Science Links, 10/8/14

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)

Science Links, 9/17/14

NASA announces space launches from the US returns, courtesy of Boeing and SpaceX.

What would have to happen for the ebola virus to go airborne? (tl;dr: Don't worry about it.)

First suborbital launch from Richard Branson's New Mexico spaceport postponed to 2015.

NASA won't meet a congressional order to find ninety percent of near and potentially dangerous asteroids larger then four hundred and sixty feet in diameter.

Marine archaeologists begin an undersea exo-suit diving mission to better explore the wreck in the Aegean Sea where the Antikythera mechanism was found.

Scientists splice the human gene for language into mice. The mice learn faster.