| L.A. Galaxy boss says won't rush Becks back into action L.A. Galaxy boss Bruce Arena has said that he has no plans to rush England football star David Beckham back into... | |
| Ancient bacteria could pave way for new and improved sunscreens Cyanobacteria - organisms that thrived on Earth before there was enough oxygen to block harmful ultraviolet light-could pave way for new and improved sunscreens, according to a new... |
| NASA eyes unprecedented mission to unlock Sun's biggest mysteries NASA is developing an unprecedented mission to study the Sun closer than ever... |
| Chief rabbi slams Stephen Hawking for excluding God's role in universe creation The chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, has lashed out at Stephen Hawking after the astrophysicist claimed in his new book that God had no role to play in the creation of the... |
| 2001 Indian 'red rain' showered earth with 'alien life', claim theorists After nine years of research, panspermia theorists have said that the 'red' rains that occurred in India in July 2001 contained bugs that were unlike anything ever found on the Earth, suggesting that it may be an alien form of... |
| 'Top Chef's' Short Ribs Get NASA Twist for Spaceflight As a 'cheftestant' on Bravo's Emmy Award-winning cable reality TV show "Top Chef," Sosa won this week's episode where the challenge was to develop a dish for the astronauts to eat in... |
| NASA Imagery Reveals Weaker, Stretched Out Fiona Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 13:59 CDT NASA satellite data has noticed that Tropical Storm Fiona is getting "longer." That is, the storm is elongating in almost a north-south... |
| Cosmic Log: Why the N.Z. quake is no Haiti 7.0 quake hit New Zealand , and early indications are that it caused relatively few serious casualties. Why the difference? The main reasons don't have to do so much with the earthquakes... |
| Q&A | Rooftop party lets you salsa under the stars The Latin Rooftop Dance Party/Tapas and Tequila Tasting will be held Sept. 11. For $10, guests can do the salsa and merengue under the stars on the Glassworks rooftop, 815 W. Market St., to music by... |
| NASA Footage Sets Scene for Quantum Quest Movie also includes Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, who for the first time lends his voice to an animated movie in the role of meteorite hunter Jack Doohan. Kloor met Armstrong at Purdue University... |
| 'Earth-like' Exoplanet Could Have a Comet's Tail Institute for Interplanetary Space Physics in Rome argue that, given the planet’s likely composition and distance from its star, COROT-7b probably loses its surface elements to space in a long,... |
| Video - Splattered Star Stuff, A Supernova Story When a massive star explodes, it lights up nearby matter, exposing a fascinating process of stellar death and re-birth. Images from the newly upgraded Hubble Space Telescope have been animated to... |
| 1st Canadian Commander of Space Station Named A Canadian astronaut is set to become the first International Space Station commander from the Maple Leaf Nation. Veteran Canadian spaceflyer Chris Hadfield will take command of the space station... |
| New Telescope Takes Best Sunspot Photo Ever Images taken July 1 and 2, 2010 by the New Solar Telescope at the Big Bear Solar Observatory reveals up-close details of a sunspot like never... |
| Book Review - 'Packing for Mars' Travels Light arrives at a time when the future of U.S. manned space travel lies at a crossroads. Despite the title, the book doesn't chiefly outline a proposed manned mission to Mars. Instead, it delves into... |
| Wanna scan the universe? Just open Windows BANGALORE: Global software major Microsoft has designed a computer programme that allows you to scan the universe and zoom into outer space through its Windows. “We have designed a virtual... |
| NASA satellite and International Space Station catch Earl weakening NASA satellites and the International Space Station are keeping eyes on Hurricane Earl as it heads for New England. Watches and Warnings are posted in the US... |
| Oldest Continents Depend On Water From Earth's Mantle Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 14:03 CDT Earth today is one of the most active planets in the Solar System, and was probably even more so during the early stages of its life. Thanks to the... |
| Chinese Satellites Bump During Secret Maneuvers A Chinese satellite may have intentionally nudged another spacecraft during secretive space maneuvers in near-Earth orbit, according to analysts. Such close encounters could allow China to practice... |
| Samsung Galaxy Tab: An Android contender IFA electronics show here with strong words showing it plans to compete directly with Apple's iPad. Just how well it'll succeed depends in large measure on how well developers embrace large-screen... |
| NASA Flies First Drone Over Hurricane Hurricane Earl is waning as it moves northward up the east coast of the United States. Some of the first researchers to notice the weakening had front row seats, watching the eye of the hurricane via... |
| Gadget Lab Podcast: iPods, Apple TV and Samsung's Galaxy Tab This week’s episode of the Gadget Lab podcast is heavy on fruits. High on vitamin A, Dylan Tweney gushes over the pluot, a plum-apricot hybrid, while yours truly dishes out this week’s... |
| One Ring Zero Reboots Holst's Planets, Keeps Pluto in Mix is One Ring Zero’s latest attempt to smarten up traditional pop using unconventional sonics and subjects. For more than a decade, Hearst and One Ring Zero co-founder and multi-instrumentalist... |
| Eternal black holes are the ultimate cosmic safes If you wanted to hide something away for all eternity, where could you put it? Black holes might seem like a safe bet, but Stephen Hawking famously calculated that they leak radiation, and most... |
| Viking Experiment May Have Found Life’s Building Blocks on Mars After All Phoenix mission on Mars 32 years later could means the way the Viking experiment was set up actually would have destroyed any carbon-based chemical building blocks of life – what the experiment set... |
| NASA Satellites and Spacecraft Look Into the Eye of Hurricane Earl Hurricane Earl on Sept. 2, 2010 as seen by NASA's Terra Satellite. NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team NASA scientists, instruments and spacecraft are busy studying Hurricane... |
| NASA hurricane researchers eye Earl's eye Three NASA aircraft carrying 15 instruments are busy criss-crossing Earl as part of the agency's Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes mission, or GRIP, which continues through Sept. 30. GRIP... |
| NASA imagery reveals a weaker, stretched out Fiona NASA satellite data has noticed that Tropical Storm Fiona is getting "longer." That is, the storm is elongating in almost a north-south direction, indicating that she's weakening and may not make it... |
| Guts of Exploded Star Revealed A wave of "star guts" ejected into space from the supernova explosion of a massive dying star has been spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope. The new supernova image allows astronomers... |
| Satellites Help Aid Workers Plan Pakistan Flood Relief This image from ESA's Envisat satellite shows a 100 by 500 km (62 by 310 mile) strip of the flood area in Pakistan on Aug. 24, 2010. The blue areas are inundated regions. Credit:... |
| Grounded Space Station Module May Get New Mission The node structural test article (STA) is offloaded through the open nose of the Super Guppy transport aircraft following its arrival at Kennedy Space Center from Marshall Space Flight Center in... |
| Top 10 summer sky objects to see before fall As the summer night sky draws near its close, there are still some cosmic objects that may beckon skywatchers equipped with a small telescope, binoculars or their own two eyes. Compiling such a... |
| Some ancient galaxies had wild youth Ancient galaxies may be cosmic senior citizens today, but some have a wild streak in their past, one packed with frenetic star birth, astronomers say. Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space... |
| Tether maneuvers spacecraft without fuel A NASA team is preparing a bid to test a chemical-free propulsion system that taps the power of Earth's magnetic field to move satellites and spacecraft in orbit. Think of the force holding... |
| NASA launches free iPad app iPhone app the organization already offers. It includes thousands of images from the NASA picture bank, as well as videos documenting NASA's efforts. Folks who spend time watching NASA TV will be... |
| Is This Venus Williams’s Last Call? Venus Williams could practice all day, stopping only after she hit the 550 balls that her father threw her from a shopping cart. “Last one!” she would tell him, excited to have reached... |
| Wanted For Long Space Missions: Flexible Astronaut, Works Well With Others When it comes to flying in space, the makeup of an astronaut crew can be just as important as the mission itself, and the same goes for a team of six volunteers going through the motions of a... |
