ScienceDaily (Sep. 24, 2009) - The first Swiss satellite in history -- extremely small and 100 percent student designed and built -- has been successfully launched from the Sriharikota space station in India. Constructed by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, with many institutional partners, the SwissCube has gone into orbit. Those who ( Read more... )

bees making a hive in a jar

video of a monkey herding goats (includes baby goats and baby monkeys)

A lunar eclipse will fall on our 4th wedding anniversary. 19 other things you didn't know about eclipses.

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first pictures ever of liquid water anywhere besides Earth

Photos of one of the lander's legs show droplets that grew during the polar summer. Based on the temperature of the leg and the presence of large amounts of "perchlorate" salts detected in the soil, scientists believe the droplets were most likely salty liquid water and mud that splashed ( Read more... )

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Private Space Companies Forge Ahead Despite Failures
LOS ANGELES, California - Leaders of two private space ventures that suffered failures vowed today to try, try again.

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I can't believe in anything sacred when I don't believe in anything.

I have several things to post. They may or may not be separated into neat, clean sections. I will make an attempt to make them so.

Reign of FireI went to see this movie tonight. I give it not more than three stars. It was good, mostly because of the, albeit limited, special ( Read more... )