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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Marine Science, New Species, Oceanography, Video on 07 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Marine Biologists Find New Species

Marine biologists believe they have discovered several new species of underwater creatures, including sponges, corals and sea stars

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Video on 07 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft Imagine Cup Rewards Students Who Solve Global Problems

The Imagine Cup, now in its eighth year, encourages high school and university students around the world to develop software aiming to solve global problems. Team Skeek from Thailand took home the top prize for software design for creating a program that translates text into sign language using speech...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Space, Video on 07 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Put Your Face in Space

NASA is giving anyone interested the opportunity to send a picture into space on one of the last two space shuttle missions. Go to the Face in Space website to upload an electronic picture to fly with astronauts aboard shuttle Discovery’s STS-133 mission or shuttle Endeavour’s STS-134 mission....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Space on 06 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Black Holes and Holographic Worlds — from World Science Festival

Black Holes and Holographic Worlds: (1:33:28) Dutch professor and physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf says the idea of black holes falls right in between the two largest theories in physics–general relativity and quantum mechanics. General relativity describes large structures in the universe while quantum...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Featured Articles, Horizon Oil Spill, Oceanography, Video on 06 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Oceanographers Join the Oil Spill Fight with Robot Subs

An autonomous underwater vehicle from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute just returned from gathering important data about the gulf Oil spill as scientists begin to help figure out how much oil is continuing to leak day by day and what’s happening almost a mile below the surface of the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Featured Articles, Genomics, Video on 05 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Craig Venter Gives Life to First Synthetic Cell

The CBC’s science correspondent Bob McDonald puts the world’s first synthetic cell into perspective.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Engineering, Featured Articles, Video on 05 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Canadian Beavers Build Dam Visible from Space

For the last 35 years industrious beavers have been building a wooden masterpiece that can be seen from outer space. Hidden in the wetlands of Northern Alberta, Canada few have seen the big dam up close. Canadian scientist Jean Thie of EcoInformatics found the giant beaver dam when he was using Google...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Geology, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 03 1st, 2010 | 1 Comment

Chile’s Quake of the Century

The 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck near the city of Concepcion, Chile over the weekend is the largest recorded quake in 50 years. Though more people were killed and left homeless after the Haiti earthquake in January, this quake was about 500 times more powerful. Cameras captured the earthquake...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Featured Articles, Video on 02 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Science of…Breaking Things

It’s every 15 year old boy’s dream — to be able to break things and not get into trouble. At the Fears Lab at University of Oklahoma, scientists and engineers come from all over the world to squeeze, shake, break and shatter all sorts of things. And it’s all in the name of science. Most...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Featured Articles, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Science of..., Video on 02 15th, 2010 | No Comments

The Science of…The Winter Olympics

San Francisco Bay area teachers are using the 2010 Winter Olympics to teach kids about math and science. The Silicon Valley Education Foundation teamed up with NBC Learn — the educational arm of NBC News — and the National Science Foundation to provide free lesson plans and video clips....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, The Brain on 02 11th, 2010 | No Comments

The Love Hormone Field Test

It’s a rare occasion when a scientist can test a theory outside the confines of a laboratory. So when Paul Zak got a call from New Scientist reporter Linda Geddes to take her blood at her wedding, he just couldn’t say no. Dr. Zak is an ocytoxin researcher who studies social indicators of...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, SciArt, Science & Entertainment, Video on 02 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Science Remixed for the Masses

Music is a powerful medium to convey big messages. But few have successfully spun science-themed songs into big hits. John Boswell has created a new art form, merging the spoken word from superstar scientists with his own original music. And his Symphony of Science has become a big hit on YouTube. We...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Computer Science, Energy, Engineering, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 02 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

Science on Track for Big Budget Gains in 2011

The federal agencies submitted their budget requests to Congress this week, marking a big moment for all things science. According to preliminary reports about $148 billion of the Presidents full $3.8 trillion budget is heading for scientific research programs. Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Endangered Species, Featured Articles, Marine Science, SciClips, Video on 12 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Sea Turtle Flies to Miami

An injured hawksbill sea turtle flew First Class from the Caribbean island of Curacao to Miami on Tuesday. Little Anita rode in her own seat, next to marine biologist Alina Szmant. The endangered turtle is now settling into her new home at the Hidden Harbor Marine Environmental Project’s “Turtle...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Endangered Species, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, SciClips, Video on 12 17th, 2009 | No Comments

Tree Kangaroos Fate Up in the Air

Matschie's Tree Kangaroo courtesy of Woodland Park Zoo Climate negotiations over how to limit carbon dioxide emissions are heating up in Copenhagen. But one other important area negotiators are addressing — how to sequester existing CO2. Climate sinks — like oceans, forests and permafrost...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics and Science, RawAudio, SciClips, Science & Entertainment on 12 15th, 2009 | No Comments

The Real Grey’s Anatomy

The hit ABC television drama Grey’s Anatomy revolves around the fictional Seattle Grace Hospital and follows the lives of surgical residents. Portland, Oregon medical correspondent and author Andrew Holtz wondered where the line between fact and fiction is being drawn when it comes to training...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, SciClips, SciLebs, Space, Video on 12 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Virgin Galactic Blows Guests Away During Space Ship 2 Unveiling

VSS Enterprise December 7 is a day that will now live in a new kind of infamy. It was the day that Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space company unveiled its new Space Ship 2 and almost blew 800 guests away — in hurricane-force winds — in the process. Video of the destruction...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Environment, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Politics and Science, SciClips on 12 8th, 2009 | No Comments

Gaga for Zhu Zhu

The world has gone nuts for five robotic hamsters, called Zhu Zhu Pets. While the cute and cuddly creatures race around on a surfboard, skateboard or in a car, the “it” toy of 2009 has some heavy metals that are within safety limits but beg the question: Do toys need to have these toxic...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 12 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Deconstructing Carbon Emissions

Over the course of the next few weeks we are going to be hearing a lot about carbon emissions–the gas released into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels and a whole host of other human activities. While the catch-all is called “carbon emissions” they aren’t confined to carbon...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Politics and Science, SciClips on 11 19th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Mammogram Recommendations Pit Science Against Policy

A long-standing debate over younger women getting annual breast cancer screening is reigniting this week, after an independent medical panel changed its recommendations. Confusion, fear and politics are swirling around the new U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations. The task force now recommends...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Featured Articles, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 11 16th, 2009 | 3 Comments

Moon Water Found–Now What?

Moon Water, courtesy of Babaloo. After a lackluster lunar blast that was barely visible, scientists worried there might not be water on the moon. But after analyzing the mountain of preliminary data, NASA confirmed there is water–in the form of ice–just below the surface of the lunar poles. This...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, SciClips on 11 12th, 2009 | 8 Comments

Climate Deniers Turn Up Heat on Science Societies

Scientists within the most venerated science organizations in the United States are mounting rebellions against those organizations and their somewhat unified policy on the science of climate change–that it is real and being driven by human activities. A group of several hundred of 47,000 physicists...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Astronomy, Featured Articles, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Psychology, SciClips on 11 10th, 2009 | No 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...

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