Between NASA's confirmation that asteroid 2012 DA14 has safely passed us by and the relatively minor damage inflicted by the Russian meteor strike, it appears that scientists were right in predicting that we would dodge the apocalypse -- for today anyway. As civilization continues, so too does Science Friday. Let's get on with it:

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Welcome to what may be -- if astronomers turn out to be wrong about next week's asteroid fly-by -- the last Science Friday ( Read more... )

This week, we have a "Final Frontier" version of Science Friday.

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  Introducing . . . the manatee nebula. Scientists at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory pair up with conservationists to raise awareness of the danger to manatee populations by naming a nebula after the marine mammal.
  


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  Deep Space Industries has announced plans for its own ( Read more... )

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  It's no secret that human beings aren't so good at measuring risk -- we worry a lot about things that there's little point in worrying about or that are unlikely to happen in the first place. At the same time, we don't always worry about what we should worry about. People will worry about all sorts of uncontrollable end-of-the-world type ( Read more... )

Welcome to the first Science Friday of 2013. In keeping with the spirit of the new year, we take a look back at what was, in many ways, a banner year for science and a sneak peek at what may lie ahead for this year and beyond ( Read more... )

1. One of my favourite ways of spending late nights during the week is listening to the BBC World Service on our local NPR station. They often have hour-long programmes devoted to certain specific themes. Last week, they had a show about youth around the world and a large part of tonight's show was -- in reaction to the last-minute retreat from ( Read more... )

Here we are at the last Science Friday of 2012. As humans are prone to do, a lot of science writers are choosing this arbitrary point on the calendar to reflect on the many things that have happened in science in 2012 and take a look ahead to the future. We don't know what 2013 will bring, but as scientific progress marches on, we can be sure it ( Read more... )

'Habitable' planet discovered circling Tau Ceti star
World is one of five thought to be circling star just 12 light years away, say scientists

Full Article from The Guardian . . .

From the science of food to the depths of space to doomsday weapons and the zombie apocalypse -- this week's Science Friday has a little bit of everything.

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  They're doing odd things with food these days. Working out of a lab at Texas Tech University, a company called MicroZap has invented a process for making bread last up to sixty days without ( Read more... )

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  History has many tales of mysterious places and lost islands, the most famous of these being the lost city of Atlantis. The era of Google Earth has given us a new twist on the theme. An island shown on Google Earth and in world coastline databases as being in the middle of the Coral Sea off the coast of Australia was never really there after all. ( Read more... )