11 October 2007
Horse head – picture taken from France
10 October 2007
NASA recently published a breathtaking image of Saturn's enigmatic moon Iapetus. This is the first high-resolution image of the moon's bright trailing hemisphere.
10 October 2007
For a majority of people, there is no better taste combo than chocolate and nuts. For food scientists, though, this combination is a major headache.
09 October 2007
The crew of the International Space Station Expedition 16 are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 10 October 2007 to begin a six-month stay aboard the orbiting outpost.
08 October 2007
NASA recently published an intriguing image of Saturn and its second largest moon Rhea (1,528 km across). The image was acquired by the Saturn-bound Cassini spacecraft.
06 October 2007
On 4 October 2007, the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft successfully entered lunar orbit. The next step for Kaguya is to release its smaller companion spacecrafts, the Relay Satellite and the VRAD Satellite, respectively.
03 October 2007
Daniel Kunkle spent most of his time in graduate school playing with a colorful puzzle called a Rubik's Cube. For 20 years, Jonathan Schaeffer worked on winning at checkers.
30 September 2007
For a lot of people, there's no better taste combo than chocolate and nuts. For food scientists, though, this combination is a major headache.
30 September 2007
Physicists at UC Riverside have demonstrated that graphene -- a one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings can act as an atomic-scale billiard table, with electric charges acting as billiard balls.
30 September 2007
Children learn about the world through a variety of sources, including parents, teachers, friends, and media. Although news gleaned from television, radio, internet can be a positive educational experience for kids; problems can arise when the images presented are violent or news stories touch on disturbing topics. Reports on subjects, such as child abductions, homicides, terrorist activities, or school violence, can teach kids to view the world as a confusing, threatening, or unfriendly place.