Live tracking of the James Webb Telescope
I hear people say these things or ask these questions. So I am bookmarking a nice, concise, well written summary from an authoritative source for future reference
As usual, clear scientific writing from Ars Technica.
This is extremely cool.
Light as seen from satellites. Interesting read.
This looks just like the thing the Mossad would use. I wouldn't have thought this were possible.
This is an essay that a very small subset of the population will find extremely funny, and the rest won't understand.
Neat examples.
I remember the fierce opposition to this ten years ago here in Texas. It was mind-boggling.
On one hand you have religious masses who were against the vaccine thinking vaccinated teenagers would become more promiscuous.
On the other hand, you have the medical community advocating for this vaccine.
The results: A 64% drop of cancer in girls age 14 to 19. And it isn't better due to lower than hoped for vaccination rates (see the one hand, above).
The lesson: Listen to the scientists who actually know what they're talking about.
Congratulations to mankind for experimentally discovering what was mathematically discovered 100 years ago. We should all be proud. I thought the video on this article was very well made.
It's worrying that the Pope himself is better aligned with mainstream scientific thinking than a large percentage of the US population and its politicians.
This is very interesting and makes me feel an urge to go underwater and measure my heart rate.
It is imperative with anyone interested in animals to watch this. The whole thing.
"On the internet, evidence doesn't always matter — and now there's evidence for that."
Interesting read, I never really thought much about it.
The fact that things like this are happening in the USA is truly hard to believe and understand for foreigners.
Very pretty website.
Learned more about ice skating than... ever.
Very nice story about how a small change to an ecosystem can have a huge impact.
A tyrannosaurus was closer in time to listening to a Miley Cyrus concert than to seeing a live stegosaurus.
I would love to see this live.
It's astonishing that a full third of the richest nation in the world choose to "reject" one of the most widely agreed upon scientific theories in biology. Horrendously backwards.
Bizarre, yet cool.
The Kraken filmed!!!
The new spacesuit looks great, not only because it reminds me of Buzz Lightyear. Astronauts enter it through a hatch in the back. This is not as innovative as some may think: Although not mentioned in the article, Russian Cosmonaut spacesuits have used that idea since the beginning of the Cold War.
Very pretty.
Fascinating article about how humans perceive and categorize colors. Part two available as well:
Beautiful photos of the LHC, the most incredible machine ever built by mankind.
The coolest NASA video you will see today.
Short explanation for mere mortals on uranium enrichment. The is what Iran is trying to do in its Natanz plant.
The short and enjoyable videos posted here explain to the regular person how many things work or are made - from CCD sensors on cameras to the process of anodizing your iPod.
People love their pseudoscience and paying attention to bullshit arguments as if they were true. This is just another example.
This is an awesome little Flash thingie that helps you get a sense of the scale of things in biology.
Leading politicians in the U.S. are more and more anti-science. This is a terrifying trend for the most powerful nation in the world.
Today the Atlantis will be the last Space Shuttle to launch. Here's looking back at thirty years of the Space Shuttle.
This is a cool video from Bell Labs (1968) that explains the basics on how computer works and whether they can think of not. Forty years later we can see how the principles apply, the challenges are the same - but a lot of progress has been made on all these fronts. Very well made.
Schizophrenia has long been blamed on bad genes or even bad parents. Wrong, says a growing group of psychiatrists. The real culprit, they claim, is a virus that lives entwined in every person's DNA.
Very interesting read.
With an iPhone, Droid, and Flip
Cool photos!
I had never heard of this island. Very interesting.