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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Scientainment, Space, Video on 04 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Travel Agent to the Stars

Space Travel could soon become a reality and Austin, Texas woman will sell it to you. Janie Bullard is one of only 74 licensed space travel agents. She is booking seats on Virgin Galactic. Each seat costs about $200,000 and takes travelers to the edge of space for about five minutes. But already she’s...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate Change, Video, Weird Weather on 04 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Tornado Outbreak Rakes the South

The National Weather Service has confirmed 164 tornado reports around six states in the southeast Wednesday night. Parts of Alabama and Arkansas felt the brunt of the this late April tornado outbreak. In a month of record-breaking weather, April 2011 may go down in history as the worst tornado month...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Biology, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Inventions, The Brain, Video on 04 27th, 2011 | No Comments

Neural Stem Cell Treatment Sees a Future

The key to successful stem cell research and treatment is being able to create stable, self-renewing stem cells. For years, scientists have been able to make massive quantities of stem cells to enhance brain activity. The problem was that when they tested their treatments in mice, the stem cells often...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 04 26th, 2011 | No Comments

Physics Rumor: Higgs Found

Did the Large Hadron Collider Find the Higgs? British physicist Brian Cox told The Sun that his colleagues at the European nuclear research facility CERN may have found the first evidence of the Higgs Boson, a particle that may or may not exist. It is also known as the God particle because the Higgs...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Consumer Safety, Diseases, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Video on 04 25th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Staph Bacteria Found in Half of Grocery Store Meat

A new report estimates that half the meat and poultry sold in the supermarket may be tainted with the staph germ. A study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases recently found a startling amount of staphylococcus bacteria in grocery store meat. The study included 136 samples from 80 different...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Environment, Video on 04 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

Earth Day Celebrates People

For over 50 years, human audiences have been fascinated by natural history television shows and big screen movies. From Disney Nature to Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, we have explored every crack and crevice of the planet in search of weird, wonderful and unexpected creatures that share the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 04 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Fish Ear Bones Hear Chemical Secrets of Water

Fish ear bones are just like tree rings. The otolith bone inside a fish’s ear records the creature’s growth. Micro slices of sliver-sized ear bones can give scientists clues to the chemistry of the water in which fish swim. They can measure carbon dioxide levels and one year after the Deepwater...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Space, Video on 04 20th, 2011 | 1 Comment

The Next US Space Shuttle

In all likelihood, the next manned spacecraft that launches from U.S. soil will be one a spaceship built by one of four companies. Yes, companies. The federal government is getting out of the space business by contracting services from private companies with advanced designs and concepts for manned...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Video, Weird Weather on 04 19th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Tornado Outbreak Flattens 15 States

A strong spring storm that began in Oklahoma spit out a bunch of tornadoes starting April 14. Then as the storm continued east it intensified thanks to a giant pocket of dry, cold air meeting warm, moist air pushing from the Gulf of Mexico and a strong jet stream creating a circulating front between...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Greenovation, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 04 18th, 2011 | 1 Comment

BP Oil Spill: The Gulf of Mexico One Year Later

One year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill scientists believe the health of the Gulf of Mexico is back to where it was before the massive environmental disaster. In a recent survey, most scientists agreed that the health of the Gulf is about 68 out of 100. That is almost in line with the pre-spill...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Engineering, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 04 15th, 2011 | No Comments

Navy Will Use Laser Guns to Fight Pirates

It sounds like the plotline for a young boy’s bedtime story. But real-life laser weapons are being tested by the U.S. Navy and their first target is modern day pirates who are tormenting shippers and sailors on the northeast coast of Africa. A ship-based laser could seriously turn up the heat...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Consumer Safety, Earthquake, Engineering, Environment, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Video on 04 14th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Can Dancing Robots Help with Nuclear Clean Up?

Tokyo Electric Power is putting remote controlled machinery to use at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan. Helicopters mounted with cameras can safely survey the damaged reactors to give clean up crews a clear view of the mess without exposing them to dangerous radiation,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Endangered Species, Greenovation, Podcast, Video on 04 13th, 2011 | No Comments

Polar Bear Surprise

Imagine waking from a long nap — a little disoriented and still groggy — only to find the world you left when you went to sleep is totally different. A mother polar bear had that very Rip Van Winkle experience on a man-island off the coast of Alaska. When she emerged from her den after hibernation,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Podcast, Scientainment, Space, Video on 04 12th, 2011 | No Comments

New Space Race: Who Gets the Shuttles

Update: Shuttles heading to Washington D.C, New York, Florida and California After 30 years and 135 flights into space, the US space shuttle is coming to an end. With just two more flights left, NASA is retiring the space shuttle program. Now, the AP’s Lee Powell says the familiar black-and-white...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Earthquake, Environment, Geology, Podcast, Video on 04 11th, 2011 | No Comments

Japan Earthquake: One Month Later

One month after the deadly 9.0 Japanese earthquake, the rescue workers and government took a moment of silence to remember the disaster that leveled portions of northeastern Japan after the quake triggered a large tsunami. But even after a month, the ground hasn’t stopped shaking. Last week a...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Consumer Safety, Environment, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, Video on 04 8th, 2011 | No Comments

Radioactive Water Poses No Seafood Risk to People

Workers in Japan have started dumping more than three million gallons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. Tokyo Electric officials spent about two days dumping out all that water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in northeastern Japan, following the devastating March 11 earthquake....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Computer Science, Discoveries, Engineering, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, Video on 04 7th, 2011 | No Comments

Robot Bird Masters Winged Flight

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s SmartBird — the avian robot. German engineers claim they have succeeded in unlocking the secrets of bird flight. For centuries man has tried to imitate nature by mimicking flight. Capturing the energy efficiency and subtlety of bird flight has proven...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Engineering, Marine Science, Oceanography, Podcast, SciLebs, Video on 04 6th, 2011 | No Comments

Billionaire Branson Heads for Murky Depths

Billionaire adventurer Richard Branson announced plans to travel to the deepest parts of the world’s oceans in a single-person submarine this week. Sir Richard will pilot the one-manned Virgin Oceanic sub as he dives the Puerto Rico trench, located just off the coast of Puerto Rico, sometime in...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Podcast, Space, Video on 04 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Curiosity Joins Opportunity and Spirit on Mars

NASA engineers in California are working around the clock to put the finishing touches on the new Mars mega-rover before shipping it off to Florida for launch later this year. Wearing his clean suit, AP’s John Mone got an inside look at the vehicle named Curiosity. After launch to the red planet...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Consumer Safety, Health and Medicine, Podcast, SciLebs, Video on 04 4th, 2011 | No Comments

Bronx Zoo Cobra Alive and Well…and Ready for her Close Up

The national snake hunt is now hissstory! After a six-day search for an Egyptian cobra, the director of the Bronx Zoo told a relieved city that the snake was found in a non-public area of the zoo’s reptile house. The poisonous snake disappeared from a Bronx Zoo exhibit and caught the nation’s...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics, The Brain, Video on 04 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Fake Food Color Linked to ADHD

The consumer watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest wants to ban all artificial color from foods. At the very least the organization wants the Food and Drug Administration to put warning labels on foods containing some dyes, like Yellow 5 and Red 40, which have been linked to Attention...

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