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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 Astrobiology, Astronomy, Discoveries, Space, Video on 12 20th, 2011 | No Comments

Kepler Finds First Earth-Sized Planets

Just a couple of weeks after announcing the discovery of a planet within a distant solar system that is orbiting in what astronomers called the habitable zone for life, another exciting announcement adds two more confirmed planets to the list. Since its launch in 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has...

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...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Space, Video on 11 23rd, 2011 | No Comments

Curious Mars Rover to Search for Life

On Saturday, a $2 billion science project will begin what NASA is calling a flagship mission to Mars to see if the red planet is capable of sustaining microbial life. Equipped with 17 cameras, an on-board science lab, the six-wheeled rover named Curiosity will do what its predecessors Spirit and Opportunity...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Biology, Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 08 8th, 2011 | No Comments

Water on Mars…Maybe

Images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are sending back new and exciting pictures for NASA scientists to study. Scientists believe dark finger-like streaks in the soil on Mars indicate underground, seasonal liquid water streams. It’s not definitive proof that water exists in a liquid form...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Discoveries, Space, Video on 05 19th, 2011 | No Comments

Rogue Planets without Orbits More Numerous than Stars

Albert Einstein predicted that large enough objects had the capability to bend light. He was right and astronomers used this technique called microlensing to make an out-of-this-world discovery. It seems that not all planets orbit neighboring stars. A international team of scientists has found ten planets...

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 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 Astrobiology, Discoveries, Space, Video on 03 8th, 2011 | No Comments

Evidence Dismisses Alien Discovery

A Huntsville, Alabama researcher claims to have found fossils of bacteria in a meteorite. Some of the bacteria appears very close to some found here on earth while others he claims are very different. The research appears online in the journal Cosmology. NASA has already distanced itself from the research...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Citizen science, Featured Articles, Space, Video on 12 17th, 2010 | No Comments

Citizen Science Hits Outer Space in Search of New Planets

NASA’s Kepler mission positioned a powerful telescope outside Earth’s atmosphere last year to begin taking pictures of a section of space known to house about 200,000 stars. For Yale astronomers this presents an incredible opportunity — to discover which of those stars have planets...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Discoveries, Space, Video on 12 15th, 2010 | No Comments

NASA Finds Ice Volcano on Saturn Moon

A NASA probe orbiting Saturn has spotted what scientists think is a giant ice volcano on one of its moons, Titan. Astronomers believe they have discovered a cryovolcano — a volcano that expels water and ammonia or methanol instead of molten rock. For years astronomers felt that if any sort of...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Astrobiology, Biology, New Species, Physiology, Video on 12 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

NASA Discovers New Life

In Mono Lake, California, NASA says that a form of life, never before found on Earth, is thriving. This potato-shaped microbe is not proof of aliens among us but it is a big deal for scientists. NASA’s announcement on Thursday of radical new bacteria that survive by incorporating arsenic instead...

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 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 Astrobiology, Astronomy, 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 Astrobiology, 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 Anthropology, Astrobiology, Books, Dinosaurs, Environment, Geology, Podcast, SciClips on 08 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Stories in Stone

Urban geologist David Williams is a big stone kinda guy. He is not one to shy away from a nice chunk of gneiss. Nor will he wilt at the sight of weathered brownstone–one of his favorites. Now, the author of Stories in Stone: Travels in Urban Geology, Williams shares his passion for rocks–from...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Featured Articles, SciClips, Space on 05 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Hunting for Pale Blue Planets

Astronomers seem to be ahead of telescope technology right now. They are looking into the future and readying themselves for a time when deep space telescopes can spy on distant solar systems, in an effort to find other planets capable of sustaining life, like our own Earth. A doctoral candidate at...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Computer Science, Featured Articles, Space, Video on 05 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment

10 Years of SETI

For 10 years over 5 million computer users from all over the world have been participating in a giant science experiment to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence or SETI. The approach uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Narrow-band signals do not occur naturally...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Featured Articles, Space, Video on 05 7th, 2009 | No Comments

Mission to Fix Hubble Set to Launch

A man from Seattle will be at the controls when Space Shuttle Atlantis blasts off on a mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope next week. Astronaut Greg Johnson will dodge space debris, shoot and IMAX movie and repair the aging telescope. KING 5′s Lori Matsukawa spoke with his parents as they...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Featured Articles, RawAudio, Space on 03 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Our Crowded Universe: Astronomer Alan Boss on Extrasolar Planets

The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets Astronomer Alan Boss raced through Seattle the other day, like a life-bringing comet in search of a new planet. He stopped by Town Hall and shared the last ten years of planet hunting with a packed house. Highlights: Since 1996, over 340 new planets...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Geology on 06 12th, 2008 | No Comments

Cosmic Rock Star

Dr. Donald Brownlee, photo by Mary Levin Donald Brownlee is a rock star in every sense of the word. The University of Washington astronomer has been studying cosmic dust for 40 years. He is a leading expert on comets and recently led a team studying particles captured beyond the orbit of Mars. Now,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Science of..., Space on 05 27th, 2008 | No Comments

Phoenix Begins Scientific Mission

Crater showing carbon dioxide frost, courtesy of NASA After all the anticipation about the landing, the real work begins now that the Phoenix Lander is safely planted on Mars. The three-month mission gets underway this week and will search for clues to the red planet’s watery past. A robotic...

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