Here is a more detailed article on the winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics: Shuji Nakamura, Hiroshi Amano, and Isamu Akasaki and their blue light emitting diode.
On this week's Star Talk, Leighann Lord asks questions from the audience on the subject of pseudoscience of Neil deGrasse Tyson.
NASA is considering a deep sleep option for the Mars mission crew.
Sierra Nevada protest halts work on the Boeing and SpaceX NASA space taxis.
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry goes to Eric Betzig, Stephen Hell, and William Moerner. (No link yet; was just announced)
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Science Links, 10/07/14
There was an AMA on Reddit with Dr Alan Stern and the New Horizons team.
On this week's It's Okay To Be Smart, Dr Joe speaks on the science of clouds. If you plan to participate in NASA's SkyScience next week, this is very possibly of interest.
A green tea based nanocarrier appears to kill cancer cells efficiently.
Here is a profile of Doctors Edvard & Mary-Britt Moser, the husband and wife team who are part of the winners of the Nobel Award for Medicine.
New "programmable" antibiotic targets drug resistant genes.
Three scientists in Japan were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for invention of blue light emitting diodes.
On this week's It's Okay To Be Smart, Dr Joe speaks on the science of clouds. If you plan to participate in NASA's SkyScience next week, this is very possibly of interest.
A green tea based nanocarrier appears to kill cancer cells efficiently.
Here is a profile of Doctors Edvard & Mary-Britt Moser, the husband and wife team who are part of the winners of the Nobel Award for Medicine.
New "programmable" antibiotic targets drug resistant genes.
Three scientists in Japan were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for invention of blue light emitting diodes.
Monday, October 6, 2014
Science Links, 10/06/14
The Wreck of the SS Connaught discovered off the coast of Boston.
Aeon interviews Elon Musk on space travel and industry with a focus on getting man to Mars.
Japan's Hayabusa 2 may be the first satellite to intercept and destroy an asteroid.
MIT researchers have developed a material that absorbs almost all wavelengths of light that reaches the earth from the sun for conversion to solar energy.
Vanishing bumblebee species reappears in Virginia.
Scientists have created a crystalline material that can pull all of the oxygen out of the room with just a spoonful and release it all when and where it's needed.
Swedish woman first to give birth after womb transplant.
Phone booths in London become solar powered phone chargers.
AIDS has its origins in 1920's Kinshasa.
A shipwreck uncovered in northern Canada has been verified as the HMS Erebus, lost since 1845.
John O'Keefe, Edvard Moser, and Mary-Britt Moser won the Nobel Prize for medicine over studies of cells that constitute a positioning system for the brain.
Dr David Grinspoon, aka Doctor Funkyspoon, astrobiologist, on "Terra Sapiens: Planetary Changes of the Fourth Kind.
Aeon interviews Elon Musk on space travel and industry with a focus on getting man to Mars.
Japan's Hayabusa 2 may be the first satellite to intercept and destroy an asteroid.
MIT researchers have developed a material that absorbs almost all wavelengths of light that reaches the earth from the sun for conversion to solar energy.
Vanishing bumblebee species reappears in Virginia.
Scientists have created a crystalline material that can pull all of the oxygen out of the room with just a spoonful and release it all when and where it's needed.
Swedish woman first to give birth after womb transplant.
Phone booths in London become solar powered phone chargers.
AIDS has its origins in 1920's Kinshasa.
A shipwreck uncovered in northern Canada has been verified as the HMS Erebus, lost since 1845.
John O'Keefe, Edvard Moser, and Mary-Britt Moser won the Nobel Prize for medicine over studies of cells that constitute a positioning system for the brain.
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Science Links, 10/3/14
Dr Joe brings us the science of pizza and uses pizza for science.
Space missions map undersea mysteries.
Swirling cloud at Titan's pole is cold and toxic.
Elon Musk says next year's Tesla cars will be able to self-drive 90% of the time.
The Majorana Particle is a theoretical particle speculated by physicist Ettore Majorana to be both matter and antimatter. It may no longer be theoretical.
Look up! NASA wants you to get involved in #SkyScience and help!
This viral DNA infects cells by changing from a solid to a liquid.
This massive sunshield will protect the James Webb Space Telescope.
Space missions map undersea mysteries.
Swirling cloud at Titan's pole is cold and toxic.
Elon Musk says next year's Tesla cars will be able to self-drive 90% of the time.
The Majorana Particle is a theoretical particle speculated by physicist Ettore Majorana to be both matter and antimatter. It may no longer be theoretical.
Look up! NASA wants you to get involved in #SkyScience and help!
This viral DNA infects cells by changing from a solid to a liquid.
This massive sunshield will protect the James Webb Space Telescope.
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Science Links, 10/2/14
Twitter funds MIT Laboratory for Social Machines.
Paul Allen eyes using Sierra Nevada Corp's Dream Chaser to ferry passengers for the space startup Stratolaunch Systems.
A Danish company is building a $335m seawall around New York City.
Where did the earliest inhabitants of South America go? Everywhere.
Scientists have identified a rectangular feature on the Moon that appears to be the remains of old rift valleys.
The ESA has identified four sites on Mars for a potential rover to land in 2018.
Paul Allen eyes using Sierra Nevada Corp's Dream Chaser to ferry passengers for the space startup Stratolaunch Systems.
A Danish company is building a $335m seawall around New York City.
Where did the earliest inhabitants of South America go? Everywhere.
Scientists have identified a rectangular feature on the Moon that appears to be the remains of old rift valleys.
The ESA has identified four sites on Mars for a potential rover to land in 2018.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Science Links, 10/1/14
Dolphins may use a magnetic sense as a type of GPS.
A six hundred year old canoe could explain how Polynesians colonized New Zealand.
Newly discovered asteroid 2014 OL339 is a new companion for the Earth. It will orbit with us for another 165 years, having traveled with us 775 years already.
The loss of ice in Antarctica has caused a measurable shift in gravity.
NASA isn't just watching our own space weather but also flares from nearby stars. The Swift Mission eyes flares from the binary DG Canum Venaticorum.
Phil Plait speculates on what might be in the lakes of Titan.
Obama's BRAIN initiative awards $46m in grants among 58 projects.
A six hundred year old canoe could explain how Polynesians colonized New Zealand.
Newly discovered asteroid 2014 OL339 is a new companion for the Earth. It will orbit with us for another 165 years, having traveled with us 775 years already.
The loss of ice in Antarctica has caused a measurable shift in gravity.
NASA isn't just watching our own space weather but also flares from nearby stars. The Swift Mission eyes flares from the binary DG Canum Venaticorum.
Phil Plait speculates on what might be in the lakes of Titan.
Obama's BRAIN initiative awards $46m in grants among 58 projects.
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