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.

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.