Blog Profile / Wired Science
| URL : | http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Academics / General Science | |
| Posts on Regator: | 5340 | |
| Posts / Week: | 20 | |
| Archived Since: | April 5, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Best of Pioneer: A Look at Mankind’s First Encounters With Jupiter and Saturn
Though not well remembered, Pioneer 10 and 11 were the first spacecraft to ever pass through the asteroid belt and encounter the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. Here, we take a look at some of these exploratory probes' best images...
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Intricate Gas Sculpture
This Hubble Space Telescope view shows one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in space, located 210,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. At the centre of the...
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Saturn and Titan
The colorful globe of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, passes in front of the planet and its rings in this true color snapshot from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
The north polar hood can be seen on Titan (5,150 km across or 3,200 miles).....
Video: New Giant Tarantula Species on the Move
On Apr. 2, we reported the discovery of a presumptive new species of tarantula in Sri Lanka, set apart from its relatives by unique markings on its abdomen and legs. Now, there's a video of the arachnid superstar, shot by...
Starving Sea Lion Pups Still Washing up by the Hundreds in California
There’s no indication the ocean plans to stop littering Southern California’s shores with the tiny bodies of starving sea lion pups any time soon. After three months, roughly 1,100 pups have entered marine mammal rehabilitation centers in the area. Now,...
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Radical Colors of Cartwheel Galaxy
This false-color composite image shows the Cartwheel galaxy as seen by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's far ultraviolet detector (blue); the Hubble Space Telescope's wide field and planetary camera 2 in B-band visible light (green); the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared array...
Solid or Liquid? Physicists Redefine States of Matter
Some things are solids and some things are liquids and never the twain shall meet. Except for when they do. Physicists are taking a closer look at these two phases of matter and perhaps redefining how we think about materials...
Now or Then: Which Big Science Project Are These Scientists Worked Up About?
This week President Obama announced a big new brain research initiative. Both supporters and opponents of the project have compared it to the Human Genome Project. That project was once controversial too, and there's a similar ring to many of...
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Outflow at Addams Crater
Magellan radar image of Addams crater, Venus. The radar bright outflow associated with the 90 km crater stretches over 600 km to the east. (North is up.) The crater is located at 56.1S,98.9E in the Aino Planitia region.
Scientists Decode Dreams with Brain Scans
It used to be that what happened in your dreams was your own little secret. But today scientists report for the first time that they've successfully decoded details of people's dreams using brain scans.
Live Chat: What Have We Learned About Dinosaurs Since Jurassic Park?
Steven Spielberg’s dinosaurs blew us away back in 1993, but paleontology has come a long way since then. How does Jurassic Park's depiction of dinosaurs hold up 20 years later? Join us at 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday, 4 April,...
Upstart Company Wants to Deliver Your Stuff to the Moon
Moon Express is a private startup working on one of the most audacious projects in the new space industry: they want to mine the moon. CEO Bob Richards explains the company's plans to create a FedEx-like business ferrying stuff to.....
Seen From Space: Curiosity’s Abandoned Parachute Still Flapping in the Wind on Mars
NASA's Mars machines continue to work in beautiful tandem as seen in this image, where the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera captured the changing conditions of the landing parachute that brought the Curiosity rover safely to the ground nine months...
A Leader of Obama’s New Brain Initiative Explains Why We Need It
Neuroscientist William Newsome of Stanford University is one of two scientists tapped by President Obama to lead a new brain research initiative, which the administration hopes to launch with $100 million of public funding and a similar amount from several...
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Young Stars in the SMC
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors. Even though it is a small, or so-called dwarf galaxy, the SMC is so bright that it is visible to the unaided eye from the Southern...
Scientists Find Signal in Space That Could Be Dark Matter
A search for the collision of matter and antimatter in our galaxy has turned up a signal that could be the best direct evidence of dark matter to date.
Flushed Drugs May Threaten Stream Ecologies
Most streams that flow near cities and towns are laced with drugs that escape from sewage treatment plants or pharmaceutical factories. Although often occurring at concentrations of a few parts per trillion, these compounds can nevertheless hurt aquatic life, turning...
For Sale: Buzz Aldrin’s Toothbrush, $9,000 OBO
How much would you pay for another man's toothbrush, if that toothbrush happened to have gone to the moon with Buzz Aldrin? The auction house estimates someone might throw as much as $24,000 at this unique opportunity to own a...
Obama Goes Public With Brain Mapping Plan
President Obama officially announced a new brain research initiative in a press conference at the White House this morning, something he first hinted at in his State of the Union address in February. In its first year, the project would...
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Cinderella’s Slipper Galaxy?
Visible as a small, sparkling hook in the dark sky, this beautiful object is known as J082354.96+280621.6, or J082354.96 for short. It is a starburst galaxy, so named because of the incredibly (and unusually) high rate of star formation occurring...