Articles in the Category: SciClips
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Environment, Politics, SciClips, Science Policy on 11 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Copenhagen Diagnosis Reveals Dire Climate Future
just as world leaders are getting ready to head to Denmark for a big climate negotiations conference that will determine the treaty to follow the Kyoto Protocol, a new scientific assessment is painting a dark picture of the future, based on recent climate science.
Though not an official report of the...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Genetics, Geology, Politics, SciClips, Video on 11 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment
Going Bananas Over Darwin
Christian pastor Ray Comfort decided to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by writing his own introduction and handing out free copies of the book to college students across the country.
Comfort is responsible for handing out over 100,000 copies of the...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Politics, SciClips on 11 19th, 2009 | 3 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, Discoveries, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 11 16th, 2009 | 4 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, Climate Change, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Politics, SciClips on 11 12th, 2009 | 9 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 | 7 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 Biochemistry, Featured Articles, Food and Nutrition, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Video on 11 6th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Beer’s Organileptic Chemistry
Beer has been flavoring human culture for at least 9,000 years. During that time, the rich brew has transformed and evolved to satisfy the complex palates of the time.
Now, science is a driving force in making beer. And, understanding some of the chemistry can refine color, aroma and flavor.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 11 3rd, 2009 | 12 Comments
Exoplanet Name Game
Most people don’t realize that since the advent of high-powered telescopes and a new method in planetary detection called radial velocity, over 400 new planets have been spotted orbiting distant stars. And it all began in 1995.
Now with new planet discoveries growing interest in finding Earth-like...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Plants, SciClips on 10 29th, 2009 | No Comments
Open Data Opens Doors for Citizen Scientists
Members of the Surui tribe in Brazil test Open Data Kit, photo courtesy of Carl Hartung, UW
Cell phones are coming to the aid of international health workers, environmental monitors and even citizen scientists. Now loaded with a data collection tool, Open Data Kit is the brainchild of some doctoral students...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Scientainment on 10 27th, 2009 | No Comments
Balloon Boy Takes Us All for a Ride
The man behind the recent hoax captured our attention but smeared amateur science in the process. Fame-hungry Richard Heene used his son and some faked backyard science to launch his reality TV career.
Most people thought it was highly unlikely that a 40-pound boy stowed away in the balloon and floated...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biology, Climate Change, Ecology, Endangered Species, New Species, SciClips on 10 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment
Tiny Frog Now Big Hawaiian Pest
A little green frog is causing big problems across Hawaii, where the coqui has become the latest invasive species to get a strong foothold.
But Hawaii may be the only place experiencing a surging frog population. Around the world, frogs are dying in droves from a fungus called a chytrid.
What can we...
Puzzle People Make Math Magic
Brilliant minds have been challenging people to embrace math for centuries. But one man made recreational math fun and has been inspiring legions of followers for decades.
His name? Martin Gardner. This mathemagician has been transforming frightening formulas into fun.
But recreational math doesn’t...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 10 20th, 2009 | No Comments
Moon Plume Kicks up Scientific Data
Cabeus Crater, impact zone for LCROSS mission
When NASA smashed an expensive satellite and rocket into the moon, many people wondered why the space agency would do such a thing.
Then on October 9, with hundreds of thousands of people watching, the big plume of dirt and ice that would indicate a successful...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Geology, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips on 10 16th, 2009 | No Comments
Arctic Tipping Point on the Horizon
Evidence of global warming is hitting the Arctic harder than anywhere else. The rate of climate change is twice that of the rest of the world.
And, now scientists are discovering the Arctic region plays an important role in capturing atmospheric carbon, both in the ocean and on land.
But that delicate...
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 Biochemistry, Biology, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips on 10 7th, 2009 | No Comments
Nobel Prizes Crown Science Winners
Every year (since 1901) the Nobel Foundation has been honoring the final wish of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
This year the three science prizes went to nine scientists who overcame a big biology problem, harnessed light and unraveled the mechanism at the heart of a cell.
Nobel Prize for...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Health and Medicine, Podcast, SciClips on 10 5th, 2009 | No Comments
H1N1 Vaccine Brings Big Shot Program
After months of speculation and waiting for the vaccine to grow, the new swine flu virus killer is ready and rolling out across the country this week.
The CDC hopes that at least 150 million Americans will get the shot or nasal spray to fight the H1N1 flu virus that began its worldwide rampage in April.
Some...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Computer Science, SciClips on 10 2nd, 2009 | No Comments
Ant Security
When the ants go marching two by two, pay attention to what they are doing. Scientists are. And they are discovering clever ways to improve cyber security just by mimicking the behavior of ants.
The foraging insects use something called swarm intelligence to efficiently locate and gather food. Computer...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Climate, Climate Change, Diseases, Environment, Featured Articles, Greenovation, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Politics, SciClips on 10 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Calls for Global Warming Trial
The biggest business lobby in the U.S. is pushing for the EPA to hold a public hearing to debate the science of global warming.
The move, calling for the Scopes monkey trial of the 21st Century, is proving too much for some chamber members, from big utilities to Nike and Johnson & Johnson.
Yesterday,...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Scientainment, SciLebs on 09 29th, 2009 | 2 Comments
FlashForward’s Timely Physics
Cast of ABC Television's Flash Forward, courtesy of ABC
When the ABC Television series FlashForward pushed the collective consciousness of the world (in the context of the show) forward six months, the book on which the action-adventure series is based flashed up the Amazon book ranking last week.
The...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Health and Medicine, SciClips, Video on 09 25th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Mouthrinses Awash in Controversy
New research coming from Johnson & Johnson shows that Listerine antiseptic not only kills germs that cause bad breath and gum disease but also could prevent those germs from entering the bloodstream where they can lead to diabetes, heart disease and pneumonia.
This follows on the heels of an Australian...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Climate Change, Environment, Featured Articles, Greenovation, Politics, SciClips, Science Policy, Solar, Video, Wind on 09 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment
President Obama Vows to Fight Climate Change
President Obama Addresses UN Climate Summit
In what could be considered his most strongly-worded warning about the threat of climate change, U.S. President Barack Obama told the United Nations that there is little time to act before permanent environmental damage is irreversible.
In a stirring speech,...
