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The title is a little deceptive in that there are certainly other weapons being fired in some of these images. Nonetheless, I found these images stunning, and
NASA has partnered with The Commons on Flickr and the Internet Archive to make a collection of 180 historic photos available for public viewing. The photos are arranged into three sections – Building NASA, Launch/Takeoff and NASA Center Namesakes. We’ve compiled some of the photos below but head on over to the NASA Flickr stream for the whole collection. The photos are also available, along with thousands more, on the NASA Images website.
A physicist has new ideas about the origins of our universe, possibly rendering the Big Babng theory obsolete!
The widespread belief that marijuana users will eventually and inevitably move on to harder drugs has yet more evidence against it with the release of a new study. Whether teenagers who smoked pot will use other illegal drugs as young adults has a lot more to do with factors such as employment status and stress, according to the new research.
How to make 3 terrifying stink pranks. In this episode of Scientific Tuesdays we will take some common household items and turrn them into the ultimate weapon of olfactory doom...
Photo credit by batega via flickr. In its early days, Barcelona's Bicing seemed like an unparalleled success. With 400 stations and 3,000 of the squat, burly red-and-white bikes stationed around the city, Bicing quickly became part of Barcelona's big city atmosphere and was enthusiastically received by inhabitants. But after five years, something scary started to happen, in addition to the vandalism and abandonment that plagued Bicing and other big programs...ridership started to decline.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
The most species-rich groups of animals don't necessarily rebound after a mass extinction event.
Physicist Stephen Hawking has written a new book called The Grand Design. In it Hawking says that the universe’s beginnings – or the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics and that God wasn’t needed to “light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."
New Study Says Life Stresses Explain Likelihood that Pot Smokers Move on to `Hard` Drugs
For the first time, a structure comparable to our cerebral cortex has been found in an invertebrate -- a humble marine ragworm.
No one was killed, but the rig was on fire.
Reaching sizes of up to 80 feet long and 150 tons, whales are some of the oceans' most varied and majestic creatures -- and they're also some of its most endangered: Of the 11 species of great whales, at least nine have been severely impacted by years of whaling, according to Sea World. But while whales can be aggressive at times, they are more often gentle, curious creatures -- and likely to check out foreign objects in the water, including boats and photographers. Right Whale This massive right whale came up to wildlife photographer Brian Skerry with "great curiosity, but no aggression," he told The Daily Mail, when he was working underwater off the Auckland Islands. Fully-grown right whales are around 55 feet long and weigh nearly 70 tons, and are usually black with patches of rough skin known as callosities on their head. Though endangered right whales live all over the world, scientists believe there are no more than 350 of them left in the North Atlantic, 100 in the North Pacific, and a few thousand in the Southern Hemisphere. Photo via The Daily Mail ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
(PhysOrg.com) -- Matt Scullin co-founded Alphabet Energy just one year ago, but already the CEO has ambitions of turning the San Francisco-based start-up company into the 'Intel of waste heat.' By harnessing the waste heat emitted by power plants, industrial furnaces, and cars, Alphabet Energy envisions ...
The Plastiki is no average boat. It is made up of 12,500 plastic bottles salvaged from the garbage bins of San Francisco. Onboard there are solar panels, wind turbines and a hydroponic vertical garden.
The next time you fill up, think about this: What you think of as gasoline might not be gasoline. At least not entirely.
Challenging your brain can delay dementia. But when it happens, symptoms progress more quickly.
New Research from the University of New Hampshire shows the gateway effect of marijuana is overblown.
New research shows that mentally stimulating activities such as crossword puzzles, reading and listening to the radio may, at first, slow the decline of thinking skills but speed up dementia later in old age.
I know, it's TechStuff, so I should be telling you to pick up the electronics, right? According to a study at the University of California, San Francisco quoted by Matt Richtel of The New York Times, rats engaged with new experiences go through periods of intense brain activity. But the rats don't actually process what they've experienced and learn from that experience until they stop and have the chance to think about it. Richtel said the researchers believe the same may be true for people as well.
