(New Orleans, LA) It’s hard to think of anything scarier than snakes in this case, but how about flying without a pilot over hurricanes, forest fires, snow-packed mountains, and more? That’s the flight plan announced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today at the American Meteorological Society Meeting in New Orleans. […]
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Hurricanes on a plane
Published January 22nd, 2008 in Oceans, Innovation, Earth, Climate & Weather and Science. 0 CommentsGiant gas cloud headed straight for our galaxy
Published January 11th, 2008 in Space and Science. 1 Comment(Austin, TX) An enormous cloud of hydrogen gas in space threatens to crash into our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers announced at the 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
There’s no need to panic though, as the gas cloud is predicted to strike a spiral arm of the Milky Way 40,000 light years from […]
Supercluster “suburbs” roughed up by dark matter
Published January 10th, 2008 in Space and Science. 0 Comments(Austin, TX) An unseen substance violently pulls galaxies through a dense region of space, the “outskirts” of a massive supercluster, scientists announced at the 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
In a map of the largest area ever imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, dense pools of what’s described as dark matter […]
Hubble worth the risk, says NASA astronaut
Published January 8th, 2008 in Space and Science. 2 Comments(Austin, TX) In the fall of 2008, NASA will send a crew aboard the Atlantis space shuttle to perform a final service mission on the Hubble Space Telescope, a panel of scientists announced in Austin at the 211th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
Astronaut John Grunsfeld told Earth & Sky that repair work and […]
Microsoft founder Bill Gates gave a huge shot in the arm, $10M, for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to be built atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile. What’s more, the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences doubled that gift, donating $20M. These gifts, announced January 3, 2008, bring the telescope […]
The Great World Wide Star Count
Published September 13th, 2007 in Space, Earth and Science. 7 CommentsThe Great World Wide Star Count begins October 1 and continues through the October 15, 2007. It’s free, and anyone can participate. This grand science experiment aims to collect world wide data on light pollution and promote learning in astronomy. More about it at their website.
What you’ll do is look for the […]
Arctic tales for your students
Published September 10th, 2007 in Earth, Climate & Weather and Science. 6 CommentsNASA has just launched its International Polar Year (IPY) Resource Page for teachers, at this link.
In addition to the latest science research on the Arctic and Antarctic, this handy learning resource also covers the polar regions of the moon and Mars. Classroom materials include easy-to-use and searchable databases of video, images, posters, and fact […]
Congratulations to Dr. Brian May of the legendary rock band Queen, the hardest working man in show business. The Times reported that picking up where he left off more than 30 years ago as a student in astrophysics, Brian May completed his PhD from Imperial College.
“Using a giant telescope in the Canary Islands, […]
Ask a Ninja: Global Warming
Published July 9th, 2007 in Videos, Climate & Weather and Science. 4 CommentsIn case you’re wondering what the ultimate stealther’s point of view is. Maybe you might could ask a scientist, after you ask a ninja, of course.
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With a little effort you can pay off even years of sleep debt, according to a report by Harvard Women’s Health Watch. This is good news to the more than 60% of U.S. women estimated to sleep less than seven to nine hours a night.
Harvard Women’s Health Watch said that in a study comparing […]