2009 May - REALscience

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, New Discoveries, SciClips on 05 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Putting the “i” in Medical Science

Biomedical breakthroughs happen all the time. But most people don’t stop to think about how the treatment that cured what ailed them or eased their suffering came about in the first place. Students in the Pacific Northwest are getting a taste of what medical science can do and has done for them,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Around the Americas, Biology, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Marine Science, New Discoveries, Video on 05 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Global Warming Makes Unique Research Voyage Possible

A group of sailors will leave Seattle soon on a mission that would have been impossible just three years ago. They’re going to circumnavigate North and South America through and they are doing it by sailing through a hopefully ice-free Arctic later this summer. KING 5’s Glenn Farley reports. The...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Featured Articles, SciClips, Space on 05 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Hunting for Pale Blue Planets

Astronomers seem to be ahead of telescope technology right now. They are looking into the future and readying themselves for a time when deep space telescopes can spy on distant solar systems, in an effort to find other planets capable of sustaining life, like our own Earth. A doctoral candidate at...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Featured Articles, New Species, SciClips, Video on 05 26th, 2009 | No Comments

On the Origin of the Specious (Discovery)

A new fossil in the ever-growing list of incremental species that outline the history of human evolution may not be the missing link after all. A week after Ida’s debut on the paleontological scene, scientists are taking a closer look at her place in our phylogenetic map. A new documentary on...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Computer Science, Featured Articles, Space, Video on 05 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment

10 Years of SETI

For 10 years over 5 million computer users from all over the world have been participating in a giant science experiment to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence or SETI. The approach uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Narrow-band signals do not occur naturally...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Space, Video on 05 20th, 2009 | No Comments

Recycled Water Taste Test

Watch the video Space Station Crew Drinks Recycled Urine. Crew members aboard the International Space Station drink “recycled” water for the first time. A newly-inaugurated system captures water from the air and from urine. “The taste is great,” says astronaut Mike Barratt....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Biology, Featured Articles, Video on 05 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Missing Link Found

The nearly complete and remarkably preserved skeleton of a small lemur-monkey found in Germany was displayed Tuesday by scientists who said it would help illuminate the evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans. “This is as good as it gets,” says Dr. Jorn Hurum, the University of Oslo...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Featured Articles, Space, Video on 05 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Helping Hubble

The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of outer space. It has changed science textbooks forever and it has helped foster a life-long interest in things beyond Earth. Now the giant bus-sized telescope is being updated and improved for the final time, adding about 5-10 years to...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Biology, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Science of..., Space, Video on 05 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Science of…Star Trek

The new Star Trek movie is fueling a science fiction discussion about what technologies could eventually become science fact. The ability to travel at warp speed–the speed of light is at the root of this discussion. Is it possible and if so when? Well, yes and no. Some scientists believe that...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Engineering, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, Nanotechnology, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 05 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Science Fair Season

Science is in the air across the nation as students showcase their discoveries, research projects and compete for scholarships. The biggest science and engineering fair is underway in Reno, Nevada. Visit the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair to learn more. Students from all over the Pacific...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Math, Politics and Science, SciClips, Video on 05 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Counting Casualties in the Math Wars

The battle line in the math wars separates reform math from traditional. It pits new, fuzzier, inquiry-based learning against rote memorization of fundamental math facts. And, it’s been boiling in school districts across the country for over 30 years. The latest battleground is Seattle, WA, where...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Featured Articles, Space, Video on 05 7th, 2009 | No Comments

Mission to Fix Hubble Set to Launch

A man from Seattle will be at the controls when Space Shuttle Atlantis blasts off on a mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope next week. Astronaut Greg Johnson will dodge space debris, shoot and IMAX movie and repair the aging telescope. KING 5’s Lori Matsukawa spoke with his parents as they...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Engineering, Environment, Featured Articles, SciClips, Video on 05 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Jet Fueling Concern

When an emergency landing near Seattle forced a commercial aircraft to dump thousands of gallons of fuel, people misted during this incident began thinking about where that toxic mixture goes when after it hits the ground and water. The scientific consequences of this event are complicated and difficult...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Featured Articles, New Discoveries, The Brain, Video on 05 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Birds Dance to the Beat

After poring over about 1,000 YouTube videos researchers have discovered that some animals can bebop to the beat. The movie shows three excerpts of videos analyzed in this experiment. Each excerpt is at a tempo different from the original song (Everybody, by the Backstreet Boys; 108.7 beats per minute...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Featured Articles, Genetics, Genomics, Health and Medicine, SciClips on 05 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment

Swine Flu on the March

Swine flu is racing across the world, spreading a deadly virus from continent to continent. The World Health Organization is worried about the beginning of a pandemic. The Center For Disease Control is trying to learn all it can about the new strain of human influenza A H1N1. And, vaccine manufacturers...

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