2011 July | REALscience

Posted by Michael Bradbury in SciArt, Science & Religion, Scientainment, Space, Video on 07 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Science in the Art House

Most movies have a beginning, middle and an end. But how can a movie maker portray the vast scope of a story when it starts at the beginning of the universe and proceeds out of order to the present and then to an unknowable future? That’s the difficult task that acclaimed director Terrence Malik...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Economics, Evolution, Marine Science, Video on 07 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Dolphins Develop a New Sense

We all know that dolphins are smart. And we know they have more senses than people, adding echolocation to the senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. Now scientists have tested and confirmed a seventh sense in at least one species of dolphins. The Guiana dolphins, which live in the muddy coastal...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 07 27th, 2011 | No Comments

Time Travel Experimentally Ruled Out

In his book Physics of the Impossible, Dr. Michio Kaku ranked time travel among the most impossible of science fiction staples. And now a team of scientists in Hong Kong has ruled it out altogether. This is something Albert Einstein rejected long ago. In his theory of general relativity he described...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Discoveries, Endangered Species, Video on 07 26th, 2011 | No Comments

Endangered Species Found in Multiple Conservation Efforts

After an 87-year absence the Borneo rainbow toad has been discovered or rather rediscovered. A group of 126 researchers have scoured the rainforests and mountains of 21 countries on 5 continents in 2010 in search of lost amphibian species. After three months of night-long expeditions, one of Dr. Indraneil...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Discoveries, Space, Video on 07 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Pluto Shows a Fourth Moon

Pluto may no longer be a planet but it still has moons. Between 1978 and 2005 the little icy world formerly known as the ninth planet in our solar system has revealed moon after moon. Most people may not realize that Pluto has any moons or probably thought it just had one, like Earth. First there was...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate Change, Consumer Safety, Health and Medicine, Video, Weird Weather on 07 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

Heat Dome Steams Much of U.S.

Over 177 million people in 34 states are talking about the heat dome that is parked over one million square miles of the U.S. and sending temperatures and heat indices into dangerous triple digit territory. A heat dome is a common summertime occurrence when heating on land occurs faster than over the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Biology, Consumer Safety, Discoveries, Diseases, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Uncategorized, Video on 07 21st, 2011 | 1 Comment

Real Science and Girls Dominate Google Science Fair

Gender stereotypes about math and science abound. Boys are known for performing better in math and science while girls tend to excel in history and language arts. Though the U.S. still leads the world in scientific discovery and vision, another stereotype is that the U.S. education system is failing...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Geology, Greenovation, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 07 20th, 2011 | 1 Comment

New Energy Source — Natural Radioactive Decay

For planetary scientists one of the biggest mysteries is trying to figure out where all the heat Earth pours into space originates. The planet ejects about 44 Tera watts of power of heat into space every second. New research from Japan’s Kamioka Liquid-scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector (KamLAND)...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Evolution, Health and Medicine, The Brain, Video on 07 19th, 2011 | No Comments

The Internet Is Rewiring our Brains

Psychologists have learned that the Internet is becoming a primary form of transactive memory, meaning the information is external or stored outside of the person. For some it is becoming far easier to reach for a keyboard than to try to extract a piece of information from the brain. Google and Yahoo!...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Space, Video on 07 18th, 2011 | No Comments

NASA Dawn Reaches Vesta

Get used to hearing the name Vesta. It’s one of the largest asteroids in our solar system’s asteroid belt, a wide area of spinning rocks located between Mars and Jupiter. After four years of slow and steady travel, NASA’s Dawn space probe finally reached the orbit of the big spinning...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in SciArt, Scientainment, Space, Video on 07 15th, 2011 | No Comments

50 Years of NASA Art

NASA | ART 50 Years of Exploration – SpacePod 2011.06.20 from Spacevidcast on Vimeo. From Rockwell to Rauschenberg, NASA has had a long tradition of inviting artists to give their perspective on the agency’s work through different forms of art. Painting, textile, sculpture, music and poetry...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Consumer Safety, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 07 14th, 2011 | No Comments

Tiny Shark Packs Big Bite

Few people have ever heard of the cookiecutter shark. They are prevalent in the deep, tropical ocean but they are not very large predators. In fact, the fish measures just a couple of feet long. But don’t be fooled by its size. This is a saw-toothed fish that bites dolphins, whales, nuclear submarine...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Inventions, Video on 07 13th, 2011 | No Comments

Flying Car Cleared for Takeoff

Move over Jetsons. The first roadable aircraft or flying car has been cleared for road use. The Terrafugia Transition is the now the first car-plane hybrid that has been approved for both flight and road use. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration just approved the Transition for road...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Discoveries, Marine Science, New Species, Video on 07 12th, 2011 | No Comments

Science Prospectors Find 300 New Species

Biologists from the California Academy of Sciences and its counterpart in the Philippines have found over 300 new species of animal life, both on land and in the sea. Ranging from a starfish that only eats sunken driftwood to an inflatable shark, scientists say that over 90% of the world species have...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biochemistry, Biology, Diseases, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Plants, Space, Video on 07 11th, 2011 | No Comments

Last Shuttle Crammed with Science Experiments

When the final mission of the U.S. space shuttle program blasted off flawlessly on Friday, over one million onlookers gathered in Florida for the launch. Tens of millions more watched on television. But what they couldn’t see amid the liftoff fire and smoke was all the science that was en route...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Engineering, Nanotechnology, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 07 8th, 2011 | No Comments

Science + Art: The World up Close

Common, everyday things, from construction material to household items or even insects, look remarkably different up close. And the up close that a new art exhibition has in mind is mind-boggling. Using a high-powered scanning electron microscope a scientist and a graphic designer combined forces...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Citizen science, Space, Video on 07 7th, 2011 | No Comments

NASA Wants You to Help Spot Icy Blobs

All of the space data that the Hubble Telescope is broadcasting is far too much for a handful of scientists to sift through in a timely manner. So using the power of technology and the time and interest of citizen scientists several space-based science projects are underway through a project called...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Video, Weird Weather on 07 6th, 2011 | No Comments

Giant Haboob Dusts Phoenix

It’s something that looks like the size of sand storm in the middle east not in the desert southwest. But yesterday thunderstorms in Tuscon, Arizona pushed cool air away from the storm cells and kicked up dust as it roared north, toward Phoenix. As it made the 150-mile journey, the cool, moist...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Discoveries, Video on 07 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Crows Hold Grudges, So Watch Out

Crows have a remarkable way of remembering people — especially ones they think have wronged them. And now new research shows they pass on this scolding behavior to other birds so the grudge can carry on, sometimes for years. University of Washington bird biologist John Marzluff discovered about...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Biology, Discoveries, Geology, Marine Science, Museum, Physics and Chemistry, SciArt, Scientainment, Space, Video on 07 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Beauty of Science

When Alex de Voogt couldn’t get a crumbling sheath to release an early 20th Century Egyptian knife, he turned to a cutting-edge, high resolution, computed tomography (CT) scanner for help. Using the advanced x-ray technology he was able to see inside the knife covering and reveal writing on the...

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