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Friday Poll: Bacon-Flavored Seaweed?

by JOHN ADAMS • 07/17/2015 • 5 Comments

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 • 07/14/2015 • Comments

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 • 07/13/2015 • Comments

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Drawing Closer to Pluto

by JOHN ADAMS • 07/07/2015 • Comments

As the New Horizons spacecraft approaches Pluto, more about that world is evident, including its actual color —

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Tonight, Jupiter and Venus in the Western Sky

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/30/2015 • Comments

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Syracuse University Lava Project

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/29/2015 • Comments

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How Hawkmoths See at Dusk

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/23/2015 • Comments

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Could Chimps Cook?

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/02/2015 • Comments

Perhaps –

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The Turtle’s Point of View

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/30/2015 • Comments

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The First Marathon on Mars

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/21/2015 • Comments

Business, Science/Nature, Technology

Test Flight of Blue Origin Spaceship

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/30/2015 • Comments

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…