From a view of the devastating Oklahoma tornado from space to the Milky Way shining over a state park, don't miss these amazing space photos of the week.
A new study finds that frogs, toads, salamanders and other amphibians in the U.S. are dying off so quickly that they could disappear from half of their habitats in the next 20 years. For some of the more endangered species, they could lose half of...
In less than a week, students from around the world will gather in a remote desert similar to the terrain found on Mars to test their homebuilt rovers.
As we enjoy Memorial Weekend, we look back to another great week in the world of technology. And if you're wondering what happened in the last seven days, worry not — Top 10 Tech brings you a list of the most important techno-stories of the...
A while back I did a post about counterintuitive math problems. However, I deliberately held one back, since I was using it as my Problem of the Week for that week. So here it is:
Suppose a steel beam, one mile long, is fastened securely to the...
Karl Smith loves to do posts touting the latest breakthroughs in fracking or solar panel technology. So I thought I’d try one of those, for modular construction.
I’ve been waiting for the famous Changsha mega-structure to actually get...
Nature: In 1964 the US Navy commissioned the DSV Alvin, a small, manned research submarine. Since its launch, Alvin has been responsible for several major discoveries such as ecosystems powered by hydrothermal vents instead of sunlight. In 2011,...
An atomic research lab in northern Japan has reported a radiation leak that may have affected about 50 people, though none were hospitalized and no impact was expected outside the facility, the lab's operator said Saturday.
An artist’s conception of the SS Cygni system, with a red dwarf star’s material being pulled on to a nearby white dwarf. Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
If you’re a semi-serious amateur astronomer, chances are you’ve heard...
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, this has been a circuitous journey. I started out to research volcanoes. First I got distracted by the question of model sensitivity, as I described in Model Climate Sensitivity Calculated Directly From Model...
Host Scott Simon speaks with Val Castor, the senior "StormTracker" for News 9 in Oklahoma City, about what it's like to do the job in one of the most climatically volatile regions of the country.» E-Mail This »...
Ars Technica: The largest galaxies in the universe are elliptical, rather than spiral like the Milky Way. Although theory and observation can account for the formation of small elliptical galaxies, how the extremely large ones formed is uncertain. A...
In 2011, NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it was then the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.
We don’t have the budget...
How much would you pay to get locked in a spaceship with DiCaprio? At an auction to benefit AIDS research, a man buys three days of training and a trip to suborbital space with the "Gatsby" star. [Read more]
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has begun delivery of germanium-76 detectors to an underground laboratory in South Dakota in a team research effort that might explain the puzzling imbalance between matter and antimatter...
Your planet is a tiny speck in a void of interplanetary space. Your sun is one of a hundred billion other stars in your galaxy. Your galaxy is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. Does this make you feel enlightened or...
