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Which Volcanoes Will Erupt This Year?
After 50 days of silence, Sicily’s Mt. Etna rang in the New Year with a new eruption the morning of January 5. Plumes of black ash and lava rose 5,000 meters high in a style reminiscent of the...
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The Climate Changing in UK
The first comprehensive report from the government into the potential effects of climate change has indicated both risks and opportunities for the UK.On the one hand, flooding, heatwaves and water...
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Aging of Sperm Cells Delayed by Females
A new study, led by Dr. Klaus Reinhardt at the University of Sheffield, shows that females of some species can prolong the lifespan of ordinarily short-lived sperm cells by days, months, or even...
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Women's Menstrual Cycles Decode by Men
“Are you on your period?” It’s a question most women have been asked at one point or another by their boyfriend or spouse during a disagreement. It turns out that some men actually can tell when it’s a...
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Magnetic Soap that can Mop up Oil Spills
A team of chemists at the University of Bristol has developed a liquid soap that can be controlled by magnets. It's hoped that the controllable soap could be used to clean up oil spills at sea.The soap...
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Cold Fusion Boiling Competition
It seems Defkalion is serious about independent testing. In a press release this week, the company invited "requests from internationally recognised and reputable scientific and business organisations...
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The 51st State Should be The Moon
At the sunset of Newt Gingrich’s putative presidency, the moon would be the 51st state, colonized by permanent American settlers. Tourists would honeymoon in low-Earth orbit, space factories would...
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You Will Never Guess How this Monkey Communicates
The Philippine tarsier is a tiny primate with a seriously high voice. The saucer-eyed mammal can let out (and listen to) squeaks and squeals at such a high frequency that it effectively gives the...
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A Non-Surgical Procedure can Heal Nerves Quickly
A simple new procedure could repair severed sciatic nerves in minutes and have the patient walking within days rather than months.This relatively inexpensive treatment could dramatically increase the...
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Future Astronauts Will be Able to Perform Surgery on Each Other
Astronauts traveling to Mars or other distant destinations will face all kinds of medical problems, but rocket science isn’t surgery. And vice versa. A new augmented reality system could help...
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Cool Software Adds Realistically 3D Objects to Pictures
A simple programming tool can build a model of a scene in a two-dimensional photograph and insert a realistic-looking synthetic object into it. Unlike other augmented reality programs, it doesn’t use...
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Ancient Ocean on Mars
The European Space Agency's Mars Express has returned compelling evidence that the red planet once hosted an enormous ocean in its northern plains. The probe's radar detected sediments reminiscent of...
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Huge Avalanche near Mars's North Pole
A Nasa spacecraft has captured an avalanche of fine ice and dust thundering over a cliff near Mars's north pole. It's not the first avalanche captured by the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars...
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No Men Extinction, We Will Always Be Here!
Over the last few decades, scientists and journalists have speculated that the end of man—men, that is—was nigh. The biological reason for this possibility is the ever-shrinking Y chromosome: 300-200...
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New Blood Types Discovered
You probably know your blood type: A, B, AB or O. You may even know if you're Rhesus positive or negative. But how about the Langereis blood type? Or the Junior blood type? Positive or negative? Most...
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Solid Buckyballs in Space Found by Spitzer Telescope
After finding gaseous clouds of buckyballs in space last year, astronomers have now discovered the carbon balls in a solid form, around a pair of stars some 6,500 light-years from Earth.Buckyballs are...
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Hubble Telescope Spots Exoplanet Made of Water
GJ 1214b, a planet some 40 light-years from Earth, is a water world. It's almost entirely made of liquid, has an estimated temperature of 230C and is enshrouded by a steamy atmosphere."The high...
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Clouds Closer to Earth
Chicken Licken was right, the sky really is falling. Nasa satellite data has shown that the Earth's cloud tops have been lowering over the last decade. Cloud-top height fell one percent on average...
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Cold Fusion Race: NASA, MIT, DARPA and CERN
Four months ago, Andrea Rossi demonstrated what he claims was a one-megawatt "Energy Catalyser" -- or E-Cat -- which produces power by cold fusion. This technology, also known as Low Energy Nuclear...
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Find the Nex Image for NASA
Nasa wants you to help search for spectacular but overlooked images from the Hubble space telescope.Hubble has made more than a million observations during its two decades in orbit. Astronomers working...
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