2011 October | REALscience

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, Citizen science, Space, Video on 10 31st, 2011 | No Comments

Asteroid to Make Near Earth Pass

An aircraft carrier-sized asteroid is hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood. 2005 YU55 is going to be zipping by on November 8 in what scientists are calling a close encounter. The asteroid is not going to hit Earth but it will be about 15 percent closer to Earth than the moon, making it quite an...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Environment, Greenovation, Inventions, SciArt, Scientainment, Solar, Video on 10 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Artist to Build a Glacier in the Desert

For artist Ap Verheggen there is a fine line between art and experiment. Last year the Dutch artist placed two sculptures on icebergs and intends for them to float off the coast of Greenland, sending a message about how climate change is also changing culture. That was a project he called cool(E)motion....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Genetics, Genomics, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Video on 10 27th, 2011 | 1 Comment

X Prize Opens Centenarian Genome Competition

The first scientific team to sequence the genomes of 100 one-hundred year olds wins $10 million. It’s the latest offering from the science competition organization, X Prize Foundation, a non-profit designed to spur science and technology by awarding big cash prizes for significant breakthroughs. Their...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Backyard Science, Citizen science, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 10 26th, 2011 | 3 Comments

Northern Lights Track South

Generally people in the far northern latitudes get to see the solar wind dancing with the magnetic field around Earth. But because of increased solar activity, the northern lights have been more visible further south, including Alabama, Georgia and even Florida. An automated NASA camera that takes a...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Earthquake, Environment, Geology, Health and Medicine, Video on 10 25th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Fracking Earthquakes

John Long is a geologist for Osborn Heirs, an oil and gas exploration and development company in San Antonio, Texas. When the earth started rumbling beneath is office he had a pretty good idea why. The answer he says is hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking. He says, “Anytime you take fluid or...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Biology, Environment, Evolution, Greenovation, Inventions, Math, Plants, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 10 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Nature by Numbers

Nature has been doing things for billions of years without issue. Over time plants and animals have refined the way they live to reflect the optimal situation given the conditions they have to endure. This is the nature of evolution. The fittest survive but what fit means to nature may be different...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biotechnology, Consumer Safety, Diseases, Ecology, Engineering, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Plants, Video on 10 20th, 2011 | No Comments

Genetically Modified Foods Abound in U.S.

Jeffrey Smith has written the book on genetically modified foods (GMOs). Now he’s on a crusade to rid the U.S. of unhealthy food hybrids that not even animals choose to eat. He tells the story of a farmer who was growing corn for his cows. The farmer grew non-GMO corn next to corn that had been...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Discoveries, Diseases, Genomics, Health and Medicine, Video on 10 18th, 2011 | No Comments

Outgrowing the Plague

Every year about 10-15 people in the U.S. contract the plague. Just the sound of the world plague sounds ominous. But the illness is much less of a death sentence than it was during the Dark Ages. Now, a quick dose of antibiotics and the plagued person is right as rain. After completing the first reconstruction...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Diseases, Economics, Engineering, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Math, Politics, Video on 10 17th, 2011 | No Comments

Earth Population: 7 Billion and Counting

Seven billion is a big number. It looks like this: 7,000,000,000. According to National Geographic magazine If you started counting out loud to 7 billion, it would take you 200 years. And, If you took 7 billion steps it would take you around the globe 133 times. By the end of October, that’s...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Geology, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Scientainment, SciLebs, Space, Video on 10 14th, 2011 | No Comments

Music Meets Science in Biophilia

The voice of nature Sir David Attenborough is featured explaining Iceland musician Bjork’s latest venture — Biophilia. It’s part music album reflecting the connection points between sound, nature and technology. It’s an app for iPhones and iPads. It’s a creation generator...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Citizen science, Climate Change, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, Science of..., Video on 10 13th, 2011 | No Comments

Science of…Fall Foliage

For leaf peepers Fall is the time for the best leaves. They turn from bright green to yellow, then orange and if the conditions are right red and purple too. But what makes fall colors so spectacular? Science can explain. First just about everybody knows that chlorophyll gives leaves their green color....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Engineering, Inventions, Space on 10 12th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Largest Telescope Built to See Cosmic Dawn

It’s already the largest telescope in the world but by the end of 2013 the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Telescope will be able to see dust that was formed 13 billion years ago. Comprised of 20 high-powered antennas the project will add another 46 over the next two years. Sitting...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Consumer Safety, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Physiology, Scientainment, Video on 10 11th, 2011 | No Comments

Ig Nobel Prizes Take a Lighter Look at Science

Pee pressure, beer bottle-humping beetles and a wasabi-flavored fire alarm were among the top prizes awarded at Harvard University’s 21st Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, a more laid back version of the Nobel Prize ceremony. Nobel Prize laureates present the Ig Nobels to scientists and philosophers...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Nanotechnology, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 10 10th, 2011 | 4 Comments

NanoArt Shows Beauty at Smallest Level

Every artist must draw inspiration from someplace. For Christian Orfescu that inspiration is found at his day job, working as a materials scientist for Caleb Technology, a Califorina-based company where he uses nanotechnology to design better lithium batteries. Behold, the NanoArt. #gallery-2...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Inventions, Scientainment, SciLebs on 10 6th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Steve Jobs: 1955-2011

Within hours of his death, Apple co-founder, inventor and innovator Steve Jobs was being compared to scientist Albert Einstein and inventor Thomas Edison. Though he lacked formal scientific training and had no PhD I think most people would consider Steve Jobs a scientist. He tinkered, explored and...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Math, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 10 5th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Quasicrystal Discovery Wins Chemistry Nobel Prize

Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Shechtman “for the discovery of quasicrystals.” Until his 1982 discovery, Dr. Shechtman, who has joint appointments at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 10 4th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Three Capture Nobel Prize in Physics for Expanding Universe

For scientists it doesn’t get any bigger than the Nobel Prize. This year’s winners in the Physics category receive the honor for work they did on the biggest subject available to them or anyone — the universe. Three U.S. scientists are sharing the prize for their theory of a rapidly...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Video on 10 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes to Immunologists

A pioneering researcher was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Monday, three days after dying of pancreatic cancer without ever knowing he was about to be honored for his immune system work that he had used to prolong his own life. Ralph Steinman, 1943-2011 Cell biologist Ralph Steinman...

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