Strong winds polished the snow of southwestern Alaska and stretched marine stratocumulus clouds into long, parallel streets in early January, 2012. After crossing Bristol Bay,...
Kepler telescope team finds 11 new solar systems Saturday, 28 January 2012 00:31 NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the Sun, scientists said on Thursday.
Jumping Spider Uses Fuzzy Eyesight to Judge Distance Saturday, 28 January 2012 00:31 One of the ways in which humans determine distance is by estimating the sharpness of an image—closer objects produce a sharp image, while those further away are out of focus. For us, this is a minor additional method of judging distance, but now scientists in Japan have for the first time found an animal that appears to use this method as its primary means of depth perception.
The World's Largest Radio Telescope Saturday, 28 January 2012 00:31 The largest and most sensitive telescope ever built, the Square Kilometer Array will peer deeper into the universe than ever before, shedding light on some of the universe's greatest mysteries.