news archive 2012

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NEW YEAR'S WEEKEND EDITION: Dec 29, 2012 thru Jan 1, 2013

Nature:
2012 - The Year In Science

The Guardian:
Tooth fairy quantum mechanics

Science Daily:
The paths of photons are random - but coordinated

Discovery News:
Death By Black Hole Firewall Incineration It Shall Be

io9:
See a recreation of the experiment that discovered the electron

Popular Science:
The Sloppiest Sci-Fi Movie Science Violations of 2012

The Guardian:
The Observer science quiz 2012: part 1
The Observer science quiz 2012: part 2
The Observer science quiz 2012: part 3

Popular Science:
FYI: Which Computer Is Smarter, Watson Or Deep Blue?

Popular Science:
Robot Boy To Be 'Born' In 9 Months, And Programmed To Do All His Chores

Smithsonian Magazine:
Photos of the World's Oldest Living Things

National Geographic:
Two-Ton "Alien" Horned Dinosaur Found - "Different From Every Other"

Live Science:
Erratic Environment May Be Key to Human Evolution

The Guardian:
Alice Roberts: Rudolph and our early ancestors - a love story

Daily Mail:
How idolatry continued in the Kingdom of Judah:Israeli dig uncovers temple and icons dating back to Old Testament era

Gizmodo:
Archaeologists Think Hidden Imperial Tomb May Be Too Deadly to Explore

Daily Mail:
Unique 2,000-year-old Roman theatre discovered in back garden of archaeological school

io9:
Here's the earliest known map of the Gulf Stream, created by Benjamin Franklin

Daily Mail:
The incredible 200-year-old automaton: The jewel-studded clockwork caterpillar built to show off 19th Century high technology

Daily Mail:
The lost churches of Russia: Abandoned wooden buildings left forgotten in the forests are captured in haunting photographs

Daily Mail:
'A football was kicked out of our trenches and we played the Germans': Poignant letter recounting famous 1914 Christmas Day truce rediscovered nearly 100 years on

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Children Who Went Up In Smoke

Daily Mail:
A helping hand from the past: Photographer sells pictures of the boardwalk from 60 years ago for Hurricane Sandy victims

Daily Mail:
We bugged Princess Margaret's ashtrays, admit KGB

Smithsonian Magazine:
A History of Sequins from King Tut to the King of Pop

Gizmodo:
A Complete History of American Nuclear Explosions in 90 Seconds

Wired:
The 8 Craziest Job Openings in the Military-Industrial Complex

Smithsonian Magazine:
Seven Must-See Art and Science Exhibitions of 2013

Wired:
7 Codes You'll Never Ever Break

December 28, 2012

Gizmag:
NASA's NEXT ion thruster clocks up continuous operation world record

Gizmodo:
SpaceX's Grasshopper Rocket Takes Off and Lands Vertically and Can Also Hover

Popular Science:
The Year On Mars: The Red Planet's Greatest Moments Of 2012

Daily Mail:
The comet that could outshine the MOON in 2013: Sky-gazers anticipating object so bright it could even be visible in daylight

Universe Today:
What's Up in the Night Skies for January 2013?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Chapeau by Bleriot

The Atlantic:
Who Was First in the Race to the Moon? The Tortoise

December 27, 2012

Space.com:
NASA Launches Telescope-Toting Balloon from Antarctica on Christmas

Gizmag:
SpaceX's Grasshopper VTVL takes a 40 meter hop

Space Daily:
Russia designs manned lunar spacecraft

Wired:
Meet the Grabby, Sugar-Fueled Robots the Navy Wants to Put in Space

Space.com:
Longest-Running Earth Observation Satellite to Retire

Space.com:
New Mars Photo Christens Deep-Space Antenna

Scientific American:
Should We Expect Other Earth-like Planets At All?

Popular Science:
10 Of The Greatest Aerospace Innovations Of 2012

Dvice:
Image of the Day: San Francisco airport at night

io9:
R.I.P. Gerry Anderson, Creator of Space: 1999 and Thunderbirds

Discovery News:
The Zond That Pushed Apollo to the Moon

December 26, 2012

Daily Mail:
Nasa plans to 'lasso' asteroid the size of two double-decker buses and turn it into a space station to orbit the moon

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz capsule docks to the International Space Station

Popular Science:
Open Source Outer Space: How A Couple Of Guys Are Building A Homemade Rocket Ship for the Masses

Discovery News:
Mars Rover Opportunity Finds 'Rich' Clay Deposits

Universe Today:
A Color View of Darling Dione

Daily Mail:
That's close! NASA says an asteroid will miss Earth by 553,000 miles in 2040

New Scientist:
2013 Smart Guide: Supercomet to outshine the moon

The Guardian Express:
Meteor Strike On Christmas Eve 1965

Space Daily:
Quadrantids Create Year's First Meteor Shower

The Aviationist:
China's new military transport plane exposed. And it looks like a C-17, An-70, A400M hybrid

The Aviationist:
Take a seat next to the B-52 heavy bomber's Radar Navigator

Space Daily:
Space Fence program moving forward

Biloxi Sun-Herald:
South Mississippi has long history of UFO intrigue

CHRISTMAS WEEKEND EDITION: December 22 through 25, 2012

Scientific American:
The Science of the Next 150 Years

Scientific American:
The Future: A History of Prediction from the Archives of Scientific American

Scientific American:
Black Hole Firewalls Confound Theoretical Physicists

Discovery News:
Welcome to the Realm of Quantum Foam

Daily Mail:
One Higgs, or TWO? 'Twin peaks' in Large Hadron Collider's data could turn physics on its head

The Economist:
The Higgs boson - Double trouble

Scientific American:
Relative Masses of 7-Billion-Year-Old Protons and Electrons Confirmed to Match Those of Today's Particles

Live Science:
World's Largest Atom Smasher Gets Faster

Gizmodo:
This Weird Crystal Demonstrates a New Magnetic Behavior that Works Like Magic

Universe Today:
The Most Remote Workplace on Earth

Popular Science:
BigDog Robot Learns To Obey Voice Commands, Follow, Roll Over

IEEE Spectrum:
DARPA LS3 Robot Mule Learns New Tricks, Loves a Mud Bath

Popular Science:
Watch This Gift-Wrapping Robot Make Elves Obsolete

Live Science:
Quadriplegic Woman Moves Robot Arm With Her Mind

IEEE Spectrum:
2012 Robot Gift Guide

Gizmodo:
This Laser Weapon Got Five Times More Powerful in Just One Year

Daily Mail:
The GRAVITY-powered lamp that could bring 1.5billion people out of the darkness

Daily Mail:
The incredible interactive two BILLION pixel image of Everest that lets you zoom in as if you were on the mountain

Smithsonian Magazine:
Using Only a Camera, Trace the Solar Analemma and Plot the Solstice

Live Science:
How Arctic Hurricanes Help Warm Europe

Popular Science:
Who Were The First Organisms To Live On Land?

io9:
Was Earth's most devastating mass extinction caused by a single microbe?

Live Science:
Huge 'Sea Monster' Ruled Ancient Rivers

Daily Mail:
Mysterious whale revealed to be a 'living fossil' as member of a family that vanished from the oceans two million years ago

Popular Science:
These Massive Extinct Eagles Could Have Carried Off That Toddler's Dad

Smithsonian Magazine:
Tree Climbers, Wood Eaters, and More: The Top 10 Human Evolution Discoveries of 2012

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Who Killed Ramesses III?

Daily Mail:
The mummy and the harem coup: Modern day forensics 'prove' Ramesses III did have his throat slashed by 'lesser' wife who wanted her son on the throne

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan

Live Science:
The Real Deal: How the Mayan Calendar Works

Daily Mail:
The incredible 'alien' skulls discovered in a Mexican cemetery

Daily Mail:
Archeologists reveal golden helmet and 90 Anglo-Saxon treasures in stunning SECOND find in a Staffordshire field

Daily Mail:
From Bethlehem to the Garden of Gethsemane, the biblical locations photographed in 1862 to prove to the English they really did exist

Daily Mail:
Why tyrant Queen Victoria resented her nine 'ugly, frog-like' children

Smithsonian Magazine:
Document Deep Dive: Emancipation Proclamation

Smithsonian Magazine:
That Time 150 Years Ago When Thousands of People Watched Baseball on Christmas Day

The Guardian:
Science and Christmas: a forgotten Victorian romance

io9:
The thought experiment that proved light has a speed limit

Popular Science:
How Roald Amundsen Won The Race To The Bottom Of The World

The Guardian:
From the archive, 19 December 1912: Piltdown Man 'a hitherto unknown species'

Smithsonian Magazine:
How to Solve Human Evolution's Greatest Hoax

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Legend of the Christmas Stocking

Smithsonian Magazine:
The History of the Teddy Bear: From Wet and Angry to Soft and Cuddly

Futurity:
Modern math solves Ramanujan's 'vision'

Daily Mail:
'Bismarck receiving first torpedo': Rare photos chronicle race to sink the pride of Hitler's fleet in 1941

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Boy Who Became a World War II Veteran at 13 Years Old

Smithsonian Magazine:
Spy Pigeons

Daily Mail:
The golden age of retail therapy? Glimpse inside Dallas's original Neiman Marcus store in 1945 reveals how Texas oil wives spent their money

The Guardian:
Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review

Popular Science:
How To Survive The Apocalypse, Cold War-Style

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Vegas Hotspot That Broke All the Rules

Popular Science:
Ways The World Might Actually End [Infographic]

io9:
2012's List of Best Unproduced Screenplays Is Full of Amazing Science Fiction Ideas

io9:
The Middle Earth Illustrators J.R.R. Tolkien Loved - and the Ones He Abhorred

io9:
This trampoline routine will have you doubting the laws of physics

io9:
These gorgeous colorized photos bring famous historical figures to life

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Decline and Fall of the Space Action Hero

December 21, 2012

ABC Australia:
Pristine space rocks older than the Sun

San Francisco Chronicle:
Meteor offers insight into solar system

Scientific American:
California Meteor Broke Speed Record for Atmospheric Entry

Scientific American:
For Manned Deep-Space Missions, Radiation Is Biggest Hurdle

Space.com:
Dec: 21: The Winter Solstice Explained

Scientific American:
Darwin in Space: How Multigenerational Missions Could Shape Human Evolution

Astrobiology Magazine:
Swansong Biospheres

Gizmag:
Hexacopter and hexapod: together at last

Daily Mail:
Just like the real thing! Talented enthusiast builds Britain's largest four-jet engine model aeroplane (and it can fly at speeds of 150mph)

The Aviationist:
Photo: F-35B hovering in the darkness as seen through the Night Vision Goggles

Popular Science:
Inside China's Secret Arsenal

Discovery News:
When Apollo Died: What of Apollo 18, 19 and 20?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Santa Claus Builds A Flying Machine

December 20, 2012

Daily Mail:
To infinity and beyond! Nasa reveals new spacesuit - but was it designed by a fan of Buzz Lightyear?

Stuff NZ:
Lift off for ISS Christmas

Space.com:
American, Canadian, and Russian Spaceflyers Launch to Space Station

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz blasts off with crew bound for space station

Astrobiology Magazine:
Supernova Did Not Birth Our Solar System

Space.com:
Potentially Habitable Planet Detected Around Nearby Star

Discovery News:
Five Planets, One 'Habitable,' May Circle Tau Ceti

New Scientist:
Nearby Tau Ceti may host two planets suited to life

io9:
The bears who became test pilots during the Cold War

Daily Mail:
End of an aviation era: Rebuilt Spitfire takes to the skies from historic Filton aerodrome as BAE calls time on home of Concorde

Gizmodo:
Our Last Manned Moon Mission Splashed Down 40 Years Ago Today

EarthSky:
2012 Ursid meteor shower active around winter solstice

Daily Mail:
If the Mayan prophecy is true, just how might it all end on Friday? Scientists foretell the cataclysms that could bring on Doomsday

December 19, 2012

Space.com:
Three New Crewmembers to Launch to Space Station Wednesday

Space.com:
Troubled Japanese Venus Probe Set for 2015 Comeback

Discovery News:
Cassini's Christmas Gift: In the Shadow of Saturn

Science Magazine:
Another Earth Just 12 Light-Years Away?

Discovery News:
When the Air Force Wanted to Nuke the Moon

Gizmodo:
Is This the Job With the Best Views of the World?

The Aviationist:
Laser weapon destroys rocket target in three seconds: here's the future of anti-missile defense systems

Air & Space Magazine:
Asteroid Watch

December 18, 2012

MIT Technology Review:
Mars Astronauts Likely to Witness 1 Megaton Asteroid Impacts

Space.com:
Twin Moon Probes Crash into Lunar Mountain

Discovery News:
Success! NASA's GRAIL Probes Crash into the Moon

NASA News:
Station Crew Does Maintenance as Soyuz Rolls to Launch Pad

Daily Mail:
The 'ping pong ball' robots that could soon be gardening on Mars (and they could even build us a space station there)

Gizmodo:
The Wright Brothers First Took To The Skies 109 Years Ago Today

Dvice:
Video of the Day: Boeing B-47 Stratojet's first flight

Gizmodo:
Drop Everything, Dog Space Suits Right Here

Universe Today:
Russia's Soyuz Spacecraft: 46 Years and Still Soaring High

Gizmodo:
Inside NASA's Mysterious Rubber Room

The DEW Line:
What will replace the F-15E Strike Eagle?

Daily Mail:
The 'unjammable' quantum radar that could render ALL stealth planes useless

io9:
What Exactly Was Carl Sagan Working on with the U.S. Military?

December 17, 2012

Daily Mail:
Deep space fly-by: Incredible pictures taken by Chinese probe passing asteroid show giant rock 4.5 million miles from Earth

Space.com:
Huge Asteroid's Earth Flyby Caught on Video

Discovery News:
Chinese Probe Buzzes Asteroid Toutatis

Daily Mail:
Going out with a bang: Nasa prepares to crash probes into the surface of the moon in dramatic finale to year-long lunar mission

Space.com:
Moon: Space Programs' Dumping Ground (Infographic)

Popular Science:
Annotated Machine: How Robots Could Recycle Dead Satellites In Orbit

Daily Mail:
Victorian Paris photographed from the air: Amazing 1878 shots bring together two new technologies as they took the world by storm

Daily Mail:
Thank you for flying Soviet airlines: The vast airplane graveyard in Russia where 9,000 giants of the sky have been left to rust

Gizmodo:
The USSR's First Supersonic Bomber Failed Harder than Soviet Communism

The DEW Line:
The Lockheed L-225 nuclear-powered bomber--can you imagine if this thing had actually been built?

Discovery News:
First Planetary Flyby Occurred 50 Years Ago

The Atlantic:
What Space Data Looked Like in 1962

Air & Space Magazine:
The First Planetary Explorers

The Guardian:
Apollo 40 years on: how the moon missions changed the world for ever

io9:
How the L5 Society Tried to Use a Quirk of Physics to Colonize Space

The Aviationist:
"Doomsday" planes will keep U.S. decision makers alive in case of Mayan Apocalypse on December 21st

WEEKEND EDITION: December 15 through 16, 2012

Space.com:
5 Reasons We May Live in a Multiverse

Astrobiology Magazine:
Do We Live in a Computer Simulation?

Discovery News:
Space Bursts Provide Insight to Theory of Everything

New Scientist:
Space-time waves may be hiding in dead star pulses

Space.com:
Is Light Subject to Gravity?: Gotta-See Video

ABC Australia:
Dark energy a headache long before discovery

The Atlantic:
How Science Changes

Popular Science:
A Humanoid Robot With Lifelike Bones And Muscles

Daily Mail:
The bizarre amphibious vehicle inventor claims is driven by perpetual motion

Stuff NZ:
Hangi feast of magnetic field data

Daily Mail:
Inside the glacier-cave: Amazing underground chamber with giant ice slides that never melt

Live Science:
Origin of Life Needs a Rethink, Scientists Argue

Science Magazine:
'Marine' Fossils May Instead Represent Early Land Dwellers

Cosmos:
Fossil find challenges tree of life

Smithsonian Magazine:
Did Early Dinosaurs Burrow?

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Did Raptors Use Their Fearsome Toe Claws?

Smithsonian Magazine:
I is for Irritator

Smithsonian Magazine:
Four Species of Homo You've Never Heard Of, Part II

Smithsonian Magazine:
Top 7 Human Evolution Discoveries From South Africa

Daily Mail:
That's going to be one stinky variety! Traces of ancient cheese show the foodstuff dates back at least 7,000 years

Daily Mail:
'The beginning of history': Oldest known depictions of a Pharaoh dating back more than 5,000 years found in southern Egypt

Daily Mail:
Paved Roman backstreet walked on by early Christian worshippers discovered during archaeological dig beneath York Minster

The Guardian:
Restoration of Roman tunnels gives a slave's eye view of Caracalla baths

Daily Mail:
Solving the riddle of the sands: Scientist claims Peru's spiral Nazca line is a 'labyrinth that forms a path to spiritual enlightenment'

Daily Mail:
How Japan's samurai caste was toppled by MAKE UP: Lead poisoning left the warriors' children backward and physically deformed

io9:
Archaeologists at 'Pompeii of Japan' site find a 1,400 year-old warrior still wearing his armour

io9:
How Someone Measured the Speed of Light by Accident

Daily Mail:
Village surgeon who pioneered fingerprints 50 years before they were used by police (but could the Yard have caught Jack the Ripper if they listened to his theory?)

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Day Henry Clay Refused to Compromise

Live Science:
History's Biggest Scientific Fraud Goes Under the Microscope

Live Science:
Titanic Exhibit Gives Life to Ship's Passengers

Popular Science:
The Secret Weapons Behind The Japanese Attack On Pearl Harbor

Daily Mail:
Amazing tale of WWII pilot's encounter with German flying ace who saluted an American plane and let them fly safely instead of shooting them down

Collectors Weekly:
WWII War Paint: How Bomber-Jacket Art Emboldened Our Boys

io9:
Check out Pablo Picasso's hypnotic 'light drawings' from 1949

Smithsonian Magazine:
Sit Back and Plug In: Entertainment in the Year 2000

Smithsonian Magazine:
Motopia: A Pedestrian Paradise

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Kennedy Assassin Who Failed

io9:
U.S. had plans for a 'full nuclear response' should the President disappear or be killed during an attack

io9:
8 of the Weirdest Predictions for the End of the World

Dvice:
Gallery: The earliest photos taken of snowflakes

Gizmag:
Follow the trampoline road

Gizmodo:
12 Amazing Movie Props You'll Actually Be Able to Buy This Weekend

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Futuristic Golf Game in the Sky

December 14, 2012

Gizmag:
Interview: Aeros CEO Igor Pasternak

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: A Preflight Checkup for Future Space Tourists

Spaceflight Now:
Thales 'confident' in recovery of Yamal 402 satellite

Space.com:
Twin NASA Probes Readying for Monday Moon Crash

Discovery News:
Kamikaze Probes to Smash into Lunar Mountain

Discovery News:
Hubble Detects Furthest Oldest Galaxy... Again?!

Stuff NZ:
Bearing the Brunt of a Meteorite Impact

New Scientist:
Search for aliens poses game theory dilemma

Wired:
7 Secret Ways America's Stealth Armada Stays Off the Radar

The DEW Line:
Free download: World Air Forces 2013

The Atlantic:
40 Years Ago, Humans Took Their Final Steps on the Moon

December 13, 2012

Daily Mail:
Asteroid that came nearer to Earth than the moon (... but was only spotted two days before the close encounter)

Scientific American:
Newfound Asteroid Buzzes Earth inside Moon's Orbit

Slate:
Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks over the Next Few Days

National Geographic:
Surprise Meteor Shower this Week?

Universe Today:
Asteroid Toutatis Tumbles by Earth: Images and Videos

Space Daily:
Fast20XX research project - ideas for travelling at hypersonic speed

Space.com:
Private Spaceship Builders Split $30 Million in NASA Funds

Space Daily:
Curiosity Rover Nearing Yellowknife Bay

Space.com:
Nile-Like River Spotted on Saturn Moon Titan

Discovery News:
Titan's 'Nile River' Discovered

Scientific American:
Exoplanet Discoveries to Date Are Just a Drop in the Bucket [Interactive]

New Scientist:
Hubble sees earliest known galaxies through cosmic fog

Gizmag:
Disney World celebrates new park expansion with mechanical flying dragon

Popular Science:
A Hauntingly Beautiful Skateboarding Video Shot With A Hexacopter Drone

Discovery News:
When the Dyna-Soar Went Extinct

December 12, 2012

Discovery News:
Recently Discovered Asteroid Zooms Past Earth

Daily Mail:
The amazing asteroid-eye view of the Earth as XE54 passes just 226,000km from us - and crosses the Earth's shadow

Space.com:
Classified Air Force Space Plane Launches on Secret Mission

Universe Today:
Air Force's Secret X-37B Space Plane Launches on Third Mission

Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 serves as mini space shuttle's booster rocket

Space.com:
Is Russia's Robotic Space Program Headed for a Renaissance?

Space.com:
Twin NASA Probes to Crash into Moon Next Week

Space.com:
Illustrating Exoplanets: Q&A with Space Artist Lynette Cook

Daily Mail:
Revealed: How NASA fell for British ad firm's spoof project to project a cheese logo on to the Moon

December 11, 2012

Cosmos:
British astronomer Patrick Moore dies, 89

The Guardian:
Sir Patrick Moore obituary

Popular Science:
Take A Virtual Trip To The Moon With Patrick Moore's Handy Guide

NASA News:
CubeSats in Orbit After Historic Space Station Deployment

Daily Mail:
Seven Milky Way worlds could harbour life, say astronomers (after just a year of hunting)

Space.com:
Year's Best Meteor Shower Peaks This Week

Space.com:
Bright Fireball Over Texas Caught on Video

Daily Mail:
The incredible image that shows Ham, the first chimp in space, during his historic 17 minute flight

December 10, 2012

Space Daily:
Air Force Space Command's roots traced back to the 1940s

Space.com:
Russian Proton Rocket Suffers Launch Failure

Spaceflight Now:
Russian satellite launch fails to reach proper orbit

Space.com:
Can Slamming a Spaceship into an Asteroid Save Earth?

NASA Science:
Rock Comet Meteor Shower

The DEW Line:
Could this be what a Northrop Grumman LRS-B might look like?

Space.com:
Last Lunar Landing Launched 40 Years Ago

Space.com:
Apollo 17, 40 Years Later: An Astronaut Reflects

Daily Mail:
Last man on the moon reveals he left his camera behind as an experiment (but says he hoped someone would have returned it by now)

Daily Mail:
Home among the stars: Wondrous 1970s artist renderings of NASA's future space stations where THOUSANDS would live

Dvice:
16 Gifts that come from space

Gizmodo:
Watch This Phallic UAV Get All Grabby With Its Scary Six-Foot Arm

WEEKEND EDITION: December 8-9, 2012

io9:
Einstein may have discovered dark energy without even realizing it

The Atlantic:
Physicists Bummed That Physics Is Pretty Much What They Expected

Daily Mail:
Scientists create 'most realistic artificial human brain yet' that can count and even pass simple IQ reasoning tests

Gizmodo:
How Do Computers Understand Speech?

Gizmodo:
The Rube Goldberg Machine That Defies the Laws of Physics

Smithsonian Magazine:
Have GPS Devices Taken the Fun out of Navigation?

Daily Mail:
DNA's double helix is pictured for the first time: Researchers hope new technique will reveal how the molecule works

The Economist:
The origin of species?

Cosmos:
Fossil may be oldest dinosaur ever found

Smithsonian Magazine:
What Prehistoric Reptile Do These Three-foot Claws Belong To?

Smithsonian Magazine:
H is for Hagryphus

Daily Mail:
How ancient Africans were the first nerds: Birth of technology traced back 70,000 years to the continent's southern tip

Live Science:
Cavemen Trump Modern Artists at Drawing Animals

Smithsonian Magazine:
Cavemen Were Much Better At Illustrating Animals Than Artists Today

Live Science:
Drought May Have Killed Sumerian Language

Live Science:
Building Stonehenge: A New Timeline Revealed

Live Science:
Palace of First Chinese Emperor Unearthed

The Guardian:
Vampire legends that refuse to die

Daily Mail:
The birthplace of the bauble: Small German mountain village responsible for creating traditional Christmas decoration

Daily Mail:
Oh la la! Lavish 250-year-old desk where King of France's mistress Madame de Pompadour penned her love letters goes under the hammer (and it could be yours for a cool £5m)

The Guardian:
The private life of Charles Darwin

Gizmodo:
Get Up Close to Babbage's Difference Engine in This Gigapixel Image

Daily Mail:
Was Chicago doctor serial killer London's Jack the Ripper? Descendant of American murderer investigates links between the notorious criminals

Daily Mail:
Building the Big Apple: Historic images show construction of New York's most famous skyscrapers

Live Science:
B4 Texting, 4 Ways 2 Say It Shorter

Daily Mail:
My Mummy the maneater: How the wild promiscuity of Edwina Mountbatten - wife of Prince Charles' mentor - took a heartbreaking toll on her children

Daily Mail:
All the fun of the fairground: Nostalgic set of photos captures the fun, frivolity and Ferris wheels at the 1941 Vermont State Fair

Daily Mail:
The pea souper that killed 12,000: How the Great Smog choked London 60 years ago this week

The Atlantic:
Cleanroom: The Machine That Manufactures Air

Air & Space Magazine:
The Ordeal of VF-653

Daily Mail:
Kissinger and the secret spy network of old Nazis and German aristocrats 'who plotted to overthrow West German goverment'

Popular Science:
Gifts For The Paranoid Conspiracy Theorist In Your Life

Smithsonian Magazine:
Grandpa Jetson is Way Cooler Than Grandpa Simpson

December 7, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
Next space station crew to write history for Canada

National Geographic:
Large, Peanut-Shaped Asteroid Headed Toward Earth

BBC:
Dawn probe spies possible water-cut gullies on Vesta

Space.com:
Exoplanet Catalog Reveals 7 Possibly Habitable Worlds

The Atlantic:
Are There Planets Better at Supporting Life Than Earth?

Popular Science:
Newly Found Baby Star's Solar System Is Youngest Ever Seen

Live Science:
Military Drones Prowl US Skies

Popular Science:
Startup CyPhy Shows Off New Drone That Can Slip Through Windows

Discovery News:
Vanguard: America's Epic Failnik

Scientific American:
Once upon a Time: The Story of the Apollo Program [Timeline]

December 6, 2012

Live Science:
Mysterious Gravity Waves May Explain Clear-Skies Turbulence

Space.com:
Moon Surprisingly Battered, New Lunar Gravity Map Reveals

Discovery News:
Rover Opportunity Reaches Martian Paydirt

Space.com:
Double Star Systems May Be Hiding a Third Companion

Astrobiology Magazine:
Other Solar Systems May Be More Habitable Than Ours

Daily Mail:
Stars like our sun could have planets that are even MORE habitable than Earth, say scientists

Daily Mail:
The birth of a star: Astronomers find 'holy grail' that could explain how our solar system formed

Stuff NZ:
Star Spy: New year begins

Gizmag:
Aeroscraft dirigible airship prototype approaches

Gizmodo:
The 19 Most Badass Spy Planes

Boorowa News:
Crop circle spotted dotted near Boorowa

December 5, 2012

Space.com:
Mars Rover Opportunity Exploring Possibly Habitable Ancient Environment

Space.com:
Astronauts Could Survive Mars Radiation for Long Stretches, Rover Study Suggests

Discovery News:
NASA Plans 'Curiosity Twin' Rover Mission in 2020

Space.com:
NASA to Launch New Mars Rover in 2020

Spaceflight Now:
NASA unveils new Mars rover mission for 2020

Space Daily:
Ancient Mars May Have Captured Enormous Floodwaters

Space.com:
Earth's Radiation Belts Surprisingly Dynamic, New Probes Find

Space.com:
Mercury's Water Ice Bodes Well for Alien Life Search

Scientific American:
Despite Tantalizing Hints, Voyager 1 Has Not Crossed into the Interstellar Medium

Wired:
New Buried Asteroid Impact Crater Discovered in Canada

Universe Today:
Geminid Meteor Shower and Meteorwatch

Gizmag:
Boeing's flight simulator display gets ultra high-res upgrade

Dvice:
No escape: hybrid robot can roll and fly over any terrain

The DEW Line:
Does the USAF have a secret ISR/Strike jet in development at Groom Lake?

December 4, 2012

Space.com:
Curiosity Rover Finds Organic Signal on Mars, But Not Definitive: NASA

Spaceflight Now:
Mars rover soil test results not definitive on organics yet

New Scientist:
Curiosity finds carbon - but is it from Mars?

Cosmos:
Mars water is heavy, Curiosity rover finds

New Scientist:
Heavy hydrogen excess hints at Martian vapour loss

Daily Mail:
We already know she's hot stuff: But could volcanoes on Venus be spewing sulphur dioxide into its atmosphere?

Space.com:
Voyager 1 Spacecraft Enters New Realm at Solar System's Edge

Cosmos:
Voyager discovers 'magnetic highway' at edge of solar system

Discovery News:
Voyager 1 Can 'Taste' the Interstellar Shore

Scientific American:
Galaxy Grande: Milky Way May Be More Massive Than Thought

Daily Mail:
That's an idea that will really take-off! The astonishing flying tricycle that could help you avoid the rush-hour traffic

Wired:
iRobot Founder Now Building Tiny Hovering Drone Spies

Stuff NZ:
Moon resolute in face of nuclear threat

Air & Space Magazine:
Lunar History For Sale

December 3, 2012

Florida Today:
Stargazing: Asteroid's near-Earth encounter just days away

Discovery News:
Space Station Will Turn to Face the Sun

The Atlantic:
For Lonely Astronauts, a Robotic Companion

Space.com:
NASA to Unveil Mars Rover Curiosity Findings Monday

Space.com:
5 Overhyped Mars Discoveries

Stuff NZ:
Smooth stones offer watery secret

New Scientist:
Saturn's rings may double up as a moon factory

NYU Science Line:
Jupiter: Earth's bodyguard or secret assassin?

Space.com:
North Star Closer to Earth Than Thought

Cosmos:
Rocky planets may be more common than expected

The Aviationist:
Europe's first stealth killer drone "nEUROn" makes maiden flight

IEEE Spectrum:
Finding the Source of the Pioneer Anomaly

Discovery News:
Do Robots Rule the Galaxy?

Daily Mail:
From sci-fi to reality: The computer-blitzing drone that can cripple a nation's electronics at the touch of a button

The Atlantic:
A Time-Capsule Launched into Space for Aliens to Find When All the Humans Are Gone

Time Magazine:
Flickering Stars: Could Aliens Be Sending Us Signals?

Gizmodo:
Watch Five Hours of Commercial Jet Flyovers Timelapsed Down Into Thirty Crowded Seconds

WEEKEND EDITION: December 1 through 2, 2012

Popular Science:
LHC's Latest Particle Collisions Find What May Be A New Form Of Matter

Daily Mail:
Large Hadron Collider 'may be producing a new type of matter' as collisions produce surprise results

The Economist:
Deeper thought

Daily Mail:
Slippery when wet: The terrifyingly lifelike robot snake that comes to life to mesmerising effect when it enters the water

Gizmag:
Robot sea turtle takes first dip in the pool

Daily Mail:
Coming soon, the gun you can download: U.S. start-up plans to share 3D printable firearms for FREE over the Internet

Popular Science:
Staples Will Offer On-Demand 3-D Printing In Stores

Popular Science:
Deep In The Earth's Core, Clues About Its Mysterious Birth

Cosmos:
Models behind ocean floor formation "naive": Australian geochemists

Cosmos:
Analysis: new model for ocean floor formation sparks controversy

Cosmos:
Grand Canyon as old as the dinosaurs

Science Magazine:
A Grand Old Canyon

Daily Mail:
Area of Longstanding Natural Beauty: Grand Canyon is actually 65million years older than thought (and was created when dinosaurs roamed the earth)

Gizmodo:
The History of Evolution Explained in Two Minutes

Smithsonian Magazine:
G is for Gigantspinosaurus

Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Did Plant-Munching Theropods Get So Big?

Astrobiology Magazine:
Dinosaurs and the Evolution of Flight

Smithsonian Magazine:
Feathers Fuel Dinosaur Flight Debate

Smithsonian Magazine:
Primate Origins Tied to Rise of Flowering Plants

Live Science:
Rhino 'Cooked to Death' 9 Million Years Ago, Fossil Reveals

Live Science:
Killer Cave May Have Inspired Myth of Hades

Daily Mail:
Is this the real Hell? Incredible cave which experts believe inspired the Greek legend of Hades

Daily Mail:
Shining a light on the Dark Ages: 1,000-year-old household objects and tools made from iron, bronze and bone found in 'one of most significant digs ever'

Live Science:
400-Year-Old Playing Cards Reveal Royal Secret

Daily Mail:
Extremely rare 1652 coin found 22-years ago in frozen potato field by woman sells for $430,000

Daily Mail:
The incredible story of the girl, age 11, who encouraged Lincoln to grow a beard because 'all the ladies like whiskers'

Smithsonian Magazine:
Cockford's Club: How a Fishmonger Built a Gambling Hall and Bankrupted the British Aristocracy

Daily Mail:
Is this the iceberg that sank Titanic? Picture of ice 'that doomed 1,500 to die' set to make $10,000 at auction

Daily Mail:
The City of Love as you have never seen it: Amazing collection of photographs from 1914 captures everyday life in Paris

Daily Mail:
The Pharaoh Island: 90 years after the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, how Britain has embraced Egyptian architecture

Daily Mail:
From the man that brought you Best of British Roundabouts... a calendar featuring British INSANE ASYLUMS

Daily Mail:
Inside Lincoln's pockets: The Confederate money, wire-rimmed spectacles and newspaper clippings that America's 16th president was carrying on the day he was assassinated

Daily Mail:
Boy soldiers: The bravery of young Civil War soldiers before they were sent to face the horror of battle captured in poignant photos

Air & Space Magazine:
Beavers On Parachutes

Smithsonian Magazine:
Document Deep Dive: Rosa Parks' Arrest Records

Daily Mail:
It's a long way from Call of Duty! How the multi-billion pound video games industry began 40 years ago with table tennis in black and white

Daily Mail:
The school that trains cyber spies: U.S. university training students in online espionage for jobs in the NSA and CIA

The Guardian:
Michael Brooks's top 10 time travel books

Air & Space Magazine:
Our Favorite Children's Books of 2012

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Episode Where George Jetson Rages Against the Machine

November 30, 2012

Cosmos:
Ice and organic matter found on Mercury

Discovery News:
Organics Discovered on Mercury

New Scientist:
Messenger finds hints of ice at Mercury's poles

The Atlantic:
How Can There Be Water Ice on Mercury, Which Is Right Next to the Sun?

Daily Mail:
U.S. Navy 'stealth drone' takes to the sea for tests: The autonomous X-47B is hoped to be first carrier-borne unmanned aircraft

Space.com:
No Earth-Shattering Mars Discovery by Curiosity Rover Yet: NASA

Space.com:
Did Solar System's Planets Have Rings Before Moons?

Daily Mail:
U.S. Navy 'stealth drone' takes to the sea for tests: The autonomous X-47B is hoped to be first carrier-borne unmanned aircraft

The DEW Line:
US Navy completes first shore-based catapult launch of X-47B

Air & Space Magazine:
Pippo: A World War II Mystery

November 29, 2012

Daily Mail:
Back to the future: NASA scientists develop nuclear-powered probe for deep-space exploration... using engine invented in the 19th century

Daily Mail:
One step closer to civilian space travel: Engine breakthrough could see jets fly from London to Sydney in less than five hours

The Atlantic:
What If NASA Could Figure Out the Math of a Workable Warp Drive?

Space.com:
Solar Super-Flare Likely Sparked Ancient Tree Mystery

ABC Australia:
Sunspots not an indicator of solar cycle

Discovery News:
Dark Shadows Freeze Mercury's North Pole: Big Pic

Space.com:
Saturn Moon Titan's Atmosphere Shows Surprising Rise

Daily Mail:
Now that's what you call a super storm: Whirlwind at Saturn's North Pole captured by NASA satellite

The Guardian:
A month in space: the Mars Curiosity rover continues its exploration - in pictures

Nanowerk:
Asteroid dust from space

November 28, 2012

Space.com:
Balloon Test Shows Space Tourism on the Horizon

Daily Mail:
Would you get into a plane with no pilot? Tests begin on next-generation of civilian 'drone' aircraft flown by remote-control

The Economist:
This is your ground pilot speaking

Popular Science:
Los Alamos Lab Demonstrates A Reactor For Space Travel

November 27, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
Crew selected for one-year space station expedition

Space.com:
Scientists Speculate on Top-Secret Mars Rover Discovery

Discovery News:
One Year Since Curiosity Blasted Off: DNews Nugget

Space.com:
Pluto Atmosphere Larger Than Thought, Study Shows

NASA News:
Nine Radar Images of Asteroid 2007 PA8

November 26, 2012

New Scientist:
Curiosity result could confirm Mars life, says Levin

The Guardian:
Whatever the Curiosity rover has found, it's not evidence of life on Mars

Space.com:
New Delay for Mysterious Military Space Plane Launch

Spaceflight Now:
European states accept Russia as ExoMars partner

Spaceflight Now:
European ministers decide to stick with Ariane 5, for now

Daily Mail:
Pictured: Huge Martian dust storm picks up steam - but are NASA's rovers safe in its path?

Discovery News:
Large Mars Dust Storm is Brewing

Space.com:
NASA Tracks Big Dust Storm on Mars

New Scientist:
Mars is safe from radiation – but the trip there isn't

Space.com:
Dwarf Planet Beyond Pluto Lacks Atmosphere

New Scientist:
Astrophile: How a faraway dwarf world lost its cloak

Space.com:
Dwarf Planets of Our Solar System (Infographic)

Space.com:
Alien Life Unlikely Around Dying Stars

Space.com:
Super-Earths Get Magnetic 'Shield' from Liquid Metal

The DEW Line:
Lockheed M-21 Blackbird at Boeing Museum of Flight

Daily Mail:
Revealed: How the U.S. planned to blow up the MOON with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging rights over Soviet Union

THANKSGIVING WEEKED EDITION: November 22 through 25, 2012

Discovery News:
Higgs Boson Likely a 'Boring' Boson

IEEE Spectrum:
A Quantum Dot First: Electron-Photon Entanglement

Discovery New:
LHC Spots Mysterious Y(4140) Particle

Popular Science:
To Make Steam Without Boiling Water, Just Add Sunlight And Nanoparticles

Popular Science:
Could A Sonic Weapon Make Your Head Explode?

IEEE Spectrum:
HEARBO Robot Has Superhearing

Gizmag:
DreamVendor 3D printer vending machine turns students' ideas into reality

Popular Science:
Watch This Awesome Robot Play Catch Better Than Your Dad

Gizmodo:
The Holodeck Is Real, and It's in Stony Brook, NY

Gizmag:
U-Boat Worx launches its C-Explorer 5 submarine in Monaco

Smithsonian Magazine:
F is for Futalognkosaurus

Smithsonian Magazine:
Paleontologists Puzzle Over Possible Dinosaur Bones

Daily Mail:
Birds first evolved wings for warmth rather than flight, new findings suggest

Live Science:
Mystery Molelike Mammal Survived Dino Extinction

Astrobiology Magazine:
The Lazarus Effect

ABC Australia:
Two-thirds marine species remain unknown

Live Science:
The Top Seven Human Evolution Discoveries From Tanzania

Daily Mail:
Could Ebola now be airborne? New research shows lethal virus can be spread from pigs to monkeys without contact

The Guardian:
Stone age nomads settled down in Merseyside, flints and timber suggest

Daily Mail:
Archaeologists discover 10,000 year-old home - and reveal residents were partial to hazelnuts

Science Magazine:
Europe's First Farmers Came, Then Went

Live Science:
Vikings Feasted on Seals, Bones Reveal

Discovery News:
Machu Picchu captured in highest ever resolution: Zoomable picture of Inca citadel allows viewers to see it in impressive detail

Live Science:
They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside

Smithsonian Magazine:
Where Did Pabst Win that Blue Ribbon?

io9:
Here are the most futuristic European cities that never existed

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Early History of Faking War on Film

io9:
Hitler's forgotten attempt to build the world's largest Olympic stadium

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Tucker Was the 1940s Car of the Future

Discovery News:
The world's oldest still-working computer clatters back into action after lying forgotten for 20 years

Air & Space Magazine:
When Airplanes Had Beds

io9:
Watch Alfred Hitchcock's earliest surviving film, right now!

Smithsonian Magazine:
Recapping 'The Jetsons': Episode 09 - Elroy's TV Show

November 21, 2012

Space.com:
Mars Mystery: Has Curiosity Rover Made Big Discovery?

Discovery News:
Mars Mystery: What HAS Curiosity Discovered?

Popular Science:
What 'Earth-Shaking' Evidence Did The Mars Rover Curiosity Just Find?

io9:
Researchers design a robot to explore the moon's mysterious volcanic caverns

Spaceflight Now:
ESA lunar lander shelved ahead of budget conference

Space.com:
Private Moon Race May Spark Lunar 'Water Rush'

Space.com:
Water on Mars and Earth Had Similar Origins

Astrobiology Magazine:
Hydrogen Hints to History of Mars Waters

Space.com:
Mars Cave-Exploration Mission Entices Scientists

Discovery News:
NASA's Least-Crazy Rubber Room

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: The safety cavern under Apollo launch pads

The DEW Line:
Lockheed Martin F-35A high alpha testing video

November 20, 2012

Space Daily:
Supersonic Decelerator Project 'On Track' for Success

Space.com:
Soyuz Spacecraft Makes Rare Night Landing with Station Crew

Space.com:
NASA Outpost Beyond Moon Could Lead to Mars

Space.com:
Does the Moon Have Levitating Lunar Dust?

Space.com:
'Super-Jupiter' Discovery Dwarfs Solar System's Largest Planet

NASA News:
Astronomers Directly Image Massive Star's 'Super-Jupiter'

Popular Mechanics:
Mass-Produced Sats Will Offer Low-Cost Access to Space

Air & Space Magazine:
Drones for Hire

Air & Space Magazine:
Technical Readiness

Popular Science:
The Deep-Space Suit

Air & Space Magazine:
The Beech Boys

Air & Space Magazine:
The Versatile Beech 18

Air & Space Magazine:
Rotary Rescue

Air & Space Magazine:
Splat!

November 19, 2012

Stuff NZ:
Astronauts safe in Earth landing

Space.com:
Private Reusable Rocket Prototype Takes 2-Story Test Hop

Discovery News:
Ace Anti-Asteroid Nuke Strikes Twice

Discovery News:
Giant Sun Eruption Captured in NASA Video: Big Pics

Space Daily:
Meteorites reveal warm water existed on Mars

Scientific American:
The Hot Baths of Mars

Universe Today:
Can Humans Live on Mars?

Universe Today:
HUGE New Gale Crater Panoramas from Curiosity

Daily Mail:
Did a lost star knock the Earth off its orbit? New theory to explain why our planet circles the sun at an angle to the solar equator

Scientific American:
Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Before Dawn Saturday

Space.com:
How Meteor Showers Work (Infographic)

Universe Today:
Astrophoto: Angel of the North Gets a Halo

Gizmodo:
The World's Biggest Transport Chopper Can Hoist a 737 With Ease

Gizmag:
Wireless, handheld device for ground control of X-47B

Daily Mail:
The £180 thought controlled helicopter that could help you stay calm

WEEKEND EDITION: November 17 through 18, 2012

Scientific American:
The Key to Science (and Life) Is Being Wrong

The Guardian:
Science is enforced humility

The Guardian:
Skeptics and scepticism

The Guardian:
Higgs particle is a bog Standard Model boson, say scientists

Cosmos:
Rare particle decay delivers blow to supersymmetry

Live Science:
Rare Particle Find May Cast Doubt on Popular Physics Theory

Stuff NZ:
Physicists observe particle decay

Dvice.com:
Using a bagel to explain a mathematical curiosity

Popular Science:
Milestones Of Matter

Popular Science:
The First 'Perfect' Invisibility Cloak Completely Conceals Objects (From Microwaves)

Popular Science:
Watch A French Researcher Control A Robot With His Brain

Gizmag:
RSLSteeper launches third version of its bebionic myoelectric hand

Dvice.com:
These robotic fish feed, swim and cluster like the real thing

Popular Mechanics:
As Shortage Worsens, We Visit the Federal Helium Reserve

Astrobiology Magazine:
Did AEG come before DNA?

ABC Australia:
'Toxic sea' led to Devonian extinction

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences:
Meet Xenoceratops: Canada's newest horned dinosaur

Smithsonian Magazine:
Paleontologists Welcome Xenoceratops to the Ceratopsian Family Tree

Smithsonian Magazine:
Piecing Together Eolambia

Smithsonian Magazine:
E is for Eotriceratops

Smithsonian Magazine:
Lessons from Einiosaurus

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Top 10 Greatest Survivors of Evolution

Live Science:
Jet-Size Pterosaurs Took Off from Prehistoric Runways

The Guardian:
Could pterosaurs really fly?

The Economist:
Four wings, good. Two wings, better

io9:
Why does the crocodile have spots?

Live Science:
Oldest Panda Fossils Found in Surprising Place

Smithsonian Magazine:
Hummingbirds Are Popping Up in the Strangest Places

Daily Mail:
What lies beneath.... Diver braves the waters to swim with deadly eight-metre anaconda

Daily Mail:
Adapting quickly: How early humans ate more like a cow than a Great Ape

Scientific American:
Human Ancestors Made Deadly Stone-Tipped Spears 500,000 Years Ago

Cosmos:
Early humans used stone spear points 500,000 years ago

Daily Mail:
Perfectly preserved skeleton of woolly mammoth found near Paris after it was 'hunted down and cut up for meat' 20,000 years ago

Live Science:
Ancient Mariners: Did Neanderthals Sail to Mediterranean?

Live Science:
Ancient Murder Mystery? Stone Age Bodies Discovered in Well

Daily Mail:
Did climate change cause the end of the Maya? Researchers find telltale signs of drought that may have caused its collapse

Popular Science:
How Abraham Lincoln Developed Modern War Technology

Daily Mail:
The English Leonardo: Visionary ideas of a Victorian genius revealed

Daily Mail:
Inside the Chrysanthemum kingdom: 100-year-old photos show a still-medieval Japan on the eve of rush for modernity that ended in disaster of WW2

Smithsonian Magazine:
Geronimo's Appeal to Theodore Roosevelt

Daily Mail:
Disturbing Pathe footage from World War One reveals devastating effects of shell shock on soldiers as they were treated in pioneering Devon hospital

The Guardian:
The great Everest oxygen debate: was anyone really a 'rotter'?

io9:
Vintage Art Deco cigarette cards celebrate your great-grandparents' romance with science

Science Magazine:
Why Einstein Was a Genius

io9:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt probably didn't have polio after all

Daily Mail:
Tribute to an Indian princess who died for our freedom: Sculpture unveiled of spy tortured and executed by Nazis after refusing to betray Britain

Air & Space Magazine:
The Raiders Remember

Air & Space Magazine:
Steinbeck's Dispatches From Vietnam

Popular Science:
8 Of Stanley Kubrick's Greatest Technological Innovations

Daily Mail:
How strong did your knees have to be to use the world's first 'laptop'?

io9:
Segments from 22 James Bond films cut together to form a single Bond movie

io9:
Tim Flach's intimate animal portraits reveal nature's human side

Smithsonian Magazine:
Recapping 'The Jetsons': Episode 08 – Rosey's Boyfriend

November 16, 2012

The Atlantic:
A Single, Severed Cable Cut Contact Between Russia and Its Satellites

Space.com:
Astronauts Could Survive Mars Radiation, Curiosity Rover Finds

Discovery News:
Advice to Astronauts: Freeze Your Sperm

Space Daily:
Air Force receives bids for debris-tracking Space Fence

Astrobiology Magazine:
Life on Earth's Ceiling

Space Daily:
Astronauts SpaceX, NASA scrutinize anomalies from cargo flight

NASA News:
NASA's Kepler Completes Prime Mission, Begins Extended Mission

NASA News:
Robotic Explorers May Usher in Lunar 'Water Rush'

New Scientist:
Pumpkin pie craters on Mercury are solar system first

Space.com:
Mars Ripe for 'Cold Springs' Akin to Canadian Arctic

Space.com:
Rare Meteorites Born In Asteroid Crashes

Scientific American:
Alien Planets with Extra Suns Can Have Strange Orbits

Space.com:
Farthest Known Galaxy in the Universe Discovered

November 15, 2012

Space Daily:
Lockheed Martin Submits Space Fence Radar Proposal to USAF to Detect and Track Orbital Objects

Space Daily:
Lockheed Martin Continues To Supporting US Air Defense, Missile Warning and Space Defense Missions

Stuff NZ:
Australia to home US space wares

Space.com:
Leonid Meteor Shower to Shine in Weekend Sky

Space.com:
'Orphan' Alien Planet Found Nearby Without Parent Star

Discovery News:
Free-Floating Orphan Planet Spotted

Science Magazine:
Did a Lost Star Torque Earth's Orbit?

Stuff NZ:
In pursuit of Superman's home planet

The Atlantic:
Cosmic Dawn: Astronomy's Ancient Quest to Find the Universe's First Stars

Universe Today:
Explore the Stellar Neighborhood with New Milky Way Visualization

Universe Today:
Space Dive: Red Bull Stratos Documentary

Air & Space Magazine:
Is Denzel's Upside-Down Flying Trick Plausible?

Dvice:
Last flightworthy B-29 grounded, could be forever

Discovery News:
Apollo 12's Lightning Launch Chaos

November 14, 2012

Space.com:
Rare Total Solar Eclipse Darkens Skies Over Australia, South Pacific

Daily Mail:
Thousands gather for stunning total eclipse over Australia that plunged Queensland into darkness

Space.com:
Total Solar Eclipse of 2012 (Photo Gallery)

Stuff NZ:
Solar eclipse wows Kiwis

Live Science:
The 7 Most Famous Solar Eclipses in History

Discovery News:
Russian Rocket Explosion Boosts Space Junk Risk

Wired UK:
Darpa opens telescope timeshares for space junk-hunting amateurs

Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity's mini-laboratory tastes first Martian soil

Spaceflight Now:
Long-lived Mars orbiter running on backup computer

The Economist:
A harvest of new moons

The Economist:
In praise of moons

November 13, 2012

Space.com:
Inside NASA's New Spaceship for Asteroid Missions

Gizmag:
Space debris: Where does it come from, and what can we do about it?

Daily Mail:
Google goes to Mars: Search giant adds high resolution images from Nasa to allow users to 'fly' around the Red Planet

Daily Mail:
Life really is a rollercoaster: Researchers say the universe is expanding as if we were 'rushing downhill' on a fairground attraction

Discovery News:
How to Watch the Australian Total Eclipse Online

South Asian News Agency:
Mystery over UFO on Indo-China border cracked

MSU Reflector:
Life outside Earth is diverse, vast

November 12, 2012

The Scotsman:
TV show to probe famous Livingston UFO encounter

Independent Record:
Out of the big skies: Helena author pens book on UFOs in Montana

Air & Space Magazine:
Glowing Spacefish Join Crew Aboard the ISS

Discovery News:
NASA's Gutsy First Launch of the Saturn V

Space.com:
NASA's Mighty Saturn V Moon Rocket Explained (Infographic)

io9:
Dog space suits for the earliest canine cosmonauts

Wired UK:
Comets collide every six seconds to make mystery gaseous star disc

Downers Grove Patch:
Taurid Meteor Shower to Peak Nov. 12

Pottsville Republican Herald:
Leonids point to Leo the Lion

Daily Mail:
Alien life: Are we late for the party?

WEEKEND EDITION: November 10 through 11, 2012

io9:
How the death of one tiny particle could end the universe

Live Science:
Quantum Mystery of Light Revealed by New Experiment

Smithsonian Magazine:
New Dinosaur Discovered - Named After the Demonic Sauron from Lord of the Rings

Smithsonian Magazine:
D is for Dyoplosaurus

Smithsonian Magazine:
Finding Duriavenator

Smithsonian Magazine:
Did Sauropods Have Built-In Swamp Coolers?

Science Magazine:
Flying Dinos and Baby Birds Offer New Clues About How Avians Took Wing

Daily Mail:
Extraordinary harp-shaped carnivorous sponge discovered living on the Pacific Ocean floor

Daily Mail:
Who's a clever boy: Scientists stunned by Figaro, the cockatoo who can make his own tools to get food

Astrobiology Magazine:
Mammals Evolved for the Night Life

ABC Australia:
Feral cats work around dingo's lifestyle

Cosmos:
Pole dancing: Earth's polar shifts explained

Daily Mail:
The incredible image that reveals how the Earth's oceans plunged the planet into a catastrophic big freeze

Smithsonian Magazine:
Did Lucy Walk Too Slow for Her Taller Group Mates?

Daily Mail:
Did our ancestors' 'high tech' projectile weapons give them the killing edge to become the dominant human species?

The Guardian:
Lethal weapons may have given early humans edge over Neanderthals

Science Magazine:
Early Humans Handed Down Toolmaking Tech

Cosmos:
Humans used tools 71,000 years ago

Smithsonian Magazine:
Early Bow and Arrows Offer Insight Into Origins of Human Intellect

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Carved Coral Helps Date the Peopling of Polynesia

io9:
Egyptian princess's tomb dating from 2,500 BC found near Cairo

Daily Mail:
The mystery tomb of an Egyptian princess: Why was royal lovechild buried a mile from the rest of her family?

io9:
This 450-year-old clockwork monk is fully operational

io9:
Did you know that 'running amok' originated as a medical term?

io9:
The scientist who came up with a wave theory for coincidences

io9:
The books Mark Twain 'dictated' from beyond the grave

Science Magazine:
Uncovering the Truth Behind the Myth of Pancho Villa, Movie Star

Daily Mail:
How the Monopoly board could have looked: Patents reveal the original ideas behind some of our most popular games and toys

The Atlantic:
116 Years of Electoral Infographics From The New York Times

The Atlantic:
Video: The Rise of New York City: A Fascinating Look at Manhattan in the 1940s

Popular Science:
How The Evil Tech In James Bond Films Evolved Alongside Real-World Fears

Live Science:
11 Things You Probably Didn't Know About James Bond

Smithsonian Magazine:
Recapping 'The Jetsons': Episode 07 – The Flying Suit

November 9, 2012

Petersfield Post:
Crop circle talk was fascinating

Twin Falls Times News:
Skywatch: Three Meteor Showers Span the Holiday Season

Astronomy Today:
Get ready for the Leonid meteor shower

Popular Science:
Inside The Largest Simulation Of The Universe Ever Created

Popular Science:
The Universe Is Almost Done Making Stars

Discovery News:
NASA's Next Capsule to Land Like a Helicopter?

Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 pad modifications add astronaut accommodations

Discovery News:
How Do Alien Worlds Reveal Themselves?

Cosmos:
Australia counts down to solar eclipse

Gizmodo:
Red Marble: Unreal Portrait of the Sun Eclipsed By Earth

BBC:
Nuclear test veteran who flew through a mushroom cloud

Space.com:
James Bond in Space: How the World's Favorite Spy Has Followed US Spaceflight

Space.com:
Gallery: James Bond's Space Adventures

November 8, 2012

The Guardian:
Brian Cox's search for alien life 'nixed by BBC health and safety tsars'

Discovery News:
Super-Earth Discovered in Stars' Habitable Zone

Space.com:
Star Formation Sputtering Out Across the Universe

Stuff NZ:
Star Spy: Size illusions

The DEW Line:
How the USAF shot itself in the foot over the past 20 years... repeatedly

Gizmag:
TechJect's Dragonfly micro UAV flies like a bird and hovers like an insect

Space Daily:
X-48 Blended Wing Body Research Aircraft Makes 100th Test Flight

Universe Today:
Kansas Cosmosphere Vote Passes on Election Night

io9:
Why does Hal sing "Daisy" in 2001: A Space Odyssey?

November 7, 2012

Space Daily:
Mars Longevity Champ Switching Computers

Spaceflight Now:
Japan schedules launch of innovative Epsilon rocket

Space.com:
Pristine Moon Crater Could Help Unlock Impacts' Secrets

Space.com:
Comet Breaks Apart Before Astronomers' Eyes

Discovery News:
Hunting for the Real 'Planet X'

IEEE Spectrum:
Robot Photographers Tour the Solar System

Universe Today:
How Today's Election Could Affect the Kansas Cosmosphere

Daily Mail:
The monumental folly of Howard Hughes: 65th anniversary of billionaire's 800-ton Spruce Goose labor of love that flew for just a mile

Daily Mail:
Revealed: The President's $223million 'doomsday' plane that protects him against nuclear war, asteroids and terror attacks

Los Angeles Times:
On India-China border, reports of UFOs skyrocket

November 6, 2012

UPI:
Images of near-Earth asteroid captured

Pasadena Now:
NASA Radar Images Asteroid 2007 PA8

Windsor Star:
Fall brings annual spectacle of Leonid meteor shower

Air & Space Magazine:
Pint-Size Sky Watchers

Discovery News:
Going Speed of Light Could Kill: DNews Nugget

io9:
Do you know your sci-fi spaceship ABCs?

November 5, 2012

The Telegraph:
UFO enthusiasts admit the truth may not be out there after all

Oakland Tribune:
Two prominent meteor showers to light up night sky starting Monday

Space.com:
Launch of Air Force Secret Space Plane Delayed Again

Spaceflight Now:
Proton launch puts two Russian satellites in space

Universe Today:
SpaceX's 10-Story Re-useable Grasshopper Rocket Takes a Bigger Hop

Popular Science:
New Mission Will Explore Bizarre Gravitational Anomaly Around Earth

Discovery News:
Where's Mars' Methane? Curiosity Draws a Blank

Space.com:
Curiosity Rover Finds No Methane on Mars - Yet

Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity sniffs Martian air, but finds no methane

Space.com:
Why Mars Life Hunt Targets Methane

Space.com:
Future Mars Missions: Can Humans Trump Robots?

Daily Mail:
The incredible new images of Mars that show the telltale signs of ancient glaciers under the surface

Discovery News:
Curiosity Snaps 'Arm's Length' Self Portrait: Big Pic

Scientific American:
On Firmament Ground: Partially Completed ALMA Radio Telescope Already Generating Discoveries

Daily Mail:
Hi, we're overhead! Get a text message from NASA when the International Space Station flies over your house

The Guardian:
How astronomy came of age: changing models of the solar system - video

ABC Australia:
Study puts solar system theory in a spin

The Guardian:
Fear, fatigue and heroics: rare images that reveal incredible story behind space race

Daily Mail:
The mixtape that took the Apollo astronauts to the moon goes up for auction

io9:
How to take pictures of the Milky Way without leaving the galaxy

WEEKEND EDITION: November 3 through 4, 2012

Daily Mail:
Near-death experiences occur when the soul leaves the nervous system and enters the universe, claim two quantum physics experts

Scientific American:
Fairly Simple Math Could Bridge Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity

New Scientist:
Galaxies could give glimpse of the instant time began

Universe Today:
Minute Physics: Why E=mc2 is Incomplete

The Atlantic:
Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong

The Guardian:
The British Journal for the History of Science turns 50

The Atlantic:
The Beautiful Blackboards at Quantum Physics Labs

Wired UK:
Man to climb skyscraper using thought-controlled bionic leg

The Atlantic:
The Robot That Could Help People Walk Again

Astrobiology Magazine:
Oxygen's Ups and Downs on Early Earth

Astrobiology Magazine:
Did Bacteria Spark Evolution of Animals?

New Scientist:
Last life on Earth: microbes will rule the far future

io9:
The first scientific name ever given to a dinosaur fossil? Scrotum humanum

Smithsonian Magazine:
What Scared Dinosaurs? The Terror Croc

Smithsonian Magazine:
C is for Cetiosaurus

Daily Mail:
'Biggest ever' triceratops skull found: Fossil hunter claims the beast was TWICE as big as an elephant - and plans to sell it for $1m

Daily Mail:
Sea bed wired up with thousands of kilometres of living electrical cables made of bacteria, says new study

Daily Mail:
The world's oldest flying fish took to the air 80million years before birds appeared in the skies

Daily Mail:
They outlived dinosaurs and are evolving faster than ever: The incredible bird family tree that suggests flight is the secret to success

Smithsonian Magazine:
Five Early Primates You Should Know

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Scariest Monsters of the Deep Sea

Daily Mail:
Just what we needed: Nine new species of colourful, tree-climbing tarantulas found

Science Magazine:
Video: Not Just Parroting Back: Alex the Parrot Knew His Numbers

Daily Mail:
Neanderthals 'learned to make jewellery and tools after meeting modern humans'

Live Science:
The Real Question: Who Didn't Have Sex with Neanderthals?

Daily Mail:
Previously unknown human population boom revealed by DNA: Massive expansion occurred 40,000 years ago

io9:
Archeologists in Bulgaria have discovered Europe's oldest prehistoric town

Smithsonian Magazine:
Taking a Closer Look at an Odd Pair of Very, Very Old Socks

ABC Australia:
Tsunami hit Geneva in AD 563

io9:
Behold a "beard tax" token from the beard-hating days of Imperial Russia

Smithsonian Magazine:
Before Salem, There Was the Not-So-Wicked Witch of the Hamptons

Smithsonian Magazine:
Finding Hayden's Dinosaurs

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Fox Sisters and the Rap on Spiritualism

Daily Mail:
An accidental martyr? The 100-year mystery of why suffragette Emily Davison threw herself under the king's horse

Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Does Dracula Wear a Tuxedo? The Origins of Bram Stoker's Timeless Vampire

Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: A Century of Weather Control

Gizmodo:
Manhattan's Sandy Evacuation Zones Match Up With the Island's Original Coastline

Daily Mail:
Q's war secrets: 007-style gadgets including tiny compasses in gold teeth and cameras in cigarette lighters that helped our PoWs flee Nazis

Popular Science:
From Hiroshima To The H-Bomb, 10 Earth-Shaking Moments In Atomic Science

Smithsonian Magazine:
Aldous Huxley's Predictions for 2000 A.D.

The Atlantic:
Here Is the First Book Ever Ordered on Amazon

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Pros to Being a Psychopath

Wired:
Hobbit-Themed Air New Zealand Spot Is Most Preciousssss Safety Video Ever

Smithsonian Magazine:
Recapping 'The Jetsons': Episode 06 - The Good Little Scouts

November 2, 2012

Space Daily:
Space Station's Orbit Raised to Avoid Space Junk

Space.com:
Spacewalking Astronauts Isolate Leak in Space Station Cooling System

NASA:
SpaceX Transitions to Third Commercial Crew Phase

Cosmos:
Rare 300 kg meteorite unearthed in Poland

Stuff NZ:
Vesta's ageless wonder

NASA:
Asteroid Belts of Just the Right Size are Friendly to Life

Universe Today:
Could Plasma Jet Thrusters Kickstart Interplanetary Travel?

Popular Science:
The Local News: Now Brought To You By Drones?

Popular Science:
Which Weather Satellite Is Watching You? [Infographic]

San Jose Mercury News:
Two more meteorites found in Novato from October meteor shower

November 1, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
NASA Lunar Scientists Develop New Theory on Earth and Moon Formation

Cosmos:
Closest asteroid in recorded history to pass Earth

Space.com:
Russian Spacecraft Makes Halloween Cargo Delivery to Space Station

IEEE Spectrum:
Overclock My Satellite

Space.com:
Dark Asteroids Streak Vesta's Surface With Carbon, NASA Probe Finds

Gizmodo:
How Hurricane Sandy Compares To Europe

Air & Space Magazine:
Fly-Powered Planes and Other Oddities

October 31, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
Thursday spacewalk to isolate station coolant leak

Space.com:
NASA's Huge New SLS Rocket Could Power Missions Far Beyond Mars

Space.com:
Recovered SpaceX Capsule Arrives at California Port

Daily Mail:
Is this the moment Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier? Experts believe they have isolated historic audio

Daily Mail:
What have the Chinese been up to? Google Earth reveals more strange patterns in the Chinese desert but you need to look pretty closely

Space.com:
Mars Dirt Similar to Hawaiian Volcanic Soil

Space.com:
Virgin Galactic Eyes WhiteKnightTwo for Zero-G Parabolic Flights

Space.com:
Halloween Fireballs: How to See the Taurid Meteors

Discovery News:
Voyager 1 Detects Weirdness at Solar System Edge

The Atlantic:
The Challenges of 'Keeping House in Outer Space': Carbon Dioxide, Temperature, and Companionship

Discovery News:
The Day Martians Invaded: DNews Nugget

October 30, 2012

Sandy

Sandy

Hurricane Sandy, October 29, 2012, 9:10 a.m. EDT.

NASA:
Video: Station View of Hurricane Sandy -- Pass 2 - Oct. 29, 2012

NASA:
Video: Station View of Hurricane Sandy -- Pass 1 - Oct. 29, 2012

NOAA Satellite and Information Service:
GOES Geostationary Satellite Server

Slate:
This Is What Hurricane Sandy Looks Like From Space

CBC News:
Hurricane Sandy's effect spiked by full moon

Popular Science:
The Dictionary of Hurricane Sandy: Spring Tide

The Atlantic:
Dan Rather Showed the First Radar Image of a Hurricane on TV

Space.com:
Moon's Mysterious 'Ocean of Storms' Explained

Discovery News:
Deaths of Phantom Cosmonauts

October 29, 2012

American Surveyor:
The Terrestrial Goes Extraterrestrial (PDF File)
Website version here.

Space Daily:
Whizzing Asteroid Turns Rocket Scientists' Heads

Space.com:
Private SpaceX Capsule Lands After Historic Mission to Space Station

Spaceflight Now:
Return of the Dragon: Commercial craft back home

Stuff NZ:
Dragon splashdown seals contract

Spaceflight Now:
South Korea's space shot scrubbed by fuel leak

Spaceflight Now:
Antares rocket tests halted by Hurricane Sandy

Spaceflight Now:
Scientists could aim derelict telescope for moon impact

Daily Mail:
The helicopter capsule that could bring astronauts softly back to Earth (and even let them land in their own back garden

Astrobiology Magazine:
Using Paintballs to Deflect an Asteroid

New Scientist:
'Zombie Exoplanet' Back From the Dead?

Air & Space Magazine:
Spooky Skies

WEEKEND EDITION: October 27 through 28, 2012

Dvice:
Research hints that humans have near-term predictive abilities

The Atlantic:
The Consequences of Machine Intelligence

Smithsonian Magazine:
And the Winner Is: 2012 Inductees to the Robot Hall of Fame

Dvice:
Watch a new Navy robot dance the Gangnam style

Wired:
Watch Darpa's Rescue Robot Jump, Climb and Dodge Obstacles

IEEE Spectrum:
Meet the Amazing Robots That Will Compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge

Smithsonian Magazine:
Dinosaurs Rule at SVP

Smithsonian Magazine:
B is for Becklespinax

Smithsonian Magazine:
Reviving Heterodontosaurus

Stuff NZ:
Feather find on ostrich-like dinosaurs

Science Magazine:
Dinosaurs Sprouted Wings Earlier Than Previously Thought

Daily Mail:
How to eat a Triceratops: Researchers reveal how T-Rex ripped its victims heads off to get at juicy neck meat

Daily Mail:
Fossilised turtle shells found in Polish rubbish dump turn out to be the oldest yet discovered

Daily Mail:
The most primitive primate revealed: How our earliest ancestor resembled a tiny squirrel

Daily Mail:
The whale who learned to talk: Incredible story of 'Noc', who could imitate a human's voice and used an underwater microphone to make contact with scientists

io9:
Humanity never had a "missing link" to apes

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Mystery of Human Blood Types

Cosmos:
Ancient humans walked, but climbed trees like apes

Science Magazine:
Raw Food Not Enough to Feed Big Brains

Space.com:
Earth's Magnetic Field Made Quick Flip-Flop

Live Science:
Caveman Diet Secret: Less Red Meat, More Plants

Daily Mail:
Evidence of Stone Age tomb found near megalithic monument known as 'Sweden's Stonehenge'

BBC:
Breakthrough in world's oldest undeciphered writing

Daily Mail:
'He was the big chief': Grave of ancient king who laid foundations for Mayan civilisation in 700 B.C. unearthed by archaeologists

Live Science:
Penis-Shaped Bone & Lover's Bust Among Trove of Roman Art

Daily Mail:
Battle of Hastings? No, the Battle of Caldbec Hill: Real site of 1066 carnage was a mile away, claims historian

io9:
The Jerks Who Bombed the Parthenon

Daily Mail:
The online campaign to finally build Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine - over a century and a half after the 'first computer' was designed

Daily Mail:
Is this the world's earliest blooper? 1878 tinfoil strip recorded on an Edison phonograph is restored to reveal the first recorded musical performance (and the performer who forgot the words)

Daily Mail:
Move over, Cirque du Soleil! Rare Thomas Edison film from 1904 shows Japanese acrobats' amazing juggling feats

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Speech That Saved Teddy Roosevelt's Life

New York Times:
Rethinking the Armory Show

Air & Space Magazine:
Pilots, Look Down

Daily Mail:
Churchill 'opposed Nuremberg and wanted Nazi leaders executed or jailed without trial', extraordinary MI5 wartime diaries reveal

USAF News:
Through Airmen's Eyes: Retired Airman recalls first AF flight over North Pole

Daily Mail:
Accordion players, packed cars and fare-dodgers: Black and white pictures show New York commuters in the 50s and 60s... but has it really changed that much?

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Hunt for Ebola

New York Times:
The Island Where People Forget to Die

Smithsonian Magazine:
Recapping 'The Jetsons': Episode 05 – Jetson's Nite Out

October 26, 2012

NBC News:
Meteor experts go back and forth on fireball fragments

Space.com:
Soyuz Spacecraft Docks at Space Station with New US-Russian Crew

Stuff NZ:
Fish, astronauts dock in space

Spaceflight Now:
Blood, urine among 'priceless' cargo in Dragon

Spaceflight Now:
With Russian help, South Korea poised for test launch

Space.com:
China Eyes New Rockets for Space Station, Moon Missions

Space.com:
See Inside the Private Lynx Space Plane (Photos)

NASA News:
New Study Brings a Doubted Exoplanet 'Back from the Dead'

Stuff NZ:
Missile test scores 80 per cent

Discovery News:
Planning for an Interstellar Road Trip

The Guardian:
Felix Baumgartner's next dream: to be a helicopter pilot - video

io9:
Watch an eerie 12-minute short movie about an astronaut marooned on an alien world

October 25, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
Rocket explosion raises worries over space debris

Space.com:
Shattered Russian Rocket Spawns Space Junk Cloud

Space.com:
Manned Mars Missions Could Threaten Red Planet Life

Space.com:
Alien hunting: how to find DNA on Mars

Daily Mail:
Could Curiosity come back to Earth? Nasa boss says he hopes astronauts may one day return his rover

Gizmodo:
Boeing's New Missile Remotely Disables Computers as It Flies By

Stuff NZ:
Hypersonic jet trials resuming

Space Daily:
Space daredevil Baumgartner is 'officially retired'

Live Science:
'Space Buddha' Statue May Be a Fake

The Atlantic:
What It Was Like to Be a Telephone Operator on the Night Orson Welles Broadcast 'War of the Worlds'

October 24, 2012

Space.com:
Major Solar Flare Erupts From the Sun

San Francisco Chronicle:
That meteorite in Novato? Just a rock

Scientific American:
Destination: Missing--Comet Once Targeted by NASA Mission Vanished

Spaceflight Now:
Three-man crew launches for International Space Station

Space.com:
New Start: Space Station Crew Lifts Off from Revived Russian Launch Pad

Popular Science:
FYI: How Do Places On Mars Get Their Names?

Astrobiology Magazine:
Watching Io Erupt from Earth

Popular Science:
What Do Scientists Know About Mining Asteroids?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Sophie Blanchard - The High Flying Frenchwoman Who Revealed the Thrill and Danger of Ballooning

Popular Science:
They Said It Couldn't Be Done! - The quest for human-powered flight

USAF News:
Declassified document shows 'real' flying saucer

Discovery News:
Strap In! What It's Like to Fly on SpaceShipTwo

Daily Mail:
Alan Shepherd's unseen photo of Nasa buggie making tracks on the moon goes up for auction

October 23, 2012

Space.com:
Soyuz Rocket Launching US-Russian Crew to Space Station Tuesday

Space.com:
Jeff Bezos' Secretive Spaceship Project Tests Rocket Escape System

Daily Mail:
Seen in high-definition for the first time, the REALLY grand canyon on Mars that is five times the size of ours

ABC Australia:
Meteor sheds light on watery solar system

Daily Mail:
Milky Way only settled into current state while the earth and sun were forming (throwing previous predictions out by several BILLION years)

October 22, 2012

U.S. News & World Report:
UFO Sightings Pose Danger to Aviation

This Is Plymouth:
Meteor's sonic boom shakes Devon, police inundated with calls

San Franicsco Chronicle:
Meteor debris spread over wine country

San Franicsco Chronicle:
Tiny piece of heavens hits pastor's home

KTVU:
NASA scientist confirms meteorite discovered in Novato

Space.com:
Newfound Meteor Shower May Spawn Meteor Storm in 2014

Scientific American:
The Return of a Great 19th-Century Meteor Shower

Space.com:
Private Space Taxi Builders On Track to Launch Astronauts Soon

Space.com:
Mysterious X-37B Military Space Plane's Next Secret Mission Delayed

Space.com:
European Satellite to Seek Nearby Super-Earth Planets in 2017

Space.com:
'Biological Teleporter' Will Find Martian DNA, Beam It Back to Earth

New Scientist:
Martian genome: Is there DNA on the Red Planet?

New Scientist:
Astrophile: Moon melding made Titan a chimera

Daily Mail:
Milky Way only settled into current state while the earth and sun were forming (throwing previous predictions out by several BILLION years)

Daily Mail:
Researchers identify the biggest risk to long distance space flights: Astronaut sneezes

Universe Today:
Integral: Ten Years Tracking Extreme Radiation Across the Universe

The Guardian:
Voyager: the space explorers that are still boldly going to the stars

The Telegraph:
Royal Air Force photographic competition 2012 - in pictures

The Guardian:
Star Trek technology: how 21st century scientists are making it so

WEEKEND EDITION: October 20 through 21, 2012

The Guardian:
Japanese 'sangaku' paintings reveal the sacred side of maths

IEEE Spectrum:
[IROS 2012] Expo Gallery

Popular Science:
The Most Technologically Advanced Warship Ever Built

Science Magazine:
Dance Your Ph.D.: And The Winner Is...

Popular Science:
In Alchemy-Like Process, Researchers Make Iron Behave Like Platinum

Popular Science:
Interactive Fractal Tree of Life Zooms In On Earth's Entire Evolutionary History

Daily Mail:
The Armageddon virus: Why experts fear a disease that leaps from animals to humans could devastate mankind in the next five years

Popular Science:
Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From? And How Can We Stop It?

Astrobiology Magazine:
A New Theory of Early Animal Evolution

Smithsonian Magazine:
A is for Agujaceratops

The Guardian:
Did Tyrannosaurus rex have feathers?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Did Dinosaurs Eat Ants?

ABC Australia:
Battle scars reveal dinos were head bangers

io9:
One of the most terrifying reptiles to ever appear on Earth finally has a name

Daily Mail:
Earth 'too hot for life' after mass extinction 250 million years ago

Live Science:
How Dolphins Stay Awake For Two Weeks Straight

Smithsonian Magazine:
Whatever Happened to Kenyanthropus platyops?

Gizmodo:
Cavemen Would Have Killed For These Modern Stone Tools

io9:
This remarkable prosthetic hand was made for a 16th-century knight

io9:
The 18th Century Version of L. Ron Hubbard Convinced the World He Was Immortal

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Michelin Guide: Why We Look to Automotive Experts for Dining Advice

Daily Mail:
Times Square like you've never seen it before: Amazing images capture the Crossroads of the World from 1904 to modern days

Smithsonian Magazine:
Stocking Series, Part 1: Wartime Rationing and Nylon Riots

Smithsonian Magazine:
Stockings Series, Part 2: Paint-on Hosiery During the War Years

Daily Mail:
Revealed: James Bond 'Skyhook' was a real device used by CIA to pluck agents from behind enemy lines (and here's the instruction manual to prove it)

Smithsonian Magazine:
Dress Codes and Etiquette, Part 1: What Not to Wear to High School in the 1960s

Daily Mail:
'My fellow Americans, with a heavy heart, and in necessary fulfillment of my oath of office': How JFK would have announced WW3 if the Cuban Missile Crisis had gone wrong

Smithsonian Magazine:
How a Missile Silo Became the Most Difficult Interior Decorating Job Ever

Time:
Defying Stunts: Felix Baumgartner and the World's Greatest Daredevils

Smithsonian Magazine:
PHOTOS: The Best and Weirdest Roadside Dinosaurs

io9:
10 of the Grossest and Most Grotesque Vampires from Folklore

Smithsonian Magazine:
Recapping 'The Jetsons': Episode 04 - The Coming of Astro

October 19, 2012

Space.com:
Spectacular Meteor Sparks Fireball Over California

Space.com:
Secretive X-37B Military Space Plane Launch May Be Delayed by Glitch

Discovery News:
Jupiter Is Undergoing Massive, Global Changes

Daily Mail:
No longer the most boring planet: The 'astonishing' close-up of Uranus that reveals torrid weather systems and 560mph winds

Discovery News:
Alpha Centauri Bb: An Interstellar Target?

Digital Journal:
Orionids Meteor Shower to peak this weekend

Smithsonian Magazine:
Sex and Space Travel: Predictions from the 1950s

October 18, 2012

Space.com:
Space Station Opens Launch Pad for Tiny Satellites

Daily Mail:
Has the mystery of how the Moon formed been solved? Analysis of Apollo rocks finds telltale signs of massive impact when a body the size of Mars hit Earth

Smithsonian Magazine:
How the Moon Was Made: A Massive Collision

Space.com:
Huge Moon-Forming Collision Theory Gets New Spin

New Scientist:
Fast-spinning Earth settles mystery of moon's make-up

Scientific American:
Giant Impact Theory of Lunar Formation Gains More Credibility

Universe Today:
Keeping an Earthly Eye on Io's Insane Volcanic Activity

Space Daily:
Giant impact scenario may explain the unusual moons of Saturn

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Earth's Ugly Twin

Space.com:
Earth-Size Planet Closest to Our Solar System: By The Numbers

Space.com:
How Does Alpha Centauri Bb Size Up?: Infographic

The Atlantic:
Could We One Day Send Humans to the Newly Discovered Planet Orbiting Alpha Centauri B?

Gizmodo:
The Navy Once Blasted Pilots in the Face To Test Human Limits

Daily Mail:
Now THAT'S formation flying! Squadron of RAF Typhoon jets skim across colourful fields in perfect symmetry

October 17, 2012

Space.com:
Discovery! Earth-Size Alien Planet at Alpha Centauri Is Closest Ever Seen

Cosmos:
Earth-mass planet found at the star next door

Discovery News:
Earth-Sized World Found Next Door

Universe Today:
Next Door Neighbors? Earth-Sized Planet Discovered in Nearest Star System to Us

Space.com:
Images: Closest-Ever Alien Planet, the Earth-Size Alpha Centauri Bb

Space.com:
'Next-Door' Alien Planet Still Too Distant to Visit - for Now

Space.com:
Alpha Centauri: Nearest Star System to the Sun

Spaceflight Now:
Kepler's exoplanet survey jeopardized by two issues

Spaceflight Now:
Expert team endorses design of private space telescope

Universe Today:
Timeline: 15 Years of Cassini

Space.com:
Pluto's Moons (and Maybe Rings) Pose Risk for NASA Spacecraft

Universe Today:
New Horizons May Need to 'Bail Out' to Dodge Debris, Rings and Moons in the Pluto System

Cosmos:
Tiny, jam-packed alien solar system discovered

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Compact Solar System Could Fit Inside Mercury's Orbit

Universe Today:
Extreme Solar Systems: Why Aren't We Finding Other Planetary Systems Like Our Own?

Popular Science:
Where Should We Look For Earth's Twin?

Gizmodo:
When To Watch This Year's Amazing Halley's Comet Meteor Shower

Popular Science:
Infographic: How Close Did Felix Baumgartner Get To The Edge Of Space?

The Guardian:
Felix Baumgartner: when kids' drawings reveal their ambitions

Space.com:
Neil Armstrong Remembered at Gathering of Eagles

3 News NZ:
'Computer nerd' UFO hunter wins extradition battle

The Guardian:
Gary McKinnon: how unknown hacker sparked political and diplomatic storm

October 16, 2012

Daily Mail:
'It was like Hell, it was terrifying': The moment supersonic skydiver went into a 'death spin' caught on headcam as record-breaking freefall almost ended in tragedy

Popular Science:
Why Felix Baumgartner's Mission Was Nearly Aborted At The Last Minute

Space.com:
Russia Wants Reusable Rockets By 2020

Stuff NZ:
Meteorites and moon rock under the hammer

Daily Mail:
The astonishing 1.75kg piece of rock that's worth £205,000 (Although it does come from the dark side of the moon)

Astrobiology Magazine:
First Rock Touched by Curiosity Has Surprises

NASA News:
NASA's WISE Colors in Unknowns on Jupiter Asteroids

Space.com:
Amateur Team Finds 'Tatooine' Planet with 2 Suns in 4-Star System

Space.com:
Tiniest Alien Solar System Discovered: 5 Packed Planets

Space.com:
Tiny Alien Solar System Discovery Explained (Infographic)

Space.com:
Most Alien Solar Systems Are 'Flatter Than Pancakes'

Discovery News:
Orionids: Diving into Comet Halley's Tail

io9:
The Space Jump, Recreated by a Cat

Smithsonian Magazine:
If We Had Followed This Plan, We'd Be Living on Mars By Now

October 15, 2012

Daily Mail:
Still faster than the speed of sound: Chuck Yeager, 89, recreates historic mission 65 years to the day since first supersonic flight

BBC:
Yeager re-enacts historic flight to break sound barrier

Daily Mail:
Faster than a speeding bullet: Supersonic skydiver Fearless Felix plummets from nearly 128,000 feet in incredible record-breaking drop from the edge of space

BBC:
Skydiver Felix Baumgartner breaks sound barrier

New York Times:
Sky Diving, at Mach 1.24

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:
Skydiver Baumgartner says he never felt in danger

Washington Post:
2 skydivers, 52 years apart, same lofty goal - setting world record for highest, fastest jump

Extreme Tech:
The tech behind Felix Baumgartner's stratospheric skydive

Space.com:
Space Jump: How Daredevil's Record-Breaking Supersonic Skydive Works (Infographic)

Esquire:
So, the Man Fell to Earth. Does It Matter?

Los Angeles Times:
Baumgartner's space jump a victory for science -- and wonder

BBC:
Profile: Skydiver Felix Baumgartner

Sammamish-Issaquah Patch:
Orionids Meteor Shower 2012 Begins Oct. 15

Space Daily:
Lost asteroid rediscovered with a little help from ESA

Spaceflight Now:
Intelsat payload rides Proton rocket to geostationary orbit

Spaceflight Now:
Twin navigation satellites launched by Soyuz rocket

Spaceflight Now:
Chinese demo satellites shot into space by Long March

Space Daily:
Russian moon mission said funded, ready

ABC Australia:
Mystery of ball lightning solved?

Nature:
The mysterious case of the missing noble gas

Popular Mechanics:
A Visitor's Guide to the Moon

ABC Australia:
Moon's water may have come from the Sun

Astrobiology Magazine:
Evidence of a Dynamo on Vesta

Nature:
Galaxy formation: The new Milky Way

The DEW Line:
The case for an optionally manned LRS-B

The DEW Line:
Vulcan death grip: one year left for XH558

The Guardian:
Royal Mail stamps celebrate Britain's contribution to space exploration

The Atlantic:
The Universe Around You: What an Amateur Astrophotographer Can See

Space Daily:
A U-2 flight that nearly sparked a nuclear nightmare

Gizmag:
Researchers plan to use one-of-a-kind airship to search for Bigfoot

Popular Mechanics:
What Would a Starship Actually Look Like?

WEEKEND EDITION: October 13 through 14, 2012

Daily Mail:
Do we live in the Matrix? Researchers say they have found a way to find out

Live Science:
Hidden in Einstein's Math: Faster-than-Light Travel?

IEEE Spectrum:
[IROS 2012] Inflatable Limb Robot Runs Around on Wiggly Legs

Daily Mail:
Sounds of our seas revealed - and they look a lot like the view through a kaleidoscope

Daily Mail:
The end for dreams of a real life Jurassic Park? Researchers find DNA has a half life of 521 years

io9:
Incredible fossil discovery reveals a brain that's over half a billion years old

Daily Mail:
Scientists discover 500 MILLION year old bug brain fossil that could revolutionise understanding of insect evolution

Discovery News:
100-Million-Year-Old Spider Attack Found in Amber

Daily Mail:
Monsters of the deep revealed! Sea life that live in almost complete darkness shown in crystal clear images

Smithsonian Magazine:
Snakes: The Good, the Bad and the Deadly

Daily Mail:
The return of the sea eagle: Researchers say once extinct bird is now thriving on Scottish coast

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Eavesdropping on Elephants

Cosmos:
Giant asteroid, mega-tsunami may have triggered Ice Age

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Top Ten Human Evolution Discoveries from Ethiopia

Daily Mail:
Neanderthals 'bred with modern humans in Europe as recently as 37,000 years ago'

Daily Mail:
Has the mystery of Stonehenge's purpose finally been solved? 3D laser scanning shows stones were aligned with the sun to light up an ART GALLERY

Live Science:
Spot Where Julius Caesar Was Stabbed Discovered

Smithsonian Magazine:
George Washington and Abigail Adams Get an Extreme Makeover

io9:
The incredible devices that made motion pictures before there were cameras

Smithsonian Magazine:
What (or Who) Caused the Great Chicago Fire?

The Guardian:
Why Einstein never received a Nobel prize for relativity

Smithsonian Magazine:
Predictions From The Father of Science Fiction

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Chemistry Set

io9:
Did Polish cryptographers crack the Nazi Enigma code before Alan Turing?

Sarasota Herald Tribune:
New York's Miss Subways stop at the museum

Gizmodo:
The First Time the Public Ever Saw a Polaroid

Popular Science:
The 'Impossible' Instant Camera: PopSci Breaks Open The Polaroid SX-70

Smithsonian Magazine:
Document Deep Dive: What Did Analysts Find in the Recon Photographs From the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Bat-Winged Dinosaur That Never Was

Smithsonian Magazine:
Revisiting Epcot Center on its 30th Birthday

Smithsonian Magazine:
Recapping 'The Jetsons': Episode 03 – The Space Car

October 12, 2012

Gizmodo:
The Supersonic Space Jump Balloon Compared to the Statue of Liberty

Spaceflight Now:
Orbcomm craft falls to Earth, company claims total loss

Discovery News:
Saturn V Also Suffered Engine Launch Anomalies

Space.com:
Meteorite's Black Glass May Reveal Secrets of Mars

New Scientist:
Black glass holds first Mars soil sample on Earth

The Guardian:
Mars meteorite may contain bubbles of 700,000-year-old Martian air

Daily Mail:
'Fresh' Martian meteorite that fell to Earth last year shows evidence that water may once have been present on the Red Planet

Space.com:
Black Glass in New Martian Meteorite (Photos)

Space.com:
New Rules for Meteorite Hunters Unveiled

NASA News:
The Science of Breaking Up Via Space Station Re-entry Investigation

NASA News:
Mars Rock Touched by NASA Curiosity has Surprises

Universe Today:
Stunning New Panorama Shows the Hazy Distant Hills of Mars

NASA News:
Bounce, Skid, Wobble - How Huygens Landed on Titan

Space.com:
Shiny Asteroid Vesta Once Had Magnetic Personality

Stuff NZ:
Diamond bigger than Earth found

Universe Today:
Nearby Exoplanet Could Be Covered With Diamond

The Atlantic:
AT LAST: The Gargantuan Telescope Designed to Find Life on Other Planets

Popular Science:
Inside The Swarming Quadrotor Lab Of KMel Robotics

Wired:
10 Ass-Kicking Warplanes You've Never Heard Of

Petersfield Post:
Endless crop circle by A272 'best this year'

October 11, 2012

Space.com:
Daredevil Skydiver May Attempt Supersonic Jump Sunday After Delays

The Atlantic:
Felix Baumgartner's Incredible, High-Tech Space Suit

Popular Science:
5 Secrets Of A Successful Space Dive

The Atlantic:
The Disease of Jumping From the Sky

Space.com:
SpaceX Dragon Capsule Arrives at Space Station With Precious Cargo

Space.com:
Update: SpaceX Dragon's hatch opened a day early

Daily Mail:
The 'mohawk' moon rover that will drill for ice - and pave the way for a manned base

Gizmag:
Future spacecraft could use dead stars to navigate

New Scientist:
Exomoons may give us first glimpse of habitable worlds

Astrobiology Magazine:
Clouds of Water Present at Star's Birth

Gizmodo:
Holy **** - Look at All These SR-71 Blackbirds Together!

Astrobiology Magazine:
Searching for Dyson Spheres and Alternate Universes

October 10, 2012

The Guardian:
Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking jump from the edge of space aborted

Air & Space Magazine:
The 120,000-Foot Leap

Time Magazine:
From the Edge of Space: Felix Baumgartner Prepares for a Death-Defying Dive

Discovery News:
Breaking the Sound Barrier the First Time

Popular Science:
Sad That Baumgartner Didn't Jump? Cheer Up With These 7 Completely Insane Aerial Stunts

WXIA:
Large asteroid to pass Earth early Friday morning

Time Magazine:
Cosmic Old Faithful: Are There Geysers on Mars?

October 9, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX cargo flight overcomes engine mishap

Spaceflight Now:
Orbcomm satellite in wrong orbit after Falcon 9 launch

Popular Mechanics:
SpaceX Engine Failure: The Good, Bad, and Ugly

Popular Mechanics:
Why the Engine Failure Could be Good News for SpaceX

Spaceflight Now:
Delta 4 rocket overcomes engine issue during launch

Universe Today:
Recent UK Fireball Could Not Have "Skipped" Around the World, New Analysis Says

Wired UK:
Moon-drilling robot to collect frozen soil samples in 2020

Universe Today:
Curiosity Finds...SOMETHING...On Martian Surface

Discovery News:
Curiosity Takes Scoop of Mars Regolith Ripple: Big Pic

Daily Mail:
More evidence emerges to show Voyager 1 has exited our solar system to become the first man-made object to reach deep space

Daily Mail:
Twinkle, twinkle little cubesat: Tiny orbiter will shine like a star to transmit Morse Code messages from the sky

Daily Mail:
The death-ray on wheels: US Army begins testing monster laser truck that can shoot down anything, including missiles

Popular Mechanics:
Reusable Orbital Flight Is Almost Here

Discovery News:
Kittinger's Record-Breaking High-Altitude Jump

October 8, 2012

Wired:
Declassified at Last: Air Force's Supersonic Flying Saucer Schematics

Daily Mail:
Revealed: Incredible 1950s US Air Force designs of supersonic FLYING SAUCER that would travel from New York to Miami in 24 minutes

Discovery News:
Satellite to Flash Morse Code: DNews Nugget

Popular Science:
What Absolutely Cannot Go Wrong When Felix Baumgartner Attempts The Longest Free Fall In History

Discovery News:
Supersonic Skydive Attempt Delayed to Tuesday

ABC Australia:
SpaceX sets off on first cargo run

Space.com:
How SpaceX's Dragon Space Capsule Works (Infographic)

Daily Mail:
The 'colossal' radio telescope that can see more of the universe than ever before (and could even find alien life)

New Scientist:
Japan asteroid trip will star upgraded bouncing robot

New Scientist:
Build a Mars base with a box of engineered bugs

Dvice:
Search for interstellar life turns from radio to infrared

Daily Mail:
Really, REALLY fast... That's how quickly the universe is expanding, according to most accurate estimate yet made by science

Scientific American:
"Once in a Civilization" Comet to Zip past Earth Next Year

Universe Today:
Surreal Photos: CubeSats Launched from the Space Station

Air & Space Magazine:
Live and Let Fly

WEEKEND EDITION: October 6-7, 2012

IEEE Spectrum:
The Cosmological Supercomputer

io9:
What's so super about Supersymmetry?

ABC Australia:
Einstein still relevant past speed of light

Cosmos:
Racing star could prove Einstein's theory

Popular Science:
5 Ways The Brand New Dark Energy Camera Will Utterly Change Our Understanding Of The Universe

Popular Science:
After The LHC: The Next Really Big Experiments In Particle Physics

Stuff NZ:
Earth's magnetic field flip overdue

The Guardian:
Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence

Popular Science:
Ambitious $1 Billion Project Aims To Drill A Hole All The Way To Earth's Mantle

io9:
New project aims to upload a honey bee's brain into a flying insectobot by 2015

Daily Mail:
Father who lost arm in train accident at 13 becomes first in UK to be fitted with bionic hand

The Guardian:
Preparing fossils: the fine art of extracting bones from the rocks

Daily Mail:
Scientists recreate spiny 'ancestor of the cockroaches' from 300m years ago

Smithsonian Magazine:
Dilophosaurus – An Early Jurassic Icon

Daily Mail:
The terrifying 'dwarf vampire' dinosaur with sharp fangs and bristling quills (although it was actually a vegetarian)

Smithsonian Magazine:
Haplocanthosaurus–A Morrison Mystery

Science Magazine:
Cows of the Cretaceous

Smithsonian Magazine:
Long Live the King

Daily Mail:
Discovered: Fearsome 22-foot-long crocodile - the 'T-Rex of the Sea' - which roamed England 150 million years ago

Live Science:
Giant Salamanders Strolled Onto Land Using Long Limbs

Science Magazine:
For Some Primates, Survival of the Nicest

Daily Mail:
So archaeology IS child's play! Almost intact carcass of 300,000-year-old woolly mammoth found by 11-year-old boy

The Guardian:
Becoming Human: The Origin of Stone Tools

Daily Mail:
Neanderthals and human lived side by side in Middle Eastern caves and even interbred, research finds

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Unsolved Mystery of the Tunnels at Baiae

Daily Mail:
Walk like an Egyptian: Researchers test replica big toes from 950BC - and confirm the 'world's first prosthetics' worked

The Guardian:
Return to Antikythera: Divers revisit wreck where ancient computer found

New York Times:
The First Twists That Made Marble Move

io9:
How did we discover the existence of ultraviolet light?

Daily Mail:
The silent halls of a forgotten era: Inside the magnificent empty spaces of Europe's grandiose palaces

io9:
Why Prout's Hypothesis Is One of the Greatest Near-Misses in Science

The Atlantic:
A Brief History of Mechanical Horses

New York Times:
Dressed to Kill, From Head to Toe

io9:
Concept art for 1937's Snow White is gorgeous in its own right

New York Times:
Colorless Panorama Widens Vistas of Picasso

io9:
This is what Einstein's office looked like on the day he died

The Atlantic:
Before Sexting, There Was Polaroid

Daily Mail:
You wait for one bus... and then loads from different eras come at once: London Transport Museum depot opens its doors to public with 400,000 artifacts from last 150 years on display

Daily Mail:
21st Century alchemy: The tiny bug that can turn common elements into 24 carat GOLD

Popular Science:
Gallery: The Year's Best Infographics

io9:
Six mysteries that could be solved with time travel

io9:
9 Historical Figures Who May Have Predicted Our Future

Smithsonian Magazine:
Recapping "The Jetsons": Episode 02 - A Date With Jet Screamer

io9:
Meet the hexaflexagon. It's about to blow your mind.

October 5, 2012

Air Force Space Command:
AFSPC Milestone: USSR launched Sputnik, starting the space race

The Tennessean:
Teachable Moments: U.S. faced hard truths when space race began

Presna Latina:
Russian Scientists Celebrate First Sputnik Launch

Motherboard:
The Clunky Little Ball That Caused Mass Hysteria

Space.com:
Sputnik: How the World's 1st Artificial Satellite Worked (Infographic)

History Channel:
From Sputnik to Spacewalking: 7 Soviet Space Firsts

Dicovery News:
The Psychology of Sputnik

Stuff NZ:
Curiosity scopes first sand scoop

NASA News:
NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Prepares to Study Martian Soil

New Scientist:
Exoplanets form never-seen-before celestial alignment

Dvice:
Researchers working on Star Trek-style fusion impulse engines

The DEW Line:
Good wood revival: Kiwi Mosquito gets airborne

Live Science:
Before Baumgartner: 8 Craziest Skydives of All Time

The Guardian:
How dangerous is space debris?

October 4, 2012

Sky & Telescope:
Big Meteoroid Boomerangs Around Earth

Cape Times:
Mystery object possibly a meteor

NASA News:
Engineers Test Rotor Landing for Capsules

Astrobiology Magazine:
Huge Pressure Swings on Mars

Daily Mail:
How do you bring soil back from Mars? Multiple Curiosities and a return launch to Earth may help us get our hands on the Red Planets

Universe Today:
36-Dish Australian Telescope Array Opens for Business

Popular Science:
A New View Of The Solar System

Gizmodo:
I Just Want to Strap Myself to a Paramotor and Fly Away

Space.com:
'Sigma 7' at 50: Retro Space Images Recall 5th US Spaceflight

Air & Space Magazine:
Of Turtles and Men

October 3, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
Antares rocket rolls to launch pad for fueling tests, hotfire

Universe Today:
Antares Commercial Rocket Reaches New Atlantic Coast Launch Pad

Spaceflight Now:
It's launch week for Delta 4 to upgrade GPS constellation

Spaceflight Now:
NOAA moves spare satellite in position over Atlantic

Jalopnk:
How To Crash A Boeing 727 On Purpose: Four Clips From Discovery's Fascinating New Show

October 2, 2012

Discovery.com:
SpaceX Falcon Rocket Fires Up for Test Run

Universe Today:
Mercury's Surface is Full of Sulfur

Space.com:
Strange Layer of Venus Surprisingly Cold

Daily Mail:
Does it snow on Venus? Unusual 'cold spot' suggests second planet from the sun joins Mars in having carbon dioxide 'flurries'

Space.com:
Weather On Mars Surprisingly Warm, Curiosity Rover Finds

ABC Science Australia:
Spacecraft helps track Mars' wayward moon

The Guardian:
Water on Mars has a long history

The Economist:
Robocopter arrives

Daily Mail:
Unleash the Bloodhound: Rocket that could propel a British car to 1,000mph to be ignited for first time

Discovery.com:
Supersonic Flight: Pushing the Human Body's Limits

The Atlantic:
Happy Birthday, NASA! Here's What Might Have Happened If You Were Never Born

October 1, 2012

Wales Online:
Cardiff professor's wacky idea of alien life on Earth wins backing at Princeton

Daily Galazxy:
Did a Massive Extraterrestrial Body Impact Earth 12,000 Years Ago?

Space.com:
Back-to-Back Space Junk Buzzes Space Station

Space Daily:
Europe's third ATV ends mission at space station

Space.com:
Huge X-Wing-Like Cargo Ship Undocks from Space Station

NASA News:
Mars Rover Opportunity Working at 'Matijevic Hill'

Universe Today:
Vesta's Deep Grooves Could Be "Stretch Marks" From Impact

Discovery News:
Saturn's Southern Side: Big Pic

New Scientist:
Space surgery possible with zero-gravity tool

Discovery News:
Beaming Energy For Interstellar Travel

Space Daily:
Australian hypersonic test a success

Dvice:
USAF junk trackin' Space Fence to go live in 2017

Network World:
Air Force sets first post in ambitious Space Fence project

Air & Space Magazine:
Portrait of a Breakup

Air & Space Magazine:
Hit-and-Run Science

io9:
Luna 1: The Greatest Failed Spaceship in History

WEEKEND EDITION: September 29 through 30, 2012

io9:
8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve

Popular Science:
"Looper" And The Real Science Of Time Travel

Popular Science:
Japanese Team Claims Discovery of Elusive Element 113, and May Get to Name It

Gizmodo:
See-Through Solar Panels Are a Window To Wider Usage

Cosmos:
Record-breaking earthquakes push new boundaries

Stuff NZ:
Big quakes 'shake the world'

Astrobiology Magazine:
Evidence for Ancient Life Throughout the Land

Smithsonian Magazine:
Did Dinosaurs Swim?

The Guardian:
Humans hunted for meat 2 million years ago

Daily Mail:
Genetic study challenges theory that modern humans came from just one place in Africa

Smithsonian Magazine:
How to Retrace Early Human Migrations

Daily Mail:
A night at the pictures, caveman style: Prehistoric artists 'used cartoon-like techniques to make their paintings move'

Daily Mail:
Archaeologists to reconstruct the Devil's Frying pan, 'Cornish Stonehenge' that collapsed

Wired UK:
Madagascar's first residents could have arrived with a shipwreck

The Guardian:
Was Newton a scientist or a sorcerer?

Daily Mail:
Cambridge librarian finds forgotten fungus Charles Darwin brought back on the Beagle (and it was still wrapped in his newspaper)

The Guardian:
Recognition at last for Alfred Russel Wallace, who lived in Darwin's shadow

io9:
Instructions on How to use a Telephone, from 1917

Air & Space Magazine:
Early Flight in Louisiana

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Silence that Preceded China's Great Leap into Famine

Daily Mail:
Solved after 70 years: The mystery of the missing Lancaster bomber crew

Air & Space Magazine:
Home Sweet Duralumin

Air & Space Magazine:
Take a Seat

Air & Space Magazine:
Cold Case

Observations On Film Art:
The wayward charms of Cinerama

Air & Space Magazine:
Cuba During the Missile Crisis

Air & Space Magazine:
Due South of Key West

Daily Mail:
The man who saved the world: The Soviet submariner who single-handedly averted WWIII at height of the Cuban Missile Crisis

The Guardian:
What is the legacy of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring?

September 28, 2012

Huffington Post:
UFOs Are Real, Should Be Studied, Says Ex-Project Blue Book Director Col. Robert Friend

Space.com:
Astronauts Can Keep (or Sell) Their Space Artifacts, New Law Says

Universe Today:
Curiosity Finds Evidence of An Ancient Streambed on Mars

Space.com:
Mars Rover Finds Ancient Streambed Where Water Once Flowed

Discovery News:
Curiosity finds clear evidence of ancient water flow on Mars

Astrobiology Magazine:
Stellar Shockwaves Shaped our Solar System

Astrobiology Magazine:
How Hot are Super-Earths?

Space Daily:
Stagnant Interiors Suppress Chances of Life on Super-Earths

Spaceflight Now:
Is Antimatter a Viable Starship Fuel?

Air & Space Magazine:
The Airports of Curtis Fentress

September 27, 2012

Space.com:
NASA Tracking Space Junk Near International Space Station

IEEE Spectrum:
We've Already Passed the Tipping Point for Orbital Debris

Space.com:
US Military Wants Space Planes, Reusable Rockets

Stuff NZ:
Space relay for Mars rock retrieval

New Scientist:
Solar maximum? Oh, you just missed it

Discovery News:
New Comet Discovered -- Will It Be Spectacular?

NASA News:
Dawn - Vesta Got Special Delivery of Hydrated Minerals

NASA News:
Giant Asteroid's Troughs Suggest Stunted Planet

Space.com:
Brightest Star Explosion in History Reveals Lonely Supernova

Space.com:
Packing for an Interstellar Space Voyage: What to Bring?

Popular Science:
5 Ways The Brand New Dark Energy Camera Will Utterly Change Our Understanding Of The Universe

Las Vegas Sun:
UFO military secrets revealed, but revelations spark more questions

Sarasota Herald Tribune:
A muffled bang, but no harm done

Daily Mail:
Discovered by a Nazi expedition in 1936, the incredible 1,000 year old Buddhist statue made from a METEORITE

September 26, 2012

Daily Mail:
Nasa plans 'stepping stone to Mars' deep space base beyond the dark side of the moon

Discovery News:
Record-Breaking Supersonic Skydive Gets Go Ahead

Wired:
Air Force's Secret Space Plane Prepped for New Launch

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX's reusable rocket testbed takes first hop

Wired:
$2 Billion Later, Bloated Spy Blimp Finally Kills a Cruise Missile

Space.com:
Curiosity Rover Touches 1st Martian Rock, Makes Longest Drive Yet

Popular Science:
Today On Mars: Curiosity Records Hurricane-Like Air Pressure Swings

Space.com:
Newfound Comet Could Look Spectacular in 2013

Discovery News:
Two Stunning 'Faces' Of Our Nearest Star: Big Pic

Daily Mail:
Nasa reveals massive halo of hot gas that envelops our universe

Popular Science:
Happy Birthday, Blind Flight! [Vintage PopSci]

Discovery News:
Thin Air, Big Mystery: Surviving High-Altitude Skydives

Gizmodo:
How NASA Prevents a Space Plague Outbreak

Daily Mail:
Are we the extraterrestrials? Scientists back theory that life was brought to Earth by space microbes

September 25, 2012

Los Angeles Times:
NASA considers orbital outpost near moon as next big project

Space.com:
Air Force Launching Secretive X-37B Space Plane in October, Could Land in Fla.

Live Science:
Space-y Tales: The 5 Strangest Meteorites

Space.com:
Sounds of 'Alien Birds' in Space Recorded by NASA Spacecraft

Space.com:
Mercury's Surface Resembles Rare Meteorites

NASA News:
Angling Saturn

Space.com:
Ocean on Jupiter's Moon Europa Likely Deep Underground

io9:
A Detailed Plan for Getting Humans Off Earth

Smithsonian Magazine:
Recapping the "The Jetsons": Episode 01 – Rosey the Robot

September 24, 2012

Daily Mail:
Huge fireballs shoot across night sky in spectacular 'meteor' shower ... but turns out it was probably space junk falling back to Earth

The Telegraph:
Spectacular 'meteor' shower over Britain

Birmingham Mail:
Meteor lights up sky over Walsall

Norwich Evening News:
Huge fireball spotted over Norfolk

The Bolton News:
Meteor shower causes panic in Leigh

Shropshire Star:
Meteor over Shropshire sparks 999 calls

This Is Grimsby:
Meteor lights up the skies above North East Lincolnshire

Irish Times:
Freak fireball lights up Irish skies

Scottish Daily Record:
'Meteor' showers seen lighting up the skies across Scotland

Utica Observer Dispatch:
Reports of boat explosion on Oneida Lake most likely fireball

WKTV:
Reports of fireball over Oneida Lake scramble area rescue crews

St. Cloud Times:
Meteor gives show

Spaceflight Now:
Avionics box to blame for delay in next crew's launch

Daily Mail:
Getting a final polish: The massive mirrors which will make up Nasa's latest space telescope when Hubble retires in 2018

Discovery News:
Curiosity 'Reaches Out' to Pyramidal Mars Rock: Big Pic

Daily Mail:
Super-earth close to red dwarf star Gliese 163 'top contender' for supporting life

Discovery News:
Quantum Apocalypse Could Happen: Gotta-See Video

Marquette Mining Journal:
Ancient meteor fragment removed from ground in Marquette County, sent to MTU

Daily Mail:
Bit of a grey area: Undulatus asperatus could be the first new cloud to be officially recognised for 61 years

Discovery News:
Hubble Mosaic Pays Tribute to Van Gogh

Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Ex-Army colonel visits Atomic Testing Museum to lecture on UFOs

WEEKEND EDITION: September 22 through 23, 2012

Popular Science:
"There Is No Such Thing As Time"

Live Science:
What Is the Smallest Thing in the Universe?

Gizmag:
Who ordered that? An unexpected new particle shakes the Standard Model

io9:
Everything You Need to Know About Gravity in One Five-Minute Animation

The Guardian:
Nuclear fusion - your time has come

Wired UK:
Cold fusion: smoke and mirrors, or raising a head of steam?

Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: Diabolical Death Rays from the Pages of Popular Science

Gizmag:
Romania's Prispa solar prefab feels like a real home

Daily Mail:
'Wizard for the 21st century' uses crystal balls to predict the Equinox so accurately that each model is fine-tuned to your postcode

Popular Science:
First 3-D Printing Store in U.S. Opens

Astrobiology Magazine:
Giant Viruses Shake Up Tree of Life

Daily Mail:
Inside the Navy's new £1billion supersub: Deadly Hunter Killer submarine is capable of hearing a ship leaving port in New York... while sat underwater in the English channel

Astrobiology Magazine:
A Die-Off Before the Dinos

Daily Mail:
Starting and finishing with a bang: Did a giant meteorite KICKSTART the age of the dinosaurs?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Sinking a Sauropod

Smithsonian Magazine:
Tussling Over Thecodontosaurus

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Awkwardness of Tyrant Teens

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Snakes' Slitherin' Subterranean Kin

Daily Mail:
Australians discover surely the largest wombat - the size of an elephant - to ever walk the Earth (...and yes they called it 'Shirley')

Space.com:
Case Closed? Comet Crash Killed Ice Age Beasts

io9:
The Reason Early Humans May Have Practiced Infant Cannibalism

Daily Mail:
Changing fashions: Neanderthal man used bird feathers 'for decoration and ornaments'

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Rock of Gibraltar: Neanderthals' Last Refuge

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Inside Story of a Controversial New Text About Jesus

The Guardian:
Richard III, the great villain of English history, is due a makeover

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Blazing Career and Mysterious Death of "the Swedish Meteor"

Popular Science:
Arrr! Did Captain Kidd Hide His Gold In An Ox-Swallowing Underground Vault? [Vintage PopSci]

Daily Mail:
The lost document that changed the course of American history: How Robert E. Lee's secret Civil War battle plans were found wrapped around cigars under a locust tree - and ended up in Union hands

Daily Mail:
Same camera, different century: Stunning pictures that retrace the steps of ground-breaking Civil War photographer, 150 years later

Smithsonian Magazine:
Meet the Real-Life Vampires of New England and Abroad

Daily Mail:
Singing girls, an aviatrix in furs and the delicate beauty of the Last Empress: Fascinating photos of Old China taken by missionaries in the last years of imperial rule

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Copper King's Precipitous Fall

Cosmos:
Paris museum celebrates physics heroine

Air & Space Magazine:
Who Was Fatty Pearson?

Gizmag:
The magnetic sands of Normandy

Popular Science:
The U.S. Conducted Atomic Weapons Tests On Beer

Air & Space Magazine:
The Golden Age of Flight Attendants

Smithsonian Magazine:
50 Years of the Jetsons: Why The Show Still Matters

Air & Space Magazine:
Cuba During the Missile Crisis

Air & Space Magazine:
Kennedy's Evidence

Air & Space Magazine:
When the Missiles Left

Daily Mail:
Declassified documents from 1980 show how US planned to fight a nuclear war

io9:
What Is This Secret Weapon the US Has Been Hiding for 30 Years?

Daily Mail:
That's my girl with the gorilla... but she's totally safe, says father who has released 20-year-old home video to show how 'gentle and noble and wonderful' great apes are

io9:
Why a Crow Will Never Forget Your Face

io9:
This Timelapse Video of California's Joshua Tree National Park is Absolutely Epic

io9:
A downright gorgeous short film about doomed astronauts after a spaceship crash

The Guardian:
Duck gauntlet

September 21, 2012

Red Orbit:
Mercury MESSENGER Finds The Planet Is Truly Of Different Origins

Discovery News:
Protoplanet Vesta Awash in Hydrogen

Discovery News:
Kennedy's Proposed US-Soviet Moon Mission

The DEW Line:
F-35 and Spitfire get side-by-side at Edwards

Daily Mail:
Wonders of the universe: Royal Observatory reveals winning entries in astronomy photography competition

September 20, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
Another Atlas 5 readied to launch mini space shuttle

Daily Mail:
Earth's song: Nasa picks up gleeful chirrups sent out from planet which can be heard by the human ear (...if you could take your helmet off in space)

NASA News:
Landing Pads Being Designed for Extraterrestrial Missions

Discovery News:
Mars Rover Curiosity Has First Target in Sight

Astrobiology Magazine:
Protection for Humans on Mars

Space.com:
Where to See America's Greatest Spaceships (Infographic)

September 19, 2012

Universe Today:
35 Years Ago: Our First Family Portrait of the Earth and Moon

Space.com:
Largest Moon Rock Ever Auctioned Could Fetch $380,000

Astrobiology Magazine:
A New Theory on the Moon Formation

Air & Space Magazine:
Printed in Space

Space Daily:
The space formula of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Air & Space Magazine:
Restoration: Carpenter's Special

Air & Space Magazine:
Ode to the Bubble

Air & Space Magazine:
Flying in Comfort

Air & Space Magazine:
And the Oscar Goes to... the Airplane!

September 18, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
Three-man space crew back from 125 days in orbit

Stuff NZ:
Hot come down for astronauts

Daily Mail:
Down to Earth! Astronauts touch down in Kazakhstan after four months on board International Space Station

Daily Mail:
'We are speaking about trillions of carats': Russia reveals vast diamond source under 62-MILE-WIDE asteroid crater which could supply world markets for next 3,000 years

Scientific American:
Tandem Satellite Mission Reveals a Thinner Lunar Crust

Wall Street Journal:
Jennifer Tucker: The Mars Curiosity Rover and the Long Search for ET

New Scientist:
Astrophile: The pride and fall of warrior comet Lovejoy

Spaceflight Now:
Signs point to interstellar space for Voyager 1 probe

Space.com:
Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say

Gizmodo:
570-megapixel dark energy camera takes first pictures of space

Daily Mail:
Starlight from eight BILLION years ago: First images received from the world's most powerful digital camera

Discovery News:
Lunar Orbiter Snaps Photo of 1968 NASA Lander: Big Pic

September 17, 2012

Space.com:
Farewell, Neil Armstrong: 1st Moonwalker Buried at Sea

Space.com:
Soyuz Spacecraft Carrying Russian-US Crew Headed Back to Earth

Space.com:
Touchdown! Soyuz Spacecraft Lands Safely with Russian-US Crew

Spaceflight Now:
California Atlas 5 finally flies with flock of satellites

Space.com:
Strange Mystery Spheres on Mars Baffle Scientists

Discovery News:
Alien Planets Found Around Cluster of Stars

Space.com:
Giant Super-Magnetic Star Has Scientists Buzzing

Scientific American:
"Astronomical Unit," or Earth-Sun Distance, Gets an Overhaul

The Guardian:
Spacewatch: The Titius-Bode Law

io9:
A geyser sprays water vapor from the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus

Daily Mail:
It's an eclipse... but not as we know it: Curiosity rover captures amazing photograph of Martian moon moving across the face of the sun

WEEKEND EDITION: September 15 through 16, 2012

The Guardian:
Philosophy v science: which can answer the big questions of life?

io9:
Scientists Now Uncertain About Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

Science Magazine:
ABC Proof Could Be Mathematical Jackpot

Daily Mail:
The 'even larger' hadron collider: Cern reveals plans for new experiments measuring 50miles in length to solve the mystery of how gravity works

io9:
At last, the field of physics has its own version of the urban legend

Daily Mail:
James Bond's next superbug? The remote control cockroach that could be the spy of the future

Gizmag:
Hungary's Odooproject prefab home produces twice the amount of energy it consumes

Gizmag:
Wood Peg furniture makes for a versatile home interior

Gizmag:
Solar-powered oven makes fresh water

Gizmodo:
These Cool USB Typewriters Can Type on Your Screen and on Paper at the Same Time

Popular Science:
Video: Big Dog Is Back

Wired:
Video: Watch Darpa's Robotic Dog Follow Its Master

Popular Science:
Russia is Building the World's Largest Nuclear-Powered Icebreaker

Smithsonian Magazine:
Dryptosaurus Needs a Hand

Smithsonian Magazine:
Outlining Olorotitan

Stuff NZ:
Meet lesula, the world's newest monkey species

Daily Mail:
Too-wit too-who are you? New species of 'owl faced' monkey discovered - after its unique bright blue bottom was spotted

Smithsonian Magazine:
Bears, Up Close and Personal, in the Alaskan Wilderness

Smithsonian Magazine:
What Was the Black Skull?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Indonesia's Top Five Hominid Fossil Sites

io9:
The Deadliest Poisons in History (And Why People Stopped Using Them)

Live Science:
16th-Century Trial Records Reveal Priest's Magic 'Superpowers'

io9:
Curator finds the world's first ever color movie hidden inside museum vault

Daily Mail:
Richard III's body comes even closer: Archaeologists hunting for lost King find the garden where his grave stood in 1612

Daily Mail:
Have they found Richard III? Archaeologists searching for 'tyrant king' under Leicester car park find skeleton with a curved spine and metal ARROW in its back

Smithsonian Magazine:
Hayes vs. Tilden: The Ugliest, Most Contentious Presidential Election Ever

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Unknown Story of the Black Cyclone, the Cycling Champion Who Broke the Color Barrier

Daily Mail:
What if the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck today? Digital trickery blends pictures taken at the time with city's streets today

Popular Science:
Vintage PopSci: NYC Tornadoes Were Nothing Compared To These "Supernatural" Storms Of '35

San Jose Mercury:
Memos show US hushed up Soviet crime

Popular Science:
Vintage PopSci: 7 Phone Ideas That Are More Innovative Than The iPhone 5

Gizmodo:
This Is What Happens When a Nuclear Bomb Explodes Under Water

Smithsonian Magazine:
Picture-Perfect Bonsai

io9:
10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Star Trek: The Original Series

September 14, 2012

Wall Street Journal:
Buzz Aldrin: Remembering Neil Armstrong

Washington Post:
Astronaut Neil Armstrong is mourned at Washington National Cathedral

USA Today:
Nation says goodbye to moonwalker Neil Armstrong

Indianapolis Star:
Neil Armstrong remembered as first and always a Purdue engineer

Popular Science:
Today on Mars: Curiosity Is All Set to Sift Sand and Bake Rocks

Space.com:
Secret US Spy Satellite Launches Into Space After 6-Week Delay

Spaceflight Now:
October return-to-flight set for Russian Proton rocket

Space.com:
NASA Building New Moon Lander Prototype After Fiery Crash

NASA Science:
Weird Planets

Smithsonian Magazine:
Hollywood's Spacesuits

Universe Today:
The Moon from Earth As You've Never Seen it Before

Dvice:
Remembering the Moon's earliest robotic explorers

September 13, 2012

Universe Today:
50 Years Ago Today, We Chose to Go to the Moon

Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 rocket launch set to go Thursday from California

Space.com:
NASA's Huge New Rocket May Cost $500 Million Per Launch

Universe Today:
Sputtering: How Mars May Have Lost Its Atmosphere

Discovery News:
Dark Energy Really IS Real

Network World:
Europe sets sights on asteroid tracking radars

Space.com:
Asteroid Flies by Earth Thursday: How to Watch Online

Daily Mail:
On display for the first time in 30,000 years: Britain's biggest meteorite, weighing 200lb, enters museum after 80 years as family heirloom

September 12, 2012

Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
UFO panel a blast from the past

Daily Mail:
The moment Jupiter was HIT by a giant asteroid yesterday - and humanity's only record was taken by a faithful webcam in the dead of night

Seattle Times:
Drill bits on rover could contaminate Mars

Daily Mail:
Let's hope we DON'T find water on Mars: Nasa's mistake installing drill means we may end up contaminating the planet with microbes

The Atlantic:
Swabbing and Hoping: How NASA Keeps Germs From Colonizing Mars

NASA News:
NASA Orbiter Observations Point to 'Dry Ice' Snowfall on Mars

Deccan Herald:
Mars only planet humanity may explore within next millennium

National Post:
Scott Van Wynsberghe: Revealing the "real" Venus

The Planetary Society:
Cure for the blues: processing images of a blue planet

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Does the Tiny Waterbear Survive in Outer Space?

Arizona Daily Star:
100 days of science: In Flagstaff, self-taught astronomer discovered 'planet' Pluto

Los Angeles Times:
Hey, Curiosity scientists, didn't you see 'Alien'?

September 11, 2012

Daily Mail:
Curiosity Flips Powerful Camera's Dust Cap: Photos

Space.com:
India's 100th Space Mission Launches Satellites Into Orbit

Air & Space Magazine:
Kounotori's End

io9:
Teenager sends $50 camera into space and captures these stunning images of Earth

Discovery News:
Cassini Spots Clumpy Features in Saturn's Ring: Big Pic

Discovery News:
Our Dangerous Galactic Passage

September 10, 2012

Daily Mail:
Curiosity takes its first sniff of Martian air as scientists begin hunt for ingredients of life on the red planet

Discovery News:
A Happy Rover is a Roving Rover

Astrobiology Magazine:
Hadley Crater Provides Deep Insight into Mars Geology

Astrobiology Magazine:
Mars's Dramatic Climate Variations Are Driven by the Sun

Discovery News:
'Hello Gorgeous!' Curiosity Snaps Self Portrait: Big Pic

New Scientist:
Not so moist Mars: Clays may come from lava, not lakes

Discovery News:
Early Mars Maybe Not So Wet

Dvice:
NASA upgrading Crawler-Transporter to handle new launch system

Universe Today:
JPL's Torture Chamber for Spacecraft

Discovery News:
Pillaging the Moon for the Promise of Space Energy

Los Angeles Times:
New high-tech airships are rising in Southern California

Space.com:
See the Winking 'Demon Star' in Night Sky This Week

io9:
This gorgeous video lets you fly across the moon's surface without leaving your armchair

Daily Mail:
Daredevil 'Jetman' soars through the skies over Switzerland alongside famous vintage Spitfire

WEEKEND EDITION: September 8 through 9, 2012

Discovery News:
Two Pages That Sparked Higgs Boson Hunt

The Guardian:
Is the 'Wang particle' the new Higgs boson?

IEEE Spectrum:
The Truth About Terahertz

Popular Science:
The Labs That Go Boom

Daily Mail:
From the wheelchair based on an F1 car to the 'Terminator' exo-skeleton suit: How technology is transforming the Paralympics

IEEE Spectrum:
Boston Dynamics' Cheetah Robot Now Faster than Fastest Human

Scientific American:
Experiments Scientists Would Do If They Lived Indefinitely

The Guardian:
Drawing dinosaurs: how is palaeoart produced?

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Mysterious Martharaptor

Daily Mail:
Dinosaur die-out may have been the second of two massive extinctions: Researchers believe huge underwater volcanoes 'killed off all the sea-life first'

The Guardian:
The dinosaurs in your garden

Smithsonian Magazine:
Early Cannibalism Tied to Territorial Defense?

Discover Magazine:
Biblical-Type Floods Are Real, and They're Absolutely Enormous

The Guardian:
Shipwreck in 'exceptional' condition discovered by archaeologists in France

Smithsonian Magazine:
That Time a German Prince Built an Artificial Volcano

io9:
Twenty-nine of history's most iconic scientists in one photograph – now in color!

Smithsonian Magazine:
"Murder Wasn't Very Pretty": The Rise and Fall of D.C. Stephenson

Daily Mail:
The way it was: Rare colour photographs of Main Street in the 1940s capture the cafes, general stores and corner shops that were the heartbeat of small town America

Air & Space Magazine:
Alarming Reports from George Orwell

Daily Mail:
The Second World War, by Cecil Beaton: The film star photographer turned his lens to gritty reality with stunning effect

The Guardian:
Kingsley Hall: RD Laing's experiment in anti-psychiatry

The Guardian:
Different kinds of truth: religion, science and fiction

io9:
This "lost" interview with Ray Bradbury is the best thing you'll listen to today

Smithsonian Magazine:
Big Apple Apocalypse: 200 Years of Destroying New York City

Scientific American:
Mechanical Rhino

September 7, 2012

Space.com:
Neil Armstrong, Who Stood on Moon's 'Sea of Tranquility,' to be Buried at Sea

Daily Mail:
Neil Armstrong to be buried at sea because of his service as a Navy fighter pilot before he became an astronaut

Press Democrat:
Reaching for the moon and beyond

The Wednesday Journal:
Neil Armstrong and the wonder of it all

Bakersfield College Renegade Rip:
Armstrong inspired professors to learn

Community Press &s; Recorder:
Architect pays tribute to Neil Armstrong

The Wednesday Journal:
My friend, Neil Armstrong

Philadelphia Inquirer:
A requiem for the spirit of Armstrong

Space News:
Small Steps and Giant Leaps

Discovery News:
Curiosity's Tracks Snapped by Mars Orbiter: Photos

Spaceflight Now:
Mars rover Curiosity pauses for robot arm checkout

Scientific American:
I can tell you about Mars

Astrobiology Magazine:
Does Triton Have a Subsurface Ocean?

Daily Mail:
New super-earth discovered around the red dwarf star Gliese 163

Scientific American:
You Are Here: How Astronomical Surveys Are Pinpointing Our Place in the Cosmos

September 6, 2012

Space.com:
Spacewalkers Overcome Stuck Bolt to Fix Space Station Power System

Stuff NZ:
Spacewalk powers up space station

Popular Science:
Classic Knot Designs Tie Down Mars Rover Curiosity's Cables, to Knot Fans' Delight

Spaceflight Now:
Juno given precautionary delay to course adjustment

Stuff NZ:
Dawn shifts to Ceres

Space.com:
Jupiter-Bound Probe's Maneuver in Deep Space Delayed

Scientific American:
Voyager: a binary love story

New Scientist:
Voyager 1: reports of my exit are greatly exaggerated

Scientific American:
NASA's Voyager 1 Spacecraft May Not Be Near Edge of Solar System After All

Daily Mail:
Astonishing formation of 49 UFOs in the night sky (but don't panic it's only a swarm of quadrocopters)

September 5, 2012

Space.com:
Neil Armstrong's Public Memorial Service Set for Sept. 13

Universe Today:
Life from Mars could have 'polluted' Earth: Krauss

Dicovery News:
Mars Pay Dirt: When Will it Come?

Daily Mail:
Grey day on the Red Planet: 'Raw' pictures from Curiosity reveal what the surface REALLY looks like

Forbes:
Space Farmers: LEDs As Key To NASA's Permanent Lunar Life Support

Dvice:
Future spaceships may support life with walls full of water

Space.com:
Meteoroids Change Atmospheres of Earth, Mars, Venus

Astrobiology Magazine:
Hot but Habitable?

Space.com:
When Did the Universe Have the Right Stuff for Planets?

Space.com:
September 2012 Night Sky Observing Guide (Sky Maps)

Stuff NZ:
Star Spy: Mythical creature

New Scientist:
Photo time capsule aiming for orbit

The DEW Line:
A bad day at the office: U-2-style

Dicovery News:
How Neil Armstrong Saved the Dyna-Soar

io9:
Enjoy the view from the Apollo 11 landing site in this awesome interactive panorama

Dvice:
Watch: Record-breaking swarm of 50 quadrocopters puts on show

September 4, 2012

Daily Mail:
11 billion miles from home: Incredible images taken from Voyager 1 show Earth as tiny dot as the spacecraft prepares to cross solar system's final frontier into interstellar space

Daily Mail:
Here comes the sun: Astonishing 'whip' half a million miles long spotted on solar surface (and scientists say radiation from it is heading for earth)

Astrobiology Magazine:
Japanese Spacecraft to Search for Clues of Earth's First Life

New Scientist:
Moon's magnetic umbrellas may shield future spaceships

Daily Mail:
The hi-tech 'x-ray helmet' that can let fighter pilots see through their plane

Daily Mail:
Area 51 UFO 'secrets' to be revealed by Las Vegas Smithsonian Institute

Daily Mail:
So was the 'Baltic Sea UFO' an alien saucer or an underwater Nazi base? No - it 'is just rocks', claim debunkers

September 3, 2012

Air & Space Magazine:
Anyone Need a Hubble Telescope?

Spaceflight Now:
Spacewalkers run into major snag replacing power unit

Spaceflight Now:
Spacewalkers to try power repair again Wednesday

Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 undergoes pad rehearsal for October launch

Space.com:
Jupiter-Bound Probe Changes Orbit in Deep Space

Discovery News:
Two Mars Rovers Search for Clues to Life

Discovery News:
Have We Already Colonized Mars?

Stuff NZ:
Curiosity's nuclear power source

Daily Mail:
The incredible interactive panorama that puts you right on the surface of Mars

WEEKEND EDITION: September 1 through 2, 2012

Universe Today:
Effects of Einstein's Elusive Gravity Waves Observed

Gizmodo:
The Underground Tunnel Where the Laws of Physics Are Rewritten

Smithsonian Magazine:
Five Ways Science Can Make Something Invisible

Gizmodo:
The 3,000-Pound Fire-Breathing Robot Scorpion Roving the Nevada Desert

Popular Science:
You Built What?!: A Fire-Breathing, Jet-Powered Dragon

Gizmodo:
This Is How a Medical Scanner Looks Without Its Skin

Gizmodo:
9 Scientific Breakthroughs That Happened Totally by Accident

Gizmodo:
What Happens When You Get Struck By Lightning

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Ancient Insects Trapped in Time

The Guardian:
Telling the tail of the dinosaur

The Guardian:
The biggest of the big - maximum size in dinosaurs

Smithsonian Magazine:
What's Wrong With Giraffatitan?

Daily Mail:
The wolf-like dinosaur who preyed on birds too young to fly away

Daily Mail:
Scientists reveal the 'curious beast' from the dawn of mammals - a badger sized, scaly anteater with large claws designed for digging

Science Magazine:
Chimps' Answer to Einstein

Daily Mail:
Neanderthals were right handed and may have had the capability for speech, new research finds

io9:
New DNA evidence could explain what happened to the Neanderthals

Live Science:
Ancient Animal Figurines Found in Israel

Daily Mail:
Is this the lost grave of King Richard III? Archaeologists dig under council car park for monarch killed in Battle of Bosworth

Air & Space Magazine:
Carlotta, the Lady Aeronaut

io9:
The tawdry medical history of soft drinks

Air & Space Magazine:
Glenn Curtiss Was Here

Air & Space Magazine:
Cancelled: Princess, Dethroned

IEEE Spectrum:
Book Review: Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb

Forbes:
What's Inside The Suspect Nuclear Waste Tank At Hanford?

Daily Mail:
Polish historians hope secret mass grave will yield hero of Auschwitz who VOLUNTEERED to enter death camp and chronicle exterminations

io9:
The Grisly Failures of Project Albert, Precursor to the Apollo Space Program

Air & Space Magazine:
Burt Rutan's Favorite Ride

Daily Mail:
All quiet on the Cold War front: Former Communist listening post on Russian/Chinese border stands eerily abandoned

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Neverending Hunt for Utopia

August 31, 2012

Biddeford-Saco-OOB Courier:
UFO investigator recognized

Spaceflight Now:
Atlas rocket launches mission 50 years in the making

Discovery News:
Thrust Engaged: Dawn's Farewell Tour of Vesta: Big Vid

Discovery News:
Mars Rover Hits the Road

Universe Today:
Curiosity's Laser Leaves Its Mark

Universe Today:
Changing Hues Signal Transition of Seasons at Saturn

Astrobiology Magazine:
How Old are the First Planets?

Scientific American:
From Flood Myth to Martian Megafloods

Popular Science:
Video: Controlling a Drone With Nothing But Your Thoughts

Popular Science:
Video: Maryland Student Hovers 8 Feet High in Human-Powered Helicopter, Smashing Previous Records

Discovery News:
Armstrong and Thompson's Flying Tricycle

August 30, 2012

Air & Space Magazine:
Neil Armstrong, In His Own Words

Space.com:
Armstrong's Legacy Will Last a Million Years

Air & Space Magazine:
The Astronaut Question

Space.com:
Mars Rover Curiosity Begins 1st Long Martian Drive

Daily Mail:
Was the Moon formed by a 'hit and run' collision with Earth? Simulation could finally solve the 'lunar paradox' that has baffled scientists

Space Daily:
The Kuiper Belt at 20: Paradigm Changes in Our Knowledge of the Solar System

Cosmos:
Sugar found near two-star system

Dvice:
SpiderFab: NASA's plan to construct huge space telescopes in orbit

Dvice:
NASA funds concept aircraft that rotates 90 degrees to go supersonic

Air & Space Magazine:
Flutter: Fast and Fatal

Air & Space Magazine:
How Things Work: Space Station Steering

Air & Space Magazine:
One-and-Onlies: The Complete List

Epoch Times:
Crop Circles: A Perspective From the Ground Up

August 29, 2012

Wall Street Journal:
Neil Armstrong's Family Gives Statement on Memorial Contributions

NASA News:
NASA's 'Mighty Eagle' Robotic Prototype Lander Takes 100-Foot Free Flight

Discovery News:
Curiosity Zooms in on Martian Mountain: Big Pic

NASA News:
NASA's Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars

Coventry Telegraph:
Our World: The phenomenon of crop circles

August 28, 2012

Space.com:
Private Space Plane to Launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity sends stunning views of Mount Sharp

Discovery News:
Robots to Go Spelunking in Martian Caves?

IEEE Spectrum:
Meet the Very First Rover to Land on Mars

AllVoices:
New crop circle inspires shock and awe: Who or what is making them and why is the media ignoring this incredible phenomena?

Epoch Times:
New Crop Circles in the UK: August 2012

August 27, 2012

Air & Space Magazine:
Passing of an Era

New York Times Archive:
Men Walk On Moon

The Guardian:
From The Archive -- 21 July 1969: Man walks on the moon

The Guardian:
The right stuff: Aiming for the moon

New York Times:
Interactive: Mission To The Moon

New York Times:
1969: A Moon Odyssey

The Guardian:
What did Neil Armstrong really say when he stepped on to the moon?

Daily Mail:
What if the moon landings had failed? The poignant and moving speech that President Nixon would have delivered if Apollo 11 astronauts had not come home

The Guardian:
Neil Armstrong's last interview: rare glimpse of man and moon mission

The Guardian:
Neil Armstrong breaks his silence to give accountants moon exclusive

Daily Mail:
Morse code in its tyre tracks, mystery barcodes and a lucky penny: Nasa reveals the secrets hidden on the Curiosity rover

Discovery News:
The First (Ever) Rover Tracks on Mars

Discovery News:
Alien Robots That Left Their Mark on Mars: Photos

Dvice:
What we're looking for in the perfect exoplanet

Discovery News:
NASA's Amazing Gliding Gemini Capsules

Scientific American:
As We Say Goodbye to Neil Armstrong, Should We Also Let Go of Our Space Fantasies?

The Guardian:
Neil Armstrong's death should be a wake-up call for the world

WEEKEND EDITION: August 25 through 26, 2012

Stuff NZ:
Big bang theory rewrite near

Daily Mail:
Forget the Big Bang: The Universe 'froze' its way into existence in a Big Chill, say physicists

Discovery News:
Universe Born in Big Chill

Astrobiology Magazine:
New Form of Carbon Discovered

Daily Mail:
Atom-smashing scientists reach highest ever recorded man-made temperature - 100,000 TIMES hotter then the Sun's interior

Daily Mail:
The camera that can take a TRILLION pictures in a second - making it fast enough to watch beams of light travelling in slow-motion

Dvice:
Meet the tiny little pod car that runs on air

The Guardian:
Bias in the fossil record

The Guardian:
Just how big were dinosaurs?

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Domed Dinosaurs Grew Up

Smithsonian Magazine:
Bicentenaria and the Rise of the Coelurosaurs

Smithsonian Magazine:
Tracking Raptors

Smithsonian Magazine:
Huge Triceratops Uncovered in Alberta

Live Science:
No Gnawing! New Rat Without Molars Discovered

Daily Mail:
The rat that cannot gnaw or chew: New species discovered in remote rainforest that lives exclusively on earthworms

Daily Mail:
Kanzi the bonobo chimp learns to create tools by himself - repeating humanity's first steps towards civilisation

Smithsonian Magazine:
Five Accidental Hominid Fossil Discoveries

Cosmos:
Skull discovery pushes back clock on early human migration

Live Science:
Mother of Many Modern Languages Traced to Ancient Turkey

Discovery News:
Prehistoric Human Brain Found Pickled in Bog

io9:
The Experiments That Tested Out Cleopatra's Magic Aphrodisiac

Daily Mail:
Black magic of the Roman era: Ancient lead tablet found in UK contains a curse to bring bad luck to more than a dozen people

American Photo:
Peeling Back the Hidden Pages of History With Hyperspectral Photography

Popular Mechanics:
8 Labs and Science Relics Worth a Visit

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Accidental History of the @ Symbol

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Smoothest Con Man That Ever Lived

Smithsonian Magazine:
Document Deep Dive: What Did the Zimmermann Telegram Say?

io9:
How Britain's Failed Attempt to Develop a 'Death Ray' Changed the Course of World War II

Daily Mail:
The gold-plated handgun handed over by Hermann Goering as he surrendered to allies resurfaces for sale at £30,000

io9:
How scientists tried to confirm a "virgin birth" long before DNA testing

Gizmodo:
How the Navy Taught Its Engineers About Them New Fangled Computer Machines Back in 1962

Gizmodo:
This Is a 3D Computer Animation of 4D Shapes From 1965

io9:
Who should pay when your robot breaks the law?

The Guardian:
Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science

io9:
This beautiful video about parabolas will 100% blow your mind

Daily Mail:
There's more to clouds than 'dull or grey' and 'white and fluffy': These incredible pictures show the variety of our sky

August 24, 2012

Sarasota Herald-Tribune :
The history we don't know

Popular Science:
Amazing Video: Mars Rover Curiosity's Descent and Landing in High Res

Space.com:
NASA Postpones Launch of Space Radiation Probes by 24 Hours

Space.com:
How NASA's Twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes Work (Infographic)

Universe Today:
What Are The Radiation Belts?

Universe Today:
SpaceX's Next Cargo Run to Space Station in October

Daily Mail:
Meet the family: Astronomers find pair of galaxy systems that are 'exact matches' to our own

io9:
Amateurs Uncover Stunning Hidden Treasures In Hubble's Image Vaults

Popular Science:
Video: A Real Working Hoverbike Zooms Across the Desert

August 23, 2012

Space.com:
Mars Rover Landing Site Named for Sci-Fi Icon Ray Bradbury

Spaceflight Now:
Mars rover Curiosity takes its first spin on the red planet

Space.com:
Mars Rover Aces First Test Drive on Red Planet

Space.com:
Mars Rover Curiosity Leaves Coded Tracks on First Test Drive

Discovery News:
She Roves! Curiosity Hits the Martian Road: Big Pics

io9:
NASA says Curiosity's wind sensor was likely damaged during rocket-powered landing

IEEE Spectrum:
Pair of Probes to Visit Van Allen Belts

Discovery News:
Barnard's Star is a Barren Star

NASA News:
CSI: NASA

io9:
10 Myths About Space Travel That Make Science Fiction Better

io9:
Use this interactive chart to figure out how many alien worlds exist across the entire universe

BBC:
Drake equation: How many alien civilizations exist?

China Daily:
Watch this space as close encounters may occur

Coventry Observer:
Farmer furious after huge crop circle ruins land

August 22, 2012

Space.com:
NASA Spacecraft to Leave Huge Asteroid Vesta on Sept. 4

Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 rocket at 10 years: A decade since debut launch

io9:
These mirrors will allow us to observe the birth of the Universe. Yes, really.

Universe Today:
Curiosity's Sundial Carries a Message of Hope

Wired:
Curiosity Does the Hokey Pokey, Prepares to Turn Itself Around

Daily Mail:
Cracking the red planet: Nasa to send robot to reveal the interior of Mars

Discovery News:
More Evidence for Russian Quasicrystal Meteorite

Discovery News:
Dying Star Devours Its Own Planet

Space.com:
NASA Finds Spiny Dinosaur Prints in Own Backyard

NASA News:
Cretaceous Footprints Found at Goddard

The DEW Line:
USAF's LRS-B bomber proceeds, but is completely classified

August 21, 2012

Space.com:
NASA Unveils New Mars Mission to Probe Red Planet's Core

Space.com:
Mars InSight: NASA's Mission to Probe Red Planet's Core (Gallery)

Stuff NZ:
Shields up at space station

Space.com:
Space Station Cosmonauts Toss Satellite Overboard in Spacewalk

Space.com:
New Hover Vehicle Recalls 'Star Wars' Bike

Universe Today:
Seeking the Moon's Rare Atmosphere

Spaceflight Now:
Shift Happens: Mars May Have Plate Tectonics

Space.com:
Alien Planet Haul: NASA Space Telescope Spots 41 New Exoplanets

Universe Today:
Sweeping Panoramic Vista of Mount Sharp and Gale Crater from Curiosity

io9:
Why "shock diamonds" shoot out of jets and space shuttles

Universe Today:
Chasing Gene Cernan's Childhood - and Apollo Years

August 20, 2012

Astrobiology Magazine:
Destination Glenelg

Spaceflight Now:
Zap! Mars rover uses rock for laser-shooting practice

Stuff NZ:
Curiosity zaps laser on Martian rock

Daily Mail:
Climbing the mountains of Mars: Curiosity rover sends back picture of three-mile peak as it prepares to drive to the summit

Discovery News:
Mars Rover Snaps 1st Hi-Res Self-Portrait

Universe Today:
Spectacular 'Sideways Glance' of Mt. Sharp in Gale Crater

io9:
Read the increasingly desperate tweets of Martian rock N165 as it is zapped by Curiosity

Scientific American:
Meet the Martians

Space Daily:
Boeing Flies X-48C Blended Wing Body Research Aircraft

Discovery News:
The Soviets' First Space 'Rendezvous'

WEEKEND EDITION: August 18 through 19, 2012

Discovery News:
Imagining the Tenth Dimension: Gotta-See Videos

Live Science:
Hottest Particle Soup May Reveal Secrets of Primordial Universe

io9:
The existence of helium is evidence for the Big Bang

Live Science:
Hunt Is On for Gravity Waves in Space-Time

Stuff NZ:
Fusion reactor question solved

Daily Mail:
The end of the builder? The giant 3D printer that could create a HOUSE in 24 hours

IEEE Spectrum:
Sandia National Labs Gives Roboticists a Hand

Popular Science:
New Stretchy, Soft Chameleon Robot Can Change Colors and Hide In Any Environment

Science Magazine:
Attack of the Clones

Science Magazine:
Fossils of New Shark Species Found in Arizona

American Museum of Natural History:
What Is and Is Not a Dinosaur?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Carnotaurus Had a Hefty Neck

Smithsonian Magazine:
An In-Depth Look at Ankylosaur Armor

Stuff NZ:
Accidental insect find

Daily Mail:
Meet the 'cave robber' - an entirely new family of spider discovered by amateur naturalists in an Oregon cave

Science Magazine:
Changing Bodies but Not Personalities

io9:
Watch intrepid scientists wrestle the biggest Burmese python ever found in Florida

Science Magazine:
Generation Gaps Suggest Ancient Human-Ape Split

The Guardian:
Study casts doubt on human-Neanderthal interbreeding theory

Smithsonian Magazine:
Neanderthal and Human Matings Get a Date

Science Magazine:
Landscape of Dead Bodies May Have Inspired First Mummies

National Geographic:
Pictures: Death-Cult Mummies Inspired by Desert Conditions?

Daily Mail:
Two previously unknown sets of heavily worn down pyramids discovered in Egypt by Google Earth

Live Science:
Natural Disasters in Ancient Egypt Revealed

Live Science:
Severed Hands Discovered in Ancient Egypt Palace

Daily Mail:
The astonishing 2,500 year old tattoos of a Siberian princess, and how they reveal little has changed in the way we decorate our bodies

Live Science:
Remains of Hundreds of Ancient Warriors Found in Bog

National Geographic:
Roman Frontiers

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Demonization of Empress Wu

National Geographic:
Pictures: New Pyramid Found With Vivid Murals, Stacked Tombs

Gizmodo:
Wait, we don't have a Tesla museum? Let's build one!

Daily Mail:
Salvage firm finds the ship that took Scott on his ill-fated Antarctic expedition (and they weren't even looking for it)

io9:
The strange quest for a universal, "Earth Standard" language

Gizmodo:
What Happens When You Stare Directly at the Sun

io9:
Find the skull hidden in each of these illusory illustrations

August 17, 2012

Air & Space Magazine:
750 Meters Later

Daily Mail
'Mighty Eagle' soars again: Nasa conducts new tests on tiny robot lander that could soon be headed for the moon

Gizmodo
Seven Years In the Life of One of the Engineers of the Mars Curiosity Rover

The Guardian
Sun is the most perfect sphere ever observed in nature

Daily Mail
Is this the largest galaxy in the universe? Newly-discovered 'Phoenix' system produces 740 new stars a year

Wired
Stealthy, Tiny, Deadly, Global: The Drone Revolution's Next Phase

The DEW Line
The Chinook's 50th anniversary in service...

August 16, 2012

Manchester Evening News:
Close encounters: Manchester's UFO X-Files revealed by Ministry of Defence

Space.com:
US Military's Hypersonic X-51A Aircraft Fails Seconds After Launch

Stuff NZ:
Hypersonic jet breaks up on test flight

Wired:
Military's Mach 5 Missile Fails, Again

Discovery News:
Mars Orbiting Paparazzi Spies Curiosity's Domain: Big Pic

Space.com:
See Mercury and Venus Reach Orbit Milestones This Week

Smithsonian Magazine:
Going Nuclear Over the Pacific

August 15, 2012

Portsmouth Herald:
Festival validates UFO witness

Columbia Daily Tribune:
Possible UFO cover-up deserves review

Air & Space Magazine:
The Astronaut Question

Science News:
Dawn mission to die another day

Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity transitions to new software, plans mobility tests

Space.com:
Danish Rocketeers Launch Private Space Capsule Escape System Test

Space.com:
Skydiver's Record-Breaking 'Space Jump' Delayed by Damaged Capsule

New Scientist:
Mysterious Pioneer anomaly: 'This is the answer'

National Geographic:
Explorers Take Flight

Gizmodo:
You'll Never Believe an Ancient Helicopter Can Move Like This

Air & Space Magazine:
I Was There: "The Tremendous Potential of Rocketry"

io9:
Some Key Signs that You Might Have Misunderstood an Alien's Intentions

August 14, 2012

Daily Mail:
Could we fly from London to New York in an hour? NASA scientists test 4,500mph hypersonic jet

Los Angeles Times:
Key test set for sustained hypersonic flight

Wired:
It's Do or Die for Military's Mach 5 Missile

Popular Mechanics:
XCOR Lynx: Don't Sleep on the Space Corvette

NASA News:
NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Installing Smarts for Driving

NASA News:
NASA's 'Mighty Eagle' Robotic Prototype Lander Flies Again at Marshall

Astrobiology Magazine:
New Mission Ready to Brave Earth's Radiation Belts

Gizmag:
SDSS takes a trip through the past 12 billion years of our Universe

Discovery News:
Seeing the Milky Way Spiral in a Coffee Cup

Popular Science:
I Am Warplane

August 13, 2012

NASA News:
Timeline - Mission Milestones During Curiosity's Landing

Popular Science:
Curiosity's Legacy: What This Week's Successful Landing Means for the Future of Robotic Space Exploration

Universe Today:
Curiosity sees Mount Sharp Up Close and gets 'Brain Transplant'

Astrobiology Magazine:
Plate Tectonics on Mars?

Space.com:
Top 10 Perseid Meteor Shower Facts

The DEW Line:
US Army conducts LEMV first flight

Popular Science:
At America's Biggest Drone Show, the Focus Shifts Toward Domestic Skies

io9:
What's the right way for NASA to color in the universe?

Economic Times:
Landmark missions to search for extraterrestrial intelligence

Time Magazine:
TIME and Space: A Lofty History of Space Exploration on TIME Magazine's Covers

WEEKEND EDITION: August 11 through 12, 2012

Gizmodo:
Let's Figure Out Infinity Once and For All

io9:
String theory, in 26 seconds

Scientific American:
How Do You Count Parallel Universes? You Can't Just Go 1, 2, 3, . . .

The Guardian:
The beauty of the Higgs boson

Scientific American:
Quantum Teleportation Achieved over Record Distances

Popular Science:
The Coolest Warbots, Drones, and Unmanned Tech at the Robotic Systems Show

Live Science:
Dinosaur Boom Linked to Rise of Rocky Mountains

io9:
Was the disappearance of the dinosaurs actually two separate extinction events?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Dinosaur Turnover

National Geographic:
Flat-Faced Early Humans Confirmed - Lived Among Other Human Species

Stuff NZ:
Fossils complicate man's lineage

Science Magazine:
The Mysterious Affair at Kents Cavern

Science Magazine:
There's Something Special About Islands

Daily Mail:
How the Mayans 'used chocolate as a sauce with their food'

Science Magazine:
Starbucks of Ancient America?

Daily Mail:
The lost da Vinci: Is this painting found hanging on the wall of a Scottish farmhouse one of the master's works worth £100m?

io9:
What was the mysterious plague that almost killed Anne Boleyn?

io9:
Why the guillotine was the first "egalitarian" execution tool

The Guardian:
The first HSS: the sad fate of a 19th-century history of science society

Daily Mail:
Remarkable pictures taken by Edinburgh photographer captures the lives of peasants and people living in Imperial Russia

Daily Mail:
Fascinating case of Holmes and the Arctic adventure: Conan Doyle's lost diary reveals origins of super-sleuth

io9:
The only existing video footage of Mark Twain, as filmed by Thomas Edison

io9:
This is easily the best lunar photograph of the 1800s

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Shark Attacks That Were the Inspiration for Jaws

Smithsonian Magazine:
Blood in the Water at the 1956 Olympics

Daily Mail:
Stealing food from the gods: Villagers offer gifts to appease the volcano (just don't mention the men perched INSIDE the crater ready to catch them)

io9:
Have archaeologists discovered lost Egyptian pyramids using Google Earth?

io9:
How do "mystery spots" and "gravity hills" work

August 10, 2012

Dvice:
Video: NASA's next gen Moon lander crashes, burns, explodes

Spaceflight Now:
Small test vehicle veers out of control, crashes at KSC

Space.com:
Twin NASA Satellites to Probe Earth's Harsh Radiation Belts

Discovery News:
Unexpected Debris atop Curiosity Not a Problem

Daily Mail:
The ultimate joy ride: Nasa reveals the drivers waiting to take control of Curiosity, the agency's 'monster truck on Mars'

io9:
How astronomers use the world's largest x-ray generator to create white dwarfs on Earth

Space.com:
Promising Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks on Sunday

WTEV:
Local scientist says asteroid hit Jax centuries ago

Live Science:
Extraterrestrial Origin: Bizarre Crystal Zipped Here From Outer Space

Air & Space Magazine:
Survival Training, Cosmonaut Style

Wired:
Declassified Photos Reveal CIA's Deep-Sea Rescue of a Spy Satellite

August 9, 2012

New Scientist:
Curiosity might prove we've already found life on Mars

Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity's camera mast erected; checkout continues

Popular Science:
How A Sundial Lets Curiosity See Mars in Living Color

NASA News:
First 360-Degree Panorama From NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover

Discovery News:
Mars Rover Curiosity Raises its Head: Big Pic

Space.com:
1st Photos of Mars by Curiosity Rover (Gallery)

Space.com:
Massive Meteorite Crater Found in Canadian Arctic

NASA News:
Meteor Smoke Makes Strange Clouds

Astrobiology Magazine:
Bruce Willis Couldn't Save Us From Asteroid Doom

Gizmodo:
Flying Message Writer: Your Own Miniature Goodyear Blimp

Gizmodo:
The Army's Gigantic 300-Foot Drone Blimp Is Alive Over New Jersey

Daily Mail:
The future of air travel: Nasa and Boeing test radical triangular plane (just don't expect a window seat)

Daily Mail:
Life on Mars: Internet pranksters show how things could have been when Curiosity touched down (with a little help from Photoshop)

Scientific American:
Heaven on Earth: Cosmic Particles and Extraterrestrial Rocks Reveal Our Beginnings [Slide Show]

Popular Mechanics:
How Much Longer Will We Talk to the Voyagers?

Discovery News:
Apollo 15's Bizarre Contraband Stamp Debacle

Air & Space Magazine:
Scooping the Soviets

August 8, 2012

Discovery News:
Curiosity Snaps its First Color Photo of Mars: Big Pic

Daily Mail:
The view from Mars: Rover Curiosity sends back first colour picture from the surface of the Red Planet

Space.com:
Mars Rover Seen from Space in NASA 'Crime Scene Photo'

Gizmag:
NASA demonstrates Morpheus Lander prototype

Spaceflight Now:
Russian Proton rocket launch suffers upper stage failure

Daily Mail:
Scientists solve 'the biggest mystery in the universe' after finding 'impossible' stars which are 300 times the size of our sun

io9:
Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers

August 7, 2012

Gizmodo:
Here's Exactly Where Mars Curiosity Landed - And the NASA Engineer Who Won That Bet

Discovery News:
Mars Rover says: 'Good Evening Gale Crater!': Big Pics

Gizmodo:
The Beautiful Video Game That Drives NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover

New Scientist:
NASA jubilant as Curiosity rover lands safely on Mars

Scientific American:
Curiosity Gears Up to Zap Rocks in Huge Crater at Red Planet

National Geographic:
Mars Rover Landing a Success - What Happens Now?

Science Daily:
Next on Mars: 400 scientists on an alien road trip

Daily Mail:
Nasa's brightest star: How a technician's haircut threatened to overshadow the whole Mars Curiosity Rover landing

Popular Science:
These Are The Cameras Currently Shooting On Mars

Universe Today:
Curiosity's Dramatic MARDI Descent Movie

The Guardian:
Mars exploration since 1964, from first flyby to Curiosity - interactive

The Guardian:
Mapping Mars: a long and highly imaginative history

Wired UK:
Nasa's next targets: sailing on Venus, submarines on Europa

Popular Mechanics:
Where To? The Dream Space Missions of 3 Scientists

Stuff NZ:
Star Spy: Glamour in the stars

Gizmodo:
The Computer for the Apollo Program Used Rope Memory Woven by Little Old Ladies

io9:
Could the terraforming of Mars look like this?

August 6, 2012 (Updated 11 a.m. PST)

The Age:
Secret UFO files released

Daily Mail:
Touchdown! Wild celebrations as one-ton rover lands on Mars after 'seven minutes of terror' descent... and it has already beamed back first picture in HD

Discovery News:
Touch Down! Mars Rover Curiosity Lands

Space.com:
Greetings From Mars! Huge NASA Rover Makes Daring Landing on Red Planet

Spaceflight Now:
NASA's Curiosity rover lands on Mars

Discovery News:
HiRISE Snaps Mars Curiosity from Orbit: Big Pic

Discovery News:
Mars Curiosity Opens Eyes and Sees This: Big Pics

Space.com:
1st Photos of Mars by Curiosity Rover (Gallery)

Space.com:
NASA Rover's 1st Photos of Mars Reveal Unexplored Terrain

The Guardian:
Curiosity rover: Why is Nasa so curious about Gale Crater?

Daily Mail:
The final countdown: Scientists begin preparations for the Mars Curiosity landing that has captivated the world (and admit they've created their own language to talk about it)

Discovery News:
Curiosity Steps Up Search for Alien Life on Mars

Gizmag:
Mars lander Curiosity protected by largest ever heat shield

Live Science:
Why We're Obsessed with Mars

Space.com:
The Search for Life on Mars (A Photo Timeline)

Space.com:
Top 5 Attempts to Find Life on Mars

Dvice:
Gallery: The beautiful and bizarre landscapes of Mars

Universe Today:
Zoom into an Ancient and Fractured Martian Landscape

Astrobiology Magazine:
Sending a Robotic Geologist to Mars

NASA News:
Signs Changing Fast for Voyager at Solar System Edge

Spaceflight Now:
NASA announces winners in commercial crew competition

Space.com:
NASA Awards $1.1 Billion in Support for 3 Private Space Taxis

New Scientist:
Iran Space Agency to launch a monkey into space

Space.com:
August Perseid Meteor Shower Has Long Legacy, Bright Future

Astrobiology Magazine:
The Supernova that Shaped the Solar System

New Scientist:
Astrophile: The Most Cruel Death of Cupid and Belinda

io9:
Light created in the sun takes 4,000 years to reach the Earth

The Guardian:
V2 rocket: engine of war and discovery - video

WEEKEND EDITION: August 3 through 4, 2012

Scientific American:
How most of the universe was lost

Universe Today:
A Crinkle in the Wrinkle of Space-time

Dvice:
Uh oh: entangled particles break second law of thermodynamics

Cosmos:
Bending light the 'wrong' way

Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: Fun with Magnetism

Gizmodo:
This Robotic Swimming Humanoid Is No Match For Phelps

Daily Mail:
Scientists show off the amazing robotic insect that can hop, skip (and even jump) on water

IEEE Spectrum:
XRL Hexapod Robot Gets a Tail, Learns to Use It

Popular Science:
Video: Four-Ton Japanese Mega Bot Fires BBs At Smiling Humans

Popular Science:
Stock Trading Robot Makes Decisions Based on Superstitious Algorithms

Astrobiology Magazine:
Two Comet Puzzles Solved

Stuff NZ:
Southern climate once like Queensland

Astrobiology Magazine:
The Roots of the Evolutionary Tree

Cosmos:
Insect plugs gap in fossil record

Smithsonian Magazine:
Armor for Sauropods

Live Science:
7 Things You Don't Know About Moths, But Should

The Guardian:
New to Nature No 78: Campinasuchus dinizi

Stuff NZ:
New Neanderthal type DNA found

Live Science:
Oldest Poison Pushes Back Ancient Civilization 20,000 Years

Daily Mail:
The mummy unmasked: Medical scans give amazing images of ancient Egyptians

Daily Mail:
Does this coin found near Jerusalem prove that Samson lived... and that he did fight the lion?

Live Science:
Warrior King Statue Discovered in Ancient Mediterranean City

Stuff NZ:
Ancient dopers got kicks from raw testicles

ScienceNordic:
What Vikings really looked like

Live Science:
Tomb of Mayan Prince Discovered in Jungle Ruins

Daily Mail:
The 1,300 year old Mayan prince found in his tomb - still surrounded by lavish burial gifts

Daily Mail:
Priceless pot of gold discovered in 13th century castle of Richard the Lionheart and his Crusaders... and there may be more

Daily Mail:
A misty shot of the world to come: 'First ever photo' featuring French field and dating from 1826

Daily Mail:
On the front line of American history: Remarkable photos capture life in besieged Washington during the Civil War

Daily Mail:
Does this grainy sonar image show sunken German U-boat at bottom of river 200 miles INLAND from the coast of Newfoundland?

Daily Mail:
German U-boat found off coast of Massachusetts 68 years after being sunk by U.S. Navy

Smithsonian Magazine:
Document Deep Dive: A Peek at the Last Time London Hosted the Olympics

Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: The Secrets of Olympic Athletes

io9:
Children's chemistry sets used to contain cyanide

Daily Mail:
The Door to Hell: Take a look inside a giant hole in the desert which has been on fire for more than 40 YEARS

Psychology Today:
All Work and No Play Make the Baining the "Dullest Culture on Earth"

io9:
10 Futuristic Technologies That Will Never Exist

io9:
Spaceman Spiff (and other classic Calvin and Hobbes moments) in GIF form

August 3, 2012

Popular Science:
Why Is It So Hard to Land On Mars?

Gizmodo:
Talk to the Man Who Drives the $2.6 Billion-Dollar Mars Curiosity Rover

IEEE Spectrum:
What Curiosity Will and Won't Teach Us About Martian Life

Universe Today:
HiRISE Camera to Attempt Imaging Curiosity's Descent to Mars

Universe Today:
Reminiscent of Apollo, Australian Facilities Will Receive First Signals of Curiosity Rover Landing

Popular Science:
The Next Generation of Mars Rovers Could Be Smaller Than Grains of Sand

Popular Science:
India Will Launch Probe to Mars Next Year

Daily Mail:
The drone that could find the city of gold: Scientists test new archeological plane over Peru

Air & Space Magazine:
Solar System Detective

Air & Space Magazine:
Mars Mike

Air & Space Magazine:
First Neighborhood on Mars

Air & Space Magazine:
Why Mars?

Air & Space Magazine:
Mars Journal

Air & Space Magazine:
Emissary

Gizmodo:
The Most Amazing Tour of Kennedy Space Center Is On Your Computer

Space Daily:
Fly New Horizons through the Kuiper Belt

Dvice:
Infographic breaks down the science of Star Trek

Air & Space Magazine:
Martians Among Us

August 2, 2012

Universe Today:
4 Days to Mars: Curiosity activates Entry, Descent and Landing Timeline - EDL Infographic

Universe Today:
Mars in a Minute: How Hard is it to Land Curiosity on Mars?

Universe Today:
Quick and Curious Facts About the Mars Science Laboratory Mission

Popular Science:
Gallery: The Ten Instruments Mars Rover Curiosity Carries

Discovery News:
The Mars Curse: Missions That Never Made It

New Scientist:
Armadillo's reusable rocket licensed for launch

Space.com:
Russian Cargo Ship Docks to Space Station Just Hours After Launch

Popular Science:
Video: The Navy's Autonomous X-47B Warplane Makes its First East Coast Test Flight

Space.com:
Cosmic Rays Still Mysterious 100 Years After Discovery

New Scientist:
Meteorite's left-handed molecules a blow to ET search

io9:
Why we should look for extraterrestrial 'bubbles' in neighboring galaxies

ABC News:
Mysterious Crop Circle Baffles Wash. Family

August 1, 2012

Stuff NZ:
Curiosity on final approach

Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity relies on untried 'sky crane' for Mars descent

Spaceflight Now:
Relay sats provide ringside seat for Mars rover landing

Discovery News:
Mars Rover Curiosity Makes it to Times Square

Space.com:
US Air Force to Launch New Spy Satellite Thursday

Gizmag:
Dynetics in negotiations with NASA over using Apollo F1 engines for heavy lift

Stuff NZ:
China eyes late 2013 for moon mission

Gizmodo:
All the American Flags On the Moon Are Now White

Wired:
Exclusive Pics: The Navy's Unmanned, Autonomous 'UFO'

Space.com:
Moon, Perseid Meteor Shower & More: Night Sky Events for August 2012 (Sky Maps)

io9:
New Theory: A "Hit and Run" Accident Created Our Moon

Smithsonian Magazine:
Hello Mars - This is the Earth!

SOTT.net:
Crop Circles Appear in E. Washington Wheat Field

Jamestown Sun:
1947 Woodworth UFO hoax caused national concern

July 31, 2012

Shelbourne County Coastguard:
Shag Harbour UFO festival this weekend

BBC News:
Mars Curiosity rover success depends on 'crazy' landing

Gizmag:
The ISS gets an aquarium

Discovery News:
August Will Be a Blue Moon Month

Daily Mail:
Amazing image showing Mars's moon Phobos looming over city created to show scale of solar system

Smithsonian Magazine:
If Humans Are Ever Going to See Alien Life, Here's Where It Will Happen

Scientific American:
Better (extraterrestrial) communication through chemistry: Isotopes and mirror-image molecules

This Is Wiltshire:
Mystery squares appear in crop field

Popular Science:
Civilian Drones to Search for Downed Power Lines During Blackout

Wired:
Killer-Drone Showdown Set as Lockheed Unveils Jet-Powered 'Bot

Smithsonian Magazine:
Wernher von Braun's Martian Chronicles

Discovery News:
The Vomit-Inducing Gemini 8 Mission

io9:
In this amazing time-lapse, relive the earliest NASA missions in six minutes

July 30, 2012

Universe Today:
Curiosity Completes Crucial Course Correction - 1 Week from Mars!

Spaceflight Now:
Mars Science Lab fine-tunes path for rover landing

Discovery News:
Tiny Pieces Make a Big Difference in Mars Landing

Universe Today:
The Most Epic Curiosity Countdown Clock

Space.com:
Russian Cargo Spacecraft Docks With Space Station on 2nd Try

Space.com:
Danish Space Travel Team Launches Private Rocket Test

NASA News:
Geotail: 20 Years of Science and Still Going Strong

Space.com:
Futuristic Space Plane Concept Moves Closer to Reality

Space.com:
Apollo Moon Landing Flags Still Standing, Photos Reveal

Wired UK:
Lunar swirls offer clues to protecting astronauts from radiation

Dvice:
Rogue planet that hit Earth to form Moon may still be on the loose

Bangor Daily News:
The search for extraterrestrial life

The Guardian:
Enceladus: home of alien lifeforms?

io9:
Planets can only support life for as long as their star's chemistry allows them to

Scientific American:
How Hot Is the Hottest Star?

Gizmodo:
The Largest Mirror In the World Is So Big That You Can See It From Space

Gizmodo:
The CIA Had A Stealthy Insectocopter Flying 40 Years Ago

Gizmodo:
This Is Probably What the Start of WWIII Will Look Like

WEEKEND EDITION: July 28-29, 2012

io9:
The Universe Could Tear Itself Apart Sooner Than Anyone Believed

io9:
Will we eventually have to shed our Earth-centric view of history?

Wired:
Teaching and Understanding Physics Using Lego

Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: A Century of Weather Control

Dvice:
Underwater robot swims like a manta ray from your nightmares

Live Science:
Sweeping 'Grand Canyon' Discovered Beneath Antarctic Ice

Live Science:
Ancestor of All Life on Earth?

The Guardian:
Persistent dinosaur myths

Smithsonian Magazine:
Baby Dinosaur Mystery

Daily Mail:
150-million-year-old oyster which is ten times normal size probably contains the world's biggest pearl - but no-one wants to open it to find out

Live Science:
500 Million-Year-Old 'Mistake' Led to Humans

Smithsonian Magazine:
Rethinking Modern Human Origins

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Top Five Human Evolution Discoveries from England

io9:
Does the African genome hold the secrets of a previously unknown species of hominid?

Stuff NZ:
Deciphering myths into legends

io9:
10 Civilizations That Disappeared Under Mysterious Circumstances

The Guardian:
House of the Telephus Relief: raising the roof on Roman real estate

National Geographic:
"Dramatic" New Maya Temple Found, Covered With Giant Faces

National Geographic:
Pictures: Toothless "Vampire" Skeleton Unearthed in Bulgaria

Smithsonian Magazine:
On the Trail of the Warsaw Basilisk

Popular Mechanics:
The Underwater Archaeologists Searching for Captain Morgan

io9:
Benjamin Franklin's Fluid Theory of Electricity

io9:
The Very Short History of the Rapture

io9:
Tactile maps from an 1830s atlas for the blind

Daily Mail:
Adolf Hitler's Olympic Village of 1936: Conservationists race to save the forgotten relic of the infamous 'Nazi Games'

Daily Mail:
World's biggest binoculars made in the 1940s which are 8ft long are snapped up at auction

io9:
A Los Alamos Story Worthy of Stephen King

io9:
The places where an epidemic is most likely to start spreading in the United States

io9:
What a Trailer for 2001: A Space Odyssey Would Look Like Today

Gizmodo:
Watch This Awesome Version of the Indiana Jones' Theme Sung By Only One Guy

July 27, 2012

Daily Mail:
One giant plunge for mankind: Skydiver Fearless Felix leaps from 18 MILES above the Earth

Popular Science:
With Orbiter Glitch Repaired, Mars Rover Curiosity Landing Will Now Be Broadcast Live

Discovery News:
China to Launch Nuclear Moon Rover in 2013

Gizmodo:
Passenger Video Shows Terrifying Aborted Landing On Boeing 737

Stuff NZ:
Launch set for DIY satellite

Astrobiology Magazine:
The Flight of Friendship 7

IEEE Spectrum:
New Frontiers in SETI Research

Lexington Herald Leader:
The play 'High Strangeness' recalls Kentucky women's 1976 alien-abduction claim

Shropshire Live:
Mystery Crop Circle appears by the Wrekin

July 26, 2012

Space.com:
Skydiver Leaps from 18 Miles Up in 'Space Jump' Practice

NASA News:
NASA's Space Launch System Passes Major Agency Review, Moves to Preliminary Design

Popular Science:
Japanese Cubesat Will Flash Morse Code Messages in the Sky This Fall

Discovery News:
Odyssey nudged into position to hear Curiosity's landing

Universe Today:
How Long Does it Take to Get to Mars?

Discovery News:
Top 5 Potentially Habitable Alien Worlds: Slide Show

Space.com:
Alien Solar System Looks a Lot Like Our Own

io9:
The 50-Year History of NASA's Revolutionary Sky Crane

Popular Science:
Mars Rover Curiosity's Siblings: A Short History of Landings On Alien Planets

July 25, 2012

Daily Mail:
Parking problems 240 miles above the earth: Automatic docking test on the International Space Station fails

Discovery News:
Russian ISS Supply Ship Fails to Dock

Discovery News:
NASA's Mars Odyssey Satellite On The Move

New Scientist:
Kepler glitch may lower odds of finding Earth's twin

Space.com:
Alien Planet Quiz: Are You an Exoplanet Expert?

Universe Today:
Solar Powered Airplane Makes First Intercontinental Round-trip Flight

July 24, 2012

Popular Mechanics:
Get a Look at NASA's Next Spacesuit

New Scientist:
Inflatable spacecraft makes successful splash landing

Daily Mail:
Made in space: Nasa tests 3D printers that will let Mars-bound astronauts craft their own equipment as they travel

Space.com:
Private Spaceflight Industry, FAA to Start Safety Talks Next Month

Daily Mail:
Scientists turn to meteorites to discover how the Earth was formed out of the dust of the early solar system

Wired UK:
The moons of the Solar System

Space.com:
Is Planet Gliese 581g Really the 'First Potentially Habitable' Alien World?

Scientific American:
New Biomarkers Honed to Help Search for Life on Earthlike Exoplanets

Daily Mail:
The extraordinary untold story of four Navy SEAL 'musclemen' who brought Apollo 11 astronauts home

Daily Mail:
Is this the ultimate Space Station video? Fan compiles thousands of time-lapse shots into haunting tour over our world, 240 miles up

Daily Mail:
Fifty years of satellite TV: How the world's first television broadcasts were beamed across the world

July 23, 2012

Discovery News:
Did We Meet Martians 36 Years Ago?

Spaceflight Now:
Japan successfully launches its freighter to space station

Space.com:
Inside Japan's Huge Space Truck (Infographic)

IEEE Spectrum:
U.S. Air Force's Plug-and-Play Satellites

Gizmodo:
This UAV Decoy Can Fool Even the Smartest SAM

NASA Science:
A Taste of Solar Maximum

Astrobiology Magazine:
'Deflector Shields' Protect the Lunar Surface

Discovery News:
Dramatic Martian Gullies Sprinkled with Icy Glitter: Big Pic

io9:
What secrets lie within the Caves of Mars?

New Scientist:
Pluto's not a planet – it's much odder than that

Universe Today:
Exoplanet Gliese 581g Makes the Top 5

Space.com:
Next Stop, Launch Pad: NASA Opens Apollo, Shuttle Launch Site for Tours

Discovery News:
When Landing on the Moon, Practice Makes Perfect

Discovery News:
Nixon's Contingency Plan for a Failed Apollo 11

NASA News:
Restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk Video

Universe Today:
Video: The Journeys of Apollo

The Atlantic:
1 Small Step for a Cam: How Astronauts Shot Video of the Moon Landing

Space.com:
10 Military Aircraft that Never Made it Past the Test Phase

Gizmodo:
15 Early Airplanes With More Wings Than a Bucket of Fried Chicken

Popular Science:
Make Your Own Remote-Control Spy Blimp

The DEW Line:
VIDEO: Ahhh - Vulcan at RIAT

io9:
This inquisitive gopher hangs out under a rocket launchpad in Kazakhstan

WEEKEND EDITION: July 21 through 22, 2012

Stuff NZ:
Ask a Scientist: What caused the Big Bang?

Stuff NZ:
Rip predicted at end of universe

Gizmag:
Is it or isn't it? The Higgs boson story

Gizmodo:
Why There Are 24 Hours in a Day

Gizmodo:
We Need To Stop Developing These Creepy Pole Climbing Robot Snakes Immediately

io9:
Could a robot gorilla be more useful than a humanoid one?

Daily Mail:
Is this the 'missing link' between dinosaurs and birds? Fossil egg discovered in Spain shows 'common ancestor'

Live Science:
Robot Dinosaurs Printed in 3-D Using Fossil Templates

Cosmos:
New scarlet snake found in Cambodia

Daily Mail:
The Einsteins of the deep: Dolphins can perform feats of maths that would baffle human computer systems

io9:
Chimpanzee hand gestures suggest human communication is even older than we thought

Smithsonian Magazine:
Sahelanthropus tchadensis: Ten Years After the Disocvery

Daily Mail:
The real Neanderthal diet: Researchers shed new light on early man's diet - and it turns out he ate his greens (and knew how to use plants as medicine)

Live Science:
Why Neanderthals Sported Arms Like Popeye

Smithsonian Magazine:
Neanderthals Weren't Stone Age Rodeo Riders?

Cosmos:
Stone darts suggest parallel cultures in America

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Clovis Weren't the First Americans

Live Science:
Three Kingdoms' Tomb Holding Warrior Discovered

Cosmos:
Ancient Mayan 'night sun' temple found in Guatemala

Live Science:
600-Year-Old Medieval Bras Discovered

Daily Mail:
Is this the Mona Lisa's skeleton? Discovery of bones in Florence convent believed to be those of silk merchant's wife who inspired Da Vinci

Smithsonian Magazine:
Where the Buffalo No Longer Roamed

The Guardian:
Henri Poincare: the unlikely link between Einstein and Picasso

io9:
The First Person to Sacrifice His Life for the Dream of Space Travel

Daily Mail:
Frozen in time: Google Street View lets us explore Scott's hut in Antarctica in 3D from the comfort (and warmth) of our home PCs

io9:
Remembering Private Wojtek, the soldier-bear who fought in World War II

Daily Mail:
Ever heard the sound of a nuclear bomb going off? Historian unveils one of the few surviving audio recordings of blast from 1950's Nevada tests

Dvice:
Video: Five volunteers stand under an atom bomb as it detonates

Popular Science:
Chernobyl Now

Gizmag:
Gizmag rides London's new Thames Cable Car

Gizmodo:
This Is How You Live at the Bottom of the Ocean

io9:
10 Limits to Human Perception … and How They Shape Your World

Dvice:
7 jobs you'll have to trust robots to do in the near future

July 20, 2012

Space.com:
Asteroid Flies By Earth This Weekend: How to Watch Online

The Atlantic:
What Space Smells Like

Space.com:
Russia Converts Unmanned Rocket to Carry New Crewed Spaceship

Dvice:
First manned FanWing aircraft planned for 2013

Gizmodo:
This Terrifying Killing Machine Can Loiter for Six Hours Before Attacking Its Target Like a Mad Hawk

Wired:
Super-Silent Owl Drone Will Spy on You Without You Ever Noticing

Wired:
Wish List: Best Proposed Robotic Missions to Other Planets

Daily Mail:
What's in there? Scientists fascinated after Nasa orbiter photographs open crater leading into underground cavern on Mars

Discovery News:
Rover Opportunity (Almost) Rolls a Marathon

Discovery News:
Landing Humans on Mars: Gotta-See Videos

Space.com:
Inside Huge Mars Rover's Sky Crane Landing (Infographic)

Daily Mail:
How the famous 'pillars of creation' astronomical phenomenon were actually vapourised 6,000 years ago

Gizmodo:
Watch This Cargo Helicopter Dropping Another Cargo Helicopter In Flight

Space.com:
First Fighter Jet: Me 262 Schwalbe - The Most Amazing Flying Machines Ever

Universe Today:
CGI Movie From 1963 Shows Satellite Orbit

NASA News:
Apollo 11 Descent: Film and LRO Imagery

July 19, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
Covert payload from last Atlas 5 unmasks itself in orbit

New Scientist:
Record-breaking mice return to Earth to aid health

Dvice:
Quantum microphone listening for quietest sound in universe

Astrobiology Magazine:
Melas Dorsa Reveals the Complex History of Mars

Discovery News:
Exoplanet Neighbor is Smaller than Earth

Space.com:
Possible Alien Planet Smaller Than Earth May Be Lava World

Space.com:
Multi-Telescope View of Giant Black Hole Is 2 Million Times Sharper than Human Eye

Space.com:
Oldest Spiral Galaxy in Universe Discovered

Popular Science:
Astronomers Spot Ancient Spiral Galaxy From an Era When Spirals Should Not Exist

Discovery News:
Weird Ancient Spiral Galaxy Discovered

Gizmodo:
Air Force Testing Dangerous Drone Lasers Above North Dakota

Popular Science:
Victoria's Secret Designer is Giving Private Spaceflight a Makeover

Space.com:
The Zeppelin Hindenburg: When Airships Ruled

July 18, 2012

Discovery News:
Multinational Soyuz Docks with Space Station

Universe Today:
New Crew Welcomed Aboard the Space Station

Dvice:
Space kill vehicle suicides into ballistic missiles at 22,000 mph

Space.com:
British Space Plane Maker Vies for Europe's Heavy-Lift Rocket Needs

Universe Today:
Postcards From The (Inner) Edge

Discovery News:
Dunes Swarm Over Martian Plain: Big Pic

Space.com:
A 'Curiosity' Quiz: How Well Do You Know NASA's Next Mars Rover?

Daily Mail:
Mysteries of Saturn revealed: Nasa probe captures clearest views of planet's rings - and the tiny 'mini-moons' swimming inside them

Space.com:
Pictures: Breaking the Sound Barrier

Discovery News:
VARIES: The Fastest Starship to Proxima Centauri?

July 17, 2012

New Scientist:
Asteroid miners to hitch a ride with Virgin Galactic

Space.com:
News of Huge Mars Rover's Landing Could be Delayed by Spacecraft Glitch

Spaceflight Now:
Engineers study options for data during Mars landing

Discovery News:
After Mars Landing, NASA May Have Anxious Wait

Gizmodo:
NASA's Superconductor-Stuffed Amplifier Will Collect Clear Signals From Deep Space

Spaceflight Now:
NASA gives the Delta 2 rocket a new lease on life

Daily Mail:
Spectacular black and white pictures show the best views of Saturn's rings ever captured by space probe

Discovery News:
How Pluto Got Its Moons

Gizmodo:
Awesome Time Lapse Shows How Rolls-Royce Builds Its Jet Engines

IEEE Spectrum:
Multi-stage Micro Rockets for Robotic Insects

Gizmag:
Spy Hawk RC-plane lets you snoop from the skies

Popular Science:
Recharged in Midair By Flying Battery-Drones, Electric Aircraft May Never Have to Land

Space.com:
Laser Could Keep Military Drone Flying Forever

Discovery News:
Using Lasers and Antimatter to Trek to the Stars

The DEW Line:
FARNBOROUGH: Dave's excellent Super Hornet adventure...

Astrobiology Magazine:
Me and My Spacesuit

io9:
Earth's magnetic field just might be gearing up for a reversal

New Scientist:
Growth of Earth's core may hint at magnetic reversal

io9:
A Stunning Video That Reminds Us All to Dream of the Stars

July 16, 2012

Space.com:
New Space Station Crew Launches Into Orbit on Russian Spacecraft

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz TMA-05M launches crew for the space station

Universe Today:
Expedition 32 Crew Lifts Off

Daily Mail:
Earth's friend, Man's enemy: The Moon is layered in dust bathed in radiation, which could prove deadly for pioneers

Discovery News:
When Curiosity Almost Took Men to Mars

Discovery News:
Pluto: Not a Planet; Still Very Interesting

Discovery News:
Not a Dwarf: Is Pluto a Binary Planet?

Space Daily:
Russian drones can see obstacles

Gizmag:
SABRE on course to chill SKYLON into orbit

WEEKEND EDITION: July 14-15, 2012

Science News:
Inflation on Trial

Gizmodo:
The World's Official Kilogram Is Losing Weight and That Might Screw the Metric System

Dvice:
Freaky bipedal robot takes most human-like steps yet

Gizmodo:
Giddyup, Robot Doggies! Autonomous Soldiers Square Off at Army Robotics Rodeo

Gizmodo:
Watch This Creepy Robot Made in the 18th Century Come to Life Again

New Scientist:
Expressive face helps robot bridge 'uncanny valley'

New Scientist:
Ethereal aerographite is lightest stuff ever made

Stuff NZ:
Vaccines combine to produce deadly virus

Daily Mail:
Jurassic Park in a Petri dish: Scientists bring 500 million-year-old bacteria back to life - what could possibly go wrong?

Daily Mail:
Discovered: Pompeii-style ash eruption which buried nursery of the 'earliest ever animals' nearly 600million years ago

Smithsonian Magazine:
On the Trail of a Weird Dinosaur

Daily Mail:
The joy of T-Rex: Scientists show how dinosaurs had sex (tricky, when you weigh 30 tonnes and one crucial part is 12ft long)

Smithsonian Magazine:
Will We Ever Find All the Dinosaurs?

Live Science:
Giant, Round Prehistoric Turtle Discovered

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Fate(s) of Australia's Mega-Mammals

Stuff NZ:
Fish magnetic field connection isolated

Wired UK:
Classic study of animal sexuality challenges our traditional values

Cosmos:
Most complete pre-human skeleton found

Smithsonian Magazine:
Were the Hobbits' Ancestors Sailors?

Daily Mail:
Native Americans arrived in THREE great migrations across land bridge from Siberia 15,000 years ago

Daily Mail:
The Crusaders' last stand: Pot of gold worth £300,000 found in fortress where it was buried by doomed force of Christian knights

io9:
Nebulium: The Forbidden Element That Never Existed

Wired UK:
Ancient town unearthed could explain Viking urban planning

Live Science:
Ancient 'New York City' of Canada Discovered

Smithsonian Magazine:
Daughters of Wealth, Sisters in Revolt

io9:
In 1890, the English held a contest to design London's wacky rip-off of the Eiffel Tower

io9:
The British Plot to Assassinate Rasputin

Gizmodo:
How the Creator of Wonder Woman Also Invented the Lie Detector

io9:
An incredibly surreal photo of the real-life goths from American Gothic

io9:
The Nazi breeding program that resurrected an extinct species

io9:
How British Special Forces used exploding rats to fight the Nazis

io9:
10 Science Experiments That Looked Like the End of the World

Scientific American:
How the U.S. Accidentally Nuked Its Own Communications Satellite

July 13, 2012

ITN:
Former UFO investigator discusses new MOD files

The Telegraph:
The UFO Files: What people see when they spot UFOs

BBC News:
What was it really like working on UK's 'X-Files'?

This Is Staffordshire:
What UFO files tell us about the MoD's response to strange sightings across the UK

Scottish Daily Record:
Amazing Scottish UFO sightings revealed in secret MoD files

BBC News:
UFO Wales: New X-files shed light on 'alien' sightings

This Is Total Essex:
UFO sightings in Essex: Government files released

This Is Staffordshire:
New files reveal details of UFO sighting in the skies above Staffordshire

Daily Mail:
Sonar scans show that 'UFO' at bottom of Baltic sea may actually be a top-secret Nazi anti-submarine defence lost since the Second World War

Discovery News:
Sun Fires X-ray Shot at Earth

Daily Mail:
Are we safe from the sun? Solar flares keep on getting stronger - with latest hotspot the size of 15 Earths strung together

Space.com:
Major Solar Flare Erupts From Giant Sunspot

IEEE Spectrum:
NASA Gets Confident, Shrinks Mars Rover's Landing Bullseye

Space.com:
Asteroid Crashes Likely Gave Earth Its Water

Universe Today:
Latest from Mars: Massive Polar Ice Cliffs, Northern Dunes, Gullied Craters

New Scientist:
Discovery of fifth moon reignites Pluto planet debate

Popular Science:
Seen for the First Time: Starless Galaxies

Gizmag:
In pictures: Farnborough Airshow 2012

July 12, 2012

The Guardian:
Latest release of 'X-files' shows MoD took idea of alien visitors seriously

The Telegraph:
The UFO Files: aliens 'might come here for holidays'

The Scotsman:
MoD took alien abduction of Scots duo seriously, according to secret file

Daily Mail:
Policeman claims to have seen 'square to almond shaped' UFO above Chelsea ground, secret files reveal

Wales Online:
'UFO hot-spot' prompts comparison with Bermuda Triangle, documents reveal

Wired UK:
US to build rocket-boosted hypersonic aircraft by 2016

Daily Mail:
Sir Richard Branson will fly into space next year - along with Angelina Jolie and 529 other passengers paying £128,000 each

Spaceflight Now:
Reusable rocket prototype almost ready for first liftoff

Discovery News:
Virgin Galactic Taking On Satellite Launching

Gizmodo:
This Is LauncherOne: Virgin Galactic's Mothership-Launched Space Rocket

Universe Today:
The Moon Is Toxic

Space.com:
Virgin Galactic Unveils LauncherOne Rocket for Private Satellite Launches

Scientific American:
New Moon for Pluto: Hubble Telescope Spots a 5th Plutonian Satellite

Discovery News:
Pluto Now Has Five (Yes, Five) Moons

Space.com:
Pluto Has a Fifth Moon, Hubble Telescope Reveals

Space.com:
Should Pluto's 5th Moon Make It a Planet?

Space.com:
Pluto's New Moon: Five Fun Facts

Space.com:
Pluto Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Dwarf Planet?

Gizmodo:
This $1.9 Billion Super Telescope Array Will Scan Space 10,000 Times Faster Than Ever Before

io9:
10 Weird Rules That Control How We Name the Planets

Gizmag:
Vigilus scout missile concept would see UAVs with longer arms and extra eyes

Discovery News:
What Would an Interstellar 'Worldship' Look Like?

July 11, 2012

Space Daily:
New Horizons Doing Science in Its Sleep

Gizmag:
DARPA continues push toward high-speed aircraft with new Integrated Hypersonics program

Daily Mail:
What next after the Higgs? Scientists use huge telescope buried 8000ft under South Pole to hunt for ANOTHER mystery particle

Space.com:
Got $10,000? Fly Your DNA to the Moon

Stuff NZ:
Ask a Scientist: Big air, deep water

Universe Today:
The Return of the Rings!

Daily Mail:
When the sky and the earth burn: Incredible photograph captures northern lights flickering over Iceland's 'Gateway to Hell'

Gizmag:
Rolls-Royce unveils 150,000-part LEGO jet engine

Gizmodo:
What Really Happens When You Get Sucked Out of an Airlock

io9:
New simulation is as close to traveling through space as it gets

Dvice:
Video of the Day: NASA launched Telstar 50 years ago today

July 10, 2012

Daily Mail:
'It was a craft that did not come from this planet': CIA agent speaks out on 65th anniversary of Roswell 'UFO' landings

Space.com:
Destination Mars: A Timeline of Red Planet Landings

Space.com:
Destination Mars: A Timeline of Red Planet Landings

Daily Mail:
Are we safe from the sun? Solar flares keep on getting stronger - with latest hotspot the size of 15 Earths strung together

Stuff NZ:
A solar storm is coming...

Universe Today:
Supersonic Freefall: What Felix Baumgartner's 37-km Jump Will be Like

io9:
1954 Flying Car for Sale

July 9, 2012

Gizmodo:
65 Years Ago a UFO Probably Maybe Possibly Crashed on Earth at Roswell

Space.com:
Huge Mars Rover One Month from Red Planet Landing

Space.com:
Bright Planets in Summer Night Sky Explained (Infographic)

Discovery News:
When Something Big Slammed into the Moon: Big Pic

Universe Today:
"Impossible" Binary Star Systems Found

Discovery News:
What If the New Particle Isn't the Higgs Boson?

Daily Mail:
Munch, munch, munch, a field for lunch! Children's story favourite The Very Hungry Caterpillar appears as a crop circle

St. Louis Post Dispatch:
UFO sightings were a nationwide rage in 1947

WEEKEND EDITION: July 7 through 8, 2012

NASA Science:
Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field

Popular Science:
FYI: What's the Hottest the Earth Has Ever Gotten?

Dvice:
10 most promising up and coming inventions inspired by sci-fi

Daily Mail:
Mushrooms may have stopped coal from forming 300 million years ago - and discovery could be key to creating new biofuels

Astrobiology Magazine:
Mass Extinctions Reset the Long-Term Pace of Evolution

Live Science:
Tiny Tyrannosaur's Mysterious Origins Divide Scientists

Daily Mail:
Dinosaur junior: Best-preserved skeleton ever found in Europe is just a foot long - and the creature had a furry tail

io9:
Paleontologists now say all dinosaurs probably had feathers

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Sneak Peek at a New Dinosaur

The Guardian:
Alice Roberts: Face to face with a glyptodont, one of the strangest mammals ever to have walked the earth

Stuff NZ:
Rare tuatara birth

Daily Mail:
Bones of 200 slaughtered soldiers from the time of Christ are so well preserved in peat bog that their DNA can be studied

io9:
Brazil was once a mythical island, just off the coast of Ireland

Smithsonian Magazine:
Quite Likely the Worst Job Ever

Gizmodo:
This Is the Oldest Record In History - Scanned and Recreated From a Photo

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Woman Who Took on the Tycoon

Daily Mail:
Captain Scott's lack of modern knowledge of calorie-counting may have doomed expedition (...not to mention the cocaine)

Smithsonian Magazine:
1931's Remote-Controlled Farm of the Future

io9:
Watch a 1963 video of British soldiers conducting a military exercise after dropping acid

Gizmodo:
This Message from NORAD Announced Global Nuclear War - In 1971

io9:
Does Easter Island hold the secret of reversing Alzheimer's Disease?

io9:
10 of the Weirdest Futurist Scenarios for the Evolution of Humanity

io9:
A man carries on a snarky conversation with himself from 20 years ago, via VHS tape

July 6, 2012

Space.com:
Active Sunspot Shoots Off Intense New Solar Flare

io9:
Are China's human missions to space a waste of time?

Spaceflight Now:
ATK extends Liberty proposal to include cargo resupply

Daily Mail:
The oldest and 'biggest ever' asteroid crater discovered in Greenland - suggesting huge impact more than three billion years ago

io9:
NASA calls this newly released photo of Mars "the next best thing to being there"

Discovery News:
Milky Way Galaxy at Its Best in July Night Sky

Discovery News:
The Colors of Titan and Saturn: Big Pic

Daily Mail:
Lost in space: Astronomers left baffled after cosmic dust orbiting star disappears

io9:
And Now, The Most Ludicrously Over-the-Top Launch Sequence Porn Ever

Discovery News:
Could Terrorist Aliens Cyberattack Us?

Daily Mail:
Forget little green men: Aliens may look like jellyfish with orange bottoms, says government adviser

July 5, 2012

Daily Mail:
Professor Higgs wipes a tear from his eye as fellow scientists find his 'God particle' on 'momentous day for science' - 40 years after he predicted its existence

The Guardian:
Higgs boson: it's unofficial! Cern scientists discover missing particle

Discovery News:
Particle 'Consistent' With Higgs Boson Discovered

New York Times:
A New Particle Could Be Physics' Holy Grail

The Guardian:
Higgs boson discovery: now the real work begins

Wired UK:
The Higgs Boson could break physics

Space.com:
Sun Fires Off Fourth of July Solar Flares

Universe Today:
1st Space-bound Orion Crew Capsule Unveiled at Kennedy

Space.com:
Earth Is Farthest From the Sun This Week

Daily Mail:
Rocks in Mars craters reveal water once flowed miles below the surface - and offer window into planet's mysterious history

Discovery News:
Fetal Solar System Aborted

Astrobiology Magazine:
Milky Way Collision 100 Million Years Ago

Daily Mail:
Simply breath-taking: The Milky Way floats over a serene lake in an image which took two years to get just right

The Guardian:
How to explain Higgs boson discovery

July 4, 2012

Stuff NZ:
The 'God particle' observed?

Discovery News:
Fermilab Announces Strong Higgs Boson 'Bump'

Discovery News:
When the World Went Higgs Boson Crazy: Photos

Discovery News:
Spacecraft Raises Mercury Mysteries

Universe Today:
An Epic Crater Called Odysseus

Space.com:
See 4 Planets on Fourth of July! Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn Shine

July 3, 2012

Daily Mail:
Fire in the sky: Burning meteorite trail lights up Australian sky for 20 minutes after rock plunges into the sea

The Guardian:
Higgs boson: US physicists find strongest evidence yet of 'god particle'

Dvice:
What it would mean if we found the Higgs boson

Wired UK:
Working out who gets the credit for discovering the Higgs Boson

Space.com:
Solar Flare's Red Glare: Sun Unleashes Early Fourth of July Fireworks

Discovery News:
Solar Flare Ionizes European Skies

Spaceflight Now:
New Intelsat satellite will only receive partial power

New Scientist:
Far side of the moon offers quiet place for telescopes

Daily Mail:
Fly me to the moon! Nasa offers detailed HD tour of our nearest neighbour… including the dark side

Daily Mail:
Mission to Mars's moon Phobos 'could yield first sign of alien life'

Daily Mail:
Pilotless fighter will fly over UK from 2013 - and robot plane could lead to passenger aircraft with no one at the controls

Wired:
Gallery: The Tattooed, Undead Planes of the Air Force 'Boneyard'

Popular Science:
A Plan For Airships That Might Finally Take Off

Life Magazine:
In Praise of Unusual Flying Objects

July 2, 2012

Universe Today:
Super Secret Spy Satellite Soars Spectacularly to Space on Delta 4 Heavy Booster

Spaceflight Now:
Delta 4-Heavy rocket takes flight

Discovery News:
Space Station Astronauts Safely Return to Earth

Space.com:
Soyuz Landing Photos: 31st Space Station Crew Returns to Earth

Gizmodo:
Orion Capsule - Say Hello to the Future of Manned Space Flight

IEEE Spectrum:
New Communication Tech for Deep-Space Missions

Space.com:
Discovery: Earth's Oldest Crater Is Largest Too

Space.com:
Asteroid Threat: Sizing Up Earth's Vulnerability to Space Rock Strikes

Daily Mail:
Thank God this wasn't our sun! Hubble spots planet shedding atmosphere following solar flare outburst

Scientific American:
Could the Large Hadron Collider Discover the Particle Underlying Both Mass and Cosmic Inflation?

Daily Mail:
God particle is 'found': Scientists at Cern expected to announce on Wednesday Higgs boson particle has been discovered

WEEKEND EDITION: June 30 through July 1, 2012

Discovery News:
The Universe: No God Required

io9:
Why removing the uncertainty principle accidentally creates perpetual motion

Cosmos:
Race against time: When a minute lasts 61 seconds

Discovery News:
Highest Man-Made Temperature: 4 TRILLION Degrees

Popular Science:
Simulated 13-Year-Old Boy "Eugene Goostman" Wins Largest-Ever Turing Test

Gizmodo:
Watch Garry Kasparov and Alan Turing Play Chess

Popular Science:
Google's Simulated Human Brain Has Trained Itself to Recognize Cats on YouTube

Live Science:
Robots Join Hunt for Amelia Earhart's Plane

Dvice:
27 geekiest (and weirdest) fish tanks

Stuff NZ:
Plane turbulence: Storms present new front

Live Science:
Tiny Tracks of First Complex Animal Life Discovered

Smithsonian Magazine:
In the Steps of a Hungry Acrocanthosaurus

Stuff NZ:
Prehistoric killer's nasty weapon found

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Hadrosaurs Chewed

Stuff NZ:
Fossil belonged to winged giant

Daily Mail:
The amazing iguana which can stay underwater for half an hour - to feed from the bottom of the ocean

Stuff NZ:
Primates, what are they thinking?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Australopithecus sediba: The Wood-Eating Hominid

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Paradox of the Nutcracker Man

Science Magazine:
Ancient Hunter-Gatherers Kept in Touch

The Guardian:
Ancient Chinese pottery confirmed as the oldest yet found

Daily Mail:
'Syria's stonehenge': Mysterious ruins in desert could be 10,000 years old - but scientists can't get near to investigate

Live Science:
Cavemen Bones Yield Oldest Modern Human DNA

Daily Mail:
Stonehenge was built to unify Briton's warring tribes it is claimed after decade long study into the megalith's origins

Daily Mail:
Pair of metal detector friends discover thousands of Iron Age coins worth £10m buried in a field in Jersey after searching for 30 years

io9:
The Ivy League of Ancient Roman Gladiator Schools

Live Science:
Ancient Text Confirms Mayan Calendar End Date

The Guardian:
The fantastic Dr Dee: angels, magic and the birth of modern science

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Men Behind the First Olympic Team

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Little-Known History of How the Modern Olympics Got Their Start

Smithsonian Magazine:
The High Priestess of Fraudulent Finance

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Loneliest Shop in the World

Daily Mail:
Bletchley Park huts where British mathematicians cracked Nazi Enigma code to be rebuilt

Gizmodo:
Your Spidey Sense Ain't Got Nothin' on These Early Warning Systems

Wired UK:
Galileo to Turing: the persecution of scientists throughout history

io9:
See Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night recreated with 7,000 falling dominoes

io9:
Extinct birds wearing fashions from the year they went extinct

io9:
A Joke from Every Single Episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 in One Insane Video

Gizmodo:
Do You Live Near a High Containment Biohazard Laboratory?

June 29, 2012

Seattle Post Intelligencer:
UFO frenzy was sparked here 65 years ago

Space.com:
Touchdown! Chinese Space Capsule With 3 Astronauts Returns to Earth

Wired UK:
Earth-threatening asteroids to be mapped using private telescope

Popular Science:
B612 Sentinel: The First Privately-Funded Deep Space Mission

NASA News:
Cassini Finds Likely Subsurface Ocean on Saturn Moon

NASA News:
Hubble, Swift Detect First-Ever Changes in an Exoplanet Atmosphere

Popular Science:
Texas Students Hijack a U.S. Government Drone in Midair

Wired:
Russia Preps Mach 7 Missiles - With India's Help

Gizmodo:
What It's Like To Fly A Top-Secret Spy Plane: A Live Conversation With A Badass Pilot

Space.com:
Voyager 1: The Little Spacecraft That Could

June 28, 2012

Daily Mail:
Cream of the crop circles: New markings snake 350ft across farmer's field as 'mysterious' summer tradition continues

Spaceflight Now:
Antares rocket joins NASA's fleet of available launchers

NASA News:
Longest-Lived Mars Orbiter is Back in Service

Discovery News:
Sniffing Out the Stench of Life on Mars

Discovery News:
Unorthodox Telescope for Alien Planet Hunt?

Discovery News:
Probing an 'Invisible' Exoplanet's Atmosphere

Scientific American:
Supernova Could Have Caused Mysterious 'Red Crucifix' in Sky in 774 A.D

io9:
Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?

June 27, 2012

Daily Mail:
'UFO' at the bottom of the Baltic Sea 'cuts off electrical equipment when divers get within 200m'

Live Science:
1969 Fireball Meteorite Reveals New Ancient Mineral

Live Science:
Danger! Falling Rocks: Meteorites and Asteroids (Infographic)

Wired:
Pentagon's Zombie Satellite Program Comes to Life

Spaceflight Now:
China says it has spent $6 billion on human spaceflight

Space Daily:
Packing Up Tiangong

Space.com:
Virgin Galactic to Launch New Cargo Plan, Spaceship Design

Space.com:
Tropical Storm Debby Delays Spy Satellite Launch

Dvice:
Latest way to deal with space junk: huge clouds of tungsten dust

Universe Today:
New "Flying Tea Kettle" Could Get Us To Mars in Weeks, Not Months

Universe Today:
Awesome Map of Space Agencies Around the World

Scientific American:
Going for Broke: 5 Experiments That Went Out in a Blaze of Glory

Daily Mail:
To your left you'll see mountains... and a guy with a rocket on his back: 'Jetman' flies alongside passenger plane for first time

June 26, 2012

Space.com:
Suborbital Space Ready to Take Flight, Experts Say

Space.com:
Secretive Air Force Space Plane's Purpose Questioned

Discovery News:
Is Jupiter a Soggy Planet?

Universe Today:
Extremes in the Saturn System

Daily Mail:
The last men on the moon: Nasa releases 1972 shot of Apollo 17's crew exploring lunar valleys in search of rocks

Daily Mail:
The swirling maelstrom of the sun, pictured in outstanding detail during the Transit of Venus by one dedicated space enthusiast

June 25, 2012

Statesman Journal:
From UFO disbeliever to believer

Space Daily:
Space is Big, But Getting Smaller

Space.com:
Chinese Astronauts Manually Dock Spacecraft at Orbiting Module in National First

Space Daily:
Man Versus Machine on Shenzhou

Stuff NZ:
Space docking signals Chinese ready

Space Daily:
Boeing Completes Upgrade of AEOS Telescope at Maui Space Surveillance Complex

Gizmodo:
Why NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Landing Will Be Seven Minutes of Absolute Terror

Discovery News:
NASA's Biggest Rocket: Thrust Would Be Useful Now

Universe Today:
Early "Elemental" Galaxy Found 12.4 Billion Light Years Away

Dvice:
U.S. Navy gears up for drone-on-drone dogfighting in 2015

Wired:
How I Accidentally Kickstarted the Domestic Drone Boom

Wired:
No, You Can't Use a Drone to Spy on Your Sexy Neighbor

Wired:
Drones' Future: Supersonic Swarms of Robot Bugs

Daily Mail:
The race to build a successor to Concorde: Boeing, Gulfstream and Nasa join forces to create a supersonic jet capable of flying from London to Sydney in FOUR HOURS

Gizmodo:
What Is That Weird Pod On This F-35 Belly?

Gizmodo:
How to Fly a B-52 Stratofortress Bomber

WEEKEND EDITION: June 23 through June 24, 2012

The Telegraph:
Why the primordial soup may be an alien concoction

Stuff NZ:
Do we owe our life to rock?

Astrobiology Magazine:
The Origin of Life Challenge: Searching for How Life Began

National Geographic:
Antarctica's Mount Erebus - Life in an Icy Inferno

Smithsonian Magazine:
Disease and the Demise of the Dinosaurs

Smithsonian Magazine:
When Mammals Ate Dinosaurs

Cosmos:
Mega-wombat graveyard found in Queensland

Stuff NZ:
Archaeologists in mammoth find

Daily Mail:
Mammoth graveyard... Extraordinary discovery of at least five giant prehistoric beasts in Serbian coal mine

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: 'Vanished' Toad Sighted

Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Homo erectus Lived Like a Baboon

Smithsonian Magazine:
Virus "Fossils" Reveal Neanderthals' Kin

Cosmos:
Aboriginal rock art is 28,000 years old

io9:
The Virus that Inspired the Whole Zombie Genre

National Geographic:
Pictures: New Terra-Cotta Warriors -- And Unprecedented Armor

Daily Mail:
Rock 'n' Roll: Does this cunning technique help explain how the mysterious Easter Island heads 'walked' to their resting places?

Smithsonian Magazine:
New Technology Reveals Invisible Details in Renaissance Art

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Canada Celebrates the War of 1812

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Legend of Dolley Madison's Red Velvet Dress

The Guardian:
Sports doping, Victorian style

io9:
Old photos of the Statue of Liberty standing in Paris were extraordinarily surreal

Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Are Jim Thorpe's Olympic Records Still Not Recognized?

Wired UK:
The Ratio Club: a melting pot for British cybernetics

io9:
How Switzerland camouflaged its ready-to-explode architecture during the Cold War

io9:
One of the earliest adult cartoons was gonzo even by today's standards (NSFW)

The Guardian:
Alan Turing: the short, brilliant life and tragic death of an enigma

Wired:
The Rich Legacy of Alan Turing

Wired:
Alan Turing's Extraordinary, Tragically Short Life: A Timeline

Wired UK:
Alan Turing: from birth to centenary

Wired UK:
Bletchley Park, codebreaking and the lost art of secrecy

Wired UK:
Turing's achievements: codebreaking, AI and the birth of computer science

The Guardian:
'Codebreaker – Alan Turing's life and legacy' at the Science Museum – video

June 22, 2012

Space Daily:
Russian Cosmonauts Have 'Alien Instructions'

Universe Today:
Daylight Fireball Dazzles Colorado, Grounds Fire Tankers

Universe Today:
Recent Earth-Passing Asteroid is Much Bigger Than Originally Estimated

Scientific American:
Astronomers Catch Video of 'Near-Miss' Asteroid

Space Daily:
That's No Lab, It's a Space Station

Space Daily:
Designer elaborates on challenges facing Shenzhou-9 mission

Dvice:
Extensive water reserves thought to be hiding in Martian interior

Scientific American:
Tropical Lakes on Saturn Moon Could Expand Options for Life

io9:
Behold the rings of Jupiter

Scientific American:
Testing Their Metal: Small Exoplanets Abound in Diverse Stellar Environments

Space.com:
Odd Alien Planets So Close Together They See 'Planetrise'

Space.com:
Alien Planet Looms Large in Neighbor's Sky (Infographic)

June 21, 2012

Space.com:
Air Force Launches US Spy Satellite on Secret Mission

Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 thunders to milestone in U.S. rocket history

Space.com:
Mock Asteroid Mission on Ocean Floor 'Incredibly Realistic,' Astronauts Say

Space.com:
Private Asteroid-Hunting Deep Space Telescope to be Unveiled June 28

Daily Mail:
Scientist unlocks the quantum secrets of the moon's bizarre soil, which hangs suspended above the surface when touched

Space.com:
Huge Moon Crater's Water Ice Supply Revealed

Discovery News:
Probe Finds Moon's Shackleton Crater Pretty Dry

Space.com:
Photos: The Search for Water on the Moon

Smithsonian Magazine:
Mission to Mars: The Radiation Problem

Discovery News:
Pluto's Moons Offer Clues to Alien Worlds

Space.com:
First Stars in the Universe May Soon Be Detected

io9:
The Coast Guard Creates a Fiery Vortex in the Sky

June 20, 2012

The Guardian:
Space tourism: to infinity and beyond?

Space.com:
NASA & FAA Agree on Private Space Taxi Safety Rules

Live Science:
Market for Martian Meteorites Heats Up

io9:
NASA downgrades AG5 asteroid threat -– but we're not out of the woods yet

Space.com:
Summer Solstice Brings Changing Seasons Wednesday

Gizmag:
Czech engineers set to build six-prop Flying Bike

io9:
A Size Comparison Chart of 20 Real-Life Spaceships With the Starship Enterprise

June 19, 2012

Space.com:
China Successfully Docks Manned Space Capsule at Orbiting Module

Spaceflight Now:
Chinese astronauts open door on orbiting research lab

Discovery News:
China Successfully Docks Manned Space Capsule

Daily Mail:
Touchdown! Infrared camera captures first picture of mysterious U.S. space plane landing in California (but what was it doing on its 15-month mission?)

Discovery News:
Big Asteroid 2011 AG5 Will Miss Earth in 2040

Popular Science:
This Is the Food We'll Eat on Mars

Discovery News:
Findings of Deep-Sea 'Alien' Hunt Revealed

June 18, 2012

Universe Today:
Top Secret Air Force Mini Shuttle lands after Record-Setting Stay in Space

Spaceflight Now:
Air Force's mini space shuttle returns after 468-day flight

Spaceflight Now:
Chinese astronauts blast off en route to orbiting lab

Universe Today:
Meet China's First Female Astronaut: Big Pic

Space.com:
Shenzhou 9 Explained: China's 1st Female Astronaut Heads to Space Lab (Infographic)

Space.com:
How to See China's Space Capsule and Lab Module in Night Sky

Space.com:
Earth Safe From Big Asteroid 2011 AG5 in 2040, Scientists Say

Daily Mail:
Our time really is running out: Scientists put forward theory suggesting that the universe could grind to a halt

Discovery News:
'Echoes' of the Big Bang Misinterpreted?

Discovery News:
NASA Astronauts Brought Playmates to the Moon

Daily Mail:
Pictured: The UFO-shaped object found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea... covered in soot, with 'little fireplaces' and lying at the end of a 1,000ft runway

WEEKEND EDITION: June 16 through 17, 2012

Stuff NZ:
Scientists close in on 'God particle'

New Scientist:
Black holes could act as cosmic Rosetta stones

IEEE Spectrum:
An Uncanny Mind: Masahiro Mori on the Uncanny Valley and Beyond

IEEE Spectrum:
The Uncanny Valley

Dvice:
Air Force to turn troops into Spider-Men with vacuum wall scaler

Dvice:
Augmented Reality glove lets you edit virtual objects in mid-air

Daily Mail:
Meet the cruise liner for ships! Massive carrier craft can hold up to 22 barges - and even an oil rig - on its back

Daily Mail:
Humans evolved from a prehistoric SHARK from 300m years ago

The Guardian:
Dinosaurs are more incredible and diverse than you might think

Discovery News:
Mammoths Wiped Out By Multiple Killers

Wired UK:
Study: Universal gene for life missing from volcanic microbes

Science Magazine:
Pumas Leave Table Scraps

Science Magazine:
Did Neandertals Paint Early Cave Art?

Daily Mail:
Builders excavating site for housing estate in Wales discover foundations of a meeting house 'older than the Egyptian pyramids'

Daily Mail:
'The teenage Jane Austen': Fresh evidence that divisive portrait of girl may really be the much-loved author aged 13

Orangeburg Times and Democrat:
Civil War photos: Help sought to solve old mystery

Wired:
Graphic hundred-year-old penguin sex manuscript uncovered

Saveur:
Brain Food

Daily Mail:
Dresses that captured the essence of Parisian joie de vivre go on sale as former director of the Folies Bergere music hall auctions off her collection

Daily Mail:
Are they reading this now? 50 years after the real-life 'escape' from Alcatraz one U.S. marshal is still on the hunt for 80-year-old fugitives

io9:
10 Weirdest Urban Ecosystems On Earth

Daily Mail:
Justice at last for hero pilot who spent two years in Soviet prison as he is awarded posthumous medal five decades after being shot down in Cold War spy plane

Smithsonian Magazine:
Louis Leakey: The Father of Hominid Hunting

June 15, 2012

Daily Mail:
Humanity escapes the solar system: Voyager 1 signals that it has reached the edge of interstellar space - 11billion miles away

NASA News:
Dawn Easing into its Final Science Orbit

Scientific American:
Tropical Lakes on Saturn Moon Could Expand Options for Life

NPR:
Tracking Asteroids From A Backyard In Kansas

Space Daily:
Extremely little telescope discovers pair of odd planets

Discovery News:
How NASA Chose Its Ride to the Moon

io9:
What plans do we have for after aliens make contact?

io9:
Could aliens have created life on Earth?

June 14, 2012

MSNBC:
Huge Asteroid to Fly by Earth Thursday: How to Watch Online

Discovery News:
Earth Worlds Common, Pre-Earth ETs Possible

Stuff NZ:
Any aliens around a lot longer than us

Dvice:
Eighteen-rotor personal helicopter coming to a driveway near you

Discovery News:
Italian Crop Circle Linked to Solar Eclipse

This Is Wiltshire:
Experts Prove Newest Crop Circle Is Not Work Of Aliens

June 13, 2012

Discovery News:
Mars Rover Now Aiming for Sweet Spot

Christian Science Monitor:
Mars rover to try out new strategy for finding alien life

New Scientist:
First crew to head for China's heavenly space palace

Space Daily:
Shenzhou-9 May Face Thunder, High Temps

TG Daily:
March solar flare was strongest yet seen

National Geographic:
1,200-Year-Old Cosmic Blast Captured in Japanese Trees

Discovery News:
Incoming: How Sunlight Nudges an Asteroid's Path

Daily Mail:
Two new Jupiter moons discovered bringing total number of satellites orbiting the planet to 67

Stuff NZ:
Scientists discover 'oldest' galaxy

Daily Mail:
Europe to build world's biggest telescope powerful enough to see mountains on planets beyond our solar system

Gizmag:
Global Hawk UAS gears up for Arctic duty

MSNBC:
Near-Space Tourism Balloon Runs Test Launch

Los Angeles Times:
New evidence that extraterrestrial impact killed off the mammoths

June 12, 2012

Daily Mail:
One giant dip for mankind: Nasa astronauts pictured practicing for asteroid mission by living at the bottom of the ocean

NASA News:
NuSTAR to Drop From Plane and Rocket Into Space

Spaceflight Now:
China is days away from launching three astronauts

NASA News:
Mars Rover Team Aims for Landing Closer to Prime Science Site

Stuff NZ:
Mars robot's new search for life

Science Magazine:
NASA Rover Will Contaminate Its Samples of Mars

Astrobiology Magazine:
Rocket Sleds to Mars

Stuff NZ:
Mars' scars - planet's cosmic beating

Daily Mail:
Does this picture show the 'ghost' of a universe that existed before the Big Bang?

Discovery News:
Largest 'Dark Sky' Reserve Named

Daily Mail:
Why aliens might look like you: DNA could be a 'universal constant' - making humans and ET closer to 'cousins'

io9:
The Great Soviet Space Exhibition of 1927

June 11, 2012

Discovery News:
China to Dock with Orbiting Spacecraft in June

Spaceflight Now:
NASA abandons budget-busting X-ray telescope

Space Daily:
Rocket Sled Tests Are Technology Pathway to Safely Land Humans, Habitats and Cargo on Mars

Popular Science:
FYI: Are There Traffic Laws in Space Yet?

Scientific American:
The Other Red Planet: Soviet Union Scored an Interplanetary First at Venus 45 Years Ago

Daily Mail:
Meteor impact that gouged 30-mile crater on Mars reveals traces of ancient reservoir

New Scientist:
Cosmic climate change may have stunted black holes

MSNBC:
Space tourists can hop on a flight in 2014, XCOR says

Las Cruces Sun-News:
Virgin Galactic shows off Las Cruces office; hopes to start flights in 2013

Universe Today:
Designing Future Space Habitats

Wired:
How to Book Your Ticket to Space

Discovery News:
Top 5 REAL Cosmic Doomsday Events

Discovery News:
Only Two Cosmic Doomsdays Are Certain

WEEKEND EDITION: June 9 through 10, 2012

The Guardian:
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe by Martin Rees – review

Cosmos:
Einstein was right, neutrino researchers admit

Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: The Exciting Growth of The Periodic Table

io9:
10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Tornadoes

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Dino Twinkle Toes

Science Magazine:
Where Have the Hawk-Sized Insects Gone?

Daily Mail:
Discovered: The 128million-year-old grandfather of the modern squid and octopus

Futurity:
Extinct giant turtle found near monster snake

Daily Mail:
Scientists unveil 20 new species ... including a giant blue scorpion and massive hairy spider (how DID we ever get by without them?)

Science Magazine:
An Asian Origin for Human Ancestors?

Daily Mail:
Was a mysterious ancient plague which killed all but 5,000 'pre humans' the key to man's triumph over the Neanderthals?

io9:
The Great Wall of China is a lot Greater than we thought

The Guardian:
The extraordinary 2,000-year-old computer that you've never heard of

Daily Mail:
Are you sure digging him up is a good idea? Archaeologists find Bulgarian 'vampires' from Middle Ages with iron rods staked through their chests

The Guardian:
Shakespeare's Curtain theatre unearthed in east London

Daily Mail:
Amazing footage from 1897 shows Queen's great-great-grandmother Victoria during her Diamond Jubilee carriage procession

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Ax Murderer Who Got Away

Smithsonian Magazine:
Fritz Haber's Experiments in Life and Death

io9:
This propeller-powered monorail would have linked London to Paris

io9:
America was bombed 1,000 times during World War II

Gizmodo:
These Nazi Propaganda Leaflets Dropped on American Soldiers Are Horrible

io9:
Where the Dead Go To Drink: The Best Haunted Bars, Clubs and Pubs

io9:
How a Zombie Outbreak Could Happen in Real Life

June 8, 2012

Daily Mail:
Keep an eye on the skies for saucers during the Olympics Games, warns former MoD UFO expert

Air & Space Magazine:
Who discovered water on the Moon?

Voice of America:
See Jupiter's Newly-discovered Tiny Moon in Motion

Discover Magazine:
The Solar System's Lost Planet

Scientific American:
Astronomers Identify Very Distant (But Not the Most Distant) Galaxy

Air & Space Magazine:
Under the Eurofighter's Hood

Air & Space Magazine:
Cancelled: Vertical Flyer

Air & Space Magazine:
Piggyback Airplanes

Wired:
Check Out This Giant Spy Blimp Before the Air Force Kills It

June 7, 2012

io9:
Behold The Transit of Venus In Photographs

Universe Today:
Stunning Timelapse: Spacecraft Capture the Transit of Venus

Spaceflight Now:
Pegasus rocket sets sail to launch NASA telescope

Futurity:
Did orbit mishap save Earth from freezing?

Stuff NZ:
Pluto's moons to reveal alien world properties

NASA News:
Dawn Mission Video Shows Vesta's Coat of Many Colors

Daily Mail:
Black hole millions of times the size of our sun is 'hurtling' through space - and scientists warn there could be many more

Wilmington Star-News:
Ben on Film - Alien flicks a reflection of our inner fears

San Francisco Chronicle:
Ray Bradbury, author of 'Fahrenheit 451,' dies

New York Times:
Brought Mars to Earth With a Lyrical Mastery

Time Magazine:
Ray Bradbury Didn't Love All Tech, but He Loved What Mattered Most

Washington Post:
Dreams of Ray Bradbury: 10 predictions that came true

Greenfield Daily Reporter:
NASA craft carried digital copy of Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles," other works to Mars

June 6, 2012

Space.com:
Transit of Venus 2012 in Pictures (Gallery)

Space.com:
The 10 Weirdest Facts About Venus

Discovery News:
Watch the 1882 Transit of Venus

NASA:
New NASA Book Tells Why Aerospace Accidents Happen

June 5, 2012

Bergen County Record:
Back in the Day - June 4, 1967: UFOs spotted over West Milford

Discovery News:
Two Powerful Spy Space 'Scopes 'Gifted' to NASA

Gizmodo:
Secret American Space Agency Gives NASA Two Spy Telescopes More Powerful Than the Hubble

Space Daily:
NASA Lunar Spacecraft Complete Prime Mission Ahead of Schedule

Astrobiology Magazine:
Rosetta Flyby Uncovers the Complex History of Asteroid Lutetia

io9:
Astronomers discover massive black hole careening away from its home galaxy

Wired:
Video: First Test Flight for Military's Mega-Drone

io9:
Is the Pentagon ready for an alien invasion?

This Is Somerset:
£23k grant to help children calculate crop circle maths

June 4, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
NASA expects quick start to SpaceX cargo contract

New Scientist:
Can SpaceX build the pick-up trucks of space?

Space.com:
Partial Lunar Eclipse Monday Sets Stage for Venus Transit

Astrobiology Magazine:
Electric Moon Jolts the Solar Wind

Daily Mail:
Could the 'Yarkovsky effect' destroy our planet? Strange force can 'steer' asteroids out of their normal path - and into ours

New Scientist:
Vast cosmic event leaves record in ancient trees

Daily Mail:
Will divers finally get to the bottom of the Baltic Sea 'UFO' mystery? Team heads into the abyss to discover the origins of strange, 400-metre 'Millennium Falcon' object

io9:
Is it too late for first contact with aliens?

WEEKEND EDITION: June 2 through 3, 2012

io9:
How do you really know what time it is?

Live Science:
Life After Death: 'Great Dying' Recovery Took 10 Million Years

Smithsonian Magazine:
Social Sauropods?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Birds Have Juvenile Dinosaur Skulls

Science Magazine:
Occupy the Neolithic

Live Science:
Huge Ancient Civilization's Collapse Explained

io9:
10 Weirdest Ways That Ancient Rulers Died

io9:
In 1901, you could pay 50 cents to ride an airship to the Moon

Smithsonian Magazine:
Don't Let Your Money Fly Away: A 1909 Warning to Airship Investors

io9:
These vintage photos of early car wrecks will make you grateful for crumple zones

io9:
The extraordinarily surreal World War II editorial cartoons of Dr. Seuss

io9:
In the 1980s, Jurassic Park was built by prisoners in Cuba

io9:
What if Leonardo da Vinci designed the Large Hadron Collider?

Smithsonian Magazine:
America's Monumental Dinosaur Site

io9:
Bond Villain Yard Sale: Secret Mountainside Submarine Base Only $17.5 Million

io9:
And now, every single Harry Potter magic spell in one video

June 1, 2012

Space.com:
SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashes Down in Pacific, Ending Historic Test Flight

Space.com:
With Dragon Success, SpaceX Set for More Private Spaceflights

Dvice:
SpaceX Dragon flight in pictures: from launch to splashdown

Space.com:
8 Modern Astronomy Mysteries Scientists Still Can't Explain

Space.com:
Ancient Egyptian Calendar Reveals Earliest Record of 'Demon Star'

May 31, 2012

Universe Today:
SpaceX Dragon Sealed for Earth Return on May 31

Space.com:
Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Will Land Soon

Universe Today:
Secretive X-37B Space Plane Will be Landing Soon

Spaceflight Now:
Air Force's mini space shuttle prepares for landing

Discovery News:
SpaceShipTwo Cleared for Suborbital Test Flights

Universe Today:
Worlds Without Suns: Nomad Planets Could Number In The Quadrillions

io9:
How will our starships navigate in deep space?

Universe Today:
Visions of the Cosmos: The Enduring Space Art of David A. Hardy

May 30, 2012

Space.com:
Two Small Asteroids Buzz Earth in One-Two Punch

Discovery News:
SpaceX Signs 1st Customer for Falcon Heavy Rocket

Space.com:
Partial Lunar Eclipse Next Week Kicks Off June's Sky Sights

Space.com:
Massive Impacts May Have Warmed Ancient Mars

Space.com:
NASA to Reveal Hubble Discovery of Milky Way's Violent Fate Thursday

Daily Mail:
Close encounters of a lenticular kind: The mountain-top cloud formations that look like UFOs

May 29, 2012

Daily Mail:
UFO sighting by RAF pilot captured on radar left government's chief scientist 'convinced' by evidence

The Telegraph:
The UFO sighting that convinced a Government minister

Discovery News:
NASA Wanted Astronauts to View Venus Up-Close

Spaceflight Now:
Astronauts say crews would be comfortable in Dragon

Gizmodo:
Read Exactly What Was Carried Inside SpaceX's History-Making Journey

Space.com:
SpaceX's No. 1 Rule for Naming Private Spaceship Parts: Be Cool

Daily Mail:
No place for ET to hide: Plans unveiled for most powerful telescope in human history - 3,000 radio dishes spread across South Africa, Australia and New Zealand

NASA Science:
Partial Eclipse of the Strawberry Moon

New Scientist:
Astrophile: The outermost ocean in the solar system

Astrobiology Magazine:
Nomads of the Galaxy

Daily Mail:
Holy smoke: Incredible images of vapour trails and sonic booms created by planes in the sky

Dvice:
Video: Early astronauts boogie through spacesuit testing

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND EDITION: May 26 through 28, 2012

Discovery News:
Why We Don't Need the 'Men In Black'

New York Times:
Rebels Whose Bold Moves Set Science Aglow

National Geographic:
Evolutionary Flop: Early 4-Footed Land Animal Was No Walker?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Utahceratops Debut

Cosmos:
Scientists unearth new dinosaur species in Argentina

Smithsonian Magazine:
New Dinosaur Signifies Dawn of Stubby-Armed Predators

Smithsonian Magazine:
How the Chicken Conquered the World

Smithsonian Magazine:
Where Are Greece's Missing Hominids?

Live Science:
Caveman Flutists? First Instruments Date Back 40,000 Years

Daily Mail:
Hidden treat: The Easter Island heads also have BODIES

io9:
The only evidence left of a mystery tribe is bodies in jars

Daily Mail:
Was Columbus secretly Jewish? Historians argue explorer's epic voyage was to establish new homeland for his people as they escaped the Spanish Inquisition

io9:
The first female aeronaut inspired the Mile High Club in 1784

Smithsonian Magazine:
When Continental Drift Was Considered Pseudoscience

Smithsonian Magazine:
The 10 Things You Didn't Know About the War of 1812

Smithsonian Magazine:
Pass it on: The Secret that Preceded the Indian Rebellion of 1857

Smithsonian Magazine:
"I Was Looking Forward to a Quiet Old Age"

Smithsonian Magazine:
Team Hollywood's Secret Weapons System

Smithsonian Magazine:
Resistance to Nazis in a Land Riddled with Caves

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Posters Helped Shape America and Change the World

Smithsonian Magazine:
The 86-Year-Old Company that Still Designs Your In-Flight Experience

Stuff NZ:
DNA to unravel yeti mystery

io9:
A brief history of four letter words

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Top 10 Books Lost to Time

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Restored Version of Let There Be Light Available Online

Smithsonian Magazine:
Gripping Photos of Fallen Soldiers' Bedrooms

May 25, 2012

Space Daily:
Space station arm grabs Dragon capsule

Discovery News:
SpaceX Dragon Aces Orbital Driving Test

Space.com:
Private Space Capsule 'Go' for Space Station Arrival

Space Daily:
SpaceX readies space station rendezvous

Discovery News:
Space Station Spies a Dragon Flying Below: Big Pic

Space.com:
Mystery of Martian Meteorites' Organic Stuff Solved

New Scientist:
Bottled carbon from Mars bodes well for ancient aliens

Astrobiolgy Magazine:
Did Ancient Mars Have a Runaway Greenhouse?

Discovery News:
Mars Tumbleweed Rovers Will Rock, Bounce and Roll

Space.com:
Mars Myths and Misconceptions: Quiz

io9:
There's more water on Jupiter's moon Europa than there is on Earth

Discovery News:
Starships Fueled on Antimatter from Space?

New Scientist:
Widen the goal in the search for alien life

Gizmodo:
NASA's Environment Simulation Lab Recreates Space on Earth

Space.com:
'Intrepid' Mercury Astronaut Marks 50th Anniversary of Orbiting the Earth

Popular Science:
Watch: Neil Armstrong Narrates His Moon Landing In a Rare TV Interview

May 24, 2012

Space.com:
SpaceX's Commercial Spaceship Chasing Space Station in Orbit

Space.com:
Potential Colorado Spaceport Plan Gaining Steam

Popular Science:
Russian Space Chief: 'We're Talking About Establishing Permanent Bases' On the Moon

Daily Mail:
Astronomer insists there is a Planet X four times the size of Earth lurking at the edge of our solar system

Discovery News:
Is 'Planet X 2.0' Lurking Beyond Pluto's Orbit?

Astrobiology Magazine:
The Older We Get, the Less We Know (Cosmologically)

Discovery News:
Take A 'Peak' At Tycho's Other Side: Big Pic

io9:
Experience eight years of breathtaking Saturnian exploration in five minutes

Wired:
Army Readies Its Mammoth Spy Blimp for First Flight

May 23, 2012

Space.com:
SpaceX's Private Rocket Launch Just Step 1 of Tough Test Flight

NASA News:
What Went Up Can Now Come Down With SpaceX Demo Flight

Space.com:
Iran to Launch Satellite Into Space Wednesday

Smithsonian Magazine:
What Will We Find in Extraterrestrial Caves?

Universe Today:
Opportunity Gets a View From The Edge

Daily Mail:
Spectacular view of Saturn's moon Dione captured as Cassini probe hurtles past

May 22, 2012

Space.com:
SpaceX Launches Private Capsule on Historic Trip to Space Station

Space.com:
Dragon circling Earth after flawless predawn blastoff

Daily Mail:
SpaceX finally launches! First private commercial flight takes off - taking with it the ashes of Star Trek legend Scotty

Space.com:
SpaceX Private Spaceship to Join Robotic Cargo Freighter Ranks

Spaceflight Now:
Tests of new Dragon systems to begin minutes after launch

Discovery News:
SpaceX Giving Dearly Departed Ride to Final Frontier

Space.com:
5 Fun Facts About Private Rocket Company SpaceX

Space.com:
Quiz: How Well Do You Know SpaceX's Dragon Spaceship?

Discovery News:
Space Taxis: Next stop Mars?

Gizmag:
Standing room only - the world's tiniest manned suborbital vehicle

New Scientist:
Magnetic space whirlpools give Mercury a plasma shower

New Scientist:
Telerobotics offers third way for space exploration

Discovery News:
NASA's Bold 'Plan X' Changed Spaceflight History

May 21, 2012

National Geographic:
Approaching Asteroid May Get Close Enough to Smash Satellites

Daily Mail:
140,000 ton asteroid set to narrowly miss Earth in February may destroy SATELLITES... and it could hit us for real in 2020

Discovery News:
SpaceX Launch Cut Off At Last Second

Space.com:
SpaceX Launch Abort Traced to Faulty Rocket Valve

Space.com:
SpaceX Replaces Faulty Rocket Valve for Space Station Flight

Space.com:
SpaceX No Stranger to Launch Day Rocket Glitches

NASA News:
Days of 'Gizmo' Launches Return

Space.com:
The 5 Most Promising Private Spaceships

Universe Today:
Doomed Mercury-Sized Exoplanet May Be Turning to Dust

WEEKEND EDITION: May 19 through 20, 2012

io9:
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. Here's how we know that.

Dvice:
How to make your very own Lightning Gun

Stuff NZ:
Microbes live on in 86-million-year-old clay

Stuff NZ:
The New Zealand book of life

Astrobiology Magazine:
Earliest Evidence of Insect Pollination

Cosmos:
Ceratosaur discovered in Australia

Daily Mail:
Waiting to be snapped up, T-Rex's cousin: Near perfect dinosaur skeleton to go under the hammer

io9:
Everything you need to know about the scientific controversy that could change Triceratops forever

National Geographic:
Prehistoric "Panda" Found in Spain-Giant Panda Has European Roots?

Nature:
Rise of the coyote: The new top dog

The Guardian:
How stone age man invented the art of raving

Stuff NZ:
Ancient cave 'genitalia' engravings found

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Top Four Candidates for Europe's Oldest Work of Art

io9:
Printed books existed nearly 600 years before Gutenberg's Bible

Daily Mail:
The Mayans reveal their darkest mysteries: New excavation reveals secrets of their calendar - including black-clad figures and symbols never seen before

io9:
The man who saw circuses on the moon

Smithsonian Magazine:
Hitler's Very Own Hot Jazz Band

io9:
Remember the time we bombed Mexico with German rockets?

Gizmodo:
Retro AT&T Video Hearkening the Digital Future Is Still Hopelessly Lost in the 1960s

Smithsonian Magazine:
Tripping Through the Cold War: Drug Warfare in the Retrofuture

io9:
Nepal's most mysterious language might soon disappear

May 18, 2012

Universe Today:
SpaceX says All Systems GO for Historic May 19 Blast Off to ISS

Space.com:
Saturday Is One Giant Leap for Commercial Spaceflight

Space.com:
Moon Rocks Reveal Evidence of Ancient Asteroid Barrage

Space.com:
4,700 Potentially Dangerous Asteroids Lurk Near Earth, NASA Says

Daily Mail:
Have scientists finally found fragments of the meteorite which set off the mysterious 1908 Tunguska catastrophe?

May 17, 2012

Space.com:
Private Rocket Launch Saturday May Herald New Commercial Spaceflight Era

Space.com:
SpaceX's 1st Private Capsule Launch to Space Station: How It Will Work

Space.com:
The Angry Sun: How to Predict Space Weather

Space.com:
The 6 Most Likely Places to Find Alien Life

Discovery News:
Revving Up the Antimatter Engine

May 16, 2012

Daily Mail:
Living in a box: Space Station's new crew blast off for their 250-mile-high new home - where they'll stay until July

Discovery News:
Successful Soyuz Launch Sends Three to Space Station

Space.com:
New Astronaut Crew Launches Toward Space Station

Spaceflight Now:
Latest manned space launch safely takes flight to orbit

Spaceflight Now:
Launch preps begin for next Chinese human spaceflight

Space Daily:
Building a Heavenly Palace in outer space

Los Angeles Times:
A new frontier for space travel

Space.com:
Private Space Taxi Builders Ponder Future Beyond NASA

Discovery News:
Might NASA Kill the Commercial Space Race?

Our Amazing Planet:
Sunday Solar Eclipse Visible from National Parks

Discovery News:
Chinese Space Station Transits the Sun: Big Pic

Daily Mail:
Incredible video 'fly-over' by Nasa's Dawn probe reveals huge rippled asteroid Vesta is more like a small planet

Columbia Daily Tribune:
Hypothesis on alien life gains heft

May 15, 2012

Space.com:
'Ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse Occurs May 20

Spaceflight Now:
ATK adds crew capsule to Liberty rocket proposal

Space.com:
Quiz: How Well Do You Know SpaceX's Dragon Spaceship?

Space.com:
SpaceX's Private Launch to Space Station: How to Watch Online

Space.com:
Bus-Size Asteroid Zips Close By Earth

Popular Science:
The New Planetary Habitability Index

Dvice.com:
Infographic asks: Are we alone in the universe?

io9:
Experience one (spectacular) day in orbit around Jupiter

Daily Mail:
Pictured: The glittering flare of a solar storm - seven times the size of Earth - which is raging across the sun's surface

May 14, 2012

Space.com:
Spaceflight Companies Team Up for Private Space Station Flights

Popular Science:
Inflatable space stations are getting real thanks to SpaceX, Bigelow

NASA News:
8 Questions about NextGen, Part 2: How We'll Get Where We're Going Tomorrow

New Scientist:
What's the Deal With 'Super-Earth' Exoplanets?

Discovery News:
Astrophile: Two craters that launched 1000 meteorites

Universe Today:
Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years

io9:
The Coolest Airship Pictures You've Ever Seen

WEEKEND EDITION: May 12 through 13, 2012

Smithsonian Magazine:
Top Ten Mysteries of the Universe

Gizmodo:
Did Scientists Really Just Break the Speed of Light?

io9:
This well-known Egyptian symbol is actually an early math problem

Dvice:
10 current technologies directly inspired by science fiction

io9:
10 Ridiculously Unsettling Old-Timey Robots

Wired:
Commandos Now Play Digital Brain Games as War Prep

IEEE Spectrum:
Japanese Humanoid Robot Can Keep Its Balance After Getting Kicked

Gizmag:
Teal Panels Are Like Lego For Campers Who Hate Tents

Gizmag:
The best new watches from BaselWorld 2012

Astrobiology Magazine:
No Safety in Numbers from Mass Extinctions

Daily Mail:
How all the water on Earth would fit into one 860-mile-wide ball

Live Science:
Cypress Trees Saw Rupturing of Earth's Supercontinents

The Guardian:
Sierra Nevada range is getting higher

Stuff NZ:
Gassy dinosaurs helped warm Earth

Cosmos:
Australia once had 70kg, tree-dwelling, wombat-like marsupials

Live Science:
Ancient Crocodile Was World's Largest

Cosmos:
Mini-mammoths lived on Crete

Daily Mail:
'Mini-mammoths' once roamed Greek island: Ancient elephants 'shrank' to three feet tall after becoming stranded on Crete

Daily Mail:
One small steppe for man: All modern horses 'are descended from one herd tamed 6,000 years ago in the Russian plains'

Science Magazine:
Video: Brittle Star Walks Like a Man

Daily Mail:
Unidentified floating object: Mysterious blob filmed in the deep - and no-one can work out what it could be

Science Magazine:
Stone-Throwing Chimp Is Back -- And This Time It's Personal

Cosmos:
Rock analysis suggests France cave art is 'oldest'

Daily Mail:
How the cavemen ate: Cookbook reveals 77 recipes stretching right back to the Stone Age (and they taste surprisingly good!)

Daily Mail:
The only gay in the Stone Age village: Scientists find Czech long houses - and one male skeleton buried as if he was a woman

Daily Mail:
Ancient relics are the first definite sign of the Bible's King David (and they're next door to a Philistine city where Goliath might have made his home...)

Live Science:
Earliest Evidence of Biblical Cult Discovered

Innovation News Daily:
New Interactive Map Calculates Travel Times in Ancient Rome

The Guardian:
Oops, I invented the rocket! The explosive history of serendipity

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine

io9:
The most badass physicist you've probably never heard of

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Death at Home Plate

Smithsonian Magazine:
Howard Carter: Famous Archaeologist, Not-So-Famous Painter of

Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: Popular Science Plays Pranks

io9:
During World War II, Japan plotted to unleash a plague on the United States

Smithsonian Magazine:
What Really Sparked the Hindenburg Disaster?

Daily Mail:
Frozen in the sands of time: Eerie Second World War RAF fighter plane discovered in the Sahara... 70 years after it crashed in the desert

io9:
Did the Germans launch a crewed rocket into space in 1933?

io9:
The Man Who Declared War on Gravity

Smithsonian Magazine:
Khrushchev in Water Wings: On Mao, Humiliation and the Sino-Soviet Split

io9:
When We Lost an Unexploded Nuclear Bomb Off the Coast of Georgia

io9:
An interview with a woman who survived the 1958 atomic bombing of South Carolina

Live Science:
Bipolar Disorder Has Its Upside, Patients Say

Stuff NZ:
Psychopaths' brains abnormal

Nature:
War of words over tribal tongue

Las Vegas Sun:
Seeing dead people: 'Remote viewers' in Nevada help solve California murder

May 11, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
Chinese spy satellite successfully launched

Spaceflight Now:
Dream Chaser test plan outlined by Sierra Nevada

Dvice:
Space shuttle rocket builder to get in on manned spaceflight

Daily Mail:
Winter's over (for Rover): Nasa's Mars probe 'wakes up' again after hibernating through dark months on Martian surface

Space.com:
Solar Eclipse of May 20: How to See the Sun's 'Ring of Fire'

Universe Today:
Buy Some Eclipse Glasses for the Upcoming Annular Eclipse or Venus Transit

New Scientist:
Sun too sluggish to act as a cosmic Concorde

Space.com:
Our Sun Is Moving More Slowly Than Thought

Discovery News:
Sun Leaves No Shock Wave in its Wake

Universe Today:
Surprise! IBEX Finds No Bow 'Shock' Outside our Solar System

Space.com:
Huge Asteroid Vesta Actually an Ancient Protoplanet

Discovery News:
Vesta is a Baby Planet, Not an Asteroid

Space.com:
Giant Asteroid Vesta's Planetary Chances Killed by Jupiter

Universe Today:
Fly Over Vesta's Cratered Terrain with Dawn

Space.com:
Hidden Alien Planet Revealed by Its Own Gravity

Space.com:
Oldest Mayan Astronomical Calendar Discovered

Universe Today:
End of the World Averted: New Archeological Find Proves Mayan Calendar Doesn't End

Scientific American:
Ancient Time: Earliest Mayan Astronomical Calendar Unearthed in Guatemala Ruins

Universe Today:
Rogue Planets Could Drive By And Scoop Up Life

May 10, 2012

Space.com:
Huge Satellite Envisat is Dead in Space

Space.com:
SpaceX Shows Off Manned Dragon Capsule at Space Expo

Wired UK:
Space suits and Mars rovers tested in Austrian ice caves

Discovery News:
Bouncing Sands of Mars Blow in the Wind

Space.com:
Scientists Should 'Cool It' on Alien Life Claims, Biologist Says

Dvice:
Will our alien first contact be in 140 characters or less?

Dvice.com:
The Air Force's secret 1970s plan to use 747s as aircraft carriers

io9:
Watch Mars and Beyond, Disney's trippy 1950s vision of space exploration and extraterrestrial life

May 9, 2012

Space.com:
Monster Sunspot Threatens to Unleash Powerful Solar Flares

Space.com:
Secret Air Force X-37B Space Plane Mission a 'Spectacular Success'

Space Daily:
Russia Develops Revolutionary Ammonia Rocket Engine

Universe Today:
The Bright and Dark Side of Vesta's Craters

Space.com:
Light from Alien Super-Earth Seen for 1st Time

Universe Today:
Searching for Exoplanet Oceans More Challenging Than First Thought

Space Daily:
Is a new form of life really so alien?

May 8, 2012

Space.com:
Rare Venus Transit of Sun in June to Amaze Skywatchers

Dicovery News:
Hubble To Use the Moon To View Transit of Venus

Space.com:
Venus Transit of the Sun: A 2012 Observer's Guide (Infographic)

Popular Science:
NASA and SETI Rent a Giant Zeppelin to Hunt for Meteorite Over Nevada

The Guardian:
Pilotless planes project begins test flights over Irish Sea

Space Daily:
SpaceX Launch Targeted for May 19

Space.com:
Secretive Blue Origin Reveals New Details of Spacecraft Plans

Discovery News:
Daring Solar Mission Will Get Hot Enough to Cook Hot Dogs

Space.com:
Space Probe Fleet Idea Would Search for Mars Life

Daily Mail:
Crater shows that Mars's atmosphere must once have been thicker - and could have shrouded a watery world like ours

Space Daily:
Ancient Volcanic Blast Provides More Evidence of Water on Early Mars

Space.com:
Earth-Like Alien Planets Unlikely Around Stars with 'Hot Jupiters'

Cosmos:
'Fiery rain' tells Solar System secrets

New Scientist:
Astrophile: Hot Jupiters oust their siblings

Spaceflight Now:
Photo gallery: Atlas 5 rocket thunders to space

Daily Mail:
The galactic Spirograph: Orbiting space probe 'draws' mysterious pattern as it watches the distant star Vela for two years

Space.com:
US Military Seeks Rapid Satellite ID in Crowded Space

May 7, 2012

Wiltshire Times:
First Wiltshire crop circle of year arrives despite the weather at Stonehenge

Spaceflight Now:
Satellite for secure war-time communications goes up

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX sets May 19 launch for flight to space station

Space.com:
Amazing Photos of 2 Saturn Moons Snapped by Cassini Probe

Popular Science:
Curious Things That Fall From The Sky

Wired:
Video: High-Speed Plunge Transforms Robo-Copter Into a Plane

Innovation News:
Could the Navy Ever Build a Flying Aircraft Carrier?

Los Angeles Times:
Space weather expert has ominous forecast

WEEKEND EDITION: May 5 through 6, 2012

Scientific American:
The Consolation of Philosophy

Gizmodo:
This Explanation of the Multiverse Is a Heavy But Delicious Sunday Brunch

Gizmodo:
Everything You Need to Know About the Higgs Boson in Under Eight Minutes

Dvice:
Meet Stompy, a 2,500-pound walking car with six legs

Daily Mail:
Sitting on a landmine: The huge eruptions of the super-volcano under Yellowstone could be more frequent than scientists thought

Wired UK:
Mankind's most distant relative lives at the bottom of a lake in Norway

Astrobiology Magazine:
Some Dinosaurs Were Declining Before the Mass Extinction

Live Science:
Monster 'Fleas' Put the Bite on Dinosaurs

Smithsonian Magazine:
Fossil Testifies to Pachycephalosaur Pain

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: The Corvette of Coelacanths

Daily Mail:
Jurassic Park in a petri dish: Scientists insert ancient DNA gene into modern bacteria to see if evolution plays out the same way twice

Science Magazine:
Did Dodging Disease Keep Pygmies Small?

Science Magazine:
The Origin of Blond Afros in Melanesia

Smithsonian Magazine:
Superior Navigation Secret to Humans' Success?

Science Magazine:
Mapping China's Ancient Name Game

Live Science:
The Stones Speak: Stonehenge Had Lecture Hall Acoustics

Daily Mail:
Heads DID roll: The blood and hair that proves Mexicans used stone knives for human sacrifice 1,000 years before Aztecs

Daily Mail:
Is this Walter Raleigh's 'lost colony' drawn in invisible ink? Clue to 400-year-old mystery discovered in map of North America

Science Magazine:
Natural Selection Is Still With Us

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Case of the Sleepwalking Killer

io9:
This gruesome 1889 biology book outlined the many ways animals will kill us

Gizmodo:
Secret Underground Bunker Is Full of World War Weapons and Military Vehicles

Smithsonian Magazine:
Document Deep Dive: A Firsthand Account of the Hindenburg Disaster

Gizmodo:
12 Mechanical Flight Sims from Aerospace's Analog Era

Txchnologist:
White Glove Service: The World's 10 Busiest Subway Systems

May 4, 2012

Gizmodo:
This Is the First Private Spaceship That Will Dock to the International Space Station

Space.com:
Mars Rocks Could Shelter Life, New Study Suggests

Daily Mail:
How the Ancient Egyptians understood the 'Demon Star' 3,200 years ago - and their calculations have helped solve a modern dilemma

Universe Today:
Will This Be The Fate Of The Earth?

May 3, 2012

Space.com:
SpaceX Says Delay Likely for 1st Private Launch to Space Station

Daily Mail:
Mimicking Mother Nature: Scientists create a fixed-wing flying robot that can slow down and land like a bird

Popular Science:
'Jetman' Yves Rossy Takes to the Skies Above Rio de Janeiro

Space.com:
Planet Venus: Quiz Yourself on Venus Facts

Astrobiology Magazine:
Did Our Solar System Evolve Faster Than We Thought?

Space.com:
Monster Black Hole Caught Swallowing Unlucky Star

Universe Today:
Black Holes are More Like Venus Fly Traps than Vacuum Cleaners

Discovery News:
'Failed Star' Radio Emissions Could Aid Hunt for Alien Life

Discovery News:
Ancient Egyptians Tracked Eclipsing Binary Star Algol

May 2, 2012

Space.com:
SpaceX's 1st Private Capsule Launch to Space Station: How It Will Work

Space.com:
Reusable Space Plane Idea Intrigues Europeans

Popular Science:
The Jets of the Future

Discovery News:
California meteorite is rare rock laden with organics

Space.com:
Volcanic Rocks Could Have Nurtured Life on Earth and Elsewhere

Space.com:
Mars Volcanic Glass May Be Hotspot for Life

National Geographic News:
Huge "Structure" of Satellites Found Orbiting Milky Way

Universe Today:
Hundreds of Rogue Stars Found Just Outside the Milky Way

Space.com:
How the Night Sky Constellations Got Their Names

Daily Mail:
Habitable worlds have to be lived in in order to sustain life

May 1, 2012

Space.com:
SETI Telescope to Help US Air Force Track Space Junk

Space Daily:
SpaceX test fires rocket ahead of ISS cargo launch

Space Daily:
Dragon Expected to Set Historic Course

Popular Science:
Inside The First Production-Ready Electric Airplane

Space.com:
NASA's Huge Mars Rover Curiosity: 11 Amazing Facts

io9:
Why are Martian sunsets blue?

Wired UK:
Cassini shows Saturn moon Phoebe started life as a planet

Ars Technica:
Saturn may have snagged Pluto's cousin, turned it into a moon

Txchnologist:
The Winds of Pluto: Modeling the Atmospheres of Distant Planets

Space.com:
Giant Alien Planet May Have Split into 2 Earth-Size Worlds

Discovery News:
Thieving Stars Snatch Orphan Planets

Daily Mail:
The 'Guinness Book of (Universe) Records': Meet the planets which are the hottest, coldest, oldest, youngest, and fastest

April 30, 2012

Space.com:
Soyuz Space Capsule Lands Safely with U.S.-Russian Crew

Space Daily:
Durable NASA Rover Beginning Ninth Year of Mars Work

Daily Mail:
One giant leap for civilian space travel: Scientists successfully test engine for Skylon craft that can fly anywhere on earth in just four hours

Space.com:
NASA Offers Expertise to Help Private Companies Build Rockets, Capsules

Discovery News:
Who Owns The Asteroids?

io9:
"Dinosaur-Killer" Asteroid Impacts Are Much More Common Than We Thought

Discovery News:
How Long Has Titan Been a Hazy Methane Moon?

Daily Mail:
The star that 'beats' our own solar system: Distant star could have NINE planets orbiting it - including rocky 'super Earths'

Space.com:
Odds of Finding Alien Life Boosted by Billions of Habitable Worlds

Astrobiology Magazine:
Belief in ET Based on Optimism More Than Evidence

Edinburgh Evening News:
Story of real-life alien hunter with lifetime's quest

WEEKEND EDITION: April 28 through 29, 2012

Scientific American:
Science Will Never Explain Why There's Something Rather Than Nothing

IEEE Spectrum:
Study Shows That Humans Attribute Moral Accountability to Robots

The Guardian:
Vaughan Bell: the truth about lie detectors

Daily Mail:
Rays of life? Fossils show that life on Earth blossomed when nearby supernovas bathed our planet in cosmic radiation

Astrobiology Magazine:
Evidence for a Geologic Trigger of the Cambrian Explosion

Astrobiology Magazine:
The End of Ammonoids

Smithsonian Magazine:
Tarbosaurus Leftovers Explain Dinosaur Mystery

Stuff NZ:
Geologists uncover supervolcano's secrets

Stuff NZ:
Mysterious Balancing Rocks Resist Quakes' Shakes

Gizmodo:
This Is the World's First Adult White Killer Whale

Daily Mail:
Is this the Loch Ness Monster? Sonar picture shows 'serpent-like creature' at bottom of mysterious loch

Nature:
Early humans linked to large-carnivore extinctions

Daily Mail:
Mankind evolved a 'hive mind' 75,000 years ago - and breakthrough paved way for writing, the wheel and the internet

Daily Mail:
Skeletons reveal how migrants from the Mediterranean introduced farming to northern Europe 5,000 years ago

io9:
New Archeological Proof for the Oldest Tsunami in Recorded History

National Geographic:
Pictures: 3,000 Ancient Buddhas Unearthed in China

Daily Mail:
Last fragments from 'magical' Egyptian 'Book of the Dead' from 1420 BC found - after century-long search by archaeologists

io9:
The Open Polar Sea, a balmy aquatic Eden at the North Pole?

io9:
Trove of 500 fairytales discovered in Germany - Will Disney option the Turnip Princess?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Geronimo's Decades-Long Hunt for Vengeance

io9:
How Technicolor created ruby slippers without using color film

Dvice:
Brits hope to dig up 12 new Spitfires lost in Burma 65 years ago

io9:
In 1958, America accidentally dropped a nuclear weapon on two little girls' playhouse

Daily Mail:
Icy moon above black mountains, peculiar geysers and a galactic crop circle? Actually, these alien landscapes are all on EARTH

Gizmodo:
Turing's Nazi Enigma Code-Breaking Secrets Have Been Declassified

io9:
Straight, Gay, or Binary?: HAL Comes Out of the Cybernetic Closet

April 27, 2012

Space.com:
Space Station Crew to Return to Earth Friday

Space.com:
Secretive Blue Origin Project Pins Spaceflight Hopes on Reusable Rockets

Space.com:
Ancient Mars Lava Reveals Volcanic Secrets of Red Planet

Space.com:
Planet Mercury: Simple Facts, Tough Quiz

Spaceflight Now:
Scientists use Dawn to pull back the veil on Vesta

Discovery News:
Sun's Twin Discovered -- the Perfect SETI Target?

Space.com:
Special Report: The Private Space Taxi Race

April 26, 2012

Discovery News:
Ancient Mars Lava Reveals Volcanic Secrets of Red Planet

Space.com:
New Private Space Plane Aims to Pick Up Where NASA's Shuttles Left Off

New Scientist:
Hunt is on for pieces of van-sized California meteor

Space.com:
Asteroids Battered Young Earth Longer Than Thought

Universe Today:
Ancient Asteroids Kept Pelting Earth in a 'Late-Late' Heavy Bombardment

National Geographic:
Lyrid Meteor Pictures: Fireball Boom, Auroras Enliven Shower

Discovery News:
Dawn Probes Giant Asteroid Vesta's Mysteries: Photos

Popular Science:
Video: An Inflatable, Flying Turbine Goes Higher to Find Stronger Winds

io9:
How could you create artificial gravity?

April 25, 2012

Space.com:
1st Private Spaceship to Visit Space Station Aims for May 7 Launch

Universe Today:
Planetary Resources Group Wants to Mine Asteroids

Innovation News Daily:
Robot Swarms to Swing a Pickax for Asteroid Mining Venture

Universe Today:
Planetary Resources: The Video

Space.com:
Is Asteroid Mining Possible? Study Says Yes, for $2.6 Billion

Popular Science:
Why Mining an Asteroid for Water and Precious Metals Isn't as Crazy as it Sounds

Space.com:
Why Asteroid Mining Makes Huge Dollars and Sense

Discovery News:
Mining Asteroids: Not Mankind's Silver Bullet

Popular Science:
Technological Challenges Aside, Is Asteroid Mining Legal?

Innovation News Daily:
Asteroid Mining in Fiction, Past and Present

The Guardian:
Asteroid mining: how it might work - interactive

Discovery News:
Minivan-sized Asteroid Exploded Over California

Universe Today:
Fireball Over California Exploded with Force of 5 Kilotons

Daily Mail:
Mystery of the half-mile-wide objects plunging into Saturn's rings: Nasa's Cassini orbiter captures 'snowballs' leaving glittering trails as they crash through

Gizmodo:
Here Are the 61 Organizations With Permission To Fly Drones

Universe Today:
The Best of Hubble: 22 Years of Amazing Images

April 24, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 topped with anti-jam communications satellite

Space.com:
As Shuttles Head to Museums, NASA Counts on Private Astronaut Taxis

Space.com:
Death of DARPA's Superfast Hypersonic Glider Explained

Popular Science:
Video: Last Year's DARPA Hypersonic Glider Test Failed When Vehicle Sped Right Out of Its Own Skin

Space.com:
Daytime Fireball, Sonic Boom Surprises Calif., Nevada Spectators

Science Magazine:
No Love for Comet Wipeout

Discovery News:
'Droids To Dominate the Future of Space Exploration?

Gizmodo:
All Modern American Rockets and Spaceships Compared

Scientific American:
What Is on Voyager's Golden Record?

Gizmodo:
The CIA's Mach 3 Recon Drone

April 23, 2012

Daily Mail:
'We dodged a bullet': As Discovery is laid to rest, former Nasa director reveals the terrifying day they almost lost a third shuttle

Innovation News:
NASA to Test Air Force Drone for Quiet Supersonic Flight

Daily Mail:
You WILL believe a man can fly: Video of daredevil pilot in a 125mph jet-powered 'wing suit' looping the loop over the Alps

Space.com:
Huge, Mysteriously Silent Satellite Spotted by Another Spacecraft

Spaceflight Now:
ESA consults imagery to diagnose Envisat anomaly

Spaceflight Now:
MESSENGER spacecraft lowers orbit around Mercury

Universe Today:
MESSENGER Reveals Mercury's Colors

Discovery News:
Life Beyond Earth? Jupiter's Moons May Have Clues

Discovery News:
Rubber Chicken Launched into Solar Storm: Big Pic

Space.com:
Gallery: The 2012 Lyrid Meteor Shower

New Scientist:
Astrophile: an alien sunrise just like Earth's

Wired:
Apollo Science and Sites (1963)

Daily Mail:
'You got a colour film, Jim?': New Nasa video reveals how first astronauts almost fluffed the most iconic image of our planet from space

io9:
10 Summer Vacations You Could Be Taking - In Space

Gizmodo:
Watch This Balloon Kite Hover Forward by Turning Itself Inside Out

WEEKEND EDITION: April 21 through 22, 2012

National Geographic:
Magnifying the Universe [Infographic]

io9:
One of the most terrifyingly incomprehensible theories in physics explained!

The Guardian:
Hope for breakthrough in search for gravitational waves

io9:
Neutrium: The Most Neutral Hypothetical State of Matter Ever

Astrobiology Magazine:
Is Water Essential to Life?

io9:
Ten gemstones that are rarer than diamond

io9:
Toxic oceans created the greatest explosion in biodiversity Earth has ever seen

Smithsonian Magazine:
On Dinosaur Time

Smithsonian Magazine:
When Tyrannosaurus Chomped Sauropods

Smithsonian Magazine:
Fruitadens and the Dinosaur Diet

Cosmos:
Dinosaurs plagued by fire

Cosmos:
Eggs failed the dinosaurs

Daily Mail:
Eggs-traordinary: 40 gigantic dinosaur eggs dating back 60million years found in Chechnya - but what laid them is a mystery

Live Science:
Dawn of Polar Bears Far Earlier Than Thought

Smithsonian Magazine:
A New Aquatic Ape Theory

Dvice:
Penguins fly underwater like supercavitating rocket torpedoes

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Top Seven Human Evolution Discoveries in Kenya

Live Science:
Swedish Stonehenge? Ancient Stone Structure Spurs Debate

Daily Mail:
Extraordinary discovery of 12th century abbot's grave: 2012 technology could unmask his identity - and that of a ghost that roams the site

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Other Vitruvian Man

Smithsonian Magazine:
Who Was Casanova?

Live Science:
The Fish That Nearly Sank Isaac Newton's Career

Gizmodo:
The 13 Deadliest Shipwrecks Ever

io9:
Whatever happened to the iceberg that sank the Titanic?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Closing the Pigeon Gap

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Senator and the Gangsters

io9:
Photos of daily life in the US government's secret atomic city

io9:
Wild Vegas parties celebrated atomic bomb tests of the 1950s

io9:
Could a microwave save your electronics during an EMP attack?

io9:
What truths does "truth serum" sodium pentothal actually reveal?

April 20, 2012

Pensacola News Journal:
After nearly 40 years, Marine pilot talks about UFO encounter

Spaceflight Now:
Rocket companies hope to repurpose Saturn 5 engines

Space.com:
See Inside Boeing's New Astronaut Taxi: The CST-100 Space Capsule

Astrobiology Magazine:
Bringing Mars Back to Earth

Wired UK:
ESA proposes trip to Jupiter's icy moons for next large scale mission

April 19, 2012

Space.com:
Earth Unprepared for Super Solar Storm

Scientific American:
When It Comes to Solar Storms, We Don't Even Know How Bad It Might Get

Daily Mail:
Cleared for take-off! PayPal co-founder's Dragon to be first-ever private spacecraft to dock with Space Station

Space.com:
Lyrid Meteor Shower: Tips to See April's 'Shooting Stars'

Space.com:
Meteor Shower Mania: How Well Do You Know 'Shooting Stars'?

Space.com:
'Rogue' Alien Planets May Circle Billions of Stars

Discovery News:
Was Earth a Migratory Planet?

Gizmodo:
How Lockheed's Skunk Works Got into the Stealth Fighter Business

April 18, 2012

Space.com:
Spaceport America Milestones: Record Rocket Launch, Runway Add-On

Universe Today:
Rogue Planets Can Find Homes Around Other Stars

April 17, 2012

NorthJersey.com:
Back in the Day - April 9, 1972: Credible witness writes of Wanaque UFOs

Space.com:
Spectacular Solar Flare Erupts From the Sun

Discovery News:
Legendary Earth-Observing Satellite Goes Silent

Space.com:
1st Private Mission to Space Station Set to Launch April 30

Wired:
China Now Tops U.S. in Space Launches

Discovery News:
Mars Life Search to Go in High Gear

Space.com:
Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaks This Week

National Geographic:
Spaceflight HD

Discovery News:
Why 'Space Madness' Fears Haunted NASA's Past

April 16, 2012

Space.com:
Spaceflight Leaders Flock to Colorado For Big Conference This Week

New Scientist:
Mysteriously dark Mars regions are made of glass

Discovery News:
Weird Super-Earths Found Orbiting Neighbor Star

Discovery News:
See The Sun In A Whole New Light: Big Pic

Daily Mail:
Out of this world, quite literally: The beautiful and mysterious Fukang meteorite

io9:
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs might have created life in other solar systems

io9:
How Fast and How High? A chart from when rocketships first blasted into our hearts

WEEKEND EDITION: April 14 through 15, 2012

Popular Science:
The Fastest-Ever Random Number Generator Conjures Digits from Subatomic Noise in a Vacuum

Astrobiology Magazine:
Dinosaurs Roamed a Fiery Landscape

Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Brontosaurus Still Matters

Wired:
Paleobirding: What Birds Looked Like 125 Million Years Ago

io9:
The world's most isolated cave is home to 4 million year old "superbugs"

Gizmodo:
The Holmdel Horn: The Most Important Radio Antenna Ever

Smithsonian Magazine:
The House that Polly Adler Built

io9:
Minimalist posters explain complex philosophical concepts with basic shapes

io9:
Behold xkcd's massive infographic comparing the depths of Earth's lakes and oceans

April 13, 2012

Discovery News:
Mars Viking Robots 'Found Life'

Space.com:
Astronauts in Orbit Mark Big Space Anniversaries

Discovery News:
Gagarin's Glitch-Prone Historic Flight

Discovery News:
Gagarin's Final Words: Is Sausage Packed?

Discovery News:
Gagarin's Falsified Flight Record

Gizmodo:
Awesome Video of the First Human Spaceflight In History

April 12, 2012

Space.com:
Update: Texas Fireball was Real After All, NASA Says

Discovery News:
Celestial Paternity Test: Moon is Earth's Child

io9:
Say hello to the Moon's true "dark" side

io9:
Why you'll never go to space prison

Discovery News:
Do Intelligent Dinosaurs Really Rule Alien Worlds?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Dinosaurs From Space!

The DEW Line:
US Air Force to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the B-52

April 11, 2012

Daily Mail:
Did Nasa cover up mysterious 'orbs' that flew past shuttle mission? Newly uncovered video clearly shows unknown objects 'buzzing' Shuttle Atlantis

Daily Mail:
A million miles from Earth: Nasa puts finishing touches to 'Hubble Plus' telescope - including a 'cosmic Sky HD box' to record light from the dawn of time

Dvice:
12 little known facts about our big stupid moon

io9:
The first entirely new globe of the Moon's surface in more than 40 years

Universe Today:
Moscow At Night from the ISS

Gizmodo:
The Government Can't Even Hide Secret Spy Satellites Anymore

April 10, 2012

Montreal Gazette:
The mystery of England's crop circles

Popular Science:
How it Would Work: Destroying an Incoming Killer Asteroid With a Nuclear Blast

Space.com:
Mystery of Saturn's Walnut Moon Cracked?

Space.com:
Sun's Sibling Stars Could Host Cousins of Earth Life

Dvice:
10 spectacular space images drawn by kids from around the world

April 9, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
Near-misses between space station and debris on the rise

Daily Mail:
Volcanic 'tunnels' detected on Mars could offer a safe haven for life - and might even offer shelter for astronauts

Discovery News:
Nine Exoplanets Discovered in Solar System's 'Twin'

io9:
A breathtaking reminder of just how gigantic Jupiter really is

io9:
How Las Vegas missed out on a life-sized Starship Enterprise

WEEKEND EDITION: April 7 through April 8, 2012

Dvice:
Video: Terrafugia's flying car gassing up and taking flight

Astrobiology Magazine:
The Atmosphere and the Emergence of Animals

Daily Mail:
Dinosaurs DIDN'T rule the earth: The huge creatures 'actually lived in water' - and their tails were swimming aids

Wired UK:
T. rex relative Yutyrannus is the largest-known feathered dinosaur

Science Magazine:
Quest for Fire Began Earlier Than Thought

Science Magazine:
Ice Age Ankle Biters

Live Science:
Mysterious Animal-Shaped Structures Are Oldest Known

Daily Mail:
'Buy charcoal, paper... and find a human skull': Leonardo da Vinci's 'to do' list offers glimpse into the day-to-day life of a genius

io9:
Hand-drawn maps made by 19th-century school children

Daily Mail:
Did poor workmanship sink the Titanic? Physicist claims missing rivets were crucial to 'cascade' of events that sank liner

Scientific American:
Is It Possible to Build an "Unsinkable" Ship?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Hiroshima, U.S.A.

Smithsonian Magazine:
Salk, Sabin and the Race Against Polio

Smithsonian Magazine:
Historic Film Studios Gone, but Not Forgotten

April 6, 2012

Space.com:
Boeing's New Crew-Carrying Spaceship Taking Shape

Astrobiology Magazine:
Titanium Paternity Test Says Earth is the Moon's Only Parent

Wired:
Q&A: The Anthropology of Searching for Aliens

Universe Today:
How Would Humans Respond to First Contact from an Alien World?

April 5, 2012

Wired:
Smaller, Quicker, Secret, Robotic: Inside America's New Space Force

io9:
Holy crap, this Martian dust devil is enormous

Sky and Telescope:
Outer-Planet Moons Found -- and Lost

Discovery News:
Saturn's Smashed-Up Moon Mystery Solved

io9:
We can survive killer asteroids - but it won't be easy

The Atlantic:
Why Space Exploration Is a Job for Humans

Gizmodo:
The Concorde Story - The Documentary

April 4, 2012

Huffington Post:
UFO Encounter Revealed After Almost 40 Years By Ex-Military Pilot: Exclusive

Discovery News:
Could Ancient Aliens Live on Methuselah Planets?

Space.com:
Lyrid Meteor Shower to Grace Dark April Skies

April 3, 2012

Daily Mail:
IBM building most powerful computer in history to unravel origin of the universe

Space.com:
Spy Satellite Launch to Mark Last 'First Flight' Milestone for Delta 4 Rocket

Spaceflight Now:
ATV production terminated as decision on follow-on nears

Space.com:
SpaceX Taps Space Experts to Review Private Spaceship Safety

Spaceflight Now:
Half-ton of cargo on Dragon's space station manifest

Space.com:
NASA Chief Salutes 'Bold Venture' to Raise Sunken Apollo 11 Engines

Astrobiology Magazine:
Earth's Many Moons

Discovery News:
Martian Dark Spots Reveal Heart of Glass

Daily Mail:
Listen to the lightning storms of Mars and the 'ice volcanoes' of Saturn's moon Titan: Scientists simulate sounds of solar system

New Scientist:
Astrophile: The planets that formed by cell division

Discovery News:
Violent Beauty of Our Evolving Universe: Slide Show

Stuff NZ:
Glowing ball likely a meteor

Daily Mail:
Bus-sized asteroid hurtles past Earth - so close it flew UNDER the moon

IEEE Spectrum:
Deflecting Asteroids

April 2, 2012

Gizmodo:
The April Fools Day Asteroid Was No Joke

Universe Today:
Curiosity Halfway to Red Planet Touchdown

Daily Mail:
Did ancient glaciers shape Mars's surface? Deposits found by space probe hint five-mile-deep valley was carved by ice

New Scientist:
Earth has little to fear from a black hole attack

NASA Science:
Getting to Know the Goldilocks Planet

NASA:
The F-1 Engine Powered Apollo Into History

WEEKEND EDITION: March 31 through April 1, 2012

io9:
The Trouble With String Theory

IEEE Spectrum:
Soft Robots for Hard Problems

IEEE Spectrum:
Boston Dynamics Sand Flea Robot Demonstrates Astonishing Jumping Skills

IEEE Spectrum:
Meka and UT Austin Developing 'Hyper-Agile' Bipedal Robot

New Scientist:
Age of oldest rocks off by millions of years

Popular Science:
Fossilized Raindrop Dimples Add to Mystery of Ancient Earth's Warmth

io9:
Why do cicadas know prime numbers?

Smithsonian Magazine:
What Chimps Could Tell Us About How Humans Started Walking on Two Legs

Wired UK:
Cattle DNA traced back to single herd of wild ox

io9:
The last mammoths died out just 3600 years ago... but they should have survived

Popular Science:
Electric Animals That Aren't Eels

Science Magazine:
Primitive Human Ancestor Shared Lucy's World

Smithsonian Magazine:
Mystery of the Lost Peking Man Fossils Solved?

Discovery News:
Neanderthals Were Dying Out Before Humans Arrived

Daily Mail:
Did Europeans move to Africa to weather out ice ages? New DNA study suggests people moved between continents before recorded history

Live Science:
4,000-Year-Old Stone Monolith Likely an Astronomical Marker

io9:
In search of Ancient Egypt's very own watery answer to Venice

Live Science:
Mixed Martial Arts Celebrity Recruited for Ancient Roman Army

io9:
Medieval monks complained about their jobs in the margins of ancient manuscripts

Daily Mail:
Newly discovered Mozart piano work he composed as a child is performed for first time

io9:
When Opium Was For Newborns And Bayer Sold Heroin

io9:
October 8, 1871: The Night America Burned

The Guardian:
Captain Scott centenary: Storm rages around polar explorer's reputation

Smithsonian Magazine:
Greetings From the Land of the Make-Believe Species

io9:
Communicating by Optical Telegraph: What's the top speed of semaphore?

Gizmodo:
How Bell Lab's Radar Dismantled the Axis Powers

The Guardian:
Daniel Everett: 'There is no such thing as universal grammar'

io9:
Major Highlights in the History of Space Opera

March 30, 2012

Space.com:
NASA's New Mars Rover Will Explore Towering 'Mount Sharp'

Space Daily:
Soyuz return from ISS set for April 27

Space.com:
How Water on the Moon Could Fuel Space Exploration

Space.com:
Life's Building Blocks May Have Formed in Dust Around Young Sun

Universe Today:
Did Water or Lava Carve the Outflow Channels on Mars?

Space Daily:
Dusty, Acidic Glaciers Could Explain Layered Deposits on Mars

Discovery News:
Hanging Out With Janus, Saturn's Dinky Moon: Big Pic

Astrobiology Magazine:
How Deep Must Life Hide to be Safe on Europa?

Daily Mail:
Where no man has gone before: Scientists develop 'sat nav' for spaceships - which could pave Man's way beyond solar system

io9:
Supercomputer Tells Us of Earth's Many Mini Moons

March 29, 2012

Space.com:
Amazon Founder Finds Apollo 11 Moon Rocket Engines On Ocean Floor

Space.com:
European Robot Cargo Ship Docks at Space Station

NASA Science:
Is it Snowing Microbes on Enceladus?

Daily Mail:
Comets linked to beginnings of life: Scientists say shock waves from space rocks bombarding the Earth bonded vital amino acids together

Space.com:
How Cosmic Collisions May Have Altered Earth's Evolution

Cosmos:
What's the Earth really made of?

Space.com:
Billions of Habitable Alien Planets Should Exist in Our Galaxy

Daily Mail:
Wispy blue 'smoke' captured by space telescope is debris of huge supernova blast - and shockwave is still travelling through space

Universe Today:
Billions of Habitable Worlds Likely in the Milky Way

Discovery News:
Billions of Habitable Worlds in Our Galaxy?

Gizmodo:
The Lens We'll Look Through to Find A New Earth

Gizmodo:
The F-35 Looks Like a Stealth Spaceship at Night

Farmington Daily Times:
Aztec UFO landing subject of new book

March 28, 2012

Dallas Morning News:
Love Field museum unveils WWII-era 'flying pancake' that paved way for stealth bomber

Universe Today:
Psychedelics in the Sky: NASA Launches 5 Rockets in 5 Minutes

Spaceflight Now:
Launch warnings show Delta 4 headed for backwards orbit

NASA:
Flying Formation - Around the Moon at 3,600 MPH

Daily Mail:
So how DID the moon get there? Rocks from lunar surface show no traces of the ancient rock impact meant to have created it

New Scientist:
Astrophile: Flaring fairy lights of Saturn's F ring

Discovery News:
Most Ancient, 'Impossible' Alien Worlds Discovered

Daily Mail:
Ringside seats for the Big Bang: Discovery of oldest planets ever prompts scientists to ask if they had life on them in their 12 billion year history

Discovery News:
The Four Ages of the Universe -- What's Next?

Daily Mail:
Formation of high-speed laser-armed 'fighter' satellites in development - could they be our best hope against asteroids?

Space Daily:
Engineers set their sights on asteroid deflection

Gizmodo:
New Moon Video Reveals Places That Haven't Seen Sunlight In Billions of Years

March 27, 2012

Dvice:
ISS crew duck and cover in close call with space junk

Space.com:
2 Small Asteroids Give Earth a Close Shave

Space.com:
How to Spot a Huge Space Cargo Ship in Night Sky This Week

Scientific American:
Controversy Surrounds Russia's Claim that Cosmic Rays Caused Mars Mission Failure

Astrobiology Magazine:
A New Class of Landform on Mars

Universe Today:
Rare Rain on Titan; Once Every 1,000 Years

Universe Today:
Can "Warp Speed" Planets Zoom Through Interstellar Space?

Space.com:
Mysterious Geologic Structure Seen from Space

Space Daily:
SciTechTalk: Can long space missions work?

Space.com:
18th-Century Bone Telescopes Discovered in Amsterdam

March 26, 2012

Arizona Daily Star:
Tales from the Morgue: UFOs are real

Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Atomic Testing Museum explores Area 51

Spaceflight Now:
Russian satellite destroyed despite promise for scientists

Space.com:
Amazing Night Launch Photos: Europe's ATV-3 Cargo Ship Blasts Off

Science Magazine:
Findings Cast Doubt on Moon Origins

Scientific American:
Evidence for Flowing Water on Mars Grows Stronger

io9:
Could giant asteroid Vesta actually be a planet?

Discovery News:
Aliens on Planet With Two Suns Need Rhythm

The Guardian:
Asteroid headed for Earth? Give it the laser treatment…

Gizmodo:
The Many Monuments to Russia's Beloved MiG

WEEKEND EDITION: March 24 through 25, 2012

io9:
Watch a series of seven brilliant lectures by Richard Feynman

Gizmodo:
How a Particle Accelerator Works: Explained With Donuts and Chocolate Bars

Daily Mail:
Amazing 3D printer in action: Watch a working wrench being made from powder

IEEE Spectrum:
Robotics Trends for 2012

Popular Science:
The Navy's New Autonomous Research Lab is a 'Hunger Games' Arena for Robots

Daily Mail:
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water: American scientists unleash robotic jellyfish

Popular Science:
National Ignition Facility Fires Record-Setting 2-Megajoule Laser

Dvice:
In photos: The gears and guts of antique calculating machines

Gizmag:
The US$5 million watch

Smithsonian Magazine:
Top Ten Most-Destructive Computer Viruses

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Prehistoric Giants Hall of Fame

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Titanoboa, the 40-Foot-Long Snake, Was Found

Dvice:
20 must-see-to-believe 'ant portraits' that don't need special effects

The Guardian:
Our human ancestors and their relatives - in pictures

Live Science:
Human Invasion Ended Reign Of Australia's 'Giants'

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Ottoman Empire's Life-or-Death Race

Gizmodo:
New Van Gogh Painting Discovered

Smithsonian Magazine:
Edward Curtis' Epic Project to Photograph Native Americans

Daily Mail:
The Titanic as you've never seen it before: A century after it sank, stunning new hi-tech images reveal doomed ship on ocean floor

Smithsonian Magazine:
On Heroic Self-Sacrifice: a London Park Devoted to Those Most Worth Remembering

Daily Mail:
Original E=MC2 scribble posted online with huge Einstein archive… including love letters to his second wife and fan mail urging him to get his hair cut

io9:
The abandoned Hollywood bunker built for Hitler

Gizmodo:
US Nuke Stockpile Control Systems Are "Under Constant Attack"

Smithsonian Magazine:
Ten Inventions Inspired by Science Fiction

The Guardian:
Study reveals words' Darwinian struggle for survival

March 23, 2012

Space.com:
Time Running Out to Salvage Doomed Russian Satellite

NASA Science:
Solar Storm Dumps Gigawatts into Earth's Upper Atmosphere

Space.com:
Europe Launching Heaviest Space Station Cargo Ship Friday

Space.com:
Space Station Faces Cosmic Traffic Jam

Space.com:
NASA Probe Snaps New Moon Photos for Students on Earth

Popular Science:
Opportunity Snaps a Self-Portrait As It Preps for the Martian Winter

Discovery News:
Mercury Not Too Hot For Polar Water Ice?

Popular Science:
Mercury Has a Liquid Core, and Other New Surprises From the Innermost Planet

Space.com:
Robot Submarine on Jupiter Moon Europa is 'Holy Grail' Mission for Planetary Science

io9:
Hypervelocity planets are zooming out of our galaxy at warp speed

Gizmodo:
The Secret Nuclear Drone Tech Our Government Hid

March 22, 2012

Daily Mail:
This really is space junk: Russian space experts examine 200-kilo metal 'UFO dustbin lid' which fell from the sky in Siberia

Discovery News:
Real 'Flying Saucer' Plans Date Back to 19th Century

Spaceflight Now:
Delta 4 set for national security mission next week

Universe Today:
Orion Crew Capsule Targeted for 2014 Leap to High Orbit

Spaceflight Now:
GRAIL lunar gravity mission extended until December

Space.com:
Mercury Surprises: Tiny Planet Has Strange Innards and Active Past

Discovery News:
Mystery Rising Within Mercury

Discovery News:
Mercury Makes Precise Measurement of the Sun

NASA News:
Dawn Sees New Surface Features on Giant Asteroid

Daily Mail:
Could life 'spread' through solar systems? Scientists probe distant 'super Earth' to find if life can 'hop' between planets

March 21, 2012

Military Times:
UFO deployed to Afghanistan?

Discovery News:
'Beam Me To The Stars, Scotty!'

Space Daily:
MESSENGER Completes Primary Mission at Mercury, Settles in for Another Year

Universe Today:
Photo Treat: Enceladus, Titan and Saturn's Rings

Universe Today:
Twister on Mars: The Movie

io9:
What the deep seas tell us about life on other planets

March 20, 2012

io9:
Scientific Evidence that Geomagnetic Storms Are Making You Sick

Dvice:
Robot explorer would make water landings on alien worlds

Nature:
Satellites expose 8,000 years of civilization

Dvice:
SpaceX Dragon to deliver groceries to ISS next month

Space.com:
Spring Arrives With Equinox Tuesday, Earliest in Over a Century

Wired UK:
Vote for your favourite infographic for aliens

io9:
The beautiful astronaut book Umberto Eco wrote to teach children about semiotics and tolerance

March 19, 2012

Discovery News:
Dead Russian Satellite to Fall From Space

Space.com:
NASA Launching 5 Rockets in 5 Minutes in Monday Night Sky Show

Dvice:
Next stop, orbit: 5 spaceflight companies looking to get there soon

Gizmodo:
The First Look Inside America's First Private Spaceship

Universe Today:
SpaceX's Dragon, Now With Seating for Seven

Space.com:
North Korea's Rockets and Space Program Shrouded in Uncertainty

Dvice:
How zeppelins could help telescopes find planets

Dvice:
Radical biplane design flies supersonic without the boom

Gizmodo:
The Concorde's Soviet Older Sister That Just Couldn't Stop Crashing

Space.com:
Clues to 'Weird' Saturn Moon Found in Earth's Ice

Space.com:
Alien Plants May Thrive on Many Wavelengths of Light

Daily Mail:
The 'radio' that can send messages THROUGH the Earth (and which could help us get in touch with ET on distant worlds)

Daily Mail:
'Atomic bomb' asteroid will definitely miss us this time ... but it comes back every year

WEEKEND EDITION: March 17 through 18, 2012

Discover Magazine:
How to Survive the End of the Universe

The Guardian:
Newton's law of gravity explained – audio slideshow

National Geographic:
Quiz: What You Don't Know About Nature's Forces of Energy

Astrobiology Magazine:
A New Theory on the Oldest Continents

Live Science:
Caught in the Act: Ancient Armored Fish Downs Flying Reptile

Live Science:
New Jurassic Salamander Is World's Oldest

Daily Mail:
Revealed: the secret of the peaceful beaver-like mammals which lived alongside the dinosaurs for 20 million years

Daily Mail:
Chin up! Newly discovered 'horned dinosaurs' from 83 million years ago looked more like parrots than lizards

io9:
Ancient humans beat out Neanderthals by being in the right place at the right time

Daily Mail:
A new chapter in human history: Startling discovery of Stone Age cavemen in China who 'are an entirely new species'

Smithsonian Magazine:
Clovis People Hunted Canada's Camels

Daily Mail:
'Seek and you shall find': Secret message that led to 'lost' Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece hidden behind wall for 400 years

Smithsonian Magazine:
Was Chop Suey the Greatest Culinary Joke Ever Played?

io9:
The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine is history's most startling mental disorder

Daily Mail:
Better late than never! Charles Darwin cleared of stealing ideas for theory of evolution... 40 years after historians first accused him

Smithsonian Magazine:
Clarence Dally - The Man Who Gave Thomas Edison X-Ray Vision

Gizmodo:
The Kalinin K7 Was King of the Propeller Planes

Gizmodo:
How to Build Turing's Universal Machine

Gizmodo:
Whoever Wrote the Duqu Trojan's Framework Wrote It in an Unknown Programming Language

The Guardian:
Classic science fiction movies – in pictures

Dvice:
Carving books with a surgeon's skill creates amazing works of art

March 16, 2012

Space.com:
Skydiver Leaps From Stratosphere in 'Space Jump' Practice

Space.com:
First Commercial Spaceship to Launch to Space Station April 30

Discovery News:
Did Life on Earth Come From Mars?

March 15, 2012

Space.com:
Radio Glitch Delays 5-Rocket Launch to Edge of Space

Dvice:
Leaked doc reveals Russian plans for manned bases on Moon, Mars

Space.com:
Busy Sunspot Unleashes Another Strong Solar Flare

Astrobiology Magazine:
Meteorites Reveal Another Way to Make Life's Components

Discovery News:
Most Detailed View Yet of the Apollo 11 Moonwalks: Big Pic

Universe Today:
Watch 4.5 Billion Years of the Moon's Evolution in 2.5 Minutes

March 14, 2012

Space.com:
Private Spaceship Flights to Space Station Delayed to Spring and Fall

Spaceflight Now:
Veteran astronaut to head up commercial space federation

Space.com:
Vetting New Suborbital Spaceships May Take Thousands of Flights

Discovery News:
Eye Problems Common in Astronauts

Space.com:
Spaceflight Bad for Astronauts' Vision, Study Suggests

io9:
Here's what the weather on Mars would really look like

March 13, 2012

The Scotsman:
Proof shredded - but the truth is out there, insists UFO investigator

Discovery News:
Venus Spacecraft Punched, Blinded by Solar Radiation

Space.com:
Hefty Asteroid 2011 AG5's Threat to Earth Should Be Studied More, Scientists Say

Discovery News:
Nuking Asteroids: It's a Megaton Of Fun!

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX eyes shuttle launch pad for heavy-lift rocket

Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 being stacked for its next U.S. military launch

Space.com:
Mars Clays Could Preserve Signs of Life

Popular Science:
The Mars Experiment

Astrobiology Magazine:
Villain in disguise: Jupiter's role in impacts on Earth

Gizmag:
The blistering hot exoplanet where it snows

Daily Mail:
'Startram' magnetic space train could deliver four million people a year into orbit by 2032, say designers

Discovery News:
How To (Really) Build Your Own TARDIS

March 12, 2012

Space.com:
Two More Solar Flares Erupt on Active Sun Saturday

The Guardian:
Solar storms could crash computer systems this year, says space expert

Discovery News:
Solar Storm Paints Stunning Northern Lights: Big Pic

Daily Mail:
Great ball of fire! Spectacular images of the sun taken during this week's solar storms

Discovery News:
Solar Storm Warning Satellite on Last Legs

NPR:
Planet Or Not, Pluto's Getting A Visitor

WEEKEND EDITION: March 10 through 11, 2012

io9:
Quantum Suicide: How to Prove the Multiverse Exists, in the Most Violent Way Possible

io9:
10 Weird Stories About the Higgs Boson

The Guardian:
Science Weekly podcast: Equations that changed the world

The Guardian:
Pythagoras's theorem explained – audio slideshow

io9:
Why can't we get down to absolute zero?

io9:
The psychedelic physics behind the lava lamp's hypnotic goo

io9:
The very first robot "brains" were made of old alarm clocks

Live Science:
Why Early Earth Didn't Freeze Over Still a Mystery

Live Science:
Earth's Earliest Animal With a Skeleton Discovered

Daily Mail:
Meet the ancestors: Humanity's oldest relation discovered - a two-inch worm that bobbed along the sea floors

Popular Science:
Reconstructed: a Dinosaur With Four Iridescent Wings

Daily Mail:
Humans WERE responsible for killing off the woolly mammoth - and global warming didn't help either, say scientists

Daily Mail:
'Strong enough to cut fish in half': Sawfish are NOT placid creatures, but merciless predators which use their saws to slice prey

Daily Mail:
We're going to need a bigger net: Photographer meets FOOT-WIDE moth in the Himalayas

Science Magazine:
A Little Gorilla in Us All

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Cave Art Debate

io9:
Could the first humans to reach the Americas have come from Europe?

Cosmos:
Last Inca emperor's tomb uncovered?

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Monster of Glamis

Smithsonian Magazine:
Paris or Bust: The Great New York-to-Paris Auto Race of 1908

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Case for a New Grant Wood Painting

Innovation News:
Where is My Virtual Actor?

io9:
10 Science and Technology Breakthroughs That Caused Widespread Panic

Smithsonian Magazine:
Why the Titanic Still Fascinates Us

Popular Science:
Did An Optical Illusion Doom the Titanic?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Seven Famous People Who Missed the Titanic

March 9, 2012

Discovery News:
As Sunstorm Zaps Earth, Planes Diverted

Space.com:
Big Solar Storm Packs Small Punch, But Not Over Yet

Space.com:
Raging Solar Storm 'Blinds' Venus Spacecraft

The Guardian:
Solar storms: how they are formed and how vulnerable we are

Popular Science:
Lockheed's Space Fence Prototype Starts Tracking Space Junk With Advanced Radar

NASA News:
NASA's Orion Moves Closer to Next Giant Leap

Daily Mail:
Revealed: How America's secret space plane has been in orbit for over a year - and no one knows what it's doing

Cosmos:
Asteroid caused Moon's odd magnetic spots

Astrobiology Magazine:
Stars with Dusty Disks Should Harbor Earth-like Worlds

March 8, 2012

Daily Mail:
New sunspot group unleashes barrage of huge solar flares as astronomers predict two years of storms which could cause chaos on Earth

Space.com:
Sun Fires Off 2 Huge Solar Flares in One-Two Punch

Space.com:
Huge Solar Flare's Magnetic Storm May Disrupt Satellites, Power Grids

Discovery News:
Huge Magnetic Storm May Wreak Havoc

Space.com:
The Sun's Wrath: Worst Solar Storms in History

Universe Today:
A Close-up Look at the Massive Solar Storm that Shook the Sun

Space.com:
Solar Flares: A User's Guide (Infographic)

Spaceflight Now:
Space station cargo delivery delayed about two weeks

Space.com:
Skydiver Capsule Ready for Supersonic 'Space Jump'

Universe Today:
Capsule and Skydiver Ready for Record-Setting Freefall

Space.com:
Twin NASA Moon Probes Begin Mapping Lunar Gravity

Spaceflight Now:
NASA probes shifting orbits for Curiosity rover landing

Daily Mail:
How Nasa's 1.67bn Mars Curiosity probe must slow from 13,200mph in six minutes for a soft landing on the Red Planet

Spaceflight Now:
Martian twister caught in action by orbiting spacecraft

Universe Today:
Best Views Yet of Historic Apollo Landing Sites

Discovery News:
18th-Century Astronomer Herschel's Papers Now Public

Space.com:
How the 'Man in the Moon' Turned to Face Earth

March 7, 2012

Space.com:
Powerful Solar Flare May Be Signal of More to Come

Dvice:
NASA goes launch crazy with plans for five rockets in five minutes

Discovery News:
Secret Military Mini-Shuttle Marks One Year in Orbit

NASA News News:
Apollo 12: Pinpoint Landing on the Ocean of Storms

Astrobiology Magazine:
Venus as ExoPlanet Example

Daily Mail:
Incredible pictures shed new light on the lakes and rivers of Saturn's fog-shrouded moon Titan

Daily Mail:
Did life once thrive on super-Earth 40 light years away? It has more water than Earth and once lingered in the 'Goldilocks Zone', say scientists

Popular Science:
Hubble Catches a Warped Spiral Galaxy in Profile

Discovery News:
Did the Moon Conspire to Bring Down Titanic?

Daily Mail:
Did the MOON sink the Titanic? Freak tides caused icebergs to fill shipping lanes 100 years ago

March 6, 2012

Daily Mail:
Huge asteroid hurtling towards Earth will fly past our planet so close it will go UNDER many man-made satellites

Popular Science:
Massive Extraterrestrial Rock Hit Earth 13 Millennia Ago, According to Nano-Evidence

Space.com:
Big Asteroid's Chances of Hitting Earth in 2040 Overblown, NASA Says

Daily Mail:
Chinese hackers 'had full access' to Nasa lab that commands 23 spacecraft

Spaceflight Now:
U.S. Air Force space plane marks one year in orbit

Space Daily:
What Next for X-37B

Space Daily:
China to launch moon-landing orbiter in 2013

Daily Mail:
Out of this world: An awe-inspiring portrait of Earth planet to celebrate the tenth anniversary of pictures from observation satellite

Universe Today:
Look, It's a Moon Buggy! LRO's Best Look Ever at the Apollo 15 Landing Site

io9:
The weather on Venus calls for massive mid-air explosions

Astrobiology Magazine:
O, Pioneers! (part 2): The Derelicts of Space

March 5, 2012

Daily Mail:
Police inundated by terrified callers as meteor lights up the sky across Britain

Space Daily:
China prepares for manned space docking this year

Space Daily:
Logistics, recycling key to China's space station

Daily Mail:
Was Mars stripped of its protective magnetic field by a huge asteroid impact that left THIS crater as deep as Mount Everest?

Space.com:
Japan Eyes New Space Mission to Sample an Asteroid

Universe Today:
Saturn's "Wispy" Moon Has An Oxygen Atmosphere

Discovery News:
Oxygen Discovery Raises Hopes for Saturn Moon Life

National Geographic:
More Than 1,000 Potential New Planets Found

Innovation News:
Startup Builds Mobile Surveillance Hovercraft

Daily Mail:
Cities blacked out for up to a year, $2 TRILLION of damage - with a 1 in 8 chance of solar 'megastorm' by 2014, experts explore the worst that could happen

WEEKEND EDITION: March 3 through 4, 2012

io9:
We're on the verge of two world-changing antimatter discoveries

io9:
Why are electrons doomed to remain forever separated from their beloved protons?

Innovation News:
Humanity Must 'Jail' Dangerous AI to Avoid Doom, Expert Says

Gizmag:
D-Shape 3D printer can print full-sized houses

Gizmodo:
The Smithsonian Turns To 3D Printing To Share Their Collection

Astrobiology Magazine:
Volcanoes Deliver Two Flavors of Water

Live Science:
Giant Vines and Towering Trees: Ancient Forest Unearthed

Daily Mail:
So that's why they were so bad-tempered: Inch-long fossil fleas with huge piercing mouth-parts could have fed on dinosaurs

Gizmodo:
Dueling Skulls: Triceratops Controversy Continues

io9:
T. Rex's bite was the most powerful the world has ever known

Daily Mail:
P-p-p pick up a tape measure: The taller penguins that roamed New Zealand 25million years ago

Gizmodo:
This Prehistoric Penguin Was the Biggest Penguin Ever

io9:
The "rarest insect in the world" also happens to be freaking enormous

Daily Mail:
How did it get THERE? Tree lobster thought to be extinct for 80 years found alive clinging 500ft up on remote Pacific rock taller than Empire State Building

Live Science:
Dolphins' Unique Whistles Say, 'Hey! Come Play!'

io9:
Neanderthals were sailing the Mediterranean 100,000 years ago

io9:
The extinction of Neanderthals had nothing to do with us

Live Science:
Found: Ancient Warrior's Helmet, Owner Unknown

Daily Mail:
Pablo Picasso's epic Guernica to get a check-up from a 250,000-pound art-appreciation robot (called 'little Pablo')

Gizmodo:
These Modified Cars Ferried Rail Crews in Style

io9:
Photos of the abandoned antique cars nature has reclaimed

Daily Mail:
Desert wrecks: The desolate ship cemetery where camels walk beside rusting vessels buried in sand

io9:
Behold, the Mickey Mouse gas mask from World War II

Dvice:
Why you have a lot to thank the New York World's Fair for

io9:
No Myth: Eye-Gouging Is Rare Symptom of Untreated Psychosis

Gizmodo:
The Weirdest Tweets and Facebook Posts That Could Get You in Trouble with the Department of Homeland Security

IEEE Spectrum:
Virgin Oceanic's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

io9:
10 Places to Ride Out the Apocalypse

March 2, 2012

Innovation News:
Supersonic Drone Set to Fly in 2013

Space.com:
Lofty Goal for Private Spaceflight: 1,000 Launches a Year by 2019

Popular Science:
Now Underway: the U.S.'s First Suborbital Balloon Factory

Space.com:
Earth Formed From Diverse Meteorite Mix, Study Suggests

Daily Mail:
The laws of physics cannae take it, Captain! Star Trek's 'warp drive' would BLOW UP any solar system the Enterprise arrived at, warn physicists

March 1, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
What is the International Space Station's weakest link?

Space.com:
Secret Codes Ready to Take Quantum Leap in Space

Spaceflight Now:
ATK five-segment rocket motor to enter qualification

Dvice:
StarTram maglev would launch cargo up a mountain and into space

IEEE Spectrum:
NASA's Project Morpheus Still Shooting for the Moon

Popular Science:
Video: NASA's Methane-Powered Launcher Lifts Off With a Blue-Hot Column of Flame

Dvice:
Amazon founder's space venture to test new rocket feature

Wired UK:
Kepler space telescope finds 1,091 new exoplanet candidates

Discovery News:
'Earth-like' Planets May Be Nothing Like Earth

Space.com:
Moon's Reflected 'Earthshine' May Aid Search for Alien Life

Discovery News:
Earth Sheds Light on Alien Worlds

Discovery News:
Violent History Preserved in Hayabusa's Asteroid Grains

Space.com:
2012 Skywatching Guide: Solar and Lunar Eclipses of the Year

Universe Today:
Warp Drives May Come With a Killer Downside

Gizmodo:
How To Start Up a Boeing 737 Step By Step

February 29, 2012

Space.com:
Virgin Galactic Aims for 1st Rocket-Powered Flight This Year

Spaceflight Now:
NASA's huge rocket needs engine with flight heritage

Space.com:
China's Space Advances Worry US Military

Universe Today:
Salty Soil on Mars Could Be Slurping Water from the Atmosphere

Space.com:
Our Baby Universe Likely Expanded Rapidly, Study Suggests

February 28, 2012

Space.com:
Big Asteroid 2011 AG5 Could Pose Threat to Earth in 2040

Popular Science:
Newly Discovered Space Rock Is Headed Toward Earth, Estimated Time of Arrival 2040

Space.com:
Sun Unleashes 5 Solar Eruptions in 2 Days

Dvice:
It came from orbit: 'space ball' slams down in Brazilian village

Universe Today:
Just In From SpaceX: Dragon and Falcon 9 Assembly Now Complete

Space.com:
Launch Pad Work Adds Months of Delay for New Private Rocketship

Space.com:
Space Junk Janitors Should Sweep Up 5 Dead Satellites a Year, Experts Say

Discovery News:
Project Icarus: Mechanisms of the Interstellar Machine

Universe Today:
Spotted! ISS Pictures from All Over the World

Universe Today:
Face-to-Face With Some Shattered Lunar Boulders

Space.com:
1st Asteroid Samples Reveal Surprising Look at Space Rock Crashes

io9:
The Most Dangerous Places in the Solar System

Daily Mail:
Earth calling… but not very far: The tiny yellow dot in our galaxy that shows the (comparatively small) distance radio broadcasts have travelled in a century of reaching out to aliens

Astrobiology Magazine:
O, Pioneers! (part 1): The Motes in Gods Eye

February 27, 2012

Discovery News:
NASA Urges Vigilance For Weird Fireballs

Daily Mail:
Watch out for the 'Fireballs of February': Slow meteors that shine brighter than Venus bombard Earth

Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 rocket navigates new Navy satellite into orbit

Spaceflight Now:
Rocketcams offer dazzling views of Atlas 5 launch

Space Daily:
Searching for life in the depths of Enceladus

io9:
Saturn's two largest moons, captured in tandem

Gizmodo:
This Is What the Death of a Star Really Looks Like

New Scientist:
Astrophile: The relativity-testing supernova next door

io9:
A stunning image of four galaxies smashed together in one tiny corner of the universe

Popular Science:
The Six Places on Earth That Most Resemble Other Planets

Universe Today:
35 Years Later, the 'Wow!' Signal Still Tantalizes

Space Daily:
Cosmonaut Testing at Star City Deceptively Simple

io9:
Why do astronauts crave spicy food in space?

WEEKEND EDITION: February 25-26, 2012

Scientific American:
The History of the Universe: From Big Bang to Big Blah

io9:
Time crystals: One of the weirdest ideas in physics

io9:
Albert Einstein's 10 Biggest Scientific Mistakes

Live Science:
Wacky Physics: New Uncertainty About the Uncertainty Principle

io9:
The Beautiful, Deadly Vortex That Tears Huge Buildings Apart

Gizmodo:
Real Scientifical Gangstas Build Their Own Atomic Clocks

Live Science:
Scientists Watch Hot Spring Microbes Become Two Species

io9:
Extraordinary 298-Million-Year-Old Forest Discovered Under Chinese Coal Mine

Nature:
Ash-covered forest is 'Permian Pompeii'

Daily Mail:
Ancient plant brought back to life after being buried by squirrels in Siberian permafrost more than 30,000 years ago

Live Science:
Triceratops No Slouch, New Forelimb Study Reveals

io9:
Researchers resurrect new species of life from ancient Andean tomb

Dvice:
Ancient Warming Shrunk Horses to Housecat Size

Live Science:
Fossil Footprints Reveal Oldest Elephant Herd

Science Magazine:
Ancient Elephants Followed the (Female) Leader

Dvice:
Alex's last experiment proves parrots smarter than your kids

Daily Mail:
Stunning face hidden for thousands of years: Wooden sarcophagus is unearthed at Egyptian necropolis

Science Magazine:
Could a Bit More Rain Have Saved the Mayas?

io9:
The Short, Strange History of Decimal Time

io9:
How an 1870s marine expedition changed oceanography and drove eight sailors insane

io9:
The Year Without a Summer, and How It Spawned Frankenstein

io9:
Could you have passed Thomas Edison's job interview test?

io9:
Babies in incubators were once an attraction at Coney Island

Dvice:
From geeks, for geeks: website to plan your nerd adventures

February 24, 2012

Space.com:
Strange Fireballs Light Up February Skies

NASA Science:
The Fireballs of February

Universe Today:
Barnstorming the Suborbital Science Frontier

Space.com:
Red Dwarf Stars May Be Best Chance for Habitable Alien Planets

Universe Today:
'Nomad' Planets Could Outnumber Stars 100,000 to 1

Dvice:
Zeppelins and circular runways define airports of the future

Space.com:
Playboy and Virgin Galactic Dream Up Cosmic Men's Space Club

Mysterious Universe:
Spying on the Saucer Writers

February 23, 2012

Space.com:
Air Force Eyes Nuclear Reactors, Beamed Power for Spacecraft

Space.com:
120mph space elevator that takes tourists 22,000 miles into orbit could be built within 40 years (but it would take a week to get there)

Universe Today:
Opportunity Phones Home Dusty Self-Portraits and Ground Breaking Science

Universe Today:
Gallery: Bizarre Dunes on Mars

Universe Today:
By Dawn's Early Light

Science Magazine:
Dual Interpretations: Milky Way's Outer Fringe of Stars Sparks Disagreement

Wired:
Preparing for Mars Sample Return

Knox Village Soup:
Crop circles make the way to Rockland library

February 22, 2012

Astrobiology Magazine:
Parts of Earth that Survived the Moon-Creation Collision

Discovery News:
It's Alive! There's Magma on the Moon

Space.com:
'Marsquake' May Have Shaken Up Red Planet

Astrobiology Magazine:
Modern Marsquakes

Space Daily:
Saturn moon more Earth-like than thought

Discovery News:
Hubble Reveals Weird New Exoplanet: Waterworld

Space.com:
New Type of Alien Planet Is a Steamy 'Waterworld'

Space.com:
Cosmic Hurricane: Black Hole Has 20 Million MPH Winds

Daily Mail:
Satellite captures enormous 90-mile-wide storm that's UNDERWATER

Science Magazine:
Some Planets Are Alien Invaders

February 21, 2012

io9:
How two monkeys, two chimps and a robot made Mercury possible

IEEE Spectrum:
This Will Be Robonaut's New Job on the ISS, For Now

Daily Mail:
Extraordinary pictures of solar 'tornado' as large as the Earth moving at 300,000mph

Wired UK:
Why the Moon has no active volcanoes

Daily Mail:
Volcanoes on the Moon? Research shows that lunar surface may one day have lava flows

Space Daily:
Mars rocks indicate relatively recent quakes, volcanism, on Red Planet

Centauri Dreams:
Jupiter's Protective Role Questioned

Discovery News:
Titan's Great Dune Seas Rival Science Fiction Worlds

io9:
Unique mid-sized black hole is the lonely survivor of a shredded galaxy

Daily Mail:
Could the Milky Way's 'phantom black holes' pose a danger to our solar system?

Daily Mail:
Earth, solar wind and fire: Northern lights and molten lava come together in landscape that could be out of this world

io9:
This is the binary message we sent out to aliens 38 years ago

The Ottawa Citizen:
Ground zero for crop circles

February 20, 2012

Space.com:
1st American in Orbit: How NASA and John Glenn Made History (Infographic)

Space.com:
John Glenn's Historic Spaceflight Was No Sure Thing

Space.com:
Search Continues for Secret Stamp Honoring John Glenn's Historic Spaceflight

Space.com:
China to Launch 3 Astronauts to Space Laboratory by August

Spaceflight Now:
China sets summer launch for next human spaceflight

Spaceflight Now:
One-week launch delay ordered for X-ray telescope

Space.com:
Ancient Rocks Suggest Early Earth Was Motley Mix

Space.com:
Moon's Scarred Crust Hints at Recent Activity, Scientists Say

Daily Mail:
When water flowed on Mars: Colour-coded shots show valleys carved out by ancient floods

Daily Mail:
Telescope described as 'biggest leap since Galileo' will unravel how planets form - and could solve the mystery of where Earth's oceans came from

WEEKEND EDITION: February 18-19, 2012

io9:
How do we know the universe isn't already ruled by giant space brains?

Daily Mail:
Physicists to 'turn up' beams of the LHC to even higher energies for Higgs hunt - 'it will be found or ruled out by end of 2012'

Dvice:
By 2031, we'll all be flying personal blimpjets

IEEE Spectrum:
Canadians Teach Darwin-OP Robot to Ice Skate, Play Hockey

Daily Mail:
Hands up who wants one? Fan proves you really can 'make anything' with Lego after creating prosthetic arm and hand

Gizmag:
Odorico Pordenone caravan concept brings style to the campground

Innovation News:
Today's Humans Ready to Love Tomorrow's Robots

Gizmag:
Microsoft robotics developer builds remote dog-sitting bot

io9:
Controversial new theory claims life got its start in Russian hot springs

Nature:
How the first plant came to be

Live Science:
Ancient Massive Volcanic Eruption Still Mystifies

io9:
World's tiniest chameleon is the size of match's head

Daily Mail:
Tiny bird which weighs same as two spoons of sugar baffles scientists with 18,000 mile return migration

Daily Mail:
You've got to be kidding me! Remarkable research shows goats have accents which they pick up from their peers

Daily Mail:
Was Stonehenge the result of an extraordinary hallucination after frenzied flute playing?

The Guardian:
Archaeologists strike gold in quest to find Queen of Sheba's wealth

io9:
Why Helium was the Dark Matter of its Day

Gizmodo:
Why Rubber Rules: A Short History of the World's Favorite Stretchy Substance

Gizmodo:
How The World's Most Famous Auto Designer Mailed A Concept Car Out Of GM, Piece By Piece

Innovation News:
Future Zoos to Have Woolly Mammoths and Tiger Robots

The Guardian:
Memory and amnesia in the movies

io9:
Dr. Seuss taxidermy is equal parts disturbing and charming

February 17, 2012

Space.com:
2 Russian Cosmonauts Move Space Station Crane in 6-Hour Spacewalk

Space.com:
Private Xombie Rocket Aces NASA Landing Test

Space.com:
High Winds Scrub Launch of New Military Satellite

Spaceflight Now:
Mars Express back in business at the red planet

Space Daily:
Honeycombs and Hexacopters Help Tell Story of Mars

Space Daily:
ISS may become Martian flight simulator

IEEE Spectrum:
Did Bad Memory Chips Down Russia's Mars Probe?

Daily Mail:
Venus shifts gear: Scientists puzzle as planet is found to be spinning slower than it should

Spaceflight Now:
U.S. government revokes LightSquared license

Popular Science:
How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole

Dvice.com:
The amazing space program propaganda of Soviet Russia

The Atlantic:
The 'Wow!' Signal: One Man's Search for SETI's Most Tantalizing Trace of Alien Life

February 16, 2012

Sydney Morning Herald:
At 90, an American space hero looks back

Space.com:
US Navy to Launch Advanced New Military Satellite Thursday

Space.com:
Are Russia's Recent Space Woes a Sign of Larger Problems?

Space Daily:
Is Shenzhou Unsafe?

Discovery News:
Mars Now at Most Extreme Distance from the Sun

Voice of America:
Rotation of Venus Might Be Slowing

Daily Mail:
The outer limits: Incredible video shows what the sun would look like seen from the freezing surface of dwarf planet Pluto

The Hindu:
Are there more potentially inhabitable planets?

Universe Today:
Timelapse: Behind the Scenes at the Keck Telescope

February 15, 2012

Universe Today:
NASA's Picture of the Future of Human Spaceflight

Universe Today:
NASA Shuts Down Its Last Mainframe Computer

Daily Mail:
200lb rock that sat on the doorstep of a stately home for 80 years revealed as biggest meteorite ever to fall in Britain

Universe Today:
Beginner's Guide to Seeing the The International Space Station (ISS)

Wired UK:
New Horizons enters home stretch of Pluto journey

Popular Science:
The Boy Who Played With Fusion

Gizmodo:
Rocket Science Explained For Non-Rocket Scientists

io9:
And now, Apollo 17 astronauts singing. On the Moon.

February 14, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
Landmark launch in rocketry: Centaur set for Flight 200

Space.com:
NASA Space Shuttle-Carrying Jumbo Jet Retires After One Last Flight

Spaceflight Now:
NASA, Caltech mull over unique satellite donation

Dvice:
Xombie rocket has private spaceflight guts, brains by Draper Labs

Science Magazine:
A Mystery Meteorite From the House of Sting

Space.com:
Antarctica's Lake Vostok is Test Case for Exploring Icy Jupiter Moon

io9:
A super-sized Sun could explain why Earth didn't freeze to death long ago

National Geographic:
New "Deep Fried" Planets Found-Survivors of Star Death

Discovery News:
Milky Way Humming with Microwave Mystery

Daily Mail:
World's first computer game, Spacewar, celebrates its fiftieth birthday - and is still playable for free online

February 13, 2012

Daily Mail:
Massive sunspot that has DOUBLED in size in recent days could send solar storms careering toward Earth

Space.com:
Europe Launches New Vega Rocket on Maiden Voyage

Space.com:
Photos: Meet Vega, Europe's New Rocket

Space.com:
New Mexico's Spaceport America Aims High to Woo Space Age Tourists

Discovery News:
Mercury Crater Exhibits 'Artistic' Bright Rays: Big Pic

Daily Mail:
Moonrise over Saturn: Nasa orbiter captures geysers of frost shrouding south pole of icy moon Enceladus

io9:
See Saturn's weird moon Enceladus in breathtaking detail!

NASA Science:
Alien Matter in the Solar System: A Galactic Mismatch

Discovery News:
Watery Alien Planets Might Be Stripped Dry by Gravity

Philadelphia Inquirer:
Science Hints at Alternative Recipes for Life. Evolution is the Common Thread

New York Times:
What Do You Say to an Alien?

Stuff NZ:
Career destroyed over battle of the planets

Gizmodo:
This Is What Nuking an Earth-Killing Asteroid Looks Like

Dvice:
These custom watches keep Mars time for NASA

Gizmodo:
Star Wars on Earth Should Be Your Next Vacation

Gizmodo:
The Mind-Boggling Story of the Galactic Wonder That Didn't Exist When We Saw It

WEEKEND EDITION: February 11-12, 2012

Scientific American:
A Universe from Nothing: Einstein, the Belgian Priest and the Puzzle of the Big Bang

Scientific American:
Could Simple Experiments Reveal the Quantum Nature of Spacetime?

IEEE Spectrum:
Origami Robots Make Complex Movements With Just Paper and Air

Innovation News:
Robo-Mule Hauls Military Gear & Follows Like a Dog

Daily Mail:
For the man who has everything? iRobot to sell U.S Army's most hi-tech bomb disposal robot to the public

Astrobiology Magazine:
The First Plants Caused Ice Ages

Live Science:
Why There Are So Few Fish in the Sea

Daily Mail:
Sponge fossils from Namibia are the oldest animal life ever found on Earth, say researchers

Astrobiology Magazine:
The P-T Extinction was a Slow Death

Science Magazine:
Mystery of Zebra's Stripes Finally Solved?

Daily Mail:
The Chimpanzee that can remember numbers faster than you: Primate can solve puzzle in the blink of an eye

Gizmodo:
These Are the Earliest Human Paintings Ever

io9:
The Psychedelic Cult That Thrived For Nearly 2000 Years

The Guardian:
Piltdown Man: British archaeology's greatest hoax

Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: Board Games Weren't Always Fun

Nature:
Human experiments: First, do harm

io9:
A US government program secretly injected people with plutonium

Popular Science:
PopSci Primer: The German-Style Board Game Revolution

Dvice:
Video: 'Greatest toy in the universe!'

Live Science:
Study: Schizophrenia's Hallucinated Voices Drown Out Real Ones

io9:
This baby wolf and grizzly bear cub became lifelong best friends

Gizmodo:
This Touchscreen Van Gogh's Starry Night Is So Stunningly Beautiful It Should Be Made Into an App

February 10, 2012

Gizmodo:
This Is the Center of the Universe: NASA's Deep-Space Command Central

Space.com:
Mystery of Britain's Largest Meteorite Solved

Space.com:
Dead Spacecraft on Mars Spotted in New Photos

Space.com:
NASA Eyes Plan for Deep-Space Outpost Near the Moon

Astrobiology Magazine:
Tidal Forces Could Squeeze Out Planetary Water

Space.com:
Roger Boisjoly, Engineer Who Warned of Challenger Shuttle Disaster, Dies at 73

Discovery News:
Blown Away by Jules Verne's Space Cannon G Forces

Universe Today:
The Moon Trees of Apollo 14

Dvice:
Scale of the Universe: A fantastic trip from quarks to quasars

February 9, 2012

New Scientist:
LARES 'mirror ball' sat will test Einstein's theory

The Guardian:
Martian meteorite contains pockets of the red planet's atmosphere

Space Daily:
NASA PIT Crews Essential to Commercial Space Endeavor

Space.com:
Alien Life May Not Survive on Planets With Uranus-Like Tilts

Space Daily:
Birthday Cake for X-37B

Gizmodo:
How To Fly A Soyuz Space Capsule

February 8, 2012

Popular Science:
Drones Will Be Admitted to Standard US Airspace By 2015

Florida Times Union:
The Sky Guy: Mercury rose to challenge

Los Angeles Times:
Finding lost moon rocks is his mission

Discovery News:
NASA Puts Out Call for Space Taxis

collectSPACE:
Penny payload: NASA Mars rover Curiosity carries coin for camera checkup

Discover Magazine:
Exoplanet in a triple star system smack dab in the habitable zone

Discovery News:
Do Aliens Go Invisible by 'Going Green'?

February 7, 2012

Daily Mail:
Spacecraft finds the ancient oceans of Mars

Space.com:
Signs of Ancient Ocean on Mars Spotted by European Spacecraft

Universe Today:
600 Million Year Drought Makes Life on Surface of Mars Unlikely

Space Daily:
Phobos Crash Test Dismisses U.S. Link

Space Daily:
Heavy Ions Killed Mars Probe

Discovery News:
Project Icarus: The Interstellar Communication Problem

Scientific American:
Hunter's Moons: Astronomers Use Kepler Spacecraft to Search for Exomoons

February 6, 2012

National Geographic:
Two New Moons Found Orbiting Jupiter

Space.com:
Earth From Space: The Secret of NASA's Amazing 'Blue Marble' Photos

Space.com:
Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship Ramping Up Toward Passenger Flights

Space.com:
Space Rock of Love: Asteroid Eros Attracts Skywatchers in Earth Flyby

NASA Science:
Mission to Land on a Comet

New Scientist:
Astrophile: Pinball planets get wild, deadly ride

io9:
World's largest scale model of the Solar System spans the length of Sweden

WEEKEND EDITION: February 4 through 5, 2012

io9:
What happened before the Big Bang?

Astrobiology Magazine:
New Theory of Life Claims to Unite Fields of Science

Gizmodo:
The World's First Computer Password? It Was Useless Too

Astrobiology Magazine:
What Happened Prior to Snowball Earth?

Daily Mail:
Natural tilts in earth's axis cause ice ages, says Harvard scientist - and their cycles could help predict the next one

Live Science:
How To Take a Dinosaur's Temperature

Science Magazine:
The Secret of Dino Success

Cosmos:
Oldest croc had a shield-like head

Wired:
Speed Limits on the Evolution of Enormousness

io9:
The first land plants pretty much ruined the entire planet

Gizmodo:
20 Million Year Old Lake Beneath Antarctica Is About to Be Uncovered

Live Science:
Behemoth Seagrass Clones Among Earth's Oldest Organisms

io9:
10 Frightening Facts You Probably Didn't Know About Ants

io9:
How the puffer fish gets you high, zombifies you, and kills you

Wired UK:
Gorillas grin like us, but mean something different

io9:
Technologies that we've lost – and the quest to find them again

Daily Mail:
The joke that was old when Moses was around: Tablet full of crude gags and riddles about beer is found - dating back to Exodus

Gizmodo:
Earliest Mona Lisa Copy Ever Discovered, Probably Painted At the Same Time as Da Vinci's

io9:
Was Robert Hooke really the greatest asshole in the history of science?

Daily Mail:
The WORKING model of a guillotine made from bone by prisoner awaiting execution

io9:
The Eccentric Crank Who Tried To Legislate The Value Of Pi

Gizmodo:
Floating to the North Pole in a Hydrogen Balloon Isn't as Good an Idea as You'd Think

Live Science:
Closest Photos of Uncontacted Tribe Reveal Hidden Way of Life

io9:
10 Real-Life Lost Voyages That Would Make Amazing Science Fiction Novels

io9:
Watch animated test footage from the 1936 John Carter that never was

Gizmodo:
The Simpsons' Theme Sung By One Guy Sounds Better Than the Original

Gizmodo:
This Optical Illusion Will Give You a Headache For the Next Two Hours

February 3, 2012

Space.com:
1st Private Spaceship Flight to Space Station May Slip to April: NASA

Space.com:
Damaged Russian Spaceship Forces Big Launch Delay for Next Station Crew

Space.com:
Russia's Manned Soyuz Space Capsule Explained (Infographic)

Space.com:
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Refines its Path to Jupiter

Cosmos:
Super-Earth Detected in Star's Habitable Zone

Daily Mail:
Is this the best candidate yet for a second Earth? Astronomers find rocky planet which could have liquid water - and even life

New Scientist:
Fomalhaut's giant exoplanet may be small lava world

New Scientist:
No solar disaster - this time

Daily Mail:
'People thought it was a plane on fire': Police officer captures UFO blazing across Texas sky... but FAA says it was 'most likely a meteor'

February 2, 2012

NASA News:
NASA Mission Returns First Video From Moon's Far Side

Innovation News Daily:
New Report Pinpoints NASA's 16 Biggest Space Tech Needs

Space Daily:
SpaceX Test Fires Engine Prototype for Astronaut Escape System

Popular Science:
Video: SpaceX Test-Fires Its New Super-Powerful Capsule Engines

Wired UK:
Time in space may alter astronauts' genes

Scientific American:
A Minefield in Earth Orbit: How Space Debris Is Spinning Out of Control [Interactive]

Space Daily:
The Phobos Crash Was Preprogrammed

Space Daily:
Russia will replace Soyuz for next ISS mission: source

Universe Today:
Russia Will Begin Hunt For Extrasolar Planets

Discovery News:
We're Living in a Space Cloud

Space.com:
Petitioners Push for Pluto Probe Postage Stamp

Scientific American:
Thanks to Plants, We Will Never Find a Planet Like Earth

February 1, 2012

Space.com:
Reports: Russia Delays Launch of Next Space Station Crew

Space.com:
Space Radiation Doomed Russian Mars Probe That Crashed: Reports

Universe Today:
Phobos-Grunt Failure Due to Computer Problems, Cosmic Rays

Daily Mail:
Beijing 'seven minutes from destruction' when a 2.5 ton satellite crashed to Earth at 300mph

Universe Today:
The Van Allen Belts and the Great Electron Escape

io9:
How the solar system's strangest moon, Iapetus, lost its rings

Gizmodo:
How NASA Solved a $100 Million Problem for Five Bucks

Gizmodo:
The Two-Ton Robot That Can Leap Over Asteroids

Gizmodo:
How To Build The Perfect Lunar Rover

Gizmodo:
NASA Engineer Reveals Space Cats Secret

Universe Today:
Newsreel Footage of Explorer 1

January 31, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
Japan's next asteroid probe approved for development

Universe Today:
'Oceanus Borealis' - Mars Express Finds New Evidence for Ancient Ocean on Mars

Universe Today:
How Well Can Astronomers Study Exoplanet Atmospheres?

Discovery News:
What If The Apollo Program Never Happened?

Discovery News:
What's Taking E.T. So Long to Find Us?

Gizmodo:
Watch These Fake Flying People Freak Out New York City

January 30, 2012

Space.com:
Space Station Dodges Debris From Destroyed Chinese Satellite

Space.com:
Declassified US Spy Satellites from Cold War Land in Ohio

Discovery News:
Hunting Pluto's Dangerous Rings

Science Magazine:
North Star May Be Wasting Away

io9:
Hey, who ripped open a hole in the universe?

Gizmodo:
This New View of America's Deadliest Drone Is Formidable

io9:
What weapons could be used in a real-life space war?

BBC News:
Bournemouth resident mystified by 'blue sphere shower'

WEEKEND EDITION: January 28-29, 2012

The Atlantic:
What Happened Before the Big Bang?

New Scientist:
Fight over changing constants reaches stalemate

Popular Science:
Physicists Hope to Catch Neutrons in the Act of Jumping from Our Universe to Another

Live Science:
Wacky Physics: Why Do Particles Have Flavors?

Gizmodo:
Scientists Just Discovered the Speed Limit for Quantum Particles

Astrobiology Magazine:
The Solar System on an Atomic Scale

io9:
The most interesting mathematical mistake in the solar system

Dvice:
Look Ma, no hands! Self-driving BMW flies down the Autobahn

Gizmodo:
Clever 1-Minute Video Shows How Airplane Wings Really Work

Gizmodo:
How the Video Game Was Born

Wired UK:
Death Valley's volcanic crater formed just 800 years ago

Live Science:
Explosive Volcano May Lurk Beneath Death Valley

Live Science:
Oldest Dinosaur 'Nursery' Discovered

Daily Mail:
The Jurassic raven: Flying dinosaur archaeopteryx had black feathers

Science Magazine:
Do Dolphins Speak Whale in Their Sleep?

io9:
Snoring dormouse is so adorable your head will explode

io9:
How Mitochondrial Eve connected all humanity and rewrote human evolution

Daily Mail:
Modern flint expert 'reverse engineers' Neanderthal stone axes - and says our ancestors were clever, elegant craftsmen

Daily Mail:
Native Americans actually came from a tiny mountain region in Siberia, DNA research reveals

Live Science:
Origin of Ancient Jade Tool Baffles Scientists

Daily Mail:
The Viking death squads who got a taste of their own medicine: Mass grave shows how the Anglo-Saxons hit back at invaders

io9:
The first artificial sweetener poisoned lots of Romans

Popular Science:
FYI: How Long-Running Is the Longest-Running Lab Experiment?

Daily Mail:
The world's first mobile? How an American inventor was having conversations in his car in 1920

Science Magazine:
Mapping the Psychedelic Brain

io9:
Artist transforms constipated Victorian photos into flamboyant scifi heroes

Daily Mail:
The Monet machine? 'Art-ificial' painter improvises all its works - and often surprises its creator

io9:
Jim Henson's robot movie teaches us an important lesson: robots don't have souls

Dvice:
How much longer until we get some friggin' cloned dinosaurs already?

io9:
The Astounding Photos that Made America Fall in Love with Science

January 27, 2012

Space.com:
NASA Honors Fallen Astronauts in Solemn Ceremony

Space.com:
Universal Newsreel: Apollo 1 Remembered

Space.com:
Bus-Size Asteroid to Give Earth Close Shave Friday

Space.com:
NASA Telescope Discovers 26 Alien Planets Around 11 Different Stars

Space.com:
New Clues Into Moon's Magnetic Mystery Revealed

Scientific American:
Primitive Attraction: Magnetized Moon Rock Points to Lunar Core's Active Past

Cosmos:
Early Moon's metal heart was long-lived

Space.com:
Asteroid Threat to Earth Sparks Global 'NEOShield' Project

Universe Today:
Asteroid's Unusual Light and Dark Crater

Universe Today:
New Research Suggests Fomalhaut b May Not Be a Planet After All

Space.com:
New Star Discoveries Found in Antique Telescope Plates

Yahoo News:
Video: Divers find large, unexplained object at bottom of Baltic Sea

January 26, 2012

Space.com:
Russia Launches Robot Cargo Ship to Space Station

Universe Today:
Few Details in ESA's Report on Phobos-Grunt Re-Entry

Space Daily:
Mars Rover Finds New Evidence of Water

Space.com:
Solar Storm Forecasts Improve as Sun's Fury Increases

Space.com:
Hello, Earth! Satellite Snaps Amazing 'Blue Marble' Photo

NASA News:
Vesta Likely Cold and Dark Enough for Ice

Gizmodo:
A Cold War Spy Plane Just Killed Its Robot Drone Replacement

Daily Mail:
World's most powerful X-ray laser recreates the two million degree furnace inside a star

Daily Mail:
Revealed: What alien astronomers peering at the Earth during the age of the dinosaurs would see

January 25, 2012

Space.com:
'Space Hurricane': Huge Solar Storm Is Pounding Earth Now

Discovery News:
Airline Diverts Aircraft During Solar Storm

NASA News:
Classifying Solar Eruptions

Discovery News:
Hundreds of Meteorites Uncovered in Antarctica

Space.com:
'Amazing' Mars Rover Opportunity Begins Year 9 on Red Planet

Universe Today:
Russia Opens Talks With NASA And ESA With Plans For Manned Lunar Base

Daily Mail:
Orbiting probe finds the 300-foot dunes of Saturn's moon Titan are eerily similar to Earth's

Scientific American:
Too Bright for JWST: Some Exoplanets are Overwhelming

Wired:
Strange Forgotten Space Station Concepts That Never Flew

Gizmodo:
The Pentagon Newest Stealth Spy Aircraft Is a Flying Sperm

Dvice:
Say it isn't so! That amazing Star Trek apartment gets the axe

Discovery News:
Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship

January 24, 2012

Space.com:
Huge Solar Eruption Sparks Strongest Radiation Storm in 7 Years

Discovery News:
INCOMING! Sun Blasts Another CME at Earth and Mars

Gizmodo:
How The Biggest Solar Storm Since 2005 Is Going to Affect You

Universe Today:
Can Solar Flares Hurt Astronauts?

Space.com:
Astronauts in Space Safe from Huge Solar Radiation Storm

Space.com:
Anatomy of Sun Storms and Solar Flares (Infographic)

Spaceflight Now:
One Russian ship vacates station port for next vehicle

io9:
Stare into the soul of Saturn's mysterious hexagonal cloud system

Space Daily:
Earth's Cloudy Past Could Reveal Exoplanet Details

Wired:
How to Picture a Black Hole

Los Angeles Times:
Odd accounts and strange tales orbit around Shasta

Inexplicata:
High Strangeness: Forgotten Humanoid Encounters

January 23, 2012

Space.com:
Russian Mars Probe Crash Sets Off Confusion, Conspiracy Theories

Space Daily:
U.S. denies radar affected spacecraft

Discovery News:
Search Continues for Lost Mars Lander Beagle 2

Space.com:
Mystery Surrounds Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Landing Plan

Space.com:
1st Private Rocket Launch to Space Station Delayed Until March

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX cargo flight on hold until at least late March

Discovery News:
Sun Drags Space Junk Out of Earth Orbit

Space.com:
China's New Space Exploration Vision Shoots for the Moon

Discovery News:
Project Bifrost: Rockets of the Future?

Space.com:
Gallery: Visions of Interstellar Starship Travel

Universe Today:
Gallery: Cosmonaut Winter Survival Training

Scientific American:
An Abundance of Exoplanets Changes our Universe

New Scientist:
First subliming planet foreshadows Mercury's fate

Wired:
NASA Relents: Apogee of Fear, First Sci-Fi Film Shot in Space, Will Be Released

WEEKEND EDITION: January 21 through 22, 2012

Scientific American:
Are Physical Constants Really Constant?

io9:
What if every electron in the universe was all the same exact particle?

Discovery News:
Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions?

Scientific American:
Magnetoastrocoolness: How Cosmic Magnetic Fields Shape Planetary Systems

io9:
The diamonds that are born in supernovae

Dvice:
Smart Window puts a tablet computer on every window in your home

Daily Mail:
The 'toys' that let you spy on the neighbours - new 'Wi-Spi' helicopter and 'Intruder' car offer hi-tech surveillance for 65 pounds

Dvice:
Reconstruction sphere makes a flawless digital copy of anything

io9:
What mysterious genetic material ruled the world before DNA and RNA?

Daily Mail:
Leopard-sized predator that roamed the Earth BEFORE the dinosaurs is found using Google maps

io9:
Meet the 20,000 new species we discovered in a single year

Live Science:
Good Heavens! Oldest-Known Astrologer's Board Discovered

Daily Mail:
Darwin's lost fossils: Treasures that helped shape theory of evolution found by chance in dusty cabinet

io9:
The Massive Ultra-bright Street Lights that Could Never Be Turned Off

io9:
The first science artist to draw accurate pictures of Mars and the Moon

io9:
A physics project to do the next time you have an infinite number of books.

Dvice:
Gallery: famous black and white photos colorized with Photoshop

io9:
10 Incredibly Strange Brain Disorders

io9:
Scientific Doomsday: Ways the World Could Actually End

January 20, 2012

Space.com:
Air Force Launches New Military Communications Satellite Into Orbit

Spaceflight Now:
Space Agency Boss Blames Makers for Satellite Crash

Spaceflight Now:
Just A Three Year Cruise Left Before Pluto Flyby

Space.com:
Russia Eyes Possible Moon Base with NASA: Reports

Spaceflight Now:
Roscosmos Revives Permanent Moon Base Plans

Gizmodo:
This Is the Newest Most Amazing Video From Space Ever

January 19, 2012

Space.com:
Is the US Military Hiding Data on Dead Russian Mars Probe?

Discovery News:
Did the US accidentally zap Phobos-Grunt?

Space Daily:
China Plans to Launch 30 Satellites in 2012

Space Daily:
Shenzhou 9 Behind the Curtain

Space Daily:
Voyager Instrument Cooling After Heater Turned off

Discovery News:
Any Exoplanet Possible in a 'Compulsive' Universe

London Natural History Museum:
Could 2012 be the year we find extraterrestrial life?

Popular Science:
FYI: What Happens if I Put Rocket Fuel in My Gas Tank?

Daily Mail:
Just don't ask about the cartridge bill: Welsh couple use 3D printer to create eight-foot cubic kite that actually flies

Gizmodo:
Those Air Force Drones Are Bigger Than You Think They Are

January 18, 2012

Space.com:
Rare Mars Rocks Crashed to Earth in July

Daily Mail:
Red gold rush: Once-in-a-lifetime rain of meteorites from Mars yields 15 pounds of rocks 10 times as valuable as gold

Daily Mail:
First-ever private rocket to International Space Station fails to launch as PayPal co-founder's Dragon is grounded for tests

Popular Science:
SpaceX Delays the First Launch of its Dragon Spacecraft to the ISS (Again)

Space.com:
Manned Russian Rocket Launches from South America Look Doubtful

Gizmag:
Last mineral thought to be unique to the Moon found in Australia

The DEW Line:
PICTURES: Northrop adapts B-2's flying wing into airliner for NASA study

Popular Science:
The Northernmost Dish In The World: Tracking Satellites and Dodging Polar Bears

io9:
The Light Mill, a toy that reveals how we might one day power space ships

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Why So Many Homeless Planets?

io9:
Why doesn't NASA want us to see the first science fiction movie shot in space?

Los Cruces Sun-News:
Community leader, wife of astronomer, Tombaugh dies at 99

January 17, 2012

Universe Today:
SpaceX Delays Upcoming 1st Dragon Launch to ISS

Space.com:
Where On Earth Did Russia's Dead Mars Probe Crash?

Daily Mail:
Maybe Brazil... or possibly off the coast of Chile? Russian officials admit having no idea where failed Mars probe has crashed

Universe Today:
A Wrinkled Moon

January 16, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
Ill-fated Mars probe reportedly falls to Earth

Space.com:
Failed Russian Mars Probe Crashes Into Pacific Ocean: Reports

Space.com:
Space Station Dodges Space Junk from Satellite Crash

Scientific American:
Where Did All That Space Debris Come From?

Space.com:
6 Biggest Spacecraft to Fall Uncontrolled From Space

Space.com:
Computer Virus Swipes Data from Japan's Space Agency

Universe Today:
Scientists Still Searching for the Beagle 2 Crash Site on Mars

Scientific American:
Explaining Titan's Alien Weather System

NASA Science:
Some Comets like it Hot

NASA Science:
Re-thinking an Alien World

WEEKEND EDITION: January 14 through 15, 2012

io9:
The theorem that provides continuity for space, time, and airport maps

io9:
The odd genius who showed that one infinity was greater than another

Scientific American:
What If There Were No Gravity?

Dvice:
'Replicator' 3D printer does two colors, makes Thing-O-Matic weep

Popular Science:
Video: MakerBot Replicator Prints a Plastic Bust of Stephen Colbert

Gizmodo:
Best Use of New MakerBot: Terrifying Lego Space Zombies

Dvice:
Cube: The Apple Macintosh of 3D printers has finally arrived

Dvice:
Casio's insane 3D printing tech cranks out artwork you could trip over

Popular Science:
The Next Generation of Silent Submarines Could Defeat Radar and Sonar Sensing

Gizmodo:
Is This the Most Beautiful Airplane Ever Created? I Say Yes

io9:
Meet the molecule responsible for giving Earth all of its oxygen

Astrobiology Magazine:
Did Mercury Poisoning Cause Earth's Greatest Extinction?

Live Science:
Expedition Looks for Life Beneath Earth's Crust

Daily Mail:
Meet the grandparents: Researchers use forensics to rebuild 27 faces of man's ancestors, stretching back 7 million years

Daily Mail:
Human evolution 'could have happened outside Africa too', claim scientists as ancient tooth is found in Bulgarian quarry

Daily Mail:
So how on Earth do you cook THIS? The shrimp that lives in water four times hotter than boiling point

Gizmodo:
This Cute Sea Snail Can Swallow a Fish Three Times Its Size and Kill Humans

Daily Mail:
World's newest snake may look dangerous but it's named Matilda after daughter of British scientist who discovered it

Popular Science:
This Newly Discovered Frog Is the World's Smallest Vertebrate

Daily Mail:
Charles Darwin's 'extinct' tortoise might have just been hiding - for 150 years

io9:
Ancient African sculpture discovered after 2,000 years in the mud

Daily Mail:
2,000-year-old Roman cavalry helmet sheds new light on conquest of Britain after experts piece 1,000 fragments back together

Daily Mail:
Ancient Mayans DID enjoy a smoke... of tobacco so strong it was virtually hallucinogenic

Popular Science:
Early Lives Of The Scientists: Teen Isaac Newton Admits to His Sins

Daily Mail:
Awful squiggle but it rings a Bell: First drawing of a telephone system by inventor in 1878 letter goes up for auction

io9:
10 Mistakes That Caused the Most Punishing Nature Expedition in History

io9:
Read a real-life medical report on three cases of Haitian zombies

Daily Mail:
The shoes are still left outside the cabins to be polished: An eerie trip with the tourists diving two miles to see the Titanic

io9:
The Best Science Fiction Films at This Year's Sundance

January 13, 2012

Universe Today:
ISS Will do Manuever Friday to Avoid Collision with Satellite Debris

Space Daily:
ESA Coordinates International Satellite Reentry Campaign For Phobos-Grunt

Space.com:
Recent Satellite Crashes Bring Space Junk Problem into Public Eye

Space.com:
The Crash of Failed Mars Probe Phobos-Grunt (Infographic)

January 12, 2012

Space.com:
Failed Russian Mars Probe May Crash in Indian Ocean Sunday

Space.com:
Huge NASA Rover Adjusts Course on Trip to Mars

NASA News:
NASA Discovers New Double-Star Planet Systems

Space Daily:
Kepler discovery establishes new class of planetary systems

Spaceflight Now:
Scientists discover smallest planetary system so far

New Scientist:
Smallest exoplanet is the size of Mars

Space.com:
3 Alien Planets Smaller Than Earth Found

Space.com:
Tiny Planets Around a Tiny Star (Infographic)

Space.com:
AAS Dispatch: An Encyclopedia of Alien Planets

NASA News:
Study Shows Our Galaxy Has at Least 100 Billion Planets

Popular Science:
On Average, Every Star Has At Least One Planet, New Analysis Shows

Astrobiology Magazine:
Loss of Planetary Tilt Could Doom Alien Life

Popular Science:
X-Ray Telescope Will Balloon Into the Stratosphere To Look At Black Holes

Daily Mail:
The new space race: China and India sign up to create world's biggest telescope

Popular Science:
One Third of the Military's Aircraft Are Now Drones

io9:
This is HiRISE, the most powerful camera we've ever sent to another planet

Daily Mail:
The time traveller: Web library of Victorian 'space artist' shows eerily accurate visions of the universe

January 11, 2012

Space.com:
Russian Space Failures May Be Result of Foul Play, Official Says

Space Daily:
Russia was well aware of Phobos-Grunt mission risks

Space.com:
Far Out! New Deep Space Mission Ideas Draw NASA's Eye

Space.com:
AAS Dispatch: Proposed Space Mission Would Probe Alien Atmospheres

Universe Today:
8 Years of Spirit on Mars - Pushing as Hard as We Can and Beyond!

Space Daily:
The Challenges of Building A House on Mars

Daily Mail:
Put a ring on it: Nasa spacecraft captures Saturn's rings 'slicing through' two of its moons

January 10, 2012

Spaceflight Now:
China targets 2013 for launch of lunar landing mission

Spaceflight Now:
NASA turns off aging Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer

Space.com:
Apollo Astronauts Meet with NASA to Clear Claims on Space Mementos

Space.com:
AAS Dispatch: Future NASA Telescope Could 'Sniff' Air of Alien Planets

Space.com:
Alien Earths Could Have 2 Suns Like Star Wars' Tatooine

Discovery News:
Not All Meteors the Same

January 9, 2012

Space.com:
'No Chance' Secret X-37B Space Plane Spying on China Module: Expert

Space Daily:
SpaceX To Be First To Use Solar Panels On A Manned US Spacecraft

Spaceflight Now:
Mars-bound rover ready to take aim at the red planet

New Scientist:
Did star cluster death rays zap Earth?

Space.com:
How 2012's Full Moons Got Their Strange Names

io9:
How NASA kept astronauts from swearing on the Moon

WEEKEND EDITION: January 7-8, 2012

Universe Today:
Should We Terraform Mars?

Universe Today:
Slower than Light Neutrinos

IEEE Spectrum:
Single Blue Planet Seeks Same

Discovery News:
Where Would Earth-like Planets Find Water?

Gizmodo:
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Calendar

Dvice:
10 tech duds of 2011 that shouldn't have happened but did

Popular Science:
Video: Swiss Jumpglider Bot Leaps Into Flight, Inspired by Insects and Bats

IEEE Spectrum:
3-D Printing Takes Shape

IEEE Spectrum:
Dinosaur-Like Tails Make Terrestrial Mobile Robots More Agile

Dvice:
Genius Scale Only Shows You How Much You've Gained Or Lost

Daily Mail:
Who needs a road? Chinese designer creates eco-friendly all-terrain car for land, water and ice

National Geographic:
Moss Has Cloned Itself for 50,000 Years, Study Says

Science Magazine:
Tails Guided Leaping Dinosaurs to a Safe Landing

io9:
What is it like to dine on a prehistoric beast?

Daily Mail:
Sabre-toothed cats had weaker teeth than today's house cats - and relied on strong forelimbs to subdue struggling prey

io9:
Everything you always wanted to know about the social behavior of wasps

Daily Mail:
Welcome to a brave new world: Genetic scientists create freakish man-made monster ants with huge heads and jaws

Live Science:
Tiny Fish Filmed Mimicking Octopus That Mimics Fish

io9:
A zebra shark has produced babies by "virgin birth" four years in a row

io9:
How turtles sense Earth's drifting magnetic field

Daily Mail:
World's first hybrid shark is found off Australia - and interbreeding could make them stronger

Daily Mail:
. . . meanwhile, meet the 'chimeric' monkeys made from the cells of SIX different animals

Dvice:
Orangutans get iPads, cuteness ensues

Daily Mail:
'Discovery of a lifetime': Stone Age temple found in Orkney is 800 years older than Stonehenge - and may be more important

Discovery News:
Could Ancient Pottery Improve Spacecraft Tiles?

Daily Mail:
One of the earliest drawings of the Tower of Babel found on ancient stone tablet

io9:
The bizarre story of where ancient Pompeii put its trash

Live Science:
Drought Led to Demise of Ancient City of Angkor

io9:
The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy

io9:
Adding more water may be the only way to save Venice from sinking

io9:
Physicists help discover medieval art hidden beneath old plaster

io9:
Codex Gigas: Devil's Bible or Just an Old Book?

The Guardian:
Science Weekly podcast: Triumph and tragedy of Scott's Last Expedition

io9:
These predictions for the future from 1900 are eerily accurate

io9:
The 75th Anniversary of the Very First Science Fiction Convention!

io9:
Why World War II spy planes used pink camouflage

io9:
A form of blindness where you can see everything, but recognize nothing

Daily Mail:
A century of world history from 1911 to 2011 summed up in 10 minutes of YouTube clips

io9:
A place in Venezuela that gets 40,000 lightning strikes per night

Kotaku:
Why People Say the World Will End In 2012

National Geographic:
End of World in 2012? Maya "Doomsday" Calendar Explained

Boing Boing:
Every writing system ever, pretty much

io9:
The opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, recreated using old adventure movies

io9:
70 Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies to Watch Out for in 2012

Dvice:
Infographic of the Day: Doctor Who timeline

January 6, 2012

Popular Science:
The USAF's X-37B Secret Space Plane Appears to Be Tracking China's New Space Station

Space.com:
Earth Makes Closest Approach to Sun of the Year

NASA News:
'Greeley Haven' is Winter Workplace for Mars Rover

Universe Today:
NASA Channels "The Force" With Smart SPHERES

Space Daily:
China's space ambitions ally glory with pragmatism

Spaceflight Now:
Photos: International Space Station flies by the Moon

Space Daily:
Dawn Wraps Up A Stunning Year Of Asteroid Exploration

Space Daily:
Ariane 5, Soyuz, Vega: Three world-changing launch vehicles

New Scientist:
Hundreds of tiny moons may be orbiting Earth

Popular Science:
German Hackers Are Building a DIY Space Program to Put Their Own Uncensored Internet into Space

Gizmodo:
This Girl Snuck Into a Russian Military Rocket Factory

KSBW:
For Sale: Nuclear Bomb-Proof Space Station In Carmel Valley

Universe Today:
Missions that Weren't: One-Way Mission to the Moon

January 5, 2012

Discovery News:
First Four Exoplanets of 2012 Discovered

Space Daily:
Stranded Mars probe could fall to Earth in 11 days: report

Universe Today:
Space Station Crew Anticipating SpaceX Dragon's Arrival

Spaceflight Now:
Delta 4 rocket and Air Force payload joined for launch

Space.com:
On Saturn Moon Titan, Weather Report Brings Chance of Methane Rain

Universe Today:
Storms And Lakes On Titan Revealed By Computer Modeling

Space.com:
NASA Inquiry Halts Sale of $388,375 Apollo 13 Checklist, Other Space Artifacts

Popular Science:
What We Know So Far About the Successor to the B-2 Stealth Bomber

Popular Science:
Drill, Don't Kill: Lessons From Two Underground Lakes

Space.com:
The Hunt Is on for Habitable Moons Around Alien Planets

January 4, 2012

Space.com:
NASA Rover Mission Marks 8 Pioneering Years on Mars

Spaceflight Now:
The fight to save AEHF 1 produces remarkable rescue

Daily Mail:
The plane built to soar above the clouds - on Saturn's mysterious moon Titan

Science Magazine:
Rare Moon Mineral Found on Earth

Space.com:
Strange Crystals Reveal Rock to be Ancient Meteorite

New Scientist:
Nobel prizewinning quasicrystal fell from space

Universe Today:
What Can You See in the Night Sky in January 2012?

Space.com:
How to See the Best Meteor Showers of 2012

Discovery News:
2012 Human Spaceflight: A Look Ahead.

Discovery News:
Most Anticipated Space Missions of 2012: Photos

Popular Science:
Predictions for 2012: Garage Rocketeers Approach Orbit

January 3, 2012

Daily Mail:
Space probe gets up close to lunar crater that is two miles deep and so huge it can be seen from Earth with the naked eye

Spaceflight Now:
2011: Atlas and Delta launch $20 billion in payloads

Space Daily:
China sets up state-level aerospace research institute

Dvice:
ESA working to develop hypersonic airliner for 2040

Universe Today:
AVIATR: An Airplane Mission for Titan

January 2, 2012

IEEE Spectrum:
Private Spaceflight: Up, Up, and Away

NASA News:
NASA's Twin Grail Spacecraft Reunite in Lunar Orbit Orbit

Space.com:
Twin NASA Moon Probes Start New Year by Entering Lunar Orbit

Spaceflight Now:
Lunar tandem successfully enters orbit around the Moon

NASA Science:
Space Mountain Produces Terrestrial Meteorites

Universe Today:
Night Sky Guide: January 2012

Space.com:
Quadrantid Meteor Shower, First of 2012, May Dazzle Early Wednesday

WEEKEND EDITION: December 31, 2011 Through January 1, 2012

io9:
How would you convince the 20th generation of space colonists to leave Earth?

Universe Today:
Why Do We Live in Three Dimensions?

io9:
Is dark energy changing over time?

The Guardian:
I'd put a tenner - but not a ton - on the Higgs-Boson existing

io9:
10 Particle Detectors That Let Us See the Fabric of the Universe

io9:
Brian Cox and Simon Pegg explain why atoms have so much empty space

Discovery News:
Could Starships Use Cold Fusion Propulsion?

Universe Today:
What if the Earth had Two Moons?

Nature:
Tracking the magnetic south pole

io9:
10 Images That Changed the Course of Science (And One That Is About To)

Daily Mail:
Why we must change our way of measuring time to stop GPS and stock markets crashing

io9:
Three revolutionary laser technologies that could lead to tractor beams

Innovation News:
Gliding Robot Unfolds Bat or Locust Wings to Fly

IEEE Spectrum:
EPFL Looks to Bats, Locusts for Jumping and Gliding Robots

IEEE Spectrum:
ETH Zurich Presents: Juliet's Christmas Tree

Innovation News:
Top 10 Robot Stories of 2011

Science Magazine:
The Top 10 ScienceNOWs of 2011

Live Science:
11 Biggest Science Stories of 2011

Scientific American:
The Top 10 Science Stories of 2011

io9:
Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2011

io9:
10 Happy Accidents from the Annals of Drug Discovery

io9:
What on Earth are these mysterious, 570 million year old fossils?

Wired:
570-Million-Year-Old Fossils Hint at Origins of Animal Kingdom

Space.com:
Scientists Hunt for Meteor Crash Clues in 200-Million-Year-Old Murder Mystery

Live Science:
Ancient Fungi-Plant Duo Discovered in Amber

Daily Mail:
Rat-eating plant declared a new species seven years after award-winning debut at Chelsea Flower Show

io9:
Two millipede species have set up a 150 mile long insect demilitarized zone

Daily Mail:
Found in British waters: The sea creature that lights up like a Christmas decoration

io9:
Meet the Ball Cutter fish, the piranha-cousin nicknamed for exactly what you think

Daily Mail:
Who you calling bird brain? Pigeons can count as well as monkeys, claims study

Daily Mail:
Scientists amazed after five migrating cuckoos fitted with GPS trackers meet up in the same spot in Africa

Daily Mail:
Mysterious 'sixth toe' is confirmed in elephants - and bone is crucial to how they balance all that weight

io9:
An Uplifting Dolphin Story. Literally.

io9:
Grooming a lion is an adorable, nerve-wracking process

National Geographic:
Evolution of Angels: From Disembodied Minds to Winged Guardians

io9:
What are the Great Pyramids really made of?

Live Science:
Case Closed? Columbus Introduced Syphilis to Europe

io9:
The quest for the perfect smile required electrocuting people's faces

Daily Mail:
The Yeti, a severed finger spirited from Nepal, and a famous film star. DNA tests will finally solve a truly bizarre mystery

National Geographic:
The Salt and the Earth

The Guardian:
Samoa loses a day and jumps forward in time

io9:
The cure for schizophrenia isn't in our genes after all

io9:
What happens when you really can't sleep - ever.

io9:
Best and Worst Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies of 2011

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