Major Tim Peake (what a fitting name!), Britain’s first astronaut, said he will tweet from space when he goes in 2015. “I certainly will be tweeting from space, a large part of what I want to achieve on this mission is to try to inspire a generation and encourage themContinue Reading
Lane Gunderman, 18, has come a long way. He was one of the finalists in one of the nation’s most renowned science competitions (winning him $8,500) AND he received a full ride to Stanford University! It’s hard to believe that only six years ago, Lane and his family were livingContinue Reading
Kian Jek and Robert Gagliano discovered PH1 while participating in the “Planet Hunter” program led by Yale University. The program allows amateur astronomers team up with professional scientists to search for new discoveries with data collected from NASA’s Kepler space telescope. “Planet Hunters is a symbiotic project, pairing the discoveryContinue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It’s a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year. Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about 740 new stars a year. By comparison, our MilkyContinue Reading
Anthropologists working in southern France have determined that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone constitutes the earliest evidence of wall art. Their research, reported in the most recent edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows the piece to be approximately 37,000 years old and offersContinue Reading
OK outdoorsmen and women, are you ready for the Supermoon? NASA scientists say this full moon Saturday night will appear 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than any full moon this year. The scientific term is “perigee moon,” but all we need to know is that it’s going toContinue Reading
ScienceDaily (Apr. 25, 2012) — ICP researchers have discovered one of the first fossil-based evidences supporting the evolutionary theory of aging, which predicts that species evolving in low mortality and resource-limited ecosystems tend to be more long-lived. The study shows that the tooth height of endemic insular mammals isContinue Reading