January 2010 Archives
Mars and the full Moon will pair up to provide a grand celestial spectacle tonight.
The Red Planet, now 62 million miles from Earth, will be at its brightest this year as it lines up opposite the Sun.
This is a rather nice picture of the Rosette Nebula.
Nothing out of the ordinary, right? I mean we're treated to incredible shots of the universe almost every day.
But this image was taken by some bloke in his garden shed!
Click here to see more of his work and then click here for the full story.
As always, click on the pic to embiggen.
From flying saucers to laser beams and glowing lights, there have been thousands of unexplained sightings in the sky over the years.
Of course the idea that the weird stuff are alien spacecrafts is a load of old tosh.
Satellite TV and the digital revolution is making humanity more and more invisible to inquisitive aliens on other planets, the world's leading ET hunter has said.
That might be good news for anyone who fears an invasion by little green men, but it is also likely to make the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence by Earthly scientists harder, Dr Frank Drake believes.
How good are you at parallel parking?
It's the one thing many motorists fear the most but don't panic, science is here to help.
NPR has published a how-to guide using geometry formulated by mathematician Simon Blackburn with a little help from Pythagorus.
Click here for a ticket to perfect parking.
The last Neanderthals in Europe died out at least 37,000 years ago - probably because of climate change and interaction with modern humans.
Previous theories suggested Neanderthals survived for several millennia south of the Cantabro-Pyrenean mountain chain after being replaced or assimilated by anatomically modern humans everywhere else in Europe.
The colour of some dinosaurs and early birds' feathers has been identified for the first time.
Dinosaur Sinosauropteryx had simple bristles - precursors of feathers - in alternate orange and white rings down its tail, and the early bird Confuciusornis had patches of white, black and orange-brown colouring, University of Bristol research revealed.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
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