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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Consumer Safety, Earthquake, Engineering, Environment, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Video on 04 14th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Can Dancing Robots Help with Nuclear Clean Up?

Tokyo Electric Power is putting remote controlled machinery to use at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan. Helicopters mounted with cameras can safely survey the damaged reactors to give clean up crews a clear view of the mess without exposing them to dangerous radiation,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Endangered Species, Greenovation, Podcast, Video on 04 13th, 2011 | No Comments

Polar Bear Surprise

Imagine waking from a long nap — a little disoriented and still groggy — only to find the world you left when you went to sleep is totally different. A mother polar bear had that very Rip Van Winkle experience on a man-island off the coast of Alaska. When she emerged from her den after hibernation,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Podcast, Scientainment, Space, Video on 04 12th, 2011 | No Comments

New Space Race: Who Gets the Shuttles

Update: Shuttles heading to Washington D.C, New York, Florida and California After 30 years and 135 flights into space, the US space shuttle is coming to an end. With just two more flights left, NASA is retiring the space shuttle program. Now, the AP’s Lee Powell says the familiar black-and-white...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Earthquake, Environment, Geology, Podcast, Video on 04 11th, 2011 | No Comments

Japan Earthquake: One Month Later

One month after the deadly 9.0 Japanese earthquake, the rescue workers and government took a moment of silence to remember the disaster that leveled portions of northeastern Japan after the quake triggered a large tsunami. But even after a month, the ground hasn’t stopped shaking. Last week a...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Consumer Safety, Environment, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, Video on 04 8th, 2011 | No Comments

Radioactive Water Poses No Seafood Risk to People

Workers in Japan have started dumping more than three million gallons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. Tokyo Electric officials spent about two days dumping out all that water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in northeastern Japan, following the devastating March 11 earthquake....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Computer Science, Discoveries, Engineering, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, Video on 04 7th, 2011 | No Comments

Robot Bird Masters Winged Flight

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s SmartBird — the avian robot. German engineers claim they have succeeded in unlocking the secrets of bird flight. For centuries man has tried to imitate nature by mimicking flight. Capturing the energy efficiency and subtlety of bird flight has proven...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Engineering, Marine Science, Oceanography, Podcast, SciLebs, Video on 04 6th, 2011 | No Comments

Billionaire Branson Heads for Murky Depths

Billionaire adventurer Richard Branson announced plans to travel to the deepest parts of the world’s oceans in a single-person submarine this week. Sir Richard will pilot the one-manned Virgin Oceanic sub as he dives the Puerto Rico trench, located just off the coast of Puerto Rico, sometime in...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Podcast, Space, Video on 04 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Curiosity Joins Opportunity and Spirit on Mars

NASA engineers in California are working around the clock to put the finishing touches on the new Mars mega-rover before shipping it off to Florida for launch later this year. Wearing his clean suit, AP’s John Mone got an inside look at the vehicle named Curiosity. After launch to the red planet...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Consumer Safety, Health and Medicine, Podcast, SciLebs, Video on 04 4th, 2011 | No Comments

Bronx Zoo Cobra Alive and Well…and Ready for her Close Up

The national snake hunt is now hissstory! After a six-day search for an Egyptian cobra, the director of the Bronx Zoo told a relieved city that the snake was found in a non-public area of the zoo’s reptile house. The poisonous snake disappeared from a Bronx Zoo exhibit and caught the nation’s...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics, The Brain, Video on 04 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Fake Food Color Linked to ADHD

The consumer watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest wants to ban all artificial color from foods. At the very least the organization wants the Food and Drug Administration to put warning labels on foods containing some dyes, like Yellow 5 and Red 40, which have been linked to Attention...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, Space, Video on 03 31st, 2011 | No Comments

Mercury Comes into View

After a six-and-a-half-year and 93-million-mile journey the Messenger spacecraft has reached its target — Mercury, the planet closest to the sun. After a tricky maneuver to use gravitational force to enter into the fast-spinning orbit of Mercury the probe began sending back the clearest and closest...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate, Climate Change, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, Space, Video on 03 30th, 2011 | No Comments

NASA Mission to Study Polar Climate Change

The earth’s climate is getting a checkup thanks to NASA’s Operation Ice Bridge. It’s a six year mission to study the earth’s polar region from on board an airplane. NASA scientist Tom Wagner explains the mission from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. While...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Podcast, Politics, Video on 03 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Tigers Creep Back from the Brink

India’s latest tiger census shows an increase in the numbers of the endangered big cat, but threats to their roaming territory could reverse those gains, officials said on Monday. At a three-day tiger conference in New Delhi(PDF) Indian officials released the latest tiger census. The news appeared...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Citizen science, Computer Science, Engineering, Inventions, Podcast, SciArt, Video on 03 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Building Dreams from Scratch

A new membership-based, do-it-yourself fabrication and manufacturing space allows engineers and inventors to work on their gadgets using the latest in high-tech equipment. Tech Shop has opened facilities in California with plans to expand across the country. It’s like your father’s workshop...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Engineering, Environment, Health and Medicine, Inventions, Podcast, Scientainment, Space, Video on 03 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Virtusphere Rolls into the Future

It looks like a giant hamster ball but it’s doing far more than exercising its occupants. The Virtusphere, which first rolled onto the scene during the reality television show Shark Tank in 2009, takes virtual reality to a whole new level. For science, it gives the opportunity to walk through...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Podcast, Space, Video on 03 24th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Moon Mechanics

British astronomer Brian Cox explains the rotation of the moon. With all the talk lately about the effects of the full moon and the recent supermoon, a lot of people are asking some pretty lunar questions lately. Many want to know why we can only see one side of the moon and if there is a dark side...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Engineering, Podcast, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 03 23rd, 2011 | No Comments

Robots Debut in New Opera

Call them operabots. In a marriage of music and media, a team at the MIT Media Lab has infused an opera with robotic technology. In Death and the Powers, a new opera by Media Lab professor Tod Machover, the main character wishes to leave the physical world, but remain there digitally. He downloads himself...

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 Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, Scientainment, Video on 03 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Science with a Beat

A hip-hop science tour is helping kids dance to a different beat — science. To get more middle school students interested in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects FMA Live — named after Sir Isaac Newton’s second law, Force Equals Mass Times Acceleration —...

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, Biology, Climate, Diseases, Endangered Species, Featured Articles, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics, SciClips on 01 10th, 2010 | No Comments

The Growling Uncertainty of Science

One thing is for sure. Science doesn’t do certainty. No matter how close a researcher gets to complete certainty there is always room to know more. Therefore uncertainty is a scientific fact. And we need to get comfortable with it. From taxonomic tussles over classifying the giant panda to more...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics, RawAudio, SciClips, Scientainment 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 Astronomy, Podcast, RawAudio, SciClips, Space on 12 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Pluto’s Icy Underdog Status

Composite image of Pluto, courtesy Eliot Young (SwRI) et al., NASA For three years, Pluto–the ninth planet–has been given the cold shoulder by the astronomy community, which demoted it to dwarf planet in 2006. What is it about Pluto that tugs at our heartstrings? MSNBC.com Science Editor...

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