Science/Nature
Animals, Science/Nature
The Very, Very Clean Ant
by JOHN ADAMS •
Food, Poll, Science/Nature
Friday Poll: Bacon-Flavored Seaweed?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Bacon-Flavored Seaweed?Scientists in Oregon have created bacon-flavored seaweed: What grows quickly, is packed with protein, has twice the nutritional value of kale and tastes like bacon? The answer, according to scientists at Oregon State University, is a new strain of seaweed they recently patented. Dulse is a form of edible seaweed that grows wild along…
Science/Nature, Space
Live Coverage and Background on the New Horizons Mission to Pluto
by JOHN ADAMS •
America’s New Horizons probe is today at its closest point to Pluto, photographing and taking other measurements to learn more about that distant world. It’s much to America’s credit as a civilized place that she uses her technology not merely for her own interests, but also to advance human understanding. Over at The Verge, there’s…
Animals, Science/Nature
How to Read Octopus
by JOHN ADAMS •
Science/Nature, Space
Drawing Closer to Pluto
by JOHN ADAMS •
Science/Nature, Space
Tonight, Jupiter and Venus in the Western Sky
by JOHN ADAMS •
Science/Nature
Syracuse University Lava Project
by JOHN ADAMS •
Science/Nature
How Hawkmoths See at Dusk
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Science/Nature
Could Chimps Cook?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Science/Nature
The Turtle’s Point of View
by JOHN ADAMS •
Science/Nature
The First Marathon on Mars
by JOHN ADAMS •
Business, Science/Nature, Technology
Test Flight of Blue Origin Spaceship
by JOHN ADAMS •
Blue Origin, a private spaceflight company, tested its New Shepard spaceship yesterday. The capsule tested properly, but the engineers were unable to recover the rocket booster (as they had hoped they would be able to do). Still, the launch alone demonstrates progress, and certainly impresses. See, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Launches Private Spaceship Test Flight…