2011 May | REALscience

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Scientainment, Video on 05 31st, 2011 | No Comments

The fourth annual World Science Festival kicks off on Wednesday in New York City. Legendary actor and science ‘geek’ Alan Alda visited the set of Good Day New York to talk about the festival. He was joined by Professor Brian Greene of Columbia University. In 20 venues all over New York City,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Space, Video on 05 27th, 2011 | No Comments

NASA Unveils New Spaceship

NASA is setting its sights on the future of the U.S. Space Program. The agency is unveiling a new space ship, but pushing back when that ship will go into service. The next generation of manned space vehicles used to be part of the Orion program. Now, the name has changed to MPCV and so has the date...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Dinosaurs, Museum on 05 26th, 2011 | No Comments

Paleontologists Race Against Time

A clock started ticking the minute a bulldozer driver discovered a fossil dating back more than 50,000 years last October. He was clearing an area for a reservoir above Snowmass Village, high in the Colorado Rockies. What Jesse Steele discovered could be the biggest high-elevation Ice Age fossil preserve....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Video on 05 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Girl Scouts Lobby Kellogg’s to get Palm Oil out of Cookies

Two feisty 15 year olds are pushing Girl Scouts of the USA to remove palm oil from their popular cookies. Rhiannon Tomitshen and Madison Vorva learned that palm oil plantations are used to grow a key ingredient in all girl scout cookies and that ingredient requires farmers to destroy rainforests to...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate Change, Science of..., Video, Weird Weather on 05 24th, 2011 | No Comments

Science of…Super Storms

2011 has been the deadliest tornado year in over 50 years. Already 1,151 twisters have formed and cut a wide swath of destruction across many states. That is more than double the average. And 481 people have died as a result of severe weather this year. That is more than six times the average and makes...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Diseases, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Video on 05 23rd, 2011 | No Comments

Lower Cholesterol with Tomatoes

Cooked tomatoes and tomato products could possibly be more effective than medication in the fight against high cholesterol and blood pressure. Doctors used to say, “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.” That was the cure all for patients. Now the pharmaceutical companies have a pill...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Inventions, Math, Politics, Science Policy, Video on 05 20th, 2011 | No Comments

Science Literacy Leads to Jobs

$Science Literacy Leads to Jobs$

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien sits down with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to discuss why learning math and science is the beginning of a chain that leads to job growth. Even if you don’t use your 10th Grade trigonometry skills in the real world, Dr. Tyson says just having learned the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Discoveries, Space, Video on 05 19th, 2011 | No Comments

Rogue Planets without Orbits More Numerous than Stars

Albert Einstein predicted that large enough objects had the capability to bend light. He was right and astronomers used this technique called microlensing to make an out-of-this-world discovery. It seems that not all planets orbit neighboring stars. A international team of scientists has found ten planets...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Space, Video on 05 18th, 2011 | No Comments

NASA Probe to Explore Jupiter

When the Juno spacecraft blasts off this August, it will embark on a mission to understand the origin and evolution of our largest planetary neighbor, Jupiter. Scientists believe that Jupiter and the sun may be formed by the same heavy elements. So NASA is sending a solar-powered probe to determine...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, Video on 05 17th, 2011 | No Comments

Exploding Watermelon Perplexes China

Chinese farmers are scratching their heads after fields of watermelons turned into exploding land mines. The official cause remains unknown but some believe that the farmers sprayed a rapid growth chemical on the fruit too late in the season and after an extremely wet period. The combination of factors...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Health and Medicine, The Brain, Video on 05 16th, 2011 | No Comments

Neuroscience is the Next Frontier for Patrick Kennedy

Former Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy is trying to unite neuroscientists, government and advocacy groups to improve funding and research in brain science. On the 50th Anniversary of his uncle John’s moonshot speech that launched the space age, leading scientists, philanthropists and...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Engineering, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 05 13th, 2011 | No Comments

Robot Orchestra Makes Music

Students at the California Institute of the Arts have built an orchestra of interactive musical robots. Musicians use specialized computer programs to play the robotic instruments. The Associated Press sat in on a rehearsal for the group’s May 12 concert. Tammy, BreakBot, NotomotoN, GlockenBot...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, Citizen science, SciArt, Scientainment, Space, Video on 05 12th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Shooting Stars

Seattle marketing director Nick Risinger quit his job to travel the world in search of the perfect picture of the night sky. The 29-year-old amateur astronomer took a year and traveled from the southwestern U.S. to South Africa, taking thousands of digital color photos of all billions of stars in both...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Video on 05 11th, 2011 | No Comments

Polar Bear Single Mothers

ABC’s Neal Karlinsky takes a look at the special bond between Polar Bear mothers and their cubs. Outside of Churchill, Manitoba in the high Canadian Arctic, the most well-studied polar bears emerge from their winter dens. Every year wildlife photographers flock to the frozen north in late spring...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Science of..., Video, Weird Weather on 05 10th, 2011 | No Comments

Science of…Tornadoes

Early results from the late April burst of tornadoes that ripped across the southeast, killing over 300 show that 2011 is already the third worst tornado season on record. And it isn’t over yet. The month of April broke the record for most tornadoes, as a swath of destruction tore from Oklahoma...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Health and Medicine, Physiology, The Brain, Video on 05 9th, 2011 | No Comments

Pain Pill Makes Love Hurt Less

Emotional pain, like that associated with a heartbreak hurts with the same intensity as physical pain and it lights up the same part of the brain. Now researchers have discovered that the pain is just as real and can be reduced with a common painkiller. It’s been said that love hurts, especially...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 05 6th, 2011 | No Comments

NASA Proves Einstein Right

Even though Albert Einstein’s theory of Relativity was proven accurate during a solar eclipse in Africa in 1919, the many predictions Einstein made are still being tested experimentally. After 52 years of planning, delays, experimentation and building a Stanford University team with NASA becomes...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Video on 05 4th, 2011 | No Comments

How to Reduce Exposure to Mercury in Fish

Mary Ann Hitt, Beyond Coal Campaign Director with the Sierra Club with information on toxic mercury in fish. Emission from coal-fired power plants is the leading cause of mercury pollution and subsequent bio-accumulation in seafood. The heavy metals spew into the air and then settle in the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Video on 05 4th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Armadillos Source of Leprosy in the South

After a mysterious outbreak of leprosy began a few years ago, researchers began looking for a cause. In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists discovered that the armadillo is one of the few animals that carries the bacteria that causes leprosy. Every year, there...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Inventions, Scientainment, Video on 05 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

Dean Kamen Uses Robots to Push Knowledge As Best Investment

Dean Kamen, founder of DEKA Research & Development Corp. and inventor of the Segway personal transporter went head to head in a robot battle with Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am, at the FIRST Robotics Championships in St. Louis. Kamen started the organization For Inspiration and Recognition...

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