Articles in the Category: Featured Articles
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Featured Articles, Politics, Science Ditty Friday, Science Policy, Scientainment, Video on 02 17th, 2012 | No Comments
SDF: Michael Jackson’s Earth Song Calls Out Apathy (Climate Denial)
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.
Michael Jackson’s operatic opus Earth Song was described...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Endangered Species, Environment, Featured Articles, Marine Science, Video on 02 16th, 2012 | No Comments
Aggressive Monk Seal Gets New Lease on Life
An unusually aggressive Hawaiian monk seal is settling into his temporary home at the Waikiki Aquarium after almost being killed last fall. The 9-year-old male known as KE18 has been beating up younger seals in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands. Endangered monk seals are having a hard enough time staying...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Climate Change, Discoveries, Engineering, Environment, Evolution, Featured Articles, Geology, Marine Science, Space, Video on 02 14th, 2012 | 1 Comment
Water Race at the Bottom of the World
The Russians proudly claim the honor of being the first nation to reach the subglacial waters of Lake Vostok buried deep beneath 12,000 feet of Antarctic ice. This feat has been ongoing for 20 years and on February 5 Russian scientists announced they had reached the underground lake, which has been...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Environment, Featured Articles, 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 Atmospheric science, Biology, Climate Change, Featured Articles, Video, Weird Weather on 02 2nd, 2012 | No Comments
Where’s Winter?
Today famed groundhog Punxsutawney Phil poked his head out of his burrow and saw his shadow, meaning (according to the old German superstition) that we can expect six more weeks of winter. But the crowd gathered in Pennsylvania to see the rodent’s prediction stood in pre-dawn temps hovering just...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biofuels, Climate Change, Engineering, Environment, Featured Articles, Geology, Greenovation, Math, Politics, Science Policy, Solar, Video, Wave Power, Wind on 01 25th, 2012 | 1 Comment
State of the Union Skimps on Science
For those expecting President Barack Obama to expound on the accomplishments of his laundry list of science and innovation policy he outlined in last year’s State of the Union, there were a few nods to but no specifics in this third State of the Union address on Tuesday evening.
As Forbes reported...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Consumer Safety, Diseases, Featured Articles, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Politics, Video on 01 23rd, 2012 | No Comments
Bird Flu Flies to Top of the Pathogen Pile
After several deaths of people in Cambodia, Vietnam and China recently, the bird flu is making a comeback in public discourse. Concerns are growing about the H5N1 strain of the influenza virus. A few years ago the world-sweeping swine flu stole headlines but the bird flu, which is much more virulent...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate Change, Environment, Featured Articles, Science Ditty Friday, Video on 01 20th, 2012 | No Comments
SDF: What the Frack?
Editor’s Note: To mark the new year REALscience is rolling out a new feature — Science Ditty Friday. Each and every Friday we’ll compile a song (preferably with accompanying video) to kick your weekend off with a musical start. And there will be a more detailed explanation of the science...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Featured Articles, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 01 18th, 2012 | 1 Comment
Debris from Japanese Tsunami Hits U.S.
Beaches along the coasts of Washington and Oregon are treasure troves of flotsam for avid beachcombers. But one scientist says that what’s on its way to the west coast is unprecedented and those areas are totally unprepared.
Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer is a self-proclaimed expert on manmade...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Discoveries, Featured Articles, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 01 17th, 2012 | No Comments
IBM Cracks Atomic Hard Drive Code
Right now there are about one million magnetized atoms involved in one bit of information. A bit is defined as a variable that can have only two possible values, 1 or 0. In computing those values are interpreted as binary digits. And IBM just lowered that minimum threshold from one million to 12.
For...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Featured Articles, Marine Science, SciLebs, Video on 01 13th, 2012 | No Comments
Strong Mussels Land Student in Intel Science Finals
Samantha Garvey wants to be a marine biologist and the science-focused 17 year old is now one of 61 finalists from Long Island in the Intel Science & Engineering Fair for her pioneering work with mussels.
But the real story of this scientist-in-training is that she is able to excel in the classroom...
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 Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Scientainment, SciLebs, Video on 01 9th, 2012 | 3 Comments
Student Sings Science Project
Maggie Arias is on her way to becoming the next iTunes sensation. The Atlanta-area 6th Grader is not your typical pop princess though. She uses “thermosphere” in her song, Aurora, which pays tribute to the beauty and power of the Northern Lights.
When her teacher asked each student to become...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Discoveries, Endangered Species, Featured Articles, Plants, Video on 01 5th, 2012 | No Comments
Parasitic Fly Could Explain Bee Disappearance
In 2006 bees began disappearing. Entomologists have never been exactly able to pinpoint the cause of syndrome, which they now call colony collapse disorder. It occurs when the worker bees abandon the hive and the whole system falls apart. No one knows why the bees leave. Some have suggested they get...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Discoveries, Endangered Species, Featured Articles, Marine Science, Video on 01 4th, 2012 | No Comments
Sharks Begin Climate Adaptation Strategy
Recently scientists in Australia discovered that two species of sharks are interbreeding. The common black-tip shark and the Australian black-tip shark have started producing hybrid sharks. Marine biologists in Queensland say they’ve found 57 sharks so far.
The common black-tip shark is found...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Earthquake, Environment, Featured Articles, Geology, Video on 01 3rd, 2012 | No Comments
Earthquake Shakes Ohio Confidence in Drilling
Hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking to reach deep pockets of natural gas seems to be the culprit behind a small earthquake that shook Youngstown, Ohio on Saturday. By Monday, state lawmakers had imposed a two-week ban on drilling while the latest quake is investigated.
Since the epicenter of the 4.0...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 12 30th, 2011 | No Comments
STEM to STEAM: The Scientific Case for Art
For many, 2011 was the year of Steve Jobs. His bright, creative light went dark. His legacy of innovation and creativity lives on in the products of Apple and the people who work there. But his reach extends much further. Political scientists, business gurus and pop culture junkies are still calculating...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Biology, Evolution, Featured Articles, Genetics, Physics and Chemistry, SciLebs on 12 28th, 2011 | No Comments
Rosie Redfield — Tyrant Queen of Science
Rosie Redfield is no shrinking violent. The outspoken University of British Columbia microbiologist always seems to have a wild hair about something. This year it ran the gamut from a fight over mailing flu cells to England using FedEx to her efforts showing scientific journals acting irresponsibly by...
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 Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Featured Articles, Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 12 15th, 2011 | No Comments
Is Metal the New Building Block of Life?
The focus of Lee Cronin’s work is understanding and controlling self-assembly and self-organisation in chemistry to develop functional molecular and nano-molecular chemical systems; linking architectural design with function and recently engineering system-level functions.Lee Cronin's Lab Searches...
Tattoos Etch Body of Science
Tattoos are a time-honored yet painful way to mark a significant moment in one’s life. They can capture the essence of who you are and permanently etch that onto your skin. Scientists are one tribe that shows their passion for their work by marking it on their bodies.
For years, science writer...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Featured Articles, Video, Weird Weather on 12 8th, 2011 | No Comments
Deadly Dozen Extreme Weather Events of 2011
2011 was a banner year for weather. It was cold, wet, dry and hot, depending what part of the country you inhabit. And according to new analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration there were 12 weather events that each cost over $1 billion, setting a new record.
Jack Hayes, head...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Discoveries, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Space on 12 7th, 2011 | 1 Comment
Earth-like Planet Fuels Excitement for Space Exploration
The question is the subject of movies, science fiction novels and our own curious minds. Are we alone in the universe? Prevailing scientific wisdom says yes but more and more the answer appears to be no.
With the advent of more sensitive cosmological equipment to scan the night sky, astronomers are...
