layout of these ceteceans' sex organs – we've got it all right here for you. Read more >>
This material's mysterious behaviour is likely due to new and exciting quantum effects.
From its vantage point on Mars, Curiosity currently has a good view of the side of the Sun that’s pointed away from Earth.
They say meditation helps, but a soothing voice telling me to discard the weight of my tax return like it’s some sort of fur serape makes me want to smash things. This, however, clicks.
This is what observers in a distant galaxy would see if they could look at the Milky Way through a powerful space telescope. Read More >>
At least, that’s what Boeing’s recently approved patent application with the US Patent and Trademark Office would suggest.
The spacecraft travelled 3 billion miles in nine and a half years. That’s about a million miles a day for almost ten years. How the heck did we do it?
