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Science Weekly podcast: Dark Matter, John Gribbin, a carrot mob, Nasa's Martian probe and Darwin's b..

This week's guest is astronomer and prolific author John Gribbin. We discuss dark matter and why the moon is so important. Plus, why the Earth, the universe and everything is prett..

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/science/

NRC Committee Reviews DOE Fusion Plan

By Richard Jones at AIPA National Research Council committee has given a positive review to the Department of Energy’s plan for the participation of the U.S. fusion communit..

http://sefora.org/

NASA Tests First Deep-Space Internet

NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laborato..

http://thefutureofthings.com/

Shock waves in planetary formation and the first extraterrestrial life we’ll likely find

Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than ..

http://alienlifeblog.blogspot.com/

Kidney injury puts elderly individuals at high risk for developing serious kidney disease

Acute kidney injury (AKI)?which is often caused by trauma, illness, or surgery?predisposes elderly individuals to the most serious form of chronic kidney disease (CKD), known as ..

http://www.physorg.com/

Arctic tourists evacuated amid melting and unprecedented warming

If the 21 tourists evacuated from the Baffin Islands yesterday weren't convinced that we're near a climate change tipping point they are now. According to a Canwest new se..

http://www.desmogblog.com/

Mysterious source of high-energy cosmic radiation discovered

Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of a previously unidentified nearby source of high-energy cosmic rays. The finding was made with a NASA-funded balloon-borne instrument..

http://www.sciencecentric.com/

Genomicron on Science by press release.

Just a quick one here. Ryan Gregory is going on against science by press release - one of my biggest pet peeves. Check it out at:Genomicron: Science by press release.This is from..

http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/index.html

Hopes and Fears...

The Seed people inquired with each of us as to what we hope and fear to be blogging about next year. Since a list of molecules wouldn't make any sense here, it is more of a general..

http://scienceblogs.com/moleculeoftheday/

Water purification with DNA and a sugar ring

A composite material made out of DNA and a seven-membered sugar ring can purify drinking water by absorbing toxic chemicals.Read More.....

http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars

Link-O-Rama

Interested in building an astronomical observatory in your hometown? Have a look at Observatory 101.  No pictures, but because I know the parties in the article, I can certify t..

http://gaussling.wordpress.com/

A correction on the number of Chandrayaan-1 probe pictures

When the Chandrayaan-1 Moon Impact Probe descended to its crash on the Moon on November 14, it took many pictures on the way down. I repeated earlier a report issued by The Hindu ..

http://planetary.org/blog

V458 Vulpeculae - A Binary Star Explosion Inside A Nebula

The explosion of a binary star inside a planetary nebula has been captured by a team of researchers – an event that has not been witnessed for more than 100 years.Advertisement:..

http://www.scientificblogging.com/

the flame wars

Earlier this year, a young novelist named Keith Gessen published his first book. Even more than most such debuts, All the Sad Young Literary Men was highly autobiographical: it had..

http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/

Is Art Caplan One of the Smartest People on the Planet? Discovering Minds Want to Know...

Check out this update from the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics noting that Arthur Caplan has been recognized by Discover Magazine. The article is below. Arthur Capl..

http://blog.bioethics.net/

Updates: Whatever Happened to Midsize Black Holes?

Rules for Genetically Engineered AnimalsAfter years of anticipation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released in September preliminary guidelines for genetically engineered a..

http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/

Free LCD TVs (Santa Comes Early)

It's the Most Glorious Time . . . :  Sean CaptainCommuters in Grand Central Station got a morning sugar shock of eye candy when Sharp unveiled a 26-foot tall Christmas tree m..

http://www.popsci.com/

99 things on the wall meme

From here via here via here, 99 things I have or haven't done. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post.....

http://scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts/

Permanent budget crisis.

There are some newspaper stories that must be pretty easy to write at this point because it seems like they're essentially the same year in and year out. California is having anot..

http://scienceblogs.com/ethicsandscience/

Seeing shapes in two different ways: how and when it happens

A Necker cube is bi-stable figure, meaning that it can be perceived as two different three-dimensional objects, depending on how you look at it:Cube A is ambiguous -- the tru..

http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/
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