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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biology, Discoveries, Diseases, Earthquake, Environment, Genomics, Geology, Health and Medicine, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, New Species, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Space on 12 31st, 2010 | No Comments

2010 Science Roundup

On the last day of 2010, the final day of the last year in the first decade of the 21st Century, we bid farewell to another year. Let’s take a look back over the last 12 months through the eyes of science. First, physicist Dr. Michio Kaku looks back over the natural disasters that rocked the world...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Environment, Geology, Physics and Chemistry, SciLebs, Space, Video on 12 30th, 2010 | No Comments

Adventurous Careers Await Brave Science Minds

The top and bottom of the world are frozen solid but they are also a popular place for adventure-loving young scientists to travel in search of the world’s biggest questions. In Antarctica researchers are trying to understand dark matter and dark energy which comprises 96% of the universe. And...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Psychology, The Brain, Video on 12 29th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Science of Generosity

Is there a gene that determines how generous you are? That’s one of the questions that a new research initiative at the University of Notre Dame hopes to answer. The new Science of Generosity Initiative has just finished funding 13 projects that will help science (mostly social science) better...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Consumer Safety, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Brace Yourself for Energy Bracelets

It’s the newest health craze. Magnets are back. This time they are supposed to harness the biological signatures of frequencies in our bodies to improve cellular efficiency. One new product even claims to use a hologram to optimize the body’s natural energy flow. You’ve probably seen these...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Environment, Geology, Health and Medicine, Politics, Video on 12 27th, 2010 | No Comments

Oil Sands Slips Up With Inadequate Monitoring

In a new report (PDF), a high-level scientific panel has sharply criticized the water quality monitoring system in Alberta’s oil sands development near Fort McMurray, Alberta. The panel says, “there is no system” despite supposedly 13 years of rigorous scientific data. The panel says...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 12 24th, 2010 | No Comments

IceCube Neutrino Lab Finished Just in Time for Christmas

For seven years, particle physicists have been waiting like children on Christmas Eve for Santa Claus. Now it’s Christmas morning in the tiny world of ghostly particles, known as neutrinos. These powerful yet mysterious pieces of matter travel through everything. They operate similar to light...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Citizen science, Discoveries, Featured Articles, SciLebs on 12 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

8 Year Olds Publish Bee Study in Royal Society Journal

Children of Blackawton School in Devon, England learn about bee behavior A group of UK primary school children have achieved a world first by having their school science project accepted for publication in an internationally recognized peer-reviewed Royal Society journal. No one will dispute that this...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Politics, Science Policy on 12 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Scientific Integrity Now Policy at the White House

For years the Union of Concerned Scientists have documented dozens of cases of science being interfered with by politics. Several high-profile cases became public during the last Bush administration, including a critical report about climate change. Since President Obama began running for high office,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Space, Video on 12 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Winter Begins with Rare Solstice Lunar Eclipse

Skywatchers across North and Central America got an early holiday present this year — a total eclipse of the moon. Hanging high in the sky, the moon slowly turned from bright silver into a red disk early Tuesday. While a lunar eclipse is hardly unusual to have it fall on the winter solstice is...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Citizen science, Climate Change, Ecology, Video on 12 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Citizen Science for the Birds

The National Audubon Society has sponsored an annual winter bird count for over 100 years. This year’s Christmas Bird Count will include 60,000 volunteers from all over the country who will look for and record birds for two weeks. This is perhaps one of the oldest forms of citizen science. It...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Citizen science, Featured Articles, Space, Video on 12 17th, 2010 | No Comments

Citizen Science Hits Outer Space in Search of New Planets

NASA’s Kepler mission positioned a powerful telescope outside Earth’s atmosphere last year to begin taking pictures of a section of space known to house about 200,000 stars. For Yale astronomers this presents an incredible opportunity — to discover which of those stars have planets...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Physiology, The Brain, Video on 12 16th, 2010 | No Comments

HIV Cure on the Horizon

A man is cured, doctors are stunned and patients have new hope. It could be the cure for HIV. It worked on one man in Germany and now a San Francisco company is trying to do replicate the results in the United States. “We have this patient in Berlin who develops leukemia, gets a bone marrow transplant...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Discoveries, Space, Video on 12 15th, 2010 | No Comments

NASA Finds Ice Volcano on Saturn Moon

A NASA probe orbiting Saturn has spotted what scientists think is a giant ice volcano on one of its moons, Titan. Astronomers believe they have discovered a cryovolcano — a volcano that expels water and ammonia or methanol instead of molten rock. For years astronomers felt that if any sort of...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Nanotechnology Builds on Past Hype

This video from Dutch TV shows nanotechnology in action as a surface coating to protect clothing and other materials from getting dirty. Dockers stain-resistant pants were among the first to use nanotechnology in clothing. A new collaboration between Swiss-based ETH Zurich and IBM signals a re-emergence...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 12 13th, 2010 | No Comments

The Music of Physics

If someone said the word “physicist” you are likely to think of Albert Einstein with his finger-in-a-light-socket hairstyle. A few savvy science enthusiasts will think of Brian Greene. But none will think of any of the 38 physicists working in the subterranean world at the Large Hadron Collider...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, The Brain, Video on 12 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Doctor Dad Treats Son’s MS but Is it Good Science?

The medical community is questioning a San Diego doctor’s ‘”miracle’” treatment for multiple sclerosis. Dr. David Hubbard prescribed a revolutionary treatment–venoplasty–to help alleviate the symptoms of MS that his 27-year-old son Devon was experiencing. If...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Environment, Politics, Science Policy, Video on 12 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Cancun Climate Talks Wind Down Without Much Movement

World leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference try to hammer out a new deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to replace the Kyoto Protocol, the CBC’s Margo McDiarmid reports. Talks end tomorrow with little expectation that a new binding agreement will be signed to replace the Kyoto Protocol...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Space, Video on 12 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Rocket Launch Ushers in Era of Commercial Spaceflight

A private company launched a spacecraft into orbit Wednesday in a bold demonstration test for NASA that could lead to the first commercial space station supply run next year and eventual astronaut rides. Space Exploration Technologies is the first private company to get its logo on the side of a rocket,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Featured Articles, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Space, Video on 12 7th, 2010 | No Comments

Students Send Science to Space

It’s an opportunity so rare only 16 schools in the nation will participate, and one of those schools is from Jefferson County, Kentucky. As WLKY’s Monica Hardin reports, these students are taking their knowledge in science to a whole new level that’s out of this world. Their experiment...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Physics and Chemistry, Politics, Science Policy, SciLebs, Solar, Video on 12 6th, 2010 | No Comments

President Obama Defeats Archimedes Death Ray

In an exclusive interview with CBS News’ Bill Plante, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman from “MythBusters” talk about President Obama’s appearance on the popular Discovery Channel show on December 8. In the episode the two myth-busting men are summoned to the White House and receive...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biology, Climate Change, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 12 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

Marine Life Moves Deeper to Escape Threats

New findings spark hope that endangered species are more abundant than previously thought. Until recently scientists have been limited in their exploration of the ocean by depths SCUBA divers can safely travel. And deep water submersible vehicles tend to focus on the deep ocean, below 500 feet. So...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Astrobiology, Biology, New Species, Physiology, Video on 12 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

NASA Discovers New Life

In Mono Lake, California, NASA says that a form of life, never before found on Earth, is thriving. This potato-shaped microbe is not proof of aliens among us but it is a big deal for scientists. NASA’s announcement on Thursday of radical new bacteria that survive by incorporating arsenic instead...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Health and Medicine, Politics, Video on 12 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Worlds AIDS Day Rings around the World

From a flash mob in Des Moines, Iowa to quiet rallies on college campuses across the U.S. December 1 is World AIDS Day. African nations are struggling to maintain funding for AIDS prevention and care while Russia and China are trying to deal with the stigma and past refusal to acknowledge the disease. But...

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