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Submitted on June 3rd 2017 by TNY with 3 comments

You'd think NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has seen everything there is to see on the Martian surface in the 11 years it's orbited our nearest neighbour, but a snapshot taken over the planet's South Pole has revealed something we can't...

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Submitted on June 5th 2017 by 90boss

The actor's new book, If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?, is all about communication — and miscommunication — between doctors, scientists and civilians.

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Submitted on June 4th 2017 by estherschindler with 1 comments

Children who drink alternative milks seem less likely to grow to the same height at age three as those who drink cow's milk, Toronto researchers have found.

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Submitted on June 7th 2017 by canuck

In 1977, the sound of extraterrestrials was heard by human ears for the first time - or so people at the time thought. The Wow! Signal was detected by astronomer Jerry Ehman using Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope .

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Submitted on June 8th 2017 by kxh with 1 comments

Prophecies, memories, and more. By Drake Baer. (Oct. 10, 2016)

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Submitted on June 7th 2017 by AdelleChattre

Professional and citizen astronomers with the NASA-funded ‘Backyard Worlds: Planet 9’ project have made their first significant discovery: a new brown dwarf in the solar neighborhood,

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Submitted on June 4th 2017 by Gozzin with 3 Related Links:

1. Brown Dwarfs: Crash Course Astronomy #28 Added by Gozzin on June 4th 2017.

2. Brown Dwarfs: Failed Stars Resembling Planets Added by Gozzin on June 4th 2017.

3. Cold brown dwarf discovered close to our solar system Added by Gozzin on June 4th 2017.

This amazing work could literally change the world

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Submitted on June 8th 2017 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

A hatchling exquisitely preserved in amber is giving us the best glimpse yet of what an extinct group of birds was like 

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Submitted on June 9th 2017 by TNY

Cannabis smokers often report that they use the drug to relax or relieve stress, but few studies provide clinical evidence of these effects. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago report that low levels tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the main psychoactive compound in marijuana, does reduce stress, but in a highly dose-dependent manner: very low doses lessened the jitters of a public-speaking task, while slightly higher doses — enough to produce a mild “high” — actually increased anxiety.

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Submitted on June 5th 2017 by 8mm with 1 Related Links:

1. Low doses of THC can relieve stress, while high doses to the opposite Added by tranxene on June 6th 2017.

Megafauna including giant kangaroos were preserved in sand in South Australia's Naracoorte Caves, one of the world's richest fossil sites.

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Submitted on June 6th 2017 by kxh

A new carbon-capture system just began pulling CO2 from the air.

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Submitted on June 5th 2017 by Jourdy288 with 9 comments

So much to think about when designing.

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Submitted on June 6th 2017 by Appaloosa

Back in 1970, then-President Richard Nixon signed an executive order establishing the Environmental Protection Agency. Just after its creation, the EPA created a photo-documentary project called "Project Documerica." Its purpose? To "record the state of the environment and efforts to improve it."

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Submitted on June 2nd 2017 by ubthejudge with 1 comments

Gas compressors in New Mexico seem to mess with some arthropods’ behavior. 

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Submitted on June 3rd 2017 by lostwonder

Bread has been banned in space for 50 years thanks to the dangers of free-floating crumbs – but specially designed ovens mean astronauts could soon ditch tortillas.

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Submitted on June 8th 2017 by ticktack

If racism stemmed from evolution, we should not see Christians base racist ideas on the Bible long before the birth of evolutionary science. “Evolution is also the basis of racism, [and] many assert that racism played a role in the motivation for this murder,” Whitney said. “You see, evolution is essentially racist. So where did Sean Urbanski learn racism? He learned it in his classes on evolution at the local public high school that his parents sent him to and his parents funded that school by the payment of their property taxes.”

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Submitted on June 6th 2017 by aj0690

An unexpected rain of spiders led to a lovely Twitter geek-out between astronomers and arachnologists. By Ed Yong.

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Submitted on June 6th 2017 by AdelleChattre

Spiders appear to offload information processing tasks to their webs, leading some to suggest that a mind can be located outside of the head. By Joshua Sokol.

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Submitted on June 8th 2017 by AdelleChattre

A review of three separate experiments has turned up "remarkably similar" results, pointing to what researchers say is a strong possibility that we've found hits of a phenomenon that goes beyond the standard model of particle physics.

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Submitted on June 9th 2017 by TNY