Blog Profile / Wired Science
| URL : | http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Academics / General Science | |
| Posts on Regator: | 5350 | |
| Posts / Week: | 20 | |
| Archived Since: | April 5, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Charted: Extraterrestrial Driving Records
NASA has just released this cute chart depicting the various distances traveled by wheeled machines on other worlds.
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Close-Up Mars Skin
Polygons are of great interest because they often indicate the presence of shallow ice or of desiccation such as in a mud flat. However, nature sometimes seems too clever for us.
Electrical Brain Stimulation Helps People Learn Math Faster
Studying and practicing math is so difficult and boring that very few people do it. A new study suggest there may be an easier way. Scientists stimulated volunteers' brains with mild electric current while they learned new arithmetic operations based...
Nanostructures Make Viper Skin Ultra-Black and Stealthy
From even a short distance, this West African Gaboon viper looks just like a pile of dead leaves. New research shows that the highly-camouflaged snake owes its elusiveness to nanostructures in its black scales.
Watch Live: Chicks Hatching on Great Blue Heron Cam
The first chick has hatched in the Great Blue Heron nest at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Sapsucker Woods Sanctuary in Ithaca, New York. But if you missed it, there are four more to come.
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Galaxy, Straight Ahead
Here is a picture of the very thin disk ("line") of NGC 891.
This image was acquired using the Schulman 0.8m telescope. As is often the case, the famous targets must be re-acquired using the best equipment one has at hand...
What It’s Like to Be the Landsat Earth-Observing Satellite
Come fly with the new Landsat satellite as it records images over a 9,000-kilometer swath of Earth, and zoom in on any point along the way with a Gigapan version of the trip.
Water Worlds, Tatooines, and Earth Twins: Planet-Hunting Kepler Telescope’s Greatest Hits
NASA's Kepler space telescope has suffered a hardware malfunction threatening to end its life, a potentially sad finale to an important mission. This gallery of its greatest hits ran in November 2012, when the telescope completed its initial...
NASA’s Planet-Hunting Telescope in Critical Condition After Hardware Failure
NASA's extraordinary Kepler space telescope, whose job over the last four years has been finding and characterizing planets around other stars, is dead.
Sea Lion Pup-date Brings Good News: Strandings Are Declining
The tide of starving sea lion pups washing ashore in Southern California has ebbed, giving rescue centers a bit of a break from the flood of animals that began arriving in January.
Watch a Caterpillar Morph Into a Butterfly in 3-D
For the first time, scientists have captured 3-D images of caterpillars caught in the process of morphing into butterflies.
Restless Sun Unleashes Three Huge Flares
The sun has unleashed three strong solar flares since Sunday evening, punctuating a short period of increased solar restlessness that comes as scientists are keeping an eye out for this cycle’s solar maximum.
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Flames of the Sun
A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what’s known as a prominence eruption. This image combines three images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on May 3, 2013, at 1:45 pm EDT, just...
What New York City Would Look Like on Other Planets
Take a trip around the solar system and bring the entire city of New York with you in these captivating drawings showing how the atmospheres of other planets would interact with the iconic metropolitan skyline.
Skylab: Man’s First Home in Space Launched 40 Years Ago Today
With all the futuristic talk today about missions to Mars, lunar bases and asteroid mining, it's easy to forget that man has already been living off of the planet on and off for decades. Here's a look back at the...
Thought Experiment: Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain
Neuroscientist Henry Markram says he can build a supercomputer replica of the human brain. Now he has $1.3 billion to prove it.
Sensors Listen to Earth’s Murmurs and Translate Into Data
The rumble of volcanoes, the shock of a concussion, the action of waves. Connected sensors are translating it all into data.
Watch Live: Astronauts Return to Earth From the Space Station
After a five-month stay on the International Space Station, a crew comprising one Canadian astronaut, one U.S. astronaut, and one Russian cosmonaut will return to Earth aboard a Soyuz space capsule. The landing is being broadcast live on NASA TV...
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Anarchy in the Cosmos
The Danish 1.54-metre telescope located at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that reigns when stars form inside an interstellar cloud. This region of sky includes...
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Vortex of Color
This spectacular, vertigo inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. The angry eye of a hurricane-like storm appears dark red while the fast-moving hexagonal jet stream framing it is a yellowish green. Low-lying...