Blog Profile / Wired Science
| URL : | http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Academics / General Science | |
| Posts on Regator: | 5413 | |
| Posts / Week: | 19.9 | |
| Archived Since: | April 5, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
This Week’s Most Bizarre Wild Animal Incidents
A roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.
Wired Space Photo of the Day: ISON Time Sequence
A new series of images from Gemini Observatory shows Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) racing toward an uncomfortably close rendezvous with the Sun. In late November the comet could present a stunning sight in the twilight sky and remain easily visible,...
Radiation Risk for Mars Astronauts Will Be Dangerously High
Astronauts on a round-trip to Mars would be subject to radiation levels 13 times higher than what a person working at a nuclear power plant would receive in a year, increasing the risk of such a mission.
Imaging Breakthrough: See Atomic Bonds Before and After Molecular Reaction
Using atomic force microscopy, scientists have imaged a molecule at single-atom resolution, caught in the act of rearranging the bonds connecting its 26 carbon atoms.
Earliest Bird Claim Ruffles Feathers
A team of scientists claims to have found the earliest known bird. But critics question whether it really is a bird, and some are not entirely convinced that it's an authentic specimen.
Why We Can’t Send Humans to Mars Yet (And How We’ll Fix That)
There's been a recent uptick in the idea of a human mission to Mars. While such plans are exciting, they also happen to be technologically impossible right now. Wired Science provides a checklist of all the new technology we'd have....
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Blurry Galaxy Collision
This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures an ongoing cosmic collision between two galaxies — a spiral galaxy is in the process of colliding with a lenticular galaxy. The collision looks almost as if it is popping...
Rogue Queens, Sex-Changing Fish, and Rain-Making Bacteria: Nature’s Weirdest Life Cycles
The word 'unnatural' is often used to describe what's considered weird or unusual. But is anything weirder than nature? Biology abounds with creatures that change shape, change sex, change locations and in some cases cause other creatures to do these...
Squishy Hydrogel Fingers Bend in Response to Light
Shining a laser at a graphene-based hydrogel causes the material to bend and flex as if it has joints, a response creepily demonstrated when the shape-shifting material is molded into the shape of a hand.
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Giant Space Jellyfish
This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. HFG1 is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It was produced by a binary star system...
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Colorful Mars Crater
This image covers a well-preserved (relatively young) impact crater about 5 kilometers (3 miles) wide. The enhanced-color sample shows that the north-facing slope (on the south side of the crater) has a blue-green color but the south-facing slope has a...
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Beautiful Ring Nebula
In this composite image, visible-light observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are combined with infrared data from the ground-based Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona to assemble a dramatic view of the well-known Ring Nebul...
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Supermassive Black Hole Jets
This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to generate immense power. The image contains X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), optical light obtained with the Hubble...
New Wireless Electronics Could Heal Wounds And Then Dissolve
Scientists have built a remote-controlled electronic device that is absorbable by the human body.
Planets Converge to Form Rare Glowing Triangle This Weekend
This weekend, three planets will nestle together in the western sky at twilight to form a rarely seen glowing triangle. With good timing and a bit of luck you should be able to see it without a telescope.
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Close-Up With Halley’s Comet
In 1986, the European spacecraft Giotto became one of the first spacecraft ever to encounter and photograph the nucleus of a comet, passing and imaging Halley's nucleus as it receded from the sun. Data from Giotto's camera were used to...
New Details on the Unroyal End of Richard III, ‘King in the Car Park’
For two short years he was King of England, one of the most powerful men in the world. Then he was killed, desecrated, and dumped in a hastily dug grave, the location of which would be forgotten and rediscovered, centuries...
Enormous Museum Collection of Insects Needs Your Help
A citizen science project called Calbug, which launched this week, hopes to recruit volunteers to help digitize field notes for more than a million insect and spider specimens held by nine natural history museums in California.
This Week’s Weirdest Wild Animal Incidents
A roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Ligeia Mare
Ligeia Mare, shown in here in data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, is the second largest known body of liquid on Saturn's moon Titan. It is filled with liquid hydrocarbons, such as ethane and methane, and is one of the...