The vegetarian spider has been discovered or rather its diet has been discovered and caused the sensation. There were some species of spiders that eat a little plant food but this ones diet is 90% herbivorous. It also seems to make it more social. Instead of killing each other these spiders live and eat together. This discovery made it's name very ( Read more... )

NASA's LCROSS spacecraft was sent on mission to determine how much water is there on the Moon. It first fired a rocket into the a lunar crater named Cabeus and then crashed into it itself. Cebeus was chosen because that crater is deep crater, hidden from direct sunlight and scientists though there could be some water there. The even was transmitted ( Read more... )

I skiped yesterday in the award a day show of Nobel Prize and it was pretty cool - so it's here now. The Nobel Committee awarded the Physics award to people who co-created our digital civilisation. It was split in two:

Half will go to Charles Kao, who did pioneer work in the field of fiber optics, which are now used for the high quality ( Read more... )

The first real Nobel Prize was announced today - as always they announce only one category a day and today's was for Physiology or Medicine. The winners are Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for their research on telomeres - the DNA sequences that ends chromosomes. Telomeres are highly repetitive sequences on the end of ( Read more... )

The funny part was last week when Ig Nobels were awarded to bizzare research - I'm particularly impressed by the number of research on spermicide properties of Cola. And I always felt somebody should make vegetarians feel guilty for eating those plants.

And this week is Nobel Prize week. Not finished yet but all the important ones are already known ( Read more... )