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Posted by Hot on the heels of The Planets in HD, I see the folks at SEED magazine have a nifty interview with One Ring Zero about their new album, PLANETS, an astronomy-themed rock symphony. We’re still a few years out from the hundredth anniversary of Gustav Holst’s astrology ode, written between 1914 and 1916. But the…
Well, who knows at this stage whether NASA will ever get its next-generation ATHLETE rover onto the moon or Mars. But at least we can rest assured it’ll provide any future astronauts with hours of entertainment: From moon buggy to moon boogie.
That was the most asked question during an event this morning at the National Air and Space Museum featuring the crew of STS-132, the final flight of the space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station. A student asks a question of the STS-132 crew. —Image by Eric Long/NASM Well, the final “scheduled” flight, anyway.…
Curiosity, as compared with the Mars rover Spirit. —Image courtesy NASA/JPL No matter where you stand on the future of human space flight, if you want to visit other worlds, you are probably a fan of robotic exploration. Still, there’re a lot of hurdles to putting even a robot on another planet: budget, scientific squabbling,…
Posted by By Daniel Grossman in Copenhagen Since I began taking interest in global warming, I’ve heard scientists say “beware of surprises.” In the esoteric field of climate research, a surprise is bad: a dangerous unanticipated change to Earth’s climate, weather patterns, ocean currents and other “Earth systems,” or life on the planet. We usually expect that…
By James G. Robertson, National Geographic Digital Media A New York Times story yesterday brought this video to our attention, which we found both fascinating and disturbing. Wildlife filmmaker Vanessa Serrao returned from Belize with a special souvenir after she was bit on the head by a mosquito carrying a botfly egg, according to reporting…
Posted by News from the 5th World Water Forum: Finding water is usually the work of women and girls, according to Joke Muylwijk, executive director of the Gender Water Alliance, a network of more than a thousand people around the globe dedicated to equitable access to water resources and decision-making. “There are some women who spend their…
I [heart] space, and I love animation. So I was tickled green to find out that NGC has put together what amounts to an animated feature-length tour of the cosmos. (Check out an <a href="“>interactive built for the show, noting that it requires the latest version of Flash to work right.) The new special, which…
The fevered race to pick a landing site and a new name for the Mars Science Lab seems to have come to a screeching halt today, as NASA announced that the mission will have to wait until fall 2011 to launch. —Image courtesy NASA/JPL Citing technical issues and a too-tight testing schedule, NASA officials told…
Image courtesy IBM IBM and university collaborators are developing a “cognitive computer” they hope will mimic the brain’s abilities for sensation, perception, action, and interaction while rivaling the brain’s low power consumption and compact size. The goal is a computer “with a new intelligence that can integrate information from a variety of sensors and sources,…
This post is part of a special National Geographic news series on global water issues. Today is World Toilet Day — and as it happens, there has been a flush of toilet news all week. First, there was the world’s most expensive toilet: the second sanitation unit for the International Space Station (ISS) that was…
Reconstruction by Kennis & Kennis/Photo by Joe McNally/NGS Meet Wilma, the first reconstruction of a Neanderthal created using evidence from fossil anatomy and ancient DNA. Neanderthals were a species of human that became extinct 28,000 years ago. The lifesize model was created to illustrate “The Last of the Neanderthals,” the cover article in the October…
Valerie Clark has a quick way to determine whether a frog is toxic or not. She licks them. If it is not dangerous it is certainly nasty. “I don’t recommend this,” Clark told National Geographic News earlier this year. “If you lick the wrong frog it can be very bad.” (Read the story.) Clark studies…
When a reader emailed this video to us we weren’t sure if it was a hoax or not. The animal eerily looks like something from the movie Alien. It took a bit of legwork to establish the truth. Video courtesy Shell Oil Co. Sometimes when we are discussing what stories we should cover, I think that the most…
