2009 August - REALscience

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Environment, Marine Science, Video on 08 31st, 2009 | No Comments

Scientists Find Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Researchers say a Texas-sized garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean is possibly killing marine life and birds that are ingesting the trash. Scripps oceanographers are studying the effects the patch has on marine life. And there may be a new, bigger patch floating in the Southern Ocean, where ocean currents...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics and Science, SciClips on 08 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Confounded by Conficker

Just as we have to monitor our own health, now we have to be more aware of our computer’s health. While high cholesterol and blood pressure aren’t issues for our machines, keeping them free of viruses and worms are. A new piece of malware, known as the Conficker worm, that has been worming...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Astrobiology, Books, Dinosaurs, Environment, Geology, Podcast, SciClips on 08 26th, 2009 | No Comments

Stories in Stone

Urban geologist David Williams is a big stone kinda guy. He is not one to shy away from a nice chunk of gneiss. Nor will he wilt at the sight of weathered brownstone–one of his favorites. Now, the author of Stories in Stone: Travels in Urban Geology, Williams shares his passion for rocks–from...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Health and Medicine, Space, Video on 08 25th, 2009 | No Comments

Remote Medicine Gets Robotic Boost from European Space Agency

Webcams and videoconferencing are nothing new, the Internet is bursting with user-generated video content. Now, the popular technology is being pared with robotics and readied for remote regions of the globe – and beyond.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Around the Americas, Climate, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Marine Science, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips on 08 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Sailing Through the Thick of the Northwest Passage

Route of Ocean Watch Through the Northwest Passage Ocean Watch, the 64-foot sailboat that also doubles as a voyage of scientific discovery is traveling over the top of North America, in an effort to traverse the rapidly melting yet still dangerous Northwest Passage. The fabled shipping route has been...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, Computer Science, Featured Articles, Space, Video on 08 19th, 2009 | No Comments

40 Years Later, Google Puts Us All on the Moon

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, Google Earth users can now search the moon.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Featured Articles, Marine Science, New Species, Video on 08 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Endangered Deep Sea Coral May Save Lives

Watch the video Deep Sea Adventure In Caribbean Coral Reefs. Deep sea coral reefs found just several decades ago off the United States’ southeastern coast hold promise for the discoveries of new species and cures for cancer and other diseases. But the reefs may face danger from energy exploration–whether...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Featured Articles, Space, Video on 08 17th, 2009 | No Comments

Space Probe finds Ocean on a Saturn Moon

Watch the video Enceladus – Saturns moon. The Cassini spacecraft has detected new evidence that one of Saturn’s moons has an ocean beneath its surface. Enceladus is the sixth largest moon orbiting around the ringed planet Saturn. And, it is one that astronomers believe could harbor some...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Environment, Featured Articles, Geoengineering, Global Warming, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips on 08 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Hurricane Wrangling with Bill Gates

If runaway global warming gets the better of humanity, then some fairly drastic measures will be needed to stave off the worst effects. That’s where a group of futurists start talking about geoengineering some extreme solutions to the problem. The latest plan to limit the effects of global warming...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 08 12th, 2009 | No Comments

OLEDs See the Light of Day

Watch the video Organic LED and the Future of Television. Someday, our ceilings and walls might radiate light, illuminating indoor spaces as brightly and evenly as natural daylight. And organic light emitting diodes will shine the way.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Backyard Science, Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Environment, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, SciClips, Space, Video on 08 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Turning the iPhone into the SciPhone

Just over a year old, the Apple iTunes App Store is churning out–or rather independent developers are–applications to calculate tips, find restaurants and even play countless games. But there is little for the science-interested smart phone users. Oh sure, among the tens of thousands of...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Around the Americas, Climate, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, SciClips on 08 10th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Climate Change Opens Northwest Passage

The fabled Northwest passage that claimed the lives of many explorers including Sir John Franklin is now open to small boats for a few weeks each summer thanks to a rapidly changing climate in the high Arctic. The 64-foot Ocean Watch sailboat is parked behind a 45-mile chunk of sea ice, waiting for...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Computer Science, Featured Articles, Plants, Video on 08 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Science and Smart Phones

Watch the video Smart Phones and Science: Spot the Weed. Scientists at the University of California are developing a way for the public to contribute data to research projects using a ubiquitous sensing device – the smart phone. This is a great way to collect data in weeks that would otherwise...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Featured Articles, Math, SciClips on 08 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Puzzling Math

For 35 years, the Rubik’s Cube has been puzzling people and teaching science. Starting with its inventor, Erno Rubik, first used his “magic cube” to demonstrate three-dimensional design to his architecture students. Now mathematicians across the world are employing the brightly-colored...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Featured Articles, Global Warming, SciClips, Science of..., Weird Weather on 08 3rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Science of…Heat Wave

The western half of North America has been baking in a heat wave that shattered all-time records while the east coast is shivering in one of the coldest summers on record. A giant ridge of high pressure and a giant low pressure trough that span the continent set up and became locked, creating a formidable...

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