TagsTagsA live feed from the NASA control room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, as the Phoenix mission prepares to land on Mars: msnbc.com video: NASA gets set for Mars landing. UPDATE at 5/25/08 4:25:10 pm: Another live feed at NASA TV. UPDATE at 5/25/08 4:55:17 pm: Looks like a complete success — ...
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Here’s a fascinating presentation at Case Western University on evolution and intelligent design by renowned biologist Ken Miller, dealing with many of the arguments of ID proponents (for example, Michael Behe’s “irreducible complexity”). It’s almost two hours long, but well worth watching if you’d like to get deeper into the ...
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The launch of the STS-123 from Kennedy Space Center. Awesome doesn’t even begin to describe it. Turn up the volume and stand back.
In this clip from Iraqi TV, “astronomy researcher” Fadhel Al-Sa’d says the Sun is half the size of the Earth, and flat. Just like the Earth. And he flatly rejects all heretical innovations that aren’t covered by the Koran. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) What does the Koran say about TV? [Video] Fadhel ...
Some exciting news for Hubble Space Telescope fans (I’m one) as the amazing device refuses to die: A Whole New View: Hubble Overhaul to Boost Telescope’s Reach. When astronauts overhaul the Hubble Space Telescope this summer, they will leave behind a vastly more powerful orbital observatory to scan the universe. Set ...
Wired Magazine has their Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2007. My favorite: 2. Chimpanzees Make Spears for Hunting Two anthropologists watched in mixed amazement and horror as several female chimpanzees crafted spears and used them to somewhat brutally hunt smaller mammals. Following a troop of the primates in a Senegalese savanna, ...
Tonight’s weird science breakthrough: cats that glow in the dark. Ever struggled in vain to find your cat in the dark? Now you need worry no longer — Korean scientists have developed a cat that glows in the dark. These two Turkish Angola cats were photographed under ultraviolet light. The ...
Scientists in Japan have succeeded in creating mutant mice with no fear of cats. According to Tokyo University professor Ko Kobayakawa, “By applying this theory to other mammals, we will probably be able to make other animals that are not afraid of their natural enemies. Cindy Sheehan has already offered to ...
Scientists have done an end run around the ethical problems of stem cell research: Stem cells without embryos: skin cells transformed. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two separate teams of researchers announced on Tuesday they had transformed ordinary skin cells into batches of cells that look and act like embryonic stem cells ...
According to Columbia University Arabic and Islamic Studies professor George Saliba, if it weren’t for Muslim scientists we’d all be living in caves and eating rocks: ‘All modern discoveries are by Muslim scientists’. LAHORE: Muslim scientists have made all discoveries of the current age, said University of Columbia’s Arabic and ...
Our creepy Japanese toddlerbot of the day. The Child-Robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, looks at Shuhei Ikemoto, an Osaka University student, when its hand is clasped by him during a demonstration of the toddler robot at a lab of the university in Osaka, western Japan, Friday, June 8, 2007. CB2, ...
Dr. Abd Al-Baset Al-Sayyed of the Egyptian National Research Center explains the “science” behind his call to abolish Greenwich Mean Time and replace it with ... you guessed it ... Mecca time! (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Abd Al-Baset Al-Sayyid: When British colonialism or the British kingdom were in control, and it ...
The first photographs from the new High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera orbiting Mars are now posted: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: Multimedia.
Isaac Asimov is spinning in his grave: Slashdot | U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov’s First Law.