Category Archives: Science

The researchers at OCEARCH collect data about the migratory behavior of large open ocean sharks. To do this, they capture and tag Great Whites and monitor their movement via satellite. Their website lets you interactively view where the sharks are … Continue reading →

Pictured is a ‘tardigrade’ a millimeter long on moss. Tardigrades are a life form of incredible durability that can survive temperatures from subzero to above boiling, radiation that would kill humans, pressures from the vacuum of space On the other … Continue reading →

Isle of Skye, from the International Space Station:

Recharge your phone in 30 seconds? Your electric car in 2 minutes? Eliminate the chemical battery forever? Those are the promises of the super-supercapacitor based on organic graphene. Check out the video to see what just may be the next … Continue reading →

PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever drilled into a rock beyond … Continue reading →

Sounds like something from the tabloids, but as this article from The Independent indicates, UK scientists may be onto a process to turn air into gasoline. A small British company has produced the first “petrol from air” using a revolutionary … Continue reading →

The Space X Falcon/Dragon system launched from Cape Canaveral and put us back in the business of resupplying the Space Station from the U.S. Next up, manned missions from U.S. launchers. The most memorable moment of that 1978 season occurred … Continue reading →

The Secretary of the Navy announced this week that the 240-foot research vessel currently under construction just north of me in Anacortes, Washington will be named the R/V Neil Armstrong and will be the first Armstrong-class vessel. The Armstrongs will … Continue reading →