Articles in the Category: New Discoveries
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Marine Science, New Discoveries, Video, Weird Weather on 02 26th, 2010 | No Comments
Mammoth Icebergs Could Alter Ocean Currents, Weather
An iceberg about the size of Luxembourg, which struck a glacier off Antarctica dislodging another massive block of ice, could lower oxygen levels in the world’s oceans, affect ocean currents and even change global weather patterns.
With the equivalent of the world’s annual freshwater consumption...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, New Discoveries, Space, Video on 12 22nd, 2009 | No Comments
Hubble Snaps Baby Pics of the Early Universe
The Hubble Space Telescope snaps new images of the oldest galaxies ever seen. A senior scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, explains to WSJ’s Robert Lee Hotz and Simon Constable how he did it-and what it means.
The new infrared camera that was loaded onto the Hubble Telescope...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Marine Science, New Discoveries, Video on 12 16th, 2009 | No Comments
Smart Octopus Shows Tool Use
Australian scientists discover a species of octopus which use tools to protect themselves in Indonesian waters. The veined octopus has figured out how to select, stack and transport coconut shells to use as shelter. This is the first time scientists have seen any evidence of tool use among invertebrates.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 11 20th, 2009 | No Comments
Team Science Started the Internet and Powers the Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider, a $6 billion particle accelerator, is so large that a recent status report lists 2,900 authors. Robert Lee Hotz reports on how the project is a prime example of how scientists are inventing new ways to foster teamwork through the Internet and shared databases around the world.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Featured Articles, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 11 16th, 2009 | 2 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 Geology, Math, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 11 5th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Mt. Blanc Gets a Height Check
Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps is standing tall — all 4,810.45 metres of it. That’s only 45 centimetres less than when it was last measured four years ago, but three metres above the height French schoolchildren have long been taught. Scientists carried out new measurements in...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, New Discoveries, Space, Video on 10 21st, 2009 | No Comments
32 New Extrasolar Planet
The European Space Agency has found 32 new planets orbiting around distant stars. And they did it not with a high-powered space telescope but with a very sensitive ground-based instrument located in South America.
Learn about how astronomers locate planets based on subtle wobbles in star movement.
Just...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, New Discoveries, Space, Video on 10 8th, 2009 | No Comments
NASA Shoots the Moon
NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite smashes into the south pole of the moon to kick up some dust and see if there is evidence of water on the moon.
See the mission live as the centaur rocket and observation satellite hit the moon just after 4:10 a.m. PDT.
Amateur astronomers...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Geology, New Discoveries, 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 Astrobiology, New Discoveries, Space, Video on 09 24th, 2009 | No Comments
Water on the Moon
Three separate missions examining the moon have found clear evidence of water there.
On October 9th, NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission will try to detect water directly by crashing a Centaur rocket onto the moon.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Environment, Global Warming, Marine Science, New Discoveries, Video on 09 3rd, 2009 | No Comments
New Ocean Observatory Initiative Gets Funding
The University of Washington is spearheading a giant construction project to create a power and Internet grid along the ocean floor as part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative that will dramatically change the way we do ocean research.
The National Science Foundation grant of $126 million is the...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Backyard Science, Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Environment, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, SciClips, Space, Video on 08 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Turning the iPhone into the SciPhone
Just over a year old, the Apple iTunes App Store is churning out–or rather independent developers are–applications to calculate tips, find restaurants and even play countless games. But there is little for the science-interested smart phone users.
Oh sure, among the tens of thousands of...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Engineering, Featured Articles, New Discoveries, SciClips, Video on 06 30th, 2009 | No Comments
Go with the Air Flow
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Flexible moths give better lift. New research shows that insect wings are not rigid when they flap.
Being able to better understand how nature outfits insects for flight will lend insight to the next generations of robots and help engineer the future of aeronatics.
University...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, New Discoveries, SciClips on 05 29th, 2009 | No Comments
Putting the “i” in Medical Science
Biomedical breakthroughs happen all the time. But most people don’t stop to think about how the treatment that cured what ailed them or eased their suffering came about in the first place.
Students in the Pacific Northwest are getting a taste of what medical science can do and has done for them,...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Around the Americas, Biology, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Marine Science, New Discoveries, Video on 05 28th, 2009 | No Comments
Global Warming Makes Unique Research Voyage Possible
A group of sailors will leave Seattle soon on a mission that would have been impossible just three years ago. They’re going to circumnavigate North and South America through and they are doing it by sailing through a hopefully ice-free Arctic later this summer. KING 5’s Glenn Farley reports.
The...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Engineering, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, Nanotechnology, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 05 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Science Fair Season
Science is in the air across the nation as students showcase their discoveries, research projects and compete for scholarships. The biggest science and engineering fair is underway in Reno, Nevada.
Visit the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair to learn more.
Students from all over the Pacific...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Featured Articles, New Discoveries, The Brain, Video on 05 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Birds Dance to the Beat
After poring over about 1,000 YouTube videos researchers have discovered that some animals can bebop to the beat. The movie shows three excerpts of videos analyzed in this experiment. Each excerpt is at a tempo different from the original song (Everybody, by the Backstreet Boys; 108.7 beats per minute...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, RawAudio, Space on 03 5th, 2009 | No Comments
An Evening with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium and popular physicist, dropped by Seattle’s Town Hall recently to talk about the demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet.
It’s the subject of his new book, The Pluto Files.
The 2006 decision...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in New Discoveries, Politics and Science, SciClips, Video on 11 14th, 2008 | No Comments
Model Forensics Solves Kennedy Assassination Mystery
President and Mrs. Kennedy arrive in Dallas, 1963. Courtesy of Free Stock Photos
3-D computer models, complicated math analyses and even full simulations of crime scenes are all being used in the latest forensic science. And, now these high-tech tools are helping to solve old mysteries.
Now new forensics...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Engineering, Geology, Marine Science, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips on 08 18th, 2008 | No Comments
Undersea Lab Selects Sites
Courtesy of University of Washington
A summer cruise way off the coast of Oregon netted a group of scientists two sites for a proposed underwater sea lab. The cables for the network have to be laid in places that won’t be destroyed or disrupted. And, they made a few new discoveries along the...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 08 13th, 2008 | No Comments
Invisible Optimism
Becoming invisible is one step closer to becoming science fact, rather than fiction. A new experiment allowed scientists to cloak a microscopic piece of dust. While success in masking dirt around the house could be useful, scaling the science of invisibility up to a level where we can all hide is a...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, New Discoveries, Space, Video on 08 1st, 2008 | No Comments
NASA Finds Water on Mars
NASA scientists say they have definitive proof that water exists on Mars.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 05 22nd, 2008 | No Comments
Looking for the God Particle
Computer model of Higgs Boson, courtesy of CERN
Science and religion have often created explosive outcomes. But now particle physicists are hoping to get a glimpse of what they call the God particle when a new large particle accelerator starts smashing atoms in the next few months.
Some fear Earth-swallowing...
