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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Environment, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Science Ditty Friday, Scientainment, Video on 02 3rd, 2012 | No Comments

SDF: Jackson Browne’s Ode to the Ocean

Editor’s Note: It’s Science Ditty Friday. Every Friday REALscience compiles a song (generally with an accompanying video) to kick your weekend off with a musical start. Have a favorite science song? Send it to ditty@realscience.us. When legendary marine biologist Sylvia Earle started exploring...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Bioethics, Biology, Genetics, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 01 26th, 2012 | No Comments

Project Runway: Spider Edition

Golden orbweaver spiders from Madagascar secrete the only spider silk that is gold in color, not white. And now a five-year project to create a cape is finished and on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. This is the first spider silk textile made since the late 19th Century.Nicholas...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Geology, Museum, Space, Video on 01 10th, 2012 | No Comments

New Mexico Space Rock Recovered

Leann Lloyd had the dubious honor of lugging a metallic rock through airport security in Missouri. She was on her way back to Albuquerque and the Meteorite Museum at University of New Mexico after retrieving the missing meteorite. She says, “It stopped the line and caused a big hub-bub and three...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Featured Articles, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Science & Religion, Video on 12 23rd, 2011 | 1 Comment

Science Finds Shroud of Turin Wasn’t Faked

A new theory posits that an instantaneous light burst at the moment of Jesus’ resurrection left the imprint of his image in the cloth used to bury him. Just in time for what believers call a Christmas miracle, a team of Italian scientists has concluded that the cloth believed to hold the image...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Dinosaurs, Discoveries, Marine Science, Video on 11 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

Largest Whale Fossile Bed Unearthed in Chile

For seven million years at least 80 ancient whale skeletons have been preserved in the high desert of Chile. Now a road project threatens the ancient burial ground. But developers of the new highway project have given scientists another month to remove and study as much of the area as they can.Whale...

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 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...

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, Anthropology, Environment, Video on 04 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

Earth Day Celebrates People

For over 50 years, human audiences have been fascinated by natural history television shows and big screen movies. From Disney Nature to Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, we have explored every crack and crevice of the planet in search of weird, wonderful and unexpected creatures that share the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Endangered Species, Podcast, SciLebs, Video on 03 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

NFL Cheerleader turns to Life of Science

Mireya Mayor explores remote areas of the world is search of elusive and endangered species. The wildlife expert and anthropologist also educates students and parents about the importance of conservation wherever she goes. After watching the movie Gorillas in the Mist before practice one day, the former...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, Video on 03 18th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Atlantis: Still Lost or Now Found?

The fabled lost city of Atlantis has been found — again. This time the ringed city made famous in the writings of Plato 2,700 years ago is located in southern Spain. A new National Geographic special believes there is sufficient evidence to show that Atlantis existed and is buried in a marshy...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Around the Americas, Citizen science, Climate Change, Environment, Geology, Marine Science, Scientainment, Space, Video on 01 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Science Tourists Explore New Ways to Travel

If Jonas Salk and Carl Sagan are your celebrities, we have a trip for you. From researching global warming in Antarctica to monitoring space flight, Bloomberg Businessweek explores the growing tourism niche of science travel. It’s a marriage of ecotravel and scientific research. Here are some...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Bioethics, Biology, Endangered Species, Video on 01 18th, 2011 | No Comments

Japan to Revive Extinct Mammoths

It sounds like something right out of Jurassic Park but scientists in Japan have plans to bring the long-extinct mammoth back to life using cloning technology within the next 5 years. Akira Iritani, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University in Japan, is looking to resurrect the woolly mammoth using a...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biology, Discoveries, Diseases, Earthquake, Environment, Genomics, Geology, Health and Medicine, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, New Species, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Space on 12 31st, 2010 | No Comments

2010 Science Roundup

On the last day of 2010, the final day of the last year in the first decade of the 21st Century, we bid farewell to another year. Let’s take a look back over the last 12 months through the eyes of science. First, physicist Dr. Michio Kaku looks back over the natural disasters that rocked the world...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Discoveries, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 08 27th, 2010 | No Comments

Scientists Plan 3-D Map of Titanic

A team of scientists is on a mission to provide 3D maps and models of the wreckage of the Titanic before it disappears. The nearly 100 year old shipwreck is falling apart. To preserve the famous ship as it is the Waitt Institute is using side-sensing autonomous underwater vehicles to map the Titanic....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Biology, Climate, Climate Change, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Math, Plants, Scientainment, Space, Video on 08 20th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Scientists are People Too

The race is on to humanize scientists. Mad, messy-haired white men in white coats in a dark, cold laboratory are out. Long distance running, singer-photographer, daredevils are in. These are the new faces of science. mechanical engineer and an all-purpose daredevil, Nate Ball is also an accomplished...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Health and Medicine, Museum, Video on 07 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Mummies of World Unwrapped and Ready to Tour

The “Mummies of the World” exhibit opens in Los Angeles featuring 150 specimens of human and animal remains and related artifacts from across the globe. Mummy Science Cedars-Sinai Medical Center partnered with the German Mummy Project to perform CT scans of the mummies included in the exhibition. “If...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Museum, Video on 11 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Google Documents Iraqi Museum Treasures

Google is documenting the artifacts of Iraq’s national museum. Google chief Eric Schmidt toured the museum Tuesday, and said the photographs would be available for viewing online in 2010.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Astronomy, Featured Articles, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Psychology, SciClips on 11 10th, 2009 | 6 Comments

2012 Hoax Debunked

2012 is becoming the conspiratorial talk of the town. And a new Sony Pictures disaster movie by the same name only seems to be confusing matters. NASA even posted a Q & A page on its Web site. Here’s the gist of the kitchen sink hoax. It starts with the end of the Mayan calendar, adds a mystery...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Ecology, Environment, Geology, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, SciClips, Space on 10 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Science Sticks its Head in the Cloud

Visualization of a river bed created using VisTrails, a system developed by University of Utah computer scientists Photo by: Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva, University of Utah A two-year experiment to build a framework to analyze the massive amount of data scientists are collecting will push research...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Biochemistry, Economics, Health and Medicine, Math, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Scientainment, SciLebs on 10 8th, 2009 | No Comments

Ig Nobel Prizes Irreverent in Science

While most serious scientists are wringing their hands, wondering who will win the Nobel prizes, a different group of scientists is celebrating the lighter–but just as bona fide–side of science. The 19th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony shined a silly look at science at Harvard last...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Discoveries, Geology, New Species, Video on 10 6th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Ardi, the Oldest Hominid Found in Ethiopia

Last week, after 17 years of secrecy, scientists announced they had found the oldest example of the human lineage. Her name is Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus, and she is a 4.4 million year old fossil. Ardi was found in the famous Rift Valley of Ethiopia, where other fossils, like Lucy were discovered....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Astrobiology, Books, Dinosaurs, Environment, Geology, Podcast, SciClips on 08 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Stories in Stone

Urban geologist David Williams is a big stone kinda guy. He is not one to shy away from a nice chunk of gneiss. Nor will he wilt at the sight of weathered brownstone–one of his favorites. Now, the author of Stories in Stone: Travels in Urban Geology, Williams shares his passion for rocks–from...

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