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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Biology, Climate, Diseases, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Math, Plants, Science & Entertainment, Space, Video on 08 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Scientists are People Too

The race is on to humanize scientists. Mad, messy-haired white men in white coats in a dark, cold laboratory are out. Long distance running, singer-photographer, daredevils are in. These are the new faces of science. mechanical engineer and an all-purpose daredevil, Nate Ball is also an accomplished...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, New Inventions, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 08 18th, 2010 | No Comments

AMPERE Project to Watch Space Weather

WARNING: Video Press Release The National Science Foundation, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Boeing and Iridium successfully demonstrate space weather observation system, Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment (AMPERE). The new NSF-funded Boeing AMPERE project is...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Citizen science, Computer Science, New Discoveries, Space, Video on 08 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Citizen Scis Make Big Astronomical Discovery Using Computer Down Time

Citizen scientists Chris and Helen Colvin from Ames, Iowa, and Daniel Gebhardt from Mainz, Germany participate in Einstein@Home, a distributed computing program that involves a quarter of a million volunteers worldwide. They donated their idle computer time to analyze data gathered by the world’s...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Citizen science, Engineering, Environment, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 08 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Droid-1 Blows into Illegal Operation

Science enthusiast Bobby Russell launched his Quest for Stars program last week by sending a helium-filled weather balloon about 107,000 feet up, to the edge of space. On board, Russell outfitted the styrofoam payload bay with cameras, GPS and a Motorola Droid smartphone set to take pictures every seven...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Engineering, Environment, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 08 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Science Buff Sends Balloon to Edge of Space

San Diego science buff Bobby Russell thought it would be a great experiment to attach cameras, sensors, GPS and a smartphone to a weather balloon and launch it to the edge of space. He even received permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct his launch. But instead of collecting...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Space, Video on 08 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Solar Tsunami Shoots Plasma at Earth

Solar eruptions send gases directly toward earth but scientists say they pose no direct threat to us. But for science, it was quite a spectacular cosmic display. On August 1, a large sunspot created a coronal mass ejection from the northern hemisphere of the sun. This discharge of gas and particles...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Space, Video on 07 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Russian Supply Capsule Misses International Space Station

An unmanned Russian space capsule carrying supplies to the International Space Station failed in a docking attempt. As a result, NASA says the Progress vehicle continued on its trajectory and glided safely past the space station. At the time of the communication loss, the vehicle was approximately...

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, Environment, Global Warming, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, Space, Video on 07 1st, 2010 | No Comments

2010: A Space Policy

President Obama unveiled his new plan(PDF) for NASA. After scrapping the manned space program Constellation last fall the President pushed back plans to return to the moon and send a manned mission to Mars. This announcement and policy reversal struck some stargazers and scientists as disappointing. The...

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 Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, Space, Video on 06 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

John Glenn Wants To Keep Shuttles Flying

America’s first hero astronaut is calling on the Obama administration to reverse course and keep NASA’s space shuttle program alive. John Glenn says retiring Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavor later this year would ground U.S. manned space flight for at least a decade. “Why terminate...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Environment, Space, Video on 04 5th, 2010 | 1 Comment

NASA Looks for Ways to Mop Up Space Junk

One New Mexican is looking to clean up space, and NASA recently invited him to share his opinions at a national conference.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Global Warming, Space, Video on 02 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle

Each year, scientists at NASA’S Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year since global instrumental temperature records began 130 years ago. Worldwide, the mean temperature was 0.57°C (1.03°F) warmer than the 1951-1980...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Space, Video on 02 19th, 2010 | No Comments

NASAs WISE Eye in the Sky

NASA launched a new satellite, called WISE, which stands for Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. It’s mission? Find asteroids or comets that could potentially hit Earth and map the whole sky by October. KMGH reporter Corey Christiansen has the story. NASA Medley of WISE Images #gallery-1...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in President Obama Science Policy, Space, Video on 02 17th, 2010 | 1 Comment

President Obama Speaks Live to Astronauts on International Space Station

With the recent extension of the World Wide Web outside of this world, space is just a click away. And taking full advantage of the new ability to live stream to astronauts orbiting Earth on the International Space Station, President Obama congratulates the team for installing the last piece of the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Space, Video on 02 4th, 2010 | No Comments

NASA and GM Team Up to Build Robots

The Robonaut2 is being jointly developed by NASA and General Motors to help humans in space and on Earth. It’s the first step toward having supervised yet autonomous robots performing tasks in outer space and in automotive factories. The R2 can lift four times as much as other robots and with...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Engineering, New Inventions, SciClips, Space on 02 1st, 2010 | 1 Comment

Astrotweets Signal Internet Move to Space

Astronauts can order books on Amazon or watch movies on Netflix, even while orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station. NASA just hooked up the Internet last week and already the astronauts have been tweeting up a storm. NASA also unveiled live streaming aboard the space station, starting...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Space, Video on 01 27th, 2010 | No Comments

Science Prepares for Alien Possibility

A two-day conference at the Royal Society in London called The Detection of Extra-terrestrial Life and The Consequences for Science and Society gathered top astronomers to discuss the possibility that some life form on another planet will likely be discovered within our lifetime. The all-star lineup...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, Citizen science, SciClips, Space on 01 21st, 2010 | 1 Comment

Help NASA Image Mars

Here’s your chance to make scientific history. NASA is inviting the public to help choose sites on Mars to point a high-powered camera as part of a visual survey of the Red Planet. The HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has shot over 13,000 images already. Now NASA is opening...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Space, Video on 01 18th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Small Asteroid Buzzes Earth

The school bus sized chunk of space rock hurtled past Earth last week and a Utah astronomer caught the dot on video. It didn’t get dangerously close but did come within 80,000 miles.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Space, Video on 01 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Fast Flight to Mars with a Plasma Rocket

Mars is far away. For a manned spaceship to get there now under current rocket power, it would take about a year. But riding a plasma rocket will shorten the trip considerably — to just 39 days. While Hacketts Cove, Nova Scotia is not the hotbed of aerospace technology, a company there is building...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Engineering, SciClips, Space on 01 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Russia Takes Aim at Big Asteroid

The head of the Russian space agency surprised scientists recently when he announced that his country needs to start figuring out how to deflect a big asteroid that will pass very close to Earth in about 20 years. When Apophis was discovered in 2004 NASA thought there was a slight chance that the big...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips, Space on 12 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Final Frontier Goes Commercial

There are growing signs that outer space is going to become the domain of private enterprise. Since the U.S. space program began, it has been largely controlled by the federal government. But that’s all changing. The first spaceport just broke ground in New Mexico. The first commercial spaceline...

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