By Alton Parrish. Three atmospheric patterns came together above the Indian and Pacific Oceans in 2010 and 2011. When they did, they drove so much precipitation over Australia that the world’s ocean levels dropped measurably. Unlike [...]

By Columbia University. Americans buy more soft drinks per capita than people in any other country. These drinks are consumed by individuals of all ages, including very young children. Although soft drink consumption is associated with aggression, [...]

By CSIRO. CSIRO scientists have written software that could guide spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, show that the planet Nibiru doesn’t exist … and prove that the Earth goes around the Sun.Dr George Hobbs (CSIRO) and his colleagues study [...]

By JPL NASA. This graphic shows the orbits of all the known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs), numbering over 1,400 as of early 2013. These are the asteroids considered hazardous because they are fairly large (at least 460 feet or 140 [...]

By Alton Parrish. In some ways, granular material — such as a pile of sand — can behave much like a crystal, with its close-packed grains mimicking the precise, orderly arrangement of crystalline atoms. Now researchers at MIT have pushed [...]

By Alton Parrish. Sandstorms can sweep up millions of tons of soil and send dust whirling away for thousands of miles. Although these storms seem enormously powerful, some of their strength actually derives from the tiniest of sources: the [...]

    By Alton Parrish. Army researchers are responding to a request from the U.S. Special Operations Command for technologies to help develop a revolutionary Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit. The Tactical Assault Light Operator [...]

    By MIT.   Any crime scene investigator can tell you that memories are unreliable; the way people remember a place or event changes over time and varies between individuals. But for the mice in one lab at MIT, the accuracy [...]

  By NASA. For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star. An advantageous alignment [...]

By University of Tubigen.   Researchers from the University of Tübingen have successfully reattached the newly discovered head of a prehistoric mammoth ivory figurine discovered in 1931. The head was found during renewed excavations [...]

By Alton Parrish. The Federal Aviation Administration has issued restricted category type certificates to a pair of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), a milestone that will lead to the first approved commercial UAS operations later this summer. The [...]

By Alton Parrish. Scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions of near-Earth space, a region of super-energetic, charged particles surrounding the globe called the Van Allen radiation [...]

  By Alton Parrish. Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have, for the first time, determined the true color of a planet orbiting another star. If seen up close this planet, known as HD 189733b, would be a deep azure [...]

      By Alton Parrish. When the folks at the Hubble Space Telescope first started thinking about content for their blog, one of the first things they did was a Google search on ‘Comet ISON’. Over and over again, [...]

  By Alton Parrish.   It’s often the case in science that things are discovered by accident. Alexander Fleming uncovered the secrets of antibiotics with a bout of serendipity – coupled with an intelligent mind to recognize [...]

  By Alton Parrish. Getting students excited about science isn’t always easy, but having a live demonstration that uses ping pong balls traveling at supersonic speeds will get almost any kid’s attention. Mechanical engineering [...]

  By Alton Parrish. Animal-to-human transplant of insulin-producing cells without use of drugs is ultimate goal. In the first step toward animal-to-human transplants of insulin-producing cells for people with type 1 diabetes, Northwestern [...]

  By University Of College London. A solar tsunami observed by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Japanese Hinode spacecraft has been used to provide the first accurate estimates of the Sun’s magnetic field. Solar [...]

  By University of North Carolina. For decades, women between the ages of 21 and 69 were advised to get annual screening exams for cervical cancer. In 2009, however, accumulating scientific evidence led major guideline groups to agree [...]