2011 August | REALscience

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Backyard Science, Biology, Marine Science, Scientainment, SciLebs, Video on 08 31st, 2011 | No Comments

Nature’s Deadliest Animal Wrangler

It’s not your average Top 10 list. In fact there are a lot more killer creatures on adventurer Steve Backshall’s World’s 60 Deadliest Animals list. And he is traveling the world in search of the creative ways critters kill each other. The Nat Geo Wild channel airs the show, which follows...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Engineering, Video, Weird Weather on 08 30th, 2011 | No Comments

Skyscrapers Pose Danger in Hurricanes

When Hurricane Irene began tracking toward New York City, officials feared the worst. In a city full of skyscrapers a hurricane can become a bigger instrument of destruction. Flying glass as windows blow out create dangerous projectiles littering the streets. And the space between highrise buildings...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate Change, Marine Science, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 08 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Irene’s Wet Legacy

Hurricane Irene was never a wind maker. Just ask any meteorologist tracking the storm since it began developing. But it was big, even for a hurricane. At one point Irene stretched over 610 miles across and hovered over half of the eastern seaboard as it roared up the U.S. Atlantic coast Saturday and...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 08 26th, 2011 | No Comments

Quantum Circus Blurs Lines between Science and Art

An experiment itself, the Quantum Circus was born out of a collaboration between some Finnish quantum physicists and a group of circus performers. After three five-day workshops in 2009 and 2010, the idea grew into a performance, telling the story of quantum phsyics. Broken into two distinct parts,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Backyard Science, Biology, Citizen science, Discoveries, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine Science, Math, New Species, Video on 08 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Millions of Species Yet to be Discovered

According to a new study it could take 1,200 years, 300,000 researchers and $364 billion to identify and catalog all the species on Earth. New research in the online journal PLoS Biology, a publication of the Public Library of Science uses a new way of calculating just how many plants and animals inhabit...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Earthquake, Geology, Video on 08 24th, 2011 | No Comments

Big Quake Rattles East Coast

A 5.8 earthquake sent jitters through major population centers up and down the east coast of the U.S. yesterday. People from Toronto to Atlanta felt the moderate quake which was centered along the Central Virginia Seismic Zone near Mineral, Virginia. The east coast doesn’t get major temblors like...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate Change, Plants, Video on 08 23rd, 2011 | No Comments

Orange Goo Mystery Solved …sort of

In early August a mysterious orange goo began appearing in towns along Alaskan shores. At first the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration thought the bright gunk might be microscopic eggs. People in the tiny town of Kivalina found the mystery muck floating near shore, in a river and even in...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Evolution, Genetics, Plants, Video on 08 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

Climate Change Pushes Species Up and North

A meta-study in the journal Science says – changing global temperatures are pushing species towards the poles and higher altitudes. A meta study is a study that rounds up all the other related studies (in this case 54) and analyzes them for trends or patterns that emerge. After looking at the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Discoveries, Diseases, Environment, Health and Medicine, New Species, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, Video on 08 18th, 2011 | No Comments

Yale Undergrads Find Plastic-Eating Fungus

The growing garbage problem may have a new solution–fungus that eats plastic. For years mounting mounds of plastic have been choking landfills and polluting the ocean. Now an annual undergraduate trip to the rain forest may have found a solution to the plastic problem. Unleashing creativity in...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Citizen science, Computer Science, Discoveries, Geology, Marine Science, Math, Video on 08 17th, 2011 | No Comments

Project Shiphunt Puts Adventure in Science

What started out as an educational lesson turned into real-world adventure for five high school students from Sagniaw, Michigan. The students from Arthur Hill High School, near Michigan’s Shipwreck Alley on Lake Huron located two missing ships at the bottom of the lake. In a science outreach collaboration...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Discoveries, Solar, Space, Video on 08 16th, 2011 | 1 Comment

NASA Mission to Jupiter to Unlock Secrets of Planet Formation

A space probe carrying some Lego astronauts is on a five-year trip to Jupiter. The Juno mission launched without a hitch on August 5 and began its journey to the largest planet in the solar system. With the end of the 30-year space shuttle program, the new face of NASA is space probes not astronauts....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Diseases, Engineering, Health and Medicine, Inventions, Video on 08 15th, 2011 | No Comments

Electronic Tattoos

Ultrathin, flexible circuit boards that attach to the skin could replace conventional wired medical equipment, especially when it comes to monitoring vital signs. New electronic tattoos, also known as epidermal electronics are taking state-of-the-art wireless medical technology and sticking it to a...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 08 12th, 2011 | No Comments

Ferrofluid Sculpture

Ferrofluid Morpho Towers from Jason Peters on Vimeo. Morpho Towers–Two Standing Spirals is a 2007 installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two iron spiral towers stand on a large plate holding ferrofluid, also known as liquid magnets. When...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Discoveries, Diseases, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Video on 08 11th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Cancer Research Takes Giant Leap Forward

Already heralded as the biggest step in cancer research in decades, a new cancer treatment is forcing conservative doctors and scientists to use words like, “Amazing.” It’s premature to call this new treatment a cure since it has only been tried in three patients, all of whom have...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Space, Video on 08 10th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Solar Storms on the Uptick

As the sun awakens from a very sleepy period with virtually no solar activity, solar storms are on the rise. The eleven-year solar cycle is expected to reach its maximum level of activity in about 2013 and until things cool down the sun will continue to eject plasma bursts that have the potential to...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate Change, Greenovation, Politics, Video on 08 9th, 2011 | No Comments

Sponge Bob in Hot Water over Global Warming

According to Fox News, perhaps the popular cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants should be renamed SpongeBob GlobalWarmingPants. Six years after it was released, the cartoon short SpongeBob SquarePants in The Endless Summer went under the microscope at Fox & Friends on August 3. The pundits took issue with...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Biology, Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 08 8th, 2011 | No Comments

Water on Mars…Maybe

Images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are sending back new and exciting pictures for NASA scientists to study. Scientists believe dark finger-like streaks in the soil on Mars indicate underground, seasonal liquid water streams. It’s not definitive proof that water exists in a liquid form...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Biology, Math, SciArt, Scientainment, Space, Video on 08 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Charles and Ray Eames Power of Creativity

In 1978, Charles and Ray Eames, the husband and wife duo who are known for their mid 20th Century furniture, movie making and other design projects, decided to map the visible world. Their film, Powers of Ten showed the perspective of moving one order of magnitude every ten seconds. Beginning with a...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Conferences, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 08 4th, 2011 | No Comments

Physics Science Scare Shuts Airport

The theme of the summer meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers is Communicating Physics Outside the Classroom. Unwittingly that’s exactly what a participant from Oregon did. A PhD student shut down the entire airport in Omaha, Nebraska where Creighton University was hosting the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Diseases, Physiology, Video on 08 4th, 2011 | No Comments

Expensive Prostate Drug Complicated and Unpopular with Docs

Many doctors aren’t prescribing biotech company Dendreon’s experimental prostate cancer drug. The company’s stock shares dropped sharply after it announced it was firing workers and lowering its revenue forecast for the year. But the drug is hailed as a powerful, yet complicated way...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Greenovation, Solar, Video on 08 4th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Sunny Outlook for Solar Energy

The Hawaii Electric Company (HECO) placed solar panels on the roof of the Easter Seals building on Oahu, making the non-profit agency the solar installation that pushed them over the 20 megawatt mark. Each megawatt of electricity produced from photo voltaic cells powers about 800 homes. Cities around...

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