Is there anything you can do to increase your intelligence? I think so and that’s why I wrote this short how to. Even though some people are born intelligent, I still believe that even those who are supposedly born dumb can do something about it. Why do I believe this? Well, because I’ve seen it.
Rocket racing is fast becoming a reality. It may not bey as hi-tech as Star Wars pod-racing is but it’s definitely more high flying. Read the rest of this entry »
What was the slimmest moon you’ve ever seen? Perhaps, you’re used to the crescent moon often depicted in photos and movies but have you ever seen a crescent moon so slim that you had a hard time looking for it? At first, he couldn’t see it, but searching with binoculars along a cloudy western horizon near sunset, photographer Laurent Laveder finally spotted a delicate lunar crescent. Captured in this dramatic picture on April 6th from Bretagne, France, the Moon was only 15 hours and 38 minutes old.
Binary stars are common in our universe. In fact, binary stars are so common that astronomers find it odd that our sun doesn’t have a twin. Common as they are, astronomers were surprised to find two stars orbiting each other so close that they share material with each other causing them to meld and form a peanut looking shape..
Suspended animation has been in the imagination of many science fiction lovers as well as true real-life scientists throughout the world. Traveling to Mars and other planets may take a long time and normal human metabolism will simply require too much resources – water, food, breathable oxygen, etc. Carrying them all in a spacecraft traveling to another planet may not be a wise decision to make.
I’m a total fan and supporter of science and have made some drastic decisions in my life that would probably make my friends go pale when I tell them. Being a science buff and a blogger at the same time, I thought it would be great to add some “haunted” touch to science for this year’s Halloween. Happily, I came across an article that would just fit the idea and so I’ve compiled a summary of it here and linked to the original source with complete description at the bottom of this post. Not really paranormal but I guess the number 13 should do the trick. 
Comet enthusiasts and skywatchers, just in case you don’t know it yet, a comet suddenly appeared in the night sky in the constellation Perseus. It wasn’t there before October 24 but on said date, it suddenly shone as if Perseus is adorned with a new yellowish-white star bright enough (Magnitude 2.5 approx) to be seen with the naked eye. In fact I was able to spot it easily with no binoculars even with the bright full moon in the sky.
If you’re ever thinking how those pair of eyes on your head got started then you’re in good luck because scientists at the University of California discovered where it all started. Believe it or not, the eyes we have today began it’s evolutionary journey about 600 million years ago in an aquatic animal called a Hydra. These lowly animal developed light-receptive genes call “opsins” which is basically the origin of animal vision.
At first I couldn’t believe it when I saw the article in my feed reader but heck it’s true. Google is indeed to sponsor the $30 million lunar X Prize! What’s in your mind Google? I can’t help but wonder. Read the rest of this entry »
The Hubble space telescope has been providing us earthlings with great images of space. It does so by taking photos of the cosmos from above Earth’s atmosphere and no matter how large earth-bound telescopes are, they simply can’t get rid of the blurring effect produced by our life-giving atmosphere. Hubble was nearly sentenced to death in the past due to glitches to its system but it’s still up there – aging and dying – because there simply is no replacement for it’s sharp photos – yet.