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"We like to refer to Osiris as the eyes of Rosetta," said the instrument's principal investigator Dr Holger Sierks. But the camera is unlike human eyes, and so the colour image had to be produced by combining three separate shots. This w
"It's less expensive to use milkweed to collect the oil that was spilled in nature because you have more capacity, you need less absorbent, therefore there is less of a cost of disposal," said Simard. Parks Canada is interested in the milkweed sp
Ranging in size from one half inch to many meters in diameter, ball lightning can occur in a variety of different colors, the most common being red, orange, and yellow. It's luminous enough to be seen clearly in daylight; rarely is it dazzling. Mos
Here's what Dick figured. At the time, there were an average of 280 people per square mile in England. And because he thought every surface of our universe bears life, it would naturally occur at roughly the same population density. So from comets
"Why did they do this?" he asked. "It's because they don't want the world to know that creationism is a blatant lie. When it is proven that life outside planet earth exists, creationism would turn into a lie. This was a fact that was initia
In 1996 (Mars time), Mr Relfe was time-travelled via teleportation and age-regressed 20 years, landing back at a U.S. military base in 1976 (Earth time). He then served six years in the U.S. military on Earth before being honorably discharged in 1982
A mask was made which held the North pole end of a long cylindrical magnet over the pineal gland. The purpose was to stimulate the gland and see if there was anything to this 'third eye' business. Exposure was in the range of 10-30 minutes per da
Panicked, she packed a small bag and headed to her psychiatrist's office. On the bus, there was a man she had been encountering with increasing frequency over the past several weeks. The man was clever, he was a spy. He always appeared in a differe
The light we see with human eyes consists of photons with energies in the range 2 to 3 electron volts. The gamma-rays Fermi detects are billions of times more energetic, from 20 million to more than 300 billion electron volts. These gamma-ray photons
Most viruses in nature are common and help keep dominant species in check, but he said divers reported seeing mountains of sea stars in the ocean around the time mass mortalities started occurring. "This very high number of sea stars in the Pac
"The substrate thus plays a much more important role than previously thought and calculations, which until now considered graphene as freestanding, need to take this into account," he says. "Our result also shows that we can actually tailor the ma
The hole in the top of the upside-down pot is covered with the metal casing leftover from one of the tea lights. Then the pot is covered by a second, larger pot and the hole in the bigger flower pot is left uncovered. This system works because the c
So it might be surprising to hear that the most exciting new frontier in space exploration starts a mere 2,000 km above the terrestrial surface. We aren't talking about manned missions, automatic rovers or even probes. We're talking about satelli
The conversation about near-death experiences (NDE's) is typically centered around questions about the afterlife and what happens to consciousness should you follow the iconic tunnel of light. Skeptics, of course, look at the various scientific ang
But evidence released earlier this year by Cochrane Collaboration, a London-based nonprofit, shows that a significant amount of negative data from the drug's clinical trials were hidden from the public. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) knew a
Those boring organisms from early earth evolved into forms of nearly every plant and animal on the planet today in what has seemed like an incredibly short period of time. It seemed so fast, in fact, that Charles Darwin worried that it might unde
However this is about dark matter as well. Once we shut this bulb down the vacuum will continue to glow in a dark room for nine hours before the trapped photon energy is finally discharged. At the same time, the temperature of the tube using a lase
they have recovered. "We're trying hard to make this possible within our generation", he told a Channel 4 documentary team who have been charting the project's progress. However, many in the science community oppose the idea of bringing a
Perhaps some aspects of consciousness arise from these meta-networks--and to investigate the proposition, the researchers analyzed fMRI scans of 15 people after being injected with psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, and compared t
Over the coming years, the price of graphene will go through an exponential price drop similar to Moore's Law. Here's why graphene and a host of other super materials are turning material science into the hottest of all hot new fields of resea
Against certain kinds of blood cancers, cytotoxins are pretty successful. But when it comes to defeating solid tumors, especially those in the brain, these poisons don't always measure up. "Many of these drugs have a short half-life, there's in
"We found that warping space around the black hole also warps the accretion disk," special effects head Paul Franklin said. "So rather than looking like Saturn's rings around a black sphere, the light creates this extraordinary halo." Tho
It was in the 1950s during the height of the Cold War when the military built a network of underwater microphones to track the secret rumblings of Soviet submarines and sonar codes. But what sonar operators began to hear amid the man-made explosion
The Mayas did not call themselves, Maya. Their identity was based on the specific language or dialect spoken in a particular province or city-state. They spoke, and still today, speak many dialects and languages. Some of those Maya languages are as
During the survey, the researchers spotted a single male Kashmir musk deer near the same area three separate times. The researchers also recorded one female and her baby, and saw a second single female that they think may have been the same deer, wit
Dr Vladlen Shvedov (left) and Dr Cyril Hnatovsky (right) with a magnified projection of the 'hollow' laser beam (Photo: Stuart Hay, ANU) We're still a far cry from Star Trek's ship-towing and repelling technology, but laser physicists at the Aus
The NTSB also evaluated the vehicle's feathering mechanism, which is the unique technology that turns the wing booms into position for re-entry. The NTSB indicated that the lock/unlock lever was pulled prematurely based on recorded speed at the tim
Mad Science Innovation covers science fiction coming true—the people, projects, and organizations making it happen, as well as how they are getting it done...Your host, Michael Belfiore, is an author and journalist reporting on the innovations shap
Lev Landau, a Nobelist and one of the fathers of a great school of Soviet physics, had a logarithmic scale for ranking theorists, from 1 to 5. A physicist in the first class had ten times the impact of someone in the second class, and so on. He modes
he Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced that traces of the DNA of silver carp - a species of Asian carp - have been found in the Kalamazoo River in Allegan County, on the west side of th
