2011 September | REALscience

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Physics and Chemistry, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 09 30th, 2011 | No Comments

Performance Art Demonstrates Origin of Life

Science and art collide (sometimes literally) in Group Intelligence, a new flash mob performance art piece that asks the question, “How did life begin?” Out of Hand Theater in Atlanta combined forces with the NASA/NSF Center for Chemical Evolution to explore the formation of molecules. But...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Health and Medicine, The Brain, Video on 09 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Watch Your Thoughts

It would be so much easier to replay dreams, record thoughts and communicate without speaking. But this type of futuristic technology was always thought to be a dream of a far away future or the plot of a science fiction movie. Hollywood Movie clip (L), fMRI image of same clip (R) Researchers at University...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Backyard Science, Biology, Citizen science, Consumer Safety, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Video on 09 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Snail Invasion Poses Health Risks

It may be the fastest invasion of a slow-moving creature but people in Miami-Dade County are taking care not to mess with the new snail in town. The east African land snail is making a home in south Florida and causing all sorts of problems. They reproduce at an exponential rate and grow fast. They...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Backyard Science, Citizen science, Space, Video on 09 27th, 2011 | No Comments

Satellite Plunges to Earth in Remote South Pacific

When an out of control satellite is plummeting to Earth a few minutes makes a big difference. In the case of the decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite arriving a few minutes ahead of schedule meant that the two dozen or so pieces that survived re-entry hit a remote part of the South Pacific,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 09 26th, 2011 | No Comments

Neutrinos Speed Past Light, Maybe

Last week, the world’s biggest physics lab unveiled a shocking finding: that one type of subatomic particle was clocked going faster than the speed of light. If true, it could undercut Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. Since 1905 the C in Einstein’s famous equation E=MC2 has...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Citizen science, Computer Science, Discoveries, Diseases, Engineering, Health and Medicine, Video on 09 21st, 2011 | 3 Comments

Citizen Scientists Discover Key HIV Protein

For years, scientists have been saying that some of the biggest discoveries in science will come from non-scientists. And now that prediction is showing promise as two teams of online video game players have helped solve the structure for an important enzyme found in the HIV virus. After medical researchers...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Backyard Science, Consumer Safety, Space, Video on 09 20th, 2011 | No Comments

NASA Tracking Satellite Heading for Earth

NASA says there could be a spectacular show on Friday if someone spots the re-entry of an old satellite. But that is a big if. The space agency is down-playing any danger associated with a 20-year-old, school-bus-sized piece of space junk crashing into a populated area. But there is still a chance that...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Citizen science, Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 09 19th, 2011 | No Comments

Surfers Use Science to Protect the Ocean

Surfers are a group of ocean super users. They spend a great deal of time in the water and on top of the waves. They notice slight variations. And they depend on a clean, safe environment to catch a wave and hang ten. As a result they are first responders when it comes to anything encroaching on their...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Biotechnology, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 09 16th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Science Inspired Art: The Movement

WARNING: this video is 41 minutes, so grab a cup of coffee and settle in for an inspiring talk. Generally modern art exhibits have provocative and pithy titles that don’t say much. Arthur Miller decided his new GV Gallery exhibit in London would take the opposite approach. He wanted to be explicit...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Space, Video on 09 15th, 2011 | No Comments

NASA Dips Toe in Deep Space Exploration

After months of speculation NASA unveiled its new Space Launch System to take astronauts further than they have ever gone before. While there is no destination yet for this new super-powered rocket, there is plenty of time to quibble over such details. The Marshall Flight Center in Rocket City, more...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Politics, Video on 09 14th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Why Politicos Attack Science So Freely

Subject: Science and Silliness Ever wonder why politicians take aim at science so often? Well the quick answer is, it’s popular. In the U.S. there is a certain cache that comes with sucking at science. If a kid is no good at chemistry chances are he had a parent or two that didn’t do well...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Video on 09 13th, 2011 | No Comments

Lost Penguin Loses Signal

A three-year-old Emperor penguin nicknamed Happy Feet washed onto a New Zealand beach in June after taking a wrong turn and heading away from his home in Antarctica. After a public rehabilitation, the zoo caring for the bird attached a tracking device to him and released him back into the wild on September...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Citizen science, Computer Science, Engineering, Inventions, Video on 09 12th, 2011 | 3 Comments

MakerBot Prints Future of Manufacturing

Bre Pettis used to be a school teacher in Seattle. Then he began doing weekend projects and podcasting about them for Make: magazine. But when he found 3-D printing he found a home and turned that passion into a company, where he is bringing science fiction-style replicators a step closer to reality....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate Change, Politics, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 09 9th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Leaving da Vinci’s Mark in the Melting Arctic

Artist John Quigley is known for his big creations. He likes the scale of decorating a field by scattering people to form shapes. He first gained notoriety during the World Trade Organization meetings and protests in Seattle where he photographed demonstrators marching between skyscrapers hand in hand....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Politics, Science Policy, Space, Video on 09 8th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Space Pollution Poses Orbiting Issues

Donald Kessler has been warning space agencies for over 30 years that dead satellites, spent rockets and other debris in low geosynchronous orbit around Earth would eventually start making it difficult to launch spacecraft. Now over a half million pieces of space junk are making rocket launches and...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Ecology, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Video on 09 7th, 2011 | No Comments

Tropical Storm Kicks up Gulf Tar Balls

Tropical Storm Lee pushed high surf into Gulf of Mexico beaches but not messy oil from the British Petroleum spill last year. And it also put predictions to the test. After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill last year oil looming offshore has hardened and sunk to the seafloor where it has formed giant...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Discoveries, Geology, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 09 6th, 2011 | No Comments

Astronomers Find Diamond Planet

Far far away, toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy sits a true diamond in the rough. Astronomers haven’t been able to see a newly discovered exoplanet but it may prove to be a real gem. Using deductive reasoning based on crucial pieces of evidence, an international astrophysics team led by...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Genetics, SciArt, Scientainment on 09 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

The DNA of Art

Wyllie O Hagan is a pair of visual artists working in different media, from silkscreen paintings to film. They became fascinated by Rosalind Franklin, the woman who captured the first x-ray image of DNA, which immediately led to James Watson and Francis Crick’s discovery of the structure of DNA...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Engineering, Health and Medicine, Inventions, Physiology, Video on 09 1st, 2011 | No Comments

A Breath of Medical Fresh Air

Starting in a couple of years you may be able to let out a big sigh of relief that medical diagnostics are moving away from needles and other invasive ways of figuring out what’s going on in the human body. New technology that takes detailed readings from our breath are already being tested to...

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