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Malcom Scott Carpenter, May 1, 1925 - October 10, 2013.

New York Times:
Scott Carpenter, Mercury Astronaut Who Orbited Earth, Dies at 88

Daily Mail:
Pioneering astronaut Scott Carpenter, the second American to orbit Earth dies aged 88

Life Magzine:
Scott Carpenter (1925 – 2013): Rare and Classic Photos of a NASA Legend

Space.com:
Aurora 7: Astronaut Scott Carpenter's Mercury Flight in Pictures

Space.com:
NASA Jupiter Probe Suffers Glitch After Earth Flyby

Spaceflight Now:
Juno goes into safe mode during Earth flyby

Spaceflight Now:
Orbiting telescope cooling off to find asteroids near Earth

Dvice:
Jupiter and Saturn could be stuffed with diamonds

Daily Mail:
The loneliest planet: Riddle of world found floating through space without a star

Discovery News:
The Outer Space Treaty Promised Peace In Space

The DEW Line:
B-58 Hustler: Champion of Champions

Michigan Radio:
When Gerald Ford demanded answers for UFO sightings in Michigan

October 10, 2013

Space.com:
Defending Mount Marilyn: Astronauts Want Moon Landmark Names Recognized

Space.com:
Weird Shift of Earth's Magnetic Field Explained

Spaceflight Now:
Juno spacecraft gets gravity boost from Earth flyby

Space.com:
NASA Spacecraft Slingshots By Earth On Way to Jupiter, Snaps Photos

Space.com:
Telescopes Team up to Study Triple Asteroid

Space.com:
Target: Jupiter - 9 Missions to the Solar System's Largest Planet

Space.com:
Weird Orbits of Pluto's Moons Caused By Huge Collision

Discovery News:
Trickster Exoplanets May 'Fake' Life Signatures

Gizmodo:
How a Destroyed Jumbo Jet Gave Birth to GPS As We Know It

io9:
The Forgotten Space Art Pioneer

October 9, 2013

C/Net:
Evidence of fire-raining comet discovered on Earth

Sydney Morning Herald:
First-ever comet material discovered on Earth

Discovery News:
Meet the Asteroid That Might Hit Earth in 2880

Space.com:
Meteorites from Russian Meteor Explosion Reveal Signs of Cosmic Crashes

Space.com:
Promising Comet ISON's Solar System Trek: 5 Amazing Facts

Spaceflight Now:
Fifth WGS communications craft enters military service

Space.com:
Jupiter-Bound NASA Probe to Grab Speed Boost from Earth Flyby Wednesday

Space Daily:
What's Next, Tiangong?

Spaceflight Now:
India putting final touches on Mars-bound spacecraft

Space.com:
Neptune's 'Lost' Moon Spotted for 1st Time In 20 Years (Photos)

Universe Today:
A Tale of a Lost Moon: Hubble Spies Neptune's Moons and Its Rings

Space.com:
6 Super-Fast Alien Planets May Be Skimming the Surface of Their Stars

Space.com:
Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship Passengers Taste Weightlessness on ZERO-G Flight

io9:
Can turbulence actually shake your plane out of the sky?

Gizmodo:
Soar Through the Alps With This Interactive Video of a Wingsuit Flight

Gizmodo:
This Air Travel Map From 1929 Is Absolutely Stunning

October 8, 2013

Space.com:
Jupiter-Bound NASA Spacecraft Will Swing By Earth Wednesday

Space.com:
Quick Fusion-Powered Trips to Mars No Fantasy, Scientists Say

Discovery News:
Pluto's 'Thick' Air Isn't Going Anywhere

Space.com:
Shape of Huge Asteroid with 2 Moons Revealed By SETI, Amateur Astronomers

Scientific American:
Flights of Fancy: Virgin Galactic Plans Space Hotels, Day Trips to the Moon

TechRadar UK:
Flying cars: how long until takeoff?

Universe Today:
Oct. 7, 1959 - Our First Look at the Far Side of the Moon

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Spraying Bugs on Mars (1964)

Gizmodo:
The First Man To Walk In Space Almost Got Stuck Out There

October 7, 2013

IEEE Spectrum:
Hollywood Space Disaster Gravity and the Real Problem of Orbital Debris

New Scientist:
Earth's love handles keep the satellites from falling

Spaceflight Now:
LADEE arrives at the moon for lunar science mission

Spaceflight Now:
ISON makes lackluster showing in images from Mars

New Scientist:
Historic shots of Io revealed a world on fire

Dvice:
How close could we get to the Sun in a spacecraft?

Space.com:
Early October Skywatching: Summer Still Reigns in Evening Sky

Air & Space Magazine:
Going Nowhere Fast (and Loving It)

Daily Mail:
Back where he belongs! 90-year-old pilot who flew in World War Two returns to the skies in Tiger Moth biplane like one he learnt to fly in

Air & Space Magazine:
Flight of the Giant

WEEKEND EDITION: October 5 through October 6, 2013

Popular Science:
You've Never Seen Pi Like This

Popular Science:
FYI: What Would Happen If You Got Zapped By The Large Hadron Collider?

io9:
Here's how Geiger counters really work

Popular Science:
DARPA Spends $10 Million To Make BigDog Stronger And Stealthier

Daily Mail:
Images from a sci-fi film? Inside the Large Hadron Collider: Google Street View now lets you tour the labyrinth of tunnels of the world's largest particle accelerator

Live Science:
Ancient Roots: Flowers May Have Existed When First Dinosaur Was Born

Daily Mail:
Unearthed: 'Walking whale' fossil dating back 40 MILLION YEARS discovered in Peru for the first time

io9:
These Are the Most Extreme Migrations in the Animal Kingdom

Gizmodo:
36-Gigapixel Image Captures Ancient Petroglyphs in Texas

Daily Mail:
The 5,000-year-old trap used to capture LEOPARDS: Pile of stones designed to catch the carnivores found in Israel

Daily Mail:
5,000-year-old Iraqi city discovered under a 10 metre-deep mound - along with remarkably well-preserved works of art

io9:
Incredible examples of ancient writing found in lost city in Iraq

The History Blog:
US returns silver griffin rhyton to Iran

The History Blog:
Twenty Roman skulls found in London subway dig

Daily Mail:
Enormous rock found in a Chichester flowerbed could be the 'head' of Roman Emperor Trajan, 3D scans suggest

Daily Mail:
The world's oldest Jewish prayer book? Hebrew text predates earliest known copy of the Torah by four CENTURIES

Daily Mail:
Scientists pinpoint 13th Century volcanic explosion eight times bigger than Krakatoa that devastated globe and may have created a Far Eastern Pompeii just waiting to be discovered

Smithsonian Magazine:
This Shattered, Bullet-Riddled Stump Shows the Violent Intensity of Civil War Battle

Gizmodo:
This Shattered, Bullet-Riddled14 Amateur Photos Taken With the Very First Consumer Camera

Daily Mail:
$5milllion insurance policy document for the Titanic reveals she may have only been covered for sea trials before fateful voyage as an afterthought by owners

Daily Mail:
Winston Churchill 'wanted to use most devastating chemical weapon ever devised' on Russian Bolsheviks at the end of WWI

Gizmodo:
8 Gadgets That Were Going to Make It Easy to Find Good Help These Days

io9:
The Artificial Islands That Would Have Let Us Leapfrog the Atlantic

Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Do We Eat Popcorn at the Movies?

Daily Mail:
Treasured moving photos from the archives show the lives of African Americans during the 1930s under the New Deal - 30 years before the civil rights movement

Daily Mail:
'Hitler's reign of terror' : Film warning of dangers of Nazi Germany made by US railroad heir found after 75 years

io9:
Watch the Second World War unfold over Europe in 7 minutes

Daily Mail:
Playing the Nazis for dummies! The army of 3ft-tall paratroopers dispatched over northern France on the eve of D-Day which caused chaos

io9:
This Automated Drive-In Market Was Pretty Retro, Even For 1956

Daily Mail:
The real Vietnam: Spectacular images taken by courageous AP war photographers released to remember 50 years since conflict began

The Atlantic:
The Glory of the Digital Encyclopedia of Surfing

io9:
Artistic Masterpieces That Have Been Stolen, Destroyed or Lost

Live Science:
Can Humans Spontaneously Combust? 'Unexplained Files' Investigates

October 4, 2013

Gizmodo:
Why Is China Testing Satellite-Hijacking Space Weapons?

Popular Science:
Big Pic: The Last Radio Antenna Arrives At Chile's Massive ALMA Telescope

Daily Mail:
The tower built just to have objects dropped from it: 475-ft rocket-shaped building is helping scientists understand outer space

Space.com:
Virgin Galactic, NBC to Launch 'Space Race' Reality TV Show

Popular Science:
The Next Reality TV Prize: A Trip To Space

Popular Science:
BigPic: A Model Of BepiColombo, The Spacecraft That'll Explore Mercury

Discovery News:
Comet ISON: 5 Things You Should Know

Air & Space Magazine:
Why did the Enola Gay's tail markings change?

Pacific Standard Magazine:
Meet the Croppies

October 3, 2013

Space.com:
Space Junk Explained: How Orbital Debris Threatens Future of Spaceflight (Infographic)

Space.com:
Explosive Supervolcanoes May Have Rocked Ancient Mars

Dvice:
Scientists develop new theory about how life forms on asteroids

Space.com:
Strange Super-Earth Planet Has 'Plasma' Water Atmosphere

Daily Mail:
First astronauts to orbit the moon are furious after craters named after them to honor their feat are 'switched' to ones that can't be seen from Earth

io9:
The Flying Crowbar: The Insane Doomsday Weapon America Almost Built

October 2, 2013

College at Brockport Stylus:
UFO lecture presents evidence of phenomenon

Space.com:
Upper Stage of New Falcon 9 Rocket Did Not Explode After Launch, SpaceX Says

Space.com:
NASA's New Moon Probe Begins Final Leg of Lunar Trek

Space.com:
Giant Impact That Formed the Moon Blew Off Earth's Atmosphere

Discovery News:
Smartest Aliens May Live Around Red Dwarf Stars

The Aviationist:
[Video] Enjoy a guided tour into the cockpit of an SR-71 Blackbird

Space.com:
'Sputnikfest': How Wisconsin Celebrates Historic Fall of Soviet Satellite

October 1, 2013

News Journal:
Meteor reported over Delaware

Planetsave:
Draconids Meteor Shower Peaks On October 7 2013

Space.com:
Private Space Race: 2 Commercial Spaceships Now Available for Space Station Deliveries

Scientific American:
Air Apparent: Pluto's Eternal Atmosphere

Popular Science:
What Happens If An Astronaut Floats Off In Space?

Gizmag:
Redesigned Martin Jetpack deliveries expected to start in 2014

September 30, 2013

All Alabama:
Another fireball 'burns brightly with a tail of fire' as it streaks across Alabama sky (video)

Columbus Dispatch:
Meteor over central Ohio lights up night, phone lines

Space.com:
Did Venus Give Earth the Moon? Wild New Theory on Lunar History

Space.com:
Private Cygnus Spacecraft Makes Historic 1st Rendezvous with Space Station

Space.com:
Photos: Orbital Sciences' 1st Cygnus Spacecraft Flight to Space Station

Space.com:
SpaceX Launches Next-Generation Private Falcon 9 Rocket on Big Test Flight

Space.com:
Launch Photos: SpaceX's Next-Gen Falcon 9 Rocket Soars on 1st Flight

Universe Today:
First pictures show piece of space rock that lit up the sky above Russian town and crashed into a lake

Universe Today:
Curiosity Discovers Patch of Pebbles Formed by Flowing Martian Water on Mount Sharp Trek

Universe Today:
This Earth-Like Mars Rock Shows Diversity of Red Planet Geology

Space.com:
Toxic Mars Chemical Throws Wrench Into Search for Red Planet Life

IEEE Spectrum:
Two Concepts for China's Exploration of Mars

IEEE Spectrum:
Testing Robotic Companions on a Simulated Mission to Mars

Space.com:
Number of Confirmed Alien Planets Nears 1,000

Dvice:
Researchers publish catalog of more than 300,000 close galaxies

Popular Science:
Big Pic: Fluorescent Oil Swirls Over An Experimental Aircraft

Daily Mail:
Flight of the Flying Dagger: Wingsuit daredevil glides through terrifying 20ft gap in Chinese mountain

Gizmodo:
That Time GE Made a One-Man, Rocket-Propelled Reentry Vehicle/Body Bag

WEEKEND EDITION: September 28 through September 29, 2013

The Guardian:
The Simpsons' secret formula: it's written by maths geeks

Daily Mail:
Images from a sci-fi film? No, the 'lost world' of Socotra, a remote island with plants up to 20 MILLION years old

The Guardian:
Roll up … the first animal that curled into a ball to take cover

Daily Mail:
Is this the world's first FACE? The jaw-dropping fossil of a fish that re-writes the history of human evolution

Inside Science:
How Birds Evolved From Small Meat-Eating Dinosaurs

io9:
Meet the Deadliest Venomous Animals in the World

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Lucy's Svelte Look

Daily Mail:
420,000-year-old 'Ebbsfleet Elephant' butchery site reveals how early humans grouped together to hunt large animals

Daily Mail:
Britain's oldest pavement dating back 4,000 YEARS is uncovered between two ancient ceremonial circles in Cornwall

The History Blog:
Unique Medusa mosaic revealed before restoration

The History Blog:
Intact Sarmatian burial found strewn with gold

io9:
A mysterious fire transformed North America's greatest city in 1170

Smithsonian Magzine:
President Cleveland's Problem Child

Smithsonian Magzine:
Inside America's Great Romance With Norman Rockwell

The History Blog:
Lost Mary Pickford film found in barn, restored

Gizmodo:
The Intricate Makeshift Money Germans Relied On Between World Wars

The Guardian:
Fighting fit: how dietitians tested if Britain would be starved into defeat

The Atlantic:
The Time a Cleveland Newspaper Divulged the Manhattan Project

Smithsonian Magzine:
The CIA's Most Highly-Trained Spies Weren't Even Human

Smithsonian Magzine:
When the FBI Spent Decades Hunting for a Soviet Spy on Its Staff

The Atlantic:
The Single Switch That Saved the East Coast From Nuclear Disaster

io9:
Beautiful Destroyed Structures of the Modern Age

September 27, 2013

Syracuse New Times:
A Colonial UFO Sighting

Chicago Tribune:
Meteor lights up early-morning sky in Midwest

Popular Science:
Curiosity Finds Water And Poison In Martian Soil

Space.com:
Curiosity Rover Makes Big Water Discovery in Mars Dirt, a 'Wow Moment'

Discovery News:
This Scoop of Mars Soil is Two Percent Water

Smithsonian Magzine:
Curiosity Discovers a New Type of Martian Rock That Likely Formed Near Water

Space.com:
Mars Rover Curiosity's 7 Biggest Discoveries (So Far)

Universe Today:
Bazinga: Mysterious Earth Orbiting Asteroid Turns Out to be Space Junk

Space.com:
Monsters of the Night Sky: Strange Constellations to See This Fall

Gizmodo:
8 Spaceports That Are America's Gateway to the Stars

Air & Space Magazine:
The Hunt for Houdini's Airplane

Air & Space Magazine:
Restoration: Vought V-173

Popular Science:
What It Was Like To Fly In The Concorde Supersonic Airplane

Air & Space Magazine:
The First Test Pilots

Air & Space Magazine:
Buy Your Plane at Penney's

Air & Space Magazine:
Jet Race

io9:
The First Animals In Space

September 26, 2013

CTV News:
Manning RCMP release dash-cam video of meteor

Stuff NZ:
Olympic torch heads for space

Space.com:
Soyuz Rocket Launches 3-Man Crew on Express Trip to Space Station

Spaceflight Now:
Three-man crew blasts off bound for space station

Discovery News:
SpaceShipTwo Trial Run Scrubbed

Space.com:
Was Ancient Earth Like Jupiter's Super-Volcanic Moon Io?

New Scientist:
Astrophile: Early Earth was a hot young smoker

Daily Mail:
Earth took its first breath 700 million years EARLIER than first thought, chemicals in three billion-year-old soil suggest

The Atlantic:
'Interstellar 8-Track: How Voyager's Vintage Tech Keeps Running

The Atlantic:
'Alien Jesus': The Pre-Modern History of Outer Space

New Scientist:
Apollo astronauts still have a problem - 45 years on

September 25, 2013

Casper Star Tribune:
Meteor that streaked across Wyoming seen for 500 miles

Universe Today:
Next Soyuz Rolls to Launchpad for Fast-Track Flight to the Space Station

Discovery News:
Could Comet Flybys Damage Mars Spacecraft?

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Did Mars Become the Red Planet?

io9:
Earth's Mysterious Third Radiation Ring Driven By 'Different Physics'

NBC News:
35 million years ago, asteroid bashed into Virginia; effects are still visible

Gizmodo:
You Need to Hit 1.2 Million MPH to Exit the Milky Way

Gizmodo:
The Air Force Is Converting Its Old F-16s Into a Fleet of Drones

The DEW Line:
First QF-16 target drone flies without pilot

Gizmodo:
31 Photos From the Golden Age of Airships, When Zeppelins Ruled the Sky

September 24, 2013

Dallas Morning News:
Ball of light spotted over Texas this weekend was likely fireball meteor

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz rocket positioned for liftoff with three-man crew

Discovery News:
Station Taxi Flight Bumps Cargo Spaceship Arrival

Space.com:
'Ferrari of Space' Doomed: Satellite Will Fall from Space in October

Space.com:
The Moon Is 100 Million Years Younger Than Thought

Space.com:
Did Earth Life Come from Space? Tough Algae Suggests Panspermia Possibility

Wired:
NASA's Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Exploration

Wired:
Timeline: Plutonium-238's Hot and Twisted History

Wired:
Titanium Bullets, Rocket Sleds, and C-4: How the U.S. Tested the Safety of Nuclear Batteries

Wired:
The Greatest Nuclear-Powered Space Missions of All Time

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Ending Apollo (1968)

September 23, 2013

Air & Space Magazine:
How to Talk to Aliens

Space.com:
New Alien Life Claim Far from Convincing, Scientists Say

Discovery News:
Invasion of the High-Altitude Alien Algae! Or Not

Austin American-Statesman:
Hundreds spot fireball streak across Texas

San Diego Union-Tribune:
Meteor seen across Southern California

Space.com:
NASA's Comet-Hunting Deep Impact Probe Is Dead In Space

Spaceflight Now:
NASA declares end to Deep Impact comet mission

Spaceflight Now:
Cygnus rendezvous aborted due to data link issue

Space.com:
Private Cygnus Cargo Ship Aborts First Space Station Approach

NASA News:
Cygnus Rendezvous Delayed 48 Hours

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX completes second static fire on new Falcon 9

Air & Space Magazine:
The Lynx's Leap

Discovery News:
Remembering Galileo's Jovian Triumphs

Discovery News:
This Is What the Sun Will Look Like As It Dies

Daily Mail:
Pictures that really are out of this world: Stellar array of winning images from Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Inside Science:
Squinting At Saturn Through 17th Century Technology

io9:
That moment when a high-altitude balloon ventures a little too high

Air & Space Magazine:
When Spacecraft Misbehave

Gizmodo:
Howard Hughes' H-1 Racer Was the World's Last DIY Superplane

Air & Space Magazine:
The Making of a Joint Strike Fighter Pilot

Live Science:
Supersonic! The 10 Fastest Military Airplanes

WEEKEND EDITION: September 21 through September 22, 2013

Popular Science:
The Big Bang May Not Have Spawned The Universe After All

Nature:
Did a hyper-black hole spawn the Universe?

Daily Mail:
Meet Fanny, the world's largest robot who's a fire-breathing walking DRAGON

Daily Mail:
The silly putty made from SAND that keeps its shape as it tumbles through your fingers

io9:
Three mighty rivers once flowed through the Sahara

Daily Mail:
How vertebrates came to rule the Earth: David Attenborough visits China's Pompeii to explore the origin of the backbone on a 500-million-year-old journey

The Guardian:
Time passes more slowly for flies, study finds

Live Science:
Whale of a Surprise: Humpbacks Winter in Antarctica

Smithsonian Magazine:
Call Me Migaloo: The Story Behind Real-Life White Whales

Daily Mail:
The shell beads that reveal early modern humans arrived in the Middle East some 42,000 years ago

io9:
Once-Majestic Cities That Sank Beneath The Ocean

The History Blog:
Da Vinci's Codex on Flight of Birds at Smithsonian

Popular Science:
Arrr! Did Captain Kidd Hide His Gold In An Ox-Swallowing Underground Vault?

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Writer Who Built the World's First Engine-Powered Submarine

Gizmodo:
This 100-Year-Old Infographic Maps the Entire American Civil War

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Women Who Mapped the Universe And Still Couldn't Get Any Respect

Daily Mail:
The birth of the designer collaboration: Meet the couturier whose 1916 line for Sears sparked a modern fashion phenomenon

Daily Mail:
Mussolini's magic motor sells for £6million: Legendary Alfa Romeo which was built to beat Hitler can still do top speed of 165mph

Daily Mail:
Paris through a Nazi's lens: Propaganda pictures of Occupied France taken by photographer ordered to prove city was thriving under German rule

Daily Mail:
Could you solve this puzzle? GCHQ creates 'random' string of 143 letters in mind-boggling test for would-be spies

io9:
9 Philosophical Thought Experiments That Will Keep You Up at Night

Universe Today:
A Capella String Theory: Bohemian Gravity (Video)

September 20, 2013

Gizmag:
Scramspace flight ends in failure

Spaceflight Now:
Secure communications satellite launched by Atlas 5

Spaceflight Now:
Cygnus spaceship thunders away on shakedown cruise

New Scientist:
Mystery deepens as Martian methane eludes Curiosity

Space.com:
Could Upcoming Comet Flybys Damage Mars Spacecraft?

The Guardian:
Long-range forecast: sunny spell will wipe out life on Earth

Gizmodo:
The First In-Flight Movies Had a Live Orchestra

September 19, 2013

Space.com:
US Air Force Launches Advanced Communications Satellite

Space.com:
Private Cygnus Spacecraft Launches on Maiden Space Station Voyage

Space.com:
Private Antares Rocket & Cygnus Spacecraft Explained (Infographic)

Space.com:
Launch Photos: Orbital Sciences' 1st Cygnus Spacecraft Flight to Space Station

Space.com:
Water on Mars: Curiosity Rover Uncovers a Flood of Evidence

New Scientist:
Where to next for interstellar pioneer Voyager 1?

The Atlantic:
Eagle Eye: What the World Looks Like to a Bird in Flight

September 18, 2013

Space.com:
Private Spacecraft Launch Wednesday Visible from US East Coast: How to See It

Space.com:
Upgraded SpaceX Rocket's Launch Test Slips to End of September

Space.com:
Cygnus vs. Dragon: How 2 Private Spaceships Stack Up

Space.com:
US Military Wants New Experimental Space Plane

Universe Today:
Sleek GOCE Spacecraft Will Have Uncontrolled Re-entry into Earth's Atmosphere

Space.com:
Extreme Space Weather Storms Spark Satellite Failures, Study Suggests

Universe Today:
Planet Evaporates Due to Stellar Flare

Spaceflight Now:
Virginia's bet brings big launches to the mid-Atlantic

IEEE Spectrum:
Kepler's Continuing Mission

Space.com:
Richard Garriott, 2nd-Gen Space Traveler, Auctions Historic Rocket Model

Gizmodo:
The Tiny Model Jets At This RC Air Show Are Still Incredibly Thrilling

September 17, 2013

Wired:
Sun Mysteriously Goes All Quiet Just When Its Activity Should Be Highest

Daily Mail:
Is this the dream job for couch potatoes? Nasa will give you over £3,000 a month just for lying in bed for 70 days (and you can even watch TV and surf the web)

Popular Science:
In Japan, Eight People With Two Laptops Launch A Telescope Into Orbit

The Guardian:
Comet collisions increase chance of life across solar system, research suggests

Astrobiology Magzine:
Could Life Have Survived a Fall to Earth?

Gizmodo:
This Rotating Moon Mosaic Is the Most Accurate You've Ever Seen

Red Orbit:
Fireballs In Jupiter's Atmosphere Witnessed By Amateur Astronomers

Wired:
What's Flying Above Your Head? Far More Than You Think

Universe Today:
Best Custom Road Signs Ever at Wallops Island Launch Pad

Gizmodo:
8 Abandoned Radar Stations That Were Once State-of-the-Art

Vanity Fair:
Will It Fly?

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
A Forgotten Rocket: The Saturn IB

io9:
The Union Jack on the Moon

September 16, 2013

Daily Mail:
A message from beyond the stars: NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft sends first transmission after leaving Earth's solar system

Space.com:
Interstellar Traveler: NASA's Voyager 1 Probe On 40,000-Year Trek to Distant Star

Space.com:
For Voyager 1, New Discoveries Await in Interstellar Space

Space.com:
Pale Blue Dot 2: Voyager 1 Signal from Interstellar Space Seen from Earth (Photo)

Universe Today:
10 Historic Moments in Voyager's Journey to Interstellar Space

The Atlantic:
The Message Voyager 1 Carries for Alien Civilizations

IEEE Spectrum:
Voyager 1 Hasn't Really Left The Solar System, But That's OK

Space.com:
Soyuz Space Capsule Landing Glitch No Danger to Crew, NASA Says

Space.com:
Japan's 1st Epsilon Rocket Launches Into Space On Maiden Voyage

Spaceflight Now:
Japan's 'affordable' Epsilon rocket triumphs on first flight

Spaceflight Now:
Proton's return-to-flight mission delayed by glitch

Space.com:
Technical Glitch Delays First Launch of New Commercial Spacecraft

Discovery News:
SpaceX California Falcon 9 Launch Debut On Hold

New Scientist:
Crack a comet to spawn the ingredients of life

Gizmodo:
The Aluminum Airship of the Future Has Finally Flown

The Aviationist:
[Photo] Twenty five F-117 Stealth Jets flying together

Air & Space Magazine:
First Man on Mars: Leonardo da Vinci

Discovery News:
When the Veneras Challenged Venus' Hellish Atmosphere

WEEKEND EDITION: September 14 through September 15, 2013

Universe Today:
The Curvature of the Universe

Live Science:
Doomsday? Universe's Fate Depends on True Mass of Tiny Particle

io9:
Our universe may contain TARDIS-like regions of spacetime

Popular Science:
FYI: Can Anything Move Faster Than Light?

io9:
Why You Can't Travel Back in Time and Kill Hitler

Gizmodo:
The Evolution of the Modern Day Calendar

Popular Science:
Ride This: An SUV-Size Insectoid Robot

Science Magazine:
Evolution's Clock Ticked Faster at the Dawn of Modern Animals

Daily Mail:
How crocodiles survived in a dinosaur's world: Jurassic ancestors 'ran around like DOGS' to escape predators and ate PLANTS

Daily Mail:
The T-Rex of the OCEAN? Fossil reveals 85-million-year-old Prognathodon had speed-enhancing fin that made it master of the seas

Daily Mail:
Locked in combat, predator and prey for 65million years ago who are about to be sold for record-breaking £6million

Popular Science:
FYI: Can Snakes Really Be Charmed By Music?

Popular Science:
Orangutans Announce Their Travel Plans A Day In Advance

Popular Science:
A GPS-Tracked Prairie Chicken Has Wandered 1,180 Miles Since April

Stuff NZ:
Long lives made humans human

Daily Mail:
The shell beads that reveal early modern humans arrived in the Middle East some 42,000 years ago

Daily Mail:
Stonehenge WAS built on a solstice axis but only because of an Ice Age fluke

Live Science:
Ancient Road Leading to Stonehenge Found

Daily Mail:
Archeologists unearth 'Britain's oldest northerner': 10,000-year-old human leg bone is discovered inside a Cumbrian cave

The History Blog:
Four Bronze Age gold "oath rings" found in Denmark

Daily Mail:
Revealed: How chemical weapons were used in Syria 1,700 YEARS AGO by Persian attackers to kill Roman soldiers defending their city

The History Blog:
Roman chain mail found on 3rd c. German battlefield

Daily Mail:
'I've never found so much gold in my life': Archaeologist discovers hoard of Byzantine treasure at Temple Mount in Jerusalem

Daily Mail:
Tomb of China's woman prime minister: The life and lovers of politician who served first female emperor and was eventually executed in a palace coup

Daily Mail:
Dazzling us again after 70 years, Van Gogh's long-lost sunflowers: He painted seven versions of his glorious masterpiece - but one was destroyed by an Allied bomb. Now a British art historian has made a stunning find

The History Blog:
New Van Gogh painting authenticated

io9:
Tragic Photographs of Disasters that Occurred Before 1920

Gizmodo:
How the Humble Paperclip Became a Secret World War II Symbol

Gizmodo:
This Guy Fought in WWII With a Sword and Bow

Gizmodo:
The Cold War Bunker That Offered Subterranean Suburbia Below Las Vegas

io9:
Gene Roddenberry's 1968 memo on improving Star Trek's characters

Smithsonian Magazine:
Nobody Knows How to Interpret This Doomsday Stonehenge in Georgia

The Atlantic:
The Hidden World of the Typewriter

Popular Science:
A Guide To Fall Foliage For The Whole U.S. [Infographic]

io9:
A guide to fallacious arguments, illustrated with funny animals

The Guardian:
Ig Nobel prize for discovery that dung beetles navigate by the stars

September 13, 2013

Space.com:
It's Official! Voyager 1 Spacecraft Has Left Solar System

Spaceflight Now:
Voyager 1 crosses over into interstellar space

Discovery News:
Voyager: Goodbye Solar System, Hello Interstellar Space

New Scientist:
NASA says Voyager 1 has left the solar system, honest

NASA News:
How Do We Know When Voyager Reaches Interstellar Space?

Astrobiology Magazine:
Water Hidden in the Moon May Have Proto-Earth Origin

Universe Today:
Why Does the Earth Spin?

Universe Today:
This Is What It Looks Like Hovering Above An Asteroid

NASA News:
NASA Dryden Engineers Capture Dramatic Supersonic Shockwave Images

Dvice:
Here's a sneak peek at what your next-gen drone can do

Gizmodo:
Here's Everything You Need to Build Your Very Own Quadrotor

Gizmodo:
Space Taxis, Air Sleds and Skylabs: Retro-Space Concepts From 1961

September 12, 2013

Daily Mail:
Scientists claim to have found evidence of ALIEN LIFE: Balloon sent to edge of atmosphere picks up organisms 'that can only have come from space'

Spaceflight Now:
Three-man space station crew back on planet Earth

Spaceflight Now:
NASA's plucky Deep Impact probe feared lost

Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity's Longest Mars Drive in One Day: 464 Feet

Daily Mail:
Thunderbird 2 is go! Gigantic amphibious airship which could revolutionise air travel as we know it takes first flight

Gizmodo:
America's First Supersonic Interceptor Was a Flying Bottle Rocket

September 11, 2013

Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
'Very bright' meteor lights up Southeast sky

Discovery News:
Mystery Satellite Movements: What Is China Doing?

Space Daily:
Moon landing mission to use "secret weapons"

Universe Today:
A Mercurial Milestone: 1,000 Featured Images from MESSENGER!

Universe Today:
New Comet Discovered: Lovejoy Will Add to "Comet Lineup" in Winter Skies

NASA News:
Comet Found Hiding in Plain Sight

Popular Science:
The Next Space Shuttle: Hybrid Engines Make Runway-To-Orbit Missions A Reality

Gizmag:
Castrol Rocket prepares for motorcycle land speed record bid

IEEE Spectrum:
Jetpacks, at Long Last?

I Love Chile:
UFO Conference - "Contacto Ovni" : Reality or Mystery?

September 10, 2013

Space.com:
Meteorite Brought Surprising Ingredient for Life to Earth In 2012

Space.com:
NASA Loses Contact With Comet-Hunting Deep Impact Spacecraft

Space.com:
Mysterious Actions of Chinese Satellites Have Experts Guessing

Space.com:
NASA Spacecraft Cruising to Moon With Novel Design

Universe Today:
Huge Asteroid 324 Bamberga Makes a Return Visit to Earth's Neighborhood on Friday the 13th

Gizmag:
Scramspace scramjet arrives in Norway for test flight

Gizmag:
Aeroscraft begins flight testing following FAA certification

The Guardian:
Mars One: The psychology of isolation, confinement and 24-hour Big Brother

Gizmodo:
Take a Stunning Drone's-Eye Tour of Burning Man

September 9, 2013

io9:
When did we start believing in Martians? Why did we stop?

Spaceflight Now:
Moon mission blasts off, overcomes pointing problem

Space.com:
Liftoff! NASA Moon Probe Launches from Va. to Hunt 40-Year Lunar Mystery

Spaceflight Now:
New Minotaur 5 rocket tailored for moon mission

Space.com:
Spectacular LADEE Night Launch Photos by SPACE.com Readers (Gallery)

Space.com:
NASA Fixes Moon Probe Glitch After Amazing Friday Night Launch

Space.com:
Moon Dust Mission: How NASA's LADEE Spacecraft Works (Infographic)

New Scientist:
Solar system caught in an interstellar tempest

The DEW Line:
Friday fun: spot the difference

Popular Science:
A Quick Primer On America's Spaceports

Space.com:
20 Most Marvelous Moon Missions

WEEKEND EDITION: September 7 through September 8, 2013

Universe Today:
Why "The Big Bang" Is a Terrible Name

New Scientist:
Death by Higgs rids cosmos of space brain threat

io9:
Could You Survive the End of the Universe?

Popular Science:
FYI: What Would Happen If Every Element On The Periodic Table Came Into Contact Simultaneously?

Live Science:
Is 'Numerosity' Humans' Sixth Sense?

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Birthplace of Michael Faraday's Big Ideas

The Guardian:
The 20 big questions in science

Gizmag:
Voyage to the bottom of the sea: Gizmag test drives U-Boat Worx' C-Explorer 2 submarine

Gizmodo:
Scientists Found the World's Largest Volcano on Ocean Floor Near Japan

Daily Mail:
The end of extinction? Scientists are close to 'cloning' an Australian frog that no longer exists - and there are plans to resurrect more dead species

Daily Mail:
Fossil of 350-million-year-old scorpion is the oldest known land animal to have lived on the Gondwana supercontinent

Daily Mail:
Amphibian weighing half a tonne burrowed underground to survive extreme droughts 230 million years ago

Daily Mail:
Giant prehistoric 'terror bird' once thought to be a ruthless predator was actually a VEGETARIAN

Daily Mail:
Armadillos as big as cars, crocodiles bigger than buses, six-ton mastodons and sabre-toothed tigers once shared the Earth with man in Latin America, scientists believe

Popular Science:
A Campaign To Save The World's Ugliest Endangered Animals

Live Science:
Wise old birds teach migration route to young whooping cranes

Science Magazine:
Striking Patterns: Skill for Forming Tools and Words Evolved Together

Daily Mail:
Discovery of 5,000-year-old skull 'in fabulous condition' on side of river sparks mystery as archaeologists claim it would not have survived in water

io9:
8 Ruined Cities That Remain a Mystery to This Day

Scientific American:
In Search of the Lost Land of Gold (and mummified baboons too)

Daily Mail:
The Roman Empire's OTHER Hadrian's Wall? Declassified spy photos reveal 'Trajan's Rampart' that once stretched from the Danube to the Black Sea

The History Blog:
First Iron Age "loch village" found in Scotland

Daily Mail:
Excavation gives gruesome glimpse of Iron Age massacre where 'thousands' were slaughtered, chopped up and dumped in mass grave

Daily Mail:
Has global warming sparked an archaeological bonanza? Melting ice reveals 1,700-year-old woolly jumper - and experts say there is much more to come

Live Science:
19th-Century Samurai Training Text Deciphered

Daily Mail:
How the Industrial Revolution ended the Little Ice Age: Soot from 19th century factories melted glaciers, scientists claim

Daily Mail:
Leeches, moustache grease, arsenic and a pint of blood: The everyday essentials of a Victorian shopping basket revealed

Slate:
The Map That Lincoln Used to See the Reach of Slavery

Gizmodo:
Marie Curie Had Two Duels Fought Over Her After She Had an Affair

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Football Star and the Wrath of his Would-Be Bride

io9:
Is there anything cooler than a car with a giant propeller?

Gizmodo:
What the Same Train Ride Looked Like in 1953, 1983 and 2013

The Atlantic:
When Dumb Phones Were Cool: A Visual History

The Atlantic:
How Two Newspaper Reporters Helped Free an Innocent Man

Gizmodo:
The Hovercraft That Stormed a Russian Beach Is the World's Largest

Daily Mail:
The grandest entrance: World's largest solar-powered boat powers beneath Tower Bridge as it arrives in Britain in spectacular style

Space.com:
TV's 'Futurama' Bids a Sci-Fi Farewell, Again

Uproxx:
The 123 Visions Of The Future From 'Futurama' We Hope Come True

Rolling Stone:
10 Soon-to-Be Classic 'Futurama' Clips

September 6, 2013

Space.com:
Happy Birthday, Voyager 1! Far-flung Spacecraft Is 36, But Has It Left the Solar System?

Universe Today:
SpaceShipTwo Feathers Wings During Second Powered Test Flight

Space.com:
Photos: Virgin Galactic's 2nd Rocket-Powered SpaceShipTwo Flight

Space.com:
NASA's Moon Probe Launch Friday Visible from US East Coast

Space.com:
Cygnus cargo vehicle gearing up for debut flight

Space.com:
NASA Redesigns Mission Control for Future Spaceflights

Daily Mail:
'One small step towards a brighter future for all': Kirobo goes down in history by becoming the first robot to talk in space

NASA News:
Eleven Spacecraft Show Interstellar Wind Changed Direction Over 40 Years

The Atlantic:
A Forgettable Passage to Flight

Live Science:
Air Force, DARPA Team Up on New Hypersonic Flight Project

Gizmodo:
This Failed Flying Bomb Could Have Been America's WWI Cruise Missile

Kent Online:
French pilots make aviation history near Folkestone in 'flying saucer'

September 5, 2013

Space.com:
Spectacular Fireball Outshines Moon Over American Southeast (Video)

Universe Today:
How to See the Historic LADEE Nightime Moon Shot on Sept. 6

New Scientist:
NASA orbiter will use laser to bring broadband to moon

Spaceflight Now:
Chinese military payload successfully launched

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Sun's Magnetic Field Is About to Reverse

The Guardian:
The new equation for estimating alien life across the universe

io9:
The Artist Who Made Spaceflight Seem Real

September 4, 2013

Universe Today:
Kepler Can Still Hunt For Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Researchers Suggest

Scientific American:
Evidence Found for Planet-Cooling Asteroid 12,900 Years Ago

Daily Mail:
Did a meteor trigger the beginnings of CIVILISATION? Scientists find 'conclusive proof' that the impact caused humans to develop agriculture

Space Daily:
'Trojan' asteroids in far reaches of solar system more common than previously thought

The Aviationist:
M-346 advanced jet trainer's Helmet Mounted Display for the Polish Air Force's F-16 Block 50 pilots

September 3, 2013

Helena Independent Record:
Dr. Jesse A. Marcel Jr.

Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Dust to dust

Coon Rapids Herald:
Anoka County History: UFO sighting in the county in 1967

Space.com:
NASA to Launch New Moon Probe This Week

Spaceflight Now:
Heavy-lifting Ariane 5 delivers for three customers

Spaceflight Now:
Zenit rocket resumes flights after February failure

NASA News:
Van Allen Probes Mark First Anniversary with New Discoveries and New Investigations

Popular Science:
Mars Rover Curiosity Drives Itself For The First Time

Discovery News:
Did Ancient Earth-Chilling Meteor Crash Near Canada?

EarthSky:
You might see some meteors in early September

The Guardian:
Starwatch: The September night sky

Providence Journal:
Skywatcher: Fireball streaks across the sky

Gizmodo:
How We Go Looking For Life on Other Planets

Wired:
A/B Test: Comparing the Magnificent Spaceships of Orbital Sciences and SpaceX

Popular Science:
FYI: What Are Cruise Missiles, And How Do They Work?

Dvice:
Image of the Day: Russian PAK-DA getting hypersonic missiles

Dvice:
When NASA flew without wings

Huffington Post:
Area 51 Dogfight: Ex-Navy Pilot Allan Palmer's Encounter With Soviet MiGs Over UFO Hotspot

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Project Olympus (1962)

The Aviationist:
Declassified Top Secret: SR-71 Blackbird Mission Over the Middle East

Los Angeles Times:
Flying saucer found in Hollywood Hills

LABOR DAY WEEKEND EDITION: August 31 through September 2, 2013

Gizmodo:
Where Exactly Did the Big Bang Actually Happen?

Live Science:
Wormhole Is Best Bet for Time Machine, Astrophysicist Says

io9:
How Einstein's theory of relativity makes you smaller

Popular Science:
Theoretical Element 115 Exists, Study Confirms

Gizmodo:
14 Immense Scientific Instruments You Won't Believe Are Real

Daily Mail:
Man who oversaw world's most painstaking scientific experiment dies without ever seeing it in action - 83 YEARS after the study began

Popular Science:
Watch A Professor Control Another Professor's Mind From Across Campus

The Atlantic:
10 Things You Probably Did Not Know About Eraser Technology

Popular Science:
A Full-Scale Wood Cylon Because Why Not

The Atlantic:
A Database of 3D Fossils, Ready for You to Explore and Print

Live Science:
'Grand Canyon' of Greenland Discovered Under Ice Sheet

BBC News:
'Huge canyon discovered under Greenland ice

University of Bristol:
Not the end of the world: why Earth's greatest mass extinction was the making of modern mammals

io9:
Detatched octopus arms show awareness, react to danger

National Post:
Determined hawk halts flow of mail in Calgary

Daily Mail:
Mystery of the ancient kingdom discovered in Nepal where thousands of caves are carved 155ft off the ground

The History Blog:
African coins found on north Australian island may rewrite history

The History Blog:
Poison ring found in 14th c. Bulgarian fortress

The History Blog:
Ostrich egg globe may be oldest with New World

Daily Mail:
America's oldest settler? Fruit tree planted by pilgrim is still going strong aged 383 years

Daily Mail:
World's first pocket calculator goes up for auction: 'Exceptionally rare' 17th century machine made of wood could fetch £100,000

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Family Plot: The Surratts Versus Lincoln

Daily Mail:
The photos that began the art of the selfie 150 years BEFORE Instagram

Gizmodo:
The Untold History Behind Everyone's Favorite Condiment Bottle

io9:
An imaginary city that changed the twentieth century

io9:
The Most Extraordinary Monorail Designs Of The 20th Century

The History Blog:
Hear Titanic's life-saving musical pig play again

Daily Mail:
Inking of The Titanic: Photographer colours black and white pictures of world's most famous ship with extraordinary results

Gizmodo:
Hello Frisco! A 1924 Map of The First Coast-to-Coast Radio Broadcast

io9:
What happened when a fictional character penned an autobiography

Gizmodo:
The Invisible Radar Force Field That Saved Great Britain

The History Blog:
Pilot's ring lost in WWII POW camp returned to son

The Atlantic:
The 17 Designs That Bell Almost Used for the Layout of Telephone Buttons

Gizmodo:
A Brief History of the Videophone That Almost Was

Daily Mail:
Diana, that SAS murder claim - and why it may not be as mad as you think: Sue Reid, who's studied all the evidence, has found tantalising new clues

io9:
The Most Amazing Scifi Themed Ads of the 20th Century

io9:
This Terrifying Raptor Chase Is the Most Traumatic Prank of All Time

August 30, 2013

Space.com:
Air Force Study Reveals Threats to US Space Activities

Space.com:
China's First Moon Rover Will Launch By End of the Year

Discovery News:
Did Life Start on Mars?

Space.com:
Earth Life Likely Came from Mars, Study Suggests

New Scientist:
Primordial broth of life was a dry Martian cup-a-soup

Scientific American:
Maybe Mars Seeded Earth's Life, Maybe It Didn't

Astrobiology Today:
Comet ISON to Fly by Mars

Space.com:
First 'Trojan' Asteroid Companion of Uranus Found

Universe Today:
NASA Crashes a Helicopter With 15 Dummies Inside on Purpose: Watch the Video

The Aviationist:
Some of the most interesting "hardware" showcased at this year's Radom Air Show in Poland

Air & Space Magazine:
Who Flew First?

Air & Space Magazine:
Slats and Old Soggy No. 1

Air & Space Magazine:
Meet the Grunts

Air & Space Magazine:
The Science of Stealth

io9:
Inspiring and Intense Soviet Space Propaganda Posters

August 29, 2013

Daily Telegraph Australia:
US doctor Jesse Marcel Jr, who told of handling UFO debris at Roswell, dies

The Guardian:
Roswell author who said he handled UFO crash debris dies at 76

Space.com:
America's Largest Rocket Launches Top-Secret Spy Satellite

Universe Today:
Evidence of Internal Moon Water Found

Discovery News:
Titan Wrapped in Thick Ice

Astrobiology Today:
Chelyabinsk Meteorite Had Previous Collision or Near Miss

Discovery News:
Sun's 8.2-Billion-Year-Old Twin Found

Dvice:
The birth of the spy satellite

August 28, 2013

io9:
Is the Moon a planet?

Space.com:
Japan Cancels 1st Launch of Next-Generation Epsilon Rocket

Daily Mail:
Is this the machine that will finally help us explore Venus's ravaged surface? Rover could sail its way across the planet carrying electronics that function at 450°C

Gizmag:
3D Robotics announces GPS-guided quadcopter for the masses

Popular Science:
Piloting A Drone Is Hell

Live Science:
Rise of the Drones: Unmanned Aircraft Sneak Into the Arctic

Gizmodo:
The Ryan Firebee: Grandfather to the Modern UAV

Dvice:
Salyut: humanity's first space station

August 27, 2013

The Local:
Mystery 'meteor' flashes over Canary Islands

Space.com:
America's largest rocket set for launch Wednesday

Space.com:
Japan's Brainy Epsilon Rocket Launching on 1st Test Flight Tuesday

Space.com:
Russian Meteor Explosion: Space Rock Had Near-Misses Before Impact

Discovery News:
Lunar Water as Old as the Moon

Space.com:
Incredible Technology: How Astronauts Could Hibernate On Mars Voyage

IEEE Spectrum:
A teeny, tiny autopilot

Stuff NZ:
Archaeologists turn to drones in Peru

Gizmodo:
How the Milky Way Got Its Name (and What Other Languages Call It)

io9:
How to read a crop circle and kind of freak yourself out

August 26, 2013

Queens County Advance:
A Peek Into The Past: UFO's

Philadelphia Inquirer:
Inquirer Editorial: Area 51 and the momentum of secrecy

Canoe Canada:
Finding the truth on Nevada's Extraterrestrial Highway

Spaceflight Now:
Launch preparations begin for Gaia galaxy-mapper

Space.com:
Incredible Technology: How to Make Reusable Rockets for Cheap Space Travel

Space.com:
Reusable Rocket Launch Systems: How They Work (Infographic)

Gizmodo:
You Can Buy NASA's Giant Launch Platforms - Assuming You Can Move Them

Popular Science:
Could A Spacecraft Fly Straight Through Jupiter?

Jalopnik:
The Most Bizarre Spacecraft Landings Ever

WEEKEND EDITION: August 24 through August 25, 2013

Gizmodo:
This Animation Teaches You More About Physics Than High School Ever Did

Popular Science:
5 Beloved Scientists Who Were Actually Bullies

Gizmodo:
This Optical Illusion Lets You See Your Own Brain Waves

Daily Mail:
Vermin problem? He started it: 'Jurassic rat' from 160million years ago that spawned rodent dynasty is unearthed in China

io9:
This is one of the scariest (and wrongest) dinosaur pictures ever

Popular Science:
7 Of The Coolest Living Fossils

Daily Mail:
Neanderthals had 'distinct cultures': Ancient tool types show knowledge was passed down generations

Science Magazine:
Archaeologists Uncover First Use of Spices in European Cuisine

New York Times:
Rome's Start to Architectural Hubris

Daily Mail:
Underground city and slave tunnels are discovered beneath Emperor Hadrian's Villa in Rome

Smithsonian Magazine:
This 1,600-Year-Old Goblet Shows that the Romans Were Nanotechnology Pioneers

Daily Mail:
Christians were THRIVING in Britain before Augustine: Ring confirms Roman converts were more widespread than thought before first missionary arrived

Daily Mail:
Did Irish monks beat the Vikings to the Faroes? Settlers were living on the remote islands 400 years before Norse colonists

Daily Mail:
How 900-year-old African coins found in Australia may finally solve the mystery of who arrived Down Under first

Daily Mail:
Scientists discover the world's oldest globe of the New World - carved on OSTRICH eggs (and it could have been crafted in Leonardo da Vinci's workshop)

Smithsonian Magazine:
Following in the Footsteps of Balboa

The History Blog:
All of Queen Anne's Revenge to be salvaged

Popular Science:
The Original Sail Plans for America's Oldest Warship

Popular Science:
Union Soldiers Fired This Primitive Machine Gun During The Civil War

Daily Mail:
Pistol behind phrase 'dead man's hand' goes up for auction: The gun 'Wild Bill' was carrying when he was shot 150 years ago during poker game is expected to fetch $500,000

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Commoner Who Salvaged a King's Ransom

Daily Mail:
Warsaw Uprising in colour: Black and white pictures taken during doomed 1944 revolt against the Nazis turned into incredible feature movie with sound and colour

Daily Mail:
The Nazi Hunter: Remarkable story of the Jewish refugee responsible for tracking down the Auschwitz commandant who slaughtered 3million people

The History Blog:
Cygan, 1950s robot-about-town, can be yours

Smithsonian Magazine:
Document Deep Dive: A Play-by-Play of the March on Washington

Washington Post:
Five myths about the March on Washington

Smithsonian Magazine:
Eating on the March: Food at the 1963 March on Washington

The Guardian:
Bayard Rustin: the gay black pacifist at the heart of the March on Washington

NPR:
At 16, Making A Trek To Make The '63 March On Washington

Washington Post:
Gallery: The March on Washington

The Oregonian:
The 1963 March on Washington and MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech 50 years later (photos)

Mother Jones:
I Have a Copyright: The Problem With MLK's Speech

National Archives And Records Administration:
"I Have A Dream . . ."

August 23, 2013

Space.com:
Sun Unleashes Another Solar Storm Aimed at Earth

Spaceflight Now:
Dream Chaser takes captive-carry test flight in California

Spaceflight Now:
WISE telescope approved for three-year asteroid survey

Spaceflight Now:
Soviet-era missile boosts South Korean satellite

Universe Today:
'Sail Rover' Could Explore Hellish Venus

New Scientist:
Astrophile: The iron planet with a 4-hour year

Daily Mail:
Mystery of the rogue planets solved: 'Orphan' planets develop without a sun thanks to tiny dust clouds - and there could be 200million in our galaxy alone

Popular Science:
An Adorable Animation Of The Sun Destroying Earth

Discovery News:
The Ethics of Interstellar Alien Encounters

Daily Mail:
The Biggles in brogues who flew around Britain: UK's oldest seaplane takes off to commemorate 100 years since Harry Hawker's Circuit of Britain Race

The Atlantic:
That Time a Space Station Became Part of the Miss Universe Pageant

August 22, 2013

Springfield Republican:
Editorial: What other mysteries still lurk at Area 51?

Universe Today:
Astronaut Luca Parmitano's Chilling First-Hand Account of His Mishap in Space

Universe Today:
Don't Panic: How Space Emergency Astronaut Training Works

Universe Today:
WISE Spacecraft Re-Activated to Hunt for Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

Space.com:
Nova Star Explosion Is Visible to the Naked Eye: Where to Look

Live Science:
Brilliant Red Sprite Lightning Caught on Film

IEEE Spectrum:
Giant Solar-Powered UAVs Are Atmospheric Satellites

Gizmodo:
Giant Military Hovercraft Lands on Crowded Beach Because Russia

Daily Mail:
Chocks away! Flying CAR makes aviation history by taking its first public flights

August 21, 2013

Space.com:
Sun Fires Solar Storm Directly at Earth

Stuff NZ:
When a spacewalk goes bad

Spaceflight Now:
India's GSLV return-to-flight launch facing lengthy delay

Space.com:
Mars Rover Opportunity Reaches Campsite for Martian Winter

New Scientist:
Huge lava fountains seen gushing from Jupiter moon

Universe Today:
Rogue Planets Could Form On Their Own in Interstellar Space

Gizmag:
Whaddaya get when you cross a quadcopter with a plane? The HQ UAV

Space.com:
Hunt for Intelligent Aliens Focuses on Faint Laser Flashes

Discovery News:
Voyager 2's Epic Outer Solar System Odyssey

August 20, 2013

The Atlantic:
Good News! The UFO Just Spotted From the Space Station Was Not Really a UFO

Syracuse New Times:
New York Skies: Flying Saucers - The Classic UFO

The Mirror:
Two mysterious and elaborate crop circles appear in a week - just miles apart

Scientific American:
The Dirtiest Lunar Mystery Of All

io9:
Astronomers discover an Earth-sized planet with an 8.5 hour year

IEEE Spectrum:
Lockheed Martin Developing Flying Robotic Car Carrier

Popular Science:
Confirmed: Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Was Made From Meteorites

io9:
The First High-Altitude Experiment Was Centuries Ago at Versailles

The DEW Line:
F-35B makes night vertical landing on-board USS Wasp

The Aviationist:
NVG video: F-35B Accomplishes First Night Vertical Landing Aboard USS WASP

Universe Today:
Stunning Aerial Tour of the Arctic

Air & Space Magazine:
The Stealth Bomber Elite

August 19, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
Cosmonauts set new Russian spacewalk endurance record

Universe Today:
Dream Chaser Prepares For Flight After Crucial Ground Tests

Popular Science:
Big Pic: A Soyuz Astronaut's Space Toilet

IEEE Spectrum:
20 X-47B Gets Two More Years of Tests to Prep Navy for Robot Warplanes

Gizmodo:
Highlights from the World's Largest Drone Fair

Popular Science:
The 10 Weirdest Robots At This Year's Drone Show

Gizmag:
Terrafugia Transition flying car makes first public flights

Space.com:
20 Years Ago: Novel DC-X Reusable Rocket Launched Into History

Popular Science:
The Robotic Search For Lost World War II Airmen

Gizmodo:
Alexander Graham Bell's Failed Flying Machine Reborn As a Floating City

New Scientist:
World's oldest temple built to worship the dog star

WEEKEND EDITION: August 17 through August 18, 2013

io9:
Why can't Einstein and Quantum Mechanics get along?

Gizmag:
Scientists "freeze" light inside a crystal for one minute

Science Magazine:
The Physics of Sandstorms

Popular Science:
In 165-Million-Year-Old Fossil, Evidence That Fur Predates Mammals

Gizmodo:
Dinosaur CAT Scan Shows 3 Different Species Are Actually The Same

The Guardian:
Why pterosaurs weren't so scary after all

Daily Mail:
Astonishing 68m-year-old fossil of T-rex and Triceratops locked in mortal combat could fetch a record $10 MILLION at auction

Science Magazine:
Neandertals Were No Copycats

The Guardian:
Neanderthals may have invented a tool that is still in use today

Stuff NZ:
When Americans first turned up

Daily Mail:
Mystery over ancient carvings found on 10,000-YEAR-OLD Nevada boulders that could be the oldest in America

The History Blog:
Update: Cashel bog body is oldest in the world

Daily Mail:
Women have been airbrushed out of early Christianity despite having been crucial to its spread, claims leading historian

The History Blog:
Monumental 6th c. Maya frieze found in Guatemala

Daily Mail:
Search for a Saxon king: Archaeologists hope to find Alfred the Great in an unmarked grave in Winchester

The Atlantic:
Engine: The History of a Concept, From 14th-Century Poetry to Google

Air & Space Magazine:
Leonardo da Vinci, Birdwatcher

Daily Mail:
Sleeping beauties: Five hundred new fairytales are set to live happily ever after following discovery in German archive

The Guardian:
Appeal to save two 18th-century British paintings of Australian fauna

Gizmodo:
How the Speed of Light was First Measured

io9:
Predict the weather the way Darwin did on The Beagle

Popular Science:
8 Cool Civil War Artifacts

Smithsonian Magazine Magazine:
How American Rich Kids Bought Their Way Into the British Elite

The Atlantic:
Pneumatic Tubes: A Brief History

The Atlantic:
That Time People Sent a Cat Through the Mail Using Pneumatic Tubes

Gizmodo:
How One Inventor Secretly Built a Pneumatic Subway Under NYC

Gizmodo:
Rare Photos of Paris's Mechanical Moving Sidewalks from 1900

Gizmodo:
A Rare Glimpse Inside a Magnificent, Abandoned Shrine to Electricity

Gizmodo:
This Depression-Era Carphone Was Way Ahead of Its Time

The Atlantic:
Einstein Likely Never Said One of His Most Oft-Quoted Phrases

The History Blog:
Too Much Johnson found in Italy

The History Blog:
The Maltese Falcon for sale

Smithsonian Magazine Magazine:
A WWII Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark

Daily Mail:
How to become the perfect Nazi bride: The sinister regulations for women to learn to breed, cook, sew, iron - and worship Hitler

Smithsonian Magazine Magazine:
The Worst Shark Attack in History

Air & Space Magazine:
The Second Atomic Bomb

Daily Mail:
Caught on camera: Isolated Amazon tribe captured for the first time on video before vanishing into the woods after encounter with 'the enemy'

Slate:
Refugees of the Modern World

The Guardian:
How language is literally losing its meaning

Slate:
The Entire History of the World -- Really, All of It -- Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart

Smithsonian Magazine Magazine:
See the Greatest Architecture in 36 Different European Cities in This One, Gorgeous Time-Lapse

August 16, 2013

Las Vegas Sun:
Government acknowledges Area 51 in declassified spy plane documents

Daily Mail:
CIA lifts the lid on Area 51 for the first time EVER: Agency acknowledges existence of test area at last as it releases new map and scores of documents on spy plane tests

Space.com:
Planet-Hunting Days of NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Likely Over

Spaceflight Now:
NASA trying to find new use for crippled Kepler telescope

Space.com:
Photos: NASA's DC-X Rocket for Vertical Space Launches and Landings

Los Angeles Times:
Has Voyager 1 left the solar system yet? A debate rages

August 15, 2013

Space.com:
Disney's 'Tomorrowland' Movie Inspired by Space Memorabilia

Discovery News:
SpaceX Grasshopper Makes 1,066-Foot Hop

Gizmodo:
Watch the SpaceX Grasshopper Hop Into the Air and Fly Sideways

New Scientist:
Xombie rocket lands on its feet

Space.com:
Manned Missions to Mars: Is the Moon Really a Stepping Stone?

Daily Mail:
Eclipse of alien planet captured for the first time as dazzling blue 'hot Jupiter' passes close to its sun-like star

Wired:
The Forgotten Cold War Plan That Put a Ring of Copper Around the Earth

August 14, 2013

Space.com:
US Military's 'Space Fence' Shutdown Will Weaken Orbital Surveillance Network

Spaceflight Now:
United Launch Alliance preparing for its 75th mission

Space.com:
Can the International Space Station Really Last Beyond 2020?

ABC Australia:
Mars probe to solve atmospheric mystery

The Atlantic:
The Sun Rises Again Over Antarctica

Daily Mail:
Spectacular reminder of a comet that won't pass by for another 113 years: Incredible pictures of the Perseid meteor shower at its best

io9:
The Incredibly Violent History of Earth's Moon

Dvice:
The Martin jetpack returns, ready for piloted test flights

The Aviationist:
View from the gun turret of a WWII Lancaster bomber as it soars over London

The Aviationist:
Watch this: GoPro video shows the point of view from the retractable ball turret of a WWII B-24 heavy bomber

Popular Science:
How Post-Earth Humans Will Survive In Space [Infographic]

Discovery News:
Would the Nazis Have Gone to the Moon?

August 13, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
NASA's next Mars mission inside 100 days from launch

NASA News:
NASA's Juno is Halfway to Jupiter

Popular Science:
This Is Elon Musk's Hyperloop

Gizmodo:
Hyperloop Alpha: This Could Change Transit Forever

Gizmodo:
The Key Innovation That Makes The Hyperloop Work

Discovery News:
When the U.S. Hooked Spy Photos from Space

August 12, 2013

Daily Mail:
Meteor that crashed in Russia was part of a 656-foot wide asteroid that broke off during its orbit around Earth

Stuff NZ:
World's first pop-art satellite to blast off

Spaceflight Now:
Japan's cargo craft makes in-orbit delivery to space station

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
When Planets Attack

Gizmodo:
Airbus' Next-Gen Transport Plane Is Stronger Than Hercules

Daily Mail:
How C-5 Galaxy plane made history in 1974 by being used as a launch pad for 43-TON nuclear missile in radical Cold War test

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
The Quest to Explore the Moon from Lunar Orbit (1967)

Dvice:
Not too long ago, astronauts roved the Moon

WEEKEND EDITION: August 10 through August 11, 2013

Discovery News:
Hints of New Physics Detected in the LHC?

Gizmodo:
A 1944 Electromagnetic Radiation Poster Makes Learning Retro Chic

The Guardian:
The physics of Spain

Daily Mail:
Meet the amazing robots that can move like animals, communicate with humans and even dance and draw

IEEE Spectrum:
Huge Six-Legged Robot Crabster Goes Swimming

Daily Mail:
Carpenter who lost four fingers in saw accident invents 3D printed hand that costs just £65 and has transformed the lives of more than 100 children

Daily Mail:
Jurassic squirrel older than Tyrannosaurus Rex is discovered in China - and WE could have evolved from it

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Top Ten Weirdest Dinosaur Extinction Ideas

Live Science:
Trove of Ancient Marsupial Fossils Discovered in Australia

Live Science:
Strange Ancient Ape Walked on All Fours

The Atlantic:
12 Reasons Pyrosomes Are My New Favorite Terrifying Sea Creatures

The Guardian:
New to nature no 111: Typhleotris mararybe

ABC Australia:
Dolphins have a lifelong memory

Daily Mail:
Butterfly winners and losers over the past 50 years: How the Adonis Blue and Purple Emperor are making a comeback... but the Duke of Burgundy faces extinction

Daily Mail:
Adam and Eve DID live in Africa at the same time - but they probably didn't know each other

The Guardian:
Why the Incas offered up child sacrifices

Daily Mail:
The enormous Mayan mythical carving discovered inside an ancient pyramid that hints at a power struggle between the Snake Kingdom and the Tikal rulers

Gizmodo:
Galileo Was Even Smarter Than We Thought

Gizmodo:
How Upton Sinclair Turned The Jungle Into a Failed New Jersey Utopia

Gizmodo:
An Illustrated History of the Hovercraft

Daily Mail:
The 22 books everyone should read… according to F Scott Fitzgerald: List of novels he dictated to nurse is revealed

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Secret to National Geographic's Maps Is an 80-Year-Old Font

Daily Mail:
The document that saved more than 1,000 Jews: Letter emerges from Oskar Schindler to ask for permission to move his factory

Daily Mail:
RAF Spitfire pilot fled from German firing squad during extraordinary series of escapes after being shot down in World War Two

Daily Mail:
'I have just met a devastatingly attractive young giant who caused my heart to flutter a bit': What our future Queen wrote as a flirtatious and carefree girl of 19

Daily Mail:
How Hilda the forgotten Fifties plus-size pin-up was rediscovered one year after the man who created her died

Daily Mail:
'I was constantly scared, always worried': Farm worker who led police to the Great Train Robbers' hideout tells of years of fear and death threats after gang's conviction

Daily Mail:
Shaun of the Dead interactive screenplay reveals on-set secrets

August 9, 2013

Halifax Chronicle Herald:
Witness shares memories as Shag Harbour UFO festival set to begin

Michigan Radio:
Michigan has its fair share of UFO sightings, but Ohio takes the cake

Fort Campbell Courier:
Alien Invasion

The Telegraph:
Chelyabinsk meteor origin traced to near Earth asteroid

USA Today:
Perseid meteor shower to light up night sky this weekend

Alamagordo Daily News:
Predicting meteor showers is not an exact science

Spaceflight Now:
Delta 4 rocket launches for Australian satellite deploy

Stuff NZ:
US, Australia in satellite launch

Universe Today:
The Soyuz Rocket and Launch Sequence Explained

IEEE Spectrum:
X-47B Gets Two More Years of Tests to Prep Navy for Robot Warplanes

Gizmag:
2013 International Aerial Robotics Competition tests student-built espionage robots

The Atlantic:
13 Little Things NASA Did to Get Alan Shepard Ready for Space

August 8, 2013

NASA News:
If We Landed on Europa, What Would We Want to Know?

Gizmag:
Perseid meteor shower promises to be a dandy

CNN:
Asteroid kind of headed toward Earth

Wired:
Mars Art: Rarely Seen Gems From Curiosity Rover's Raw Image Collection

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
A Strategy for Comet Missions in the 1980s (1974)

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Naming the Space Station (1988)

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Rocket Belts and Rocket Chairs: Lunar Flying Units (1969)

Universe Today:
Apollo 15: "Stand by for a Hard Impact"

August 7, 2013

Space.com:
Sun Will Flip Its Magnetic Field Soon

Universe Today:
What Will Happen When the Sun's Magnetic Poles Reverse?

Spaceflight Now:
Delta 4 set for international launch Wednesday night

Spaceflight Now:
Asteroid sampling mission to launch on Atlas 5 rocket

Daily Mail:
Mystery of the double-ringed craters of Mars solved: Scientists say formations were created by ice sheets that were TENS of metres thick

Space.com:
Pink Alien Planet Is Smallest Photographed Around Sun-Like Star

Space.com:
Perseid Meteor Shower: August's 'Fireball Champion' Should Dazzle Stargazers

Scientific American:
See Three Asteroids in the Night Sky This Month

BBC News:
Wiltshire crop circle numbers 'almost halve' in a year

The Telegraph:
Crop circles demystified: how the patterns are created

Gulf News:
Crop circles: Cups, rings and sun-dogs

Desert Sun:
Bruce Fessier: High desert sightings: Something is out there

August 6, 2013

Scientific American:
Russian Meteor Might Have Siblings in Tow

Popular Science:
All Of The Asteroids That Could Potentially End The World

Daily Mail:
Fireball spotted in the sky above Alabama as the annual Perseid meteor shower set to peak in days

Space.com:
NASA's Next Mars Probe Arrives at Launch Site

Space.com:
Watch Cargo Ship Chase Space Station Through Night Sky This Week

Space.com:
Incredible Technology: How to Build a Space Station Colony

Space.com:
Mattel's Astronaut Barbie Becomes a Mars Explorer with NASA Help

Discovery News:
Observing Perseid Meteors... Using a Radio

Daily Mail:
Back from the dead: Jupiter's gravitational pull breathes life into 'graveyard' of comets that burned out millions of years ago

Gizmag:
NIAC 2013 Phase I winners showcases futuristic aerospace concepts

Dvice:
Flying car completes first public demo flight

Gizmodo:
Man, Watching Airplanes Take Off and Land Is Like Playing a Video Game

Popular Science:
What It'd Be Like To Drown In Space

Gizmodo:
Psychedelic Space Station Concepts from the 70s Will Blow Your Mind

io9:
Stunning concept art reveals NASA's 1970s vision for humanity in space

Popular Science:
Neil Armstrong In The Pages Of Popular Science

Universe Today:
This Is What Leaving Earth Behind Really Looks Like

August 5, 2013

NASA News:
40 Years Ago, Skylab Paved Way for International Space Station

NASA News:
Japanese Vehicle Delivers New Hardware for NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission

Daily News:
Operation cheer me up! Robot which mirrors emotions blasts off on rocket bound for International Space Station to stop astronaut from getting lonely

Spaceflight Now:
New Navy satellite spreads wings, antennas in orbit

Popular Science:
Could There Be A Planet Hidden On The Opposite Side Of Our Sun?

Universe Today:
Comets Could Arise Closer To Earth, Study Suggests

Universe Today:
The 2013 Perseid Meteor Shower: An Observer's Guide

Daily Mail:
A comet DID wipe out first North American prehistoric humans: Ice core data suggests a cosmic impact killed off Clovis people

Gizmodo:
This Helmet Gives Eurofighters X-Ray Vision

io9:
Why did they mock Robert Goddard's dream of space flight?

io9:
Space Suit X-Ray is Coil-Tastic

Air & Space Magazine:
How hot was Apollo 13 on reentry?

io9:
Tour Baikonur, the world's first and largest operational spaceport

Discovery News:
Europa Report: An Epic Voyage to Jupiter's Moon (Review)

io9:
What if aliens mistook cars for the dominant life form on Earth?

WEEKEND EDITION: August 3 through August 4, 2013

io9:
Does infinity really exist?

Universe Today:
Zogg From Betelgeuse Explains Why the Universe Has No Edge

Scientific American:
Big Bang Light Reveals Minimum Lifetime of Photons

Live Science:
Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse: Just Do the Math

Gizmodo:
How Nature Is Inspiring a New Breed of Robotic Design

IEEE Spectrum:
Hexapod Figures Out How to Walk After You Chop Its Leg Off

Daily Mail:
Vorsprung durch tech drink! Carl the robot bartender serves customers at German bar

Daily News:
The Cornish robotic actor coming to a theatre near you: £55,000 Robo-thespian delights and offends audiences

Popular Science:
10 Robots That Are Way More Athletic Than You

Daily Mail:
Not so bird-brained, then: Flightless dinosaurs had brains hardwired for flying long before they took to the air

Daily Mail:
Jurassic Park exposed: Mosquito that forms the basis for the whole film and made the cloning of dinosaurs possible is the only species that DOESN'T suck blood

Popular Science:
Could Dragons Have Existed If Evolution Had Taken A Different Turn?

The Guardian:
Woolly mammoth DNA may lead to a resurrection of the ancient beast

The Guardian:
How to clone a mammoth

Daily Mail:
Unearthed, the ancient 'halls of the dead' that are 1,000 years OLDER than Stonehenge

Daily Mail:
The 3,000-year-old fragment of pottery that leading expert claims could prove that Old Testament stories are TRUE

The History Blog:
More panels of large Greek mosaic found in Calabria

io9:
Gay marriage in the year 100 AD

Daily Mail:
Drugged with beer and cocaine and left to freeze to death, 500-year-old mummies of sacrificed Inca children reveal their secrets

Smithsonian Magazine:
How to Tour Michelangelo's Rome

Smithsonian Magazine:
Alexander Hamilton's Adultery and Apology

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Friedrich Engels' Radical Lover Helped Him Father Socialism

Gizmodo:
New York's Underground Moving Sidewalk That Never Was

Daily News:
Were children smarter a century ago? Test for eighth graders in Kentucky dated 1912 ignites debate over kids' intelligence today

Daily News:
Wooden swimming costumes to prevent drowning, radio-fitted hats and cars with safety nets for pedestrians: Just a few of the harebrained inventions dating back to the early 20th century

io9:
Brooding Photos Of the Deadly "London Fog"

Air & Space Magazine:
Wiley Post, Ex-Con

Gizmodo:
On Henry Ford's 150th Birthday, a Look Inside His Failed Utopia

Gizmag:
Video tour of formerly top secret Cold War nuclear weapons facility released

io9:
Newly declassified docs reveal Queen's secret 1983 nuclear war speech

io9:
These Are the Narrowest Houses in the World

Gizmodo:
How Movie Directors Manipulate Your Emotions With Color Temperature

Popular Science:
A History Of Times The World Didn't End [Infographic]

August 2, 2013

Daily Mail:
A near miss for Earth: Solar flare that could have knocked out power, cars and phones came so close two weeks ago

New Scientist:
Asteroid pinpointed as likely source of Russian meteor

Universe Today:
Watch the Curiosity Rover's First Year on Mars in Two Minutes

Space.com:
Night Sky: Visible Planets, Moon Phases & Events, August 2013

Space.com:
Images: Best Stargazing Events of August 2013 (Sky Maps)

IEEE Spectrum:
Flying Walking Robot Turns Wings Into Legs

Daily Mail:
The fearsome high-tech military drones of the future currently in development for the U.S. military

The Atlantic:
408 Hot Air Balloons Just Took Off at the Same Time - Here's Video

The Atlantic:
Behold, the Innards of a Spacesuit

The Atlantic:
Astro Mad Men: NASA's 1960s Campaign to Win America's Heart

io9:
The Great 1952 Space Program That Almost Was

August 1, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
Delta 4 rockets readied for two launches in August

Daily Mail:
Watch the Earth breathing: Mesmerising animation shows our planet's 'heartbeat' as the seasons change over a year

Popular Science:
Big Pic: Goodnight Moons

Air & Space Magazine:
Melted Moon

Discovery News:
42 Years Since First Apollo Moon Rover Joyride

Discovery News:
Epic Views of Apollo's First Moon Rover: Photos

July 31, 2013

De Void:
A journey through the past

The Guardian:
Astronomer casts new light on the search for alien life

Space.com:
Astronaut Drives Rover from Space Station

Discovery News:
How an Astronaut Faced a Drowning Hazard in Space

Universe Today:
How Did That Spacesuit Water Leak Spread? New Video Has Clues

Universe Today:
New SpaceX Video Highlights What You Need to Know About the Falcon 9 Rocket

Daily Mail:
From Earth to orbit and back again in just SIX minutes! Incredible video from camera attached to booster rocket of shuttle Atlantis

New Scientist:
NASA's upcoming astronaut capsule has hints of Apollo

Discovery News:
Slingatron-tastic: Could We Lob Stuff Into Space?

Discovery News:
Pluto Ho! Close Encounter Just Two Years Away

Popular Science:
Check Out The Document That Created NASA

Gizmodo:
Commercial Drones Are Now Approved for Aerial Surveillance

Dvice:
Video of the Day: 'Jetman' flies with B17 bomber

Gizmodo:
Take a Spooky Drone Tour of a Decaying California Ghost Town

July 30, 2013

Discovery News:
NASA at 55: The Birthing of a Space Agency

Universe Today:
Is Life On Mars Related To Life On Earth?

Daily Mail:
'Eyeball earth' planets where only one side gets heat, leaving the other permanently frozen, could one day support human life (but who'd want to live there?)

Gizmodo:
Valentina Grizodubova: The Soviet Amelia Earhart

io9:
Fighter Planes That Became Battle-Scarred War Monuments

Gizmodo:
16 Names NASA Considered For The 1980s Space Station That Never Was

Gizmodo:
Colorado: The Space Warfare Capital of America!

July 29, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
Cargo freighter takes 4-orbit sprint to space station

Space.com:
Angels of the sky: Russian Spacecraft Delivers Spacesuit Repair Kit to International Space Station

Daily Mail:
Angels of the sky: Dazzling halo effect created by helicopter blades hitting sand and dust is named in honor of two fallen soldiers

Daily Mail:
A 'quarter of a second' from disaster: 500mph RAF Tornado missed glider by just 100ft thanks to lightning reflexes of fighter pilot

Universe Today:
Get Your Own 1960's Moon Rocket Kit

Discovery News:
When the Moon Becomes Earth's Nemesis

Universe Today:
A Weird West Tale and the Hunt for Planet Vulcan

Daily Mail:
'Neil Armstrong thought the moon was beautiful, but I thought it was desolate': Buzz Aldrin on his first impressions - and how they nearly didn't make it

WEEKEND EDITION: July 27 through July 28, 2013

io9:
If this theory is correct, we may live in a web of alternate timelines

Gizmodo:
Scientists Just Discovered a New Force That's Stronger Than Gravity

Popular Science:
New Theory: The Universe Isn't Expanding, It's Just Gaining Mass

Live Science:
Strange Particles Shape-Shift From One Flavor to Another

The Guardian:
T2K neutrino experiment reports new oscillation results

Science Magazine:
Are Neutrinos Their Own Antiparticles?

Gizmodo:
How Scientists Stopped Light Dead For a Whole Minute

Inside Science:
Scientists Produce False Memories In Mice

IEEE Spectrum:
Video: Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Revealed

IEEE Spectrum:
RHex Does Parkour All Over UPenn

Dvice:
World's first stainless steel robot offers a peek at a real Terminator

IEEE Spectrum:
Disney Rapid Design Tool Creates Mechatronic Characters

Gizmag:
MTM's RAD watch packs a built-in Geiger counter

Inside Science:
Jumbo Viruses Hint At 'Fourth Domain' Of Life

Daily Mail:
Dinosaurs were NOT cold-blooded because it would have made them physically weak, claim scientists

Stuff NZ:
Tail find first of its kind

io9:
16-foot dinosaur tail unearthed in Mexico is in perfect condition

Stuff NZ:
Tooth reveals giant swimmer

Science Magazine:
Why Some Species Thrived When Dinos Died

Smithsonian Magazine:
Do Dolphins Use Whistles to Call Themselves by Unique Names?

Science Magazine:
Your Dog Is a Copycat

The History Blog:
6,000-year-old decorative wood carving found in Wales

Daily Mail:
Have Egypt's long lost pyramids really been found on Google Earth? Historical maps show sandy mound may hide monument larger than Giza

Daily Mail:
King David's palace 'found' in the city where he's said to have battled Goliath

The History Blog:
Navy finds stone boat effigy on San Clemente Island

The History Blog:
New Snake queen stele fills blanks in Maya history

The History Blog:
Elite Viking jewelry found on modest Denmark farm

Smithsonian Magazine:
Islam's Medieval Underworld

The History Blog:
All 4 surviving Magna Cartas to come together for the first time

The Atlantic:
'Friend,' as a Verb, Is 800 Years Old

The History Blog:
Hidden chambers, 14th c. toilet found in Drum Castle

Daily Mail:
Stone coffin at Richard III site set to be opened - and experts say it could contain the remains of a 14th century knight

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Story of the First Postage Stamp

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Brilliant, Troubled Legacy of Richard Wagner

io9:
The Great Sahara Sea That Almost Was

io9:
The man who planned to turn the Eiffel Tower into a free fall ride

io9:
A 'submarine graveyard' has been found off the coast of England

Gizmodo:
Watch What Subways Looked Like 100 Years Ago

Daily Mail:
Scrapbooks made by Ernest Hemingway's mother reveal heartwarming bond between mother and son and how she cultivated the author's early writing talent

Gizmodo:
The Invention of Jaywalking Was a Massive Shaming Campaign

io9:
The crack team behind the invention of the parking meter

io9:
10 Urban Legends about Famous Scientists

Smithsonian Magazine:
Schindler's List for sale again

Gizmodo:
UCLA's 1948 Mechanical Computer Was Simply Gorgeous To Watch in Action

Gizmodo:
Inside the US Nuclear Stockpile's Top Secret First Home

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Golden Arches of McModernism

Gizmodo:
A Norse Town Has Built an Artificial Sun to Light Up Its 5-Month Night

Daily Mail:
The nuclear bomb simulator that lets users nuke their home cities in 3D

Gizmodo:
What the World Would Look Like If You Could Actually See Wi-Fi Signals

July 26, 2013

io9:
It's Easier for Aliens to Visit Us Than Previously Thought

Westlake Patch:
UFOs, Crop Circle Presentation At Westlake Porter Library

Space.com:
Can the International Space Station Survive Until 2020?

Space.com:
Full Recovery Unlikely for NASA's Kepler Planet-Hunting Spacecraft

Dvice:
NASA's shuttle launchpad is up for grabs, sorta

Scientific American:
This Video Montage of Saturn's Rings and Moons Is Simply Gorgeous

Popular Science:
Could An Asteroid Impact Knock The Moon Into Earth?

Space.com:
Search for States' Missing Apollo 11 Moon Rocks Continues

Popular Science:
Honeycomb Drone Swarm Can Fly In Any Shape

Popular Science:
Watch A Real-Life Drone Get Piloted Through The Oculus Rift

The Aviationist:
F/A-18 Hornet pilot performs one of craziest flybys ever

July 25, 2013

Fargo-Moorhead InForum:
Thousands seek out artifact from 1979 UFO encounter in Warren

Universe Today:
Near-Earth Asteroid 2003 DZ15 to Pass Earth Monday Night

Popular Science:
New For Space Tourists: A Light, Comfy Space Suit

Space.com:
New Space Capsule Lands With Two of Three Parachutes in NASA Flight Test

Discovery News:
Glimmer of Hope From Kepler Rescue Attempt

BBC:
UK team designs human mission to Mars

Space.com:
Martian Meteorites May Be Younger Than Thought, Studies Suggest

Daily Mail:
SNOW on Mars is the most likely reason for the valleys that exist there - and could shed new light on the red planet's early climate

Popular Science:
100 Years Of Meteorites In An Interactive Image [Infographic]

Popular Science:
How Close Could I Get To The Sun And Survive?

Popular Science:
New Surveillance Blimp Stays Aloft For 30 Days Straight

Gizmodo:
A Fleet of Blimps Will Soon Serve as a Missile Shield Over Washington

July 24, 2013

Universe Today:
Space Debris: A Tale of Two Satellites

Universe Today:
The Latest from Mars: Dried up Riverbed May Have Flowed into an Ancient Ocean

Popular Science:
12 Insanely Ambitious Ideas For Improving Space Exploration

Space.com:
Artist Wants to Launch Meteorite Back Into Space

io9:
What does Mach One (or Two or Three) mean?

Fast Company:
How An "Impossible" Aviation Challenge Led To An Innovation Breakthrough

July 23, 2013

Universe Today:
Expedition 37/38's Tips For Surviving Long Voyages in Space

Space.com:
Boeing Reveals Interior of New Commercial Space Capsule

Scientific American:
Starry Night: Colors of Summer Stars Explained

Gizmodo:
From Deep Space Our Pale Blue Dot Is Just This Tiny Speck

Spaceflight Now:
Images of Earth taken by distant NASA spacecraft

Popular Science:
The Worst Places To Live In The Universe

Gizmag:
Goodyear replacing its current blimp fleet with zeppelins

Gizmag:
OpenSky jet-powered glider inspired by Japanese anime

Gizmag:
Self-assembling multi-copter demonstrates networked flight control

Jalopnik:
The Ten Scariest Aircraft Landings Caught On Video

io9:
Three Scifi Pioneers Talk About Making the First Great Space Movie

Popular Science:
Check Out Apollo 11's Flight Plan

Discovery News:
What Would a Soviet Moon Landing Have Looked Like?

July 22, 2013

Sun Herald:
South Mississippi has history of UFO sightings

Spaceflight Now:
Powerful Atlas 5 lifts massive Navy satellite into orbit

Stuff NZ:
Mission to make Kepler turn

Daily Mail:
Life on Mars? The Red Planet's atmosphere once contained MORE oxygen than Earth until it was damaged in a catastrophic collision with another world the size of Pluto

The Guardian:
Curiosity rover finds evidence Mars lost its atmosphere 4bn years ago

Discovery News:
Mars' Once Thick Atmosphere Now Kaput

Scientific American:
Neptune's New Moon May Be Named after One of Sea God's Monstrous Children

Dvice:
What's the most likely way we'll find life on other planets?

Popular Science:
What Does Space Smell Like?

Universe Today:
What's the Best Design for a Flying Mars Robot?

Gizmodo:
A Beautifully Creepy Drone View of Beautifully Vain Los Angeles

Gizmag:
Colorado town considers drone hunting licenses

The DEW Line:
Ready for RIAT?

The Aviationist:
Mig-25 defection: How a Soviet Pilot Brought a Secret Warplane To The West

Universe Today:
Remembering the Great Meteor Procession of 1860

San Jose Mercury News:
Apollo 11 anniversary: Bay Area remembers Moon landing

Daily Mail:
Apollo 11 rocket engines that put man on the moon discovered at bottom of the Atlantic and confirmed a day before the 44th anniversary of Armstrong's first steps

Geek:
How Apollo 11's 1.024MHz guidance computer did a lot with very little

Wired:
The Best Space Images Ever Were Taken by Apollo Astronauts With Hasselblad Cameras

Life Magazine:
Up Close With Apollo 11: A LIFE Photographer's Story

WEEKEND EDITION: July 20, 2013 through July 21, 2013

io9:
New theory says the Universe isn't expanding - it's just getting fat

NPR:
The Hardest Thing To Find In The Universe?

The Atlantic:
The 3 Most Exciting Words in Science Right Now: 'The Pitch Dropped'

The Guardian:
Navigating 18th-century science: Board of Longitude archive digitised

IEEE Spectrum:
Video: Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Revealed

Gizmag:
eDavid the robot painter excels in numerous styles

Popular Science:
Volvo's Fold-Out Solar Charger Looks Like Sci-Fi Couture

Daily Mail:
Will 'hyperloop' super-train really link San Francisco and LA in 30 MINUTES?

Popular Science:
5 Amazing Antarctic Research Buildings

Smithsonian Magazine:
'All the Gold in the Universe Could Come From the Collisions of Neutron Stars

ABC Australia:
Giant viruses raise questions about life

Stuff NZ:
Tyrannosaurus Rex No Mere Scavenger

Daily Mail:
The devil dinosaur: Fossils of creature with long curved horns discovered in Utah

ABC Australia:
'Jumbo-sized schnoz' dinosaur found

Daily Mail:
Dinosaur DIY dental care: Diplodocus and other large herbivores replaced teeth every MONTH because of wear from plant eating

Universe Today:
What Killed the Dinosaurs?

Stuff NZ:
'Phenomenal' early fossil find

ABC Australia:
Secret of bees' honeycomb revealed

Smithsonian Magazine:
New Study Shows That Dogs Use Color Vision After All

Daily Mail:
Search for the world's 'loneliest whale' who has been singing to himself for 20 years

io9:
Like humans, chimps and orangutans remember their past

io9:
More evidence that Neanderthals made jewelry and art

Daily Mail:
Ahead of their own time: How Stone Age Britons were the first to invent a calendar with rocks in a pit

Daily Mail:
World's oldest calendar dating back more than 10,000 years discovered in Scotland

Smithsonian Magazine:
When Lettuce Was a Sacred Sex Symbol

io9:
Was rabies used an ancient biological weapon?

io9:
Solving the Mystery of the Plague That Decimated Ancient Athens

io9:
The Bizarrely Beautiful World of Relics in Religious History

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Origin of the Pilcrow, aka the Strange Paragraph Symbol

Smithsonian Magazine:
How to Tour Michelangelo's Rome

Daily Mail:
Why was the captain of the Bounty so desperate to save the ship's chronometer? Timepiece that held the key to the most infamous mutiny in British naval history

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Evolution of American Barbecue

Smithsonian Magazine:
Brainpower and Brawn in the Mexican-American War

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Invention of the Baseball Mitt

io9:
The rather creepy 19th-century machine that spoke with a human voice

Daily Mail:
How to chop down a tree and stop a mad dog with a walking stick: The bizarre 'lifehacks' tips found on cigarette packets 100 years ago

Daily Mail:
The world on the brink of war: Pictures of military science from 1913 show America feared deadly bomb showers even before battle had begun

io9:
The tragic life of the man who invented nylon

Gizmodo:
The Depression-Era TV of Tomorrow Had Home Shopping-And a Like Button

Daily Mail:
Memories of the 1950s geisha: Stunning photos celebrate how the ancient oriental art of the hostess found its place in modern Japan

Popular Science:
The CIA Ripped Off 007's Gadgets

The Atlantic:
The State of Wyoming Has 2 Escalators

Popular Science:
If The Sun Went Out, How Long Could Life On Earth Survive?

Smithsonian Magazine:
The End of the World Might Just Look Like This

July 19, 2013

Daily Mail:
Victorian space observatory where earliest pictures of the moon were taken is saved for the nation after falling into disrepair

Air & Space Magazine:
Follow the Path of Wiley Post's Historic Around-the-World Flight

Air & Space Magazine:
Short Decks and Swordfish

Air & Space Magazine:
Cancelled: The Bell XP-77

The Atlantic:
Night Witches: The Female Fighter Pilots of World War II

Air & Space Magazine:
The Gutless Cutlass

Air & Space Magazine:
Across the Channel by Balloon

Dvice:
Seeing the far side of the Moon for the first time

Discovery News:
Say cheese, earthlings! Shots of our planet from space

Smithsonian Magazine:
Inside the Alien's Guide to the Ruins of Washington, D.C.

July 18, 2013

Scientific American:
NASA Investigating Mysterious Spacewalk-Ending Water Leak

Universe Today:
New SpaceX Rocket Booster Completes 'Full Mission Duration' Firing Test

Universe Today:
Water-Trapped Worlds Possible Around Red Dwarf Stars?

The DEW Line:
X-47B fails fourth trap attempt

The DEW Line:
A Super Hornet's first flight

Popular Science:
Airships Are Not The Future Of Flight

Daily News:
Are aliens closer than we think? INVISIBLE probes sent by unknown civilisations could already be in our solar system

July 17, 2013

Bloomberg News:
UFO Cover-Ups Must End, Moonwalker Edgar Mitchell Says

Spaceflight Now:
Spacewalk aborted by spacesuit water leak

New Scientist:
Five NASA spacewalks aborted thanks to bad suits

Discovery News:
Red Planet Riviera: Ancient Mars Ocean Found?

Daily Mail:
Expert claims something massive might be 'tilting' the universe but admit they have NO idea what it is

Daily Mail:
Government set to spend £60 million on a new rocket engine capable of sending people into space in just 15 MINUTES

The Aviationist:
The most stunning Special Colored Fighter Jets taking part in the NATO Tiger Meet 2013 in Norway

Daily Mail:
The first Air Force One that carried President Eisenhower is found decaying in an Arizona field

July 16, 2013

Universe Today:
LADEE Lunar Probe Unveiled at NASA's Wallops Launch Site in Virginia

Spaceflight Now:
Hubble Space Telescope finds new Neptune moon

Stuff NZ:
Neptune's 14th moon discovered

New Scientist:
Neptune's strange new moon is first found in a decade

Discovery News:
The Best Way to Explore Europa? Bomb It

Universe Today:
Fly Through a Canyon on Mars, Thanks to Mars Express

Popular Science:
Interplanetary Laser Could Send Messages To Mars Or Jupiter

July 15, 2013

Popular Science:
After 33 Years, Team Wins Human-Powered Flight Contest

Popular Science:
Sikorsky Prize claimed: 64s of human flight end 33 years of toil

Popular Science:
NASA Successfully Tests First 3-D Printed Rocket Engine Injector

Universe Today:
These Cubesats Could Use Plasma Thrusters to Leave Our Solar System

Popular Science:
How I Tried Turning My Off-The-Shelf Drone Into A Weapon

The DEW Line:
Is this what the Lockheed Martin LRS-B concept looks like?

Popular Science:
How To Turn A Match Into A Tiny Rocket

The Aviationist:
X-47B UCAV drone decided to abort landing attempt on aircraft carrier on its own without human intervention

Dvice:
Gallery: Beautiful images of China's new space program

io9:
Why aliens might understand the universe very differently than we do

Discovery News:
Alien Probes Could Be Surfing the Galaxy

io9:
What Would We Do If Aliens Just Showed Up Tomorrow?

Baxter Bulletin:
Sonny Garrett: Who knows what the night sky holds

WEEKEND EDITION: July 13 through July 14, 2013

Space.com:
Space-Time Loops May Explain Black Holes

Scientific American:
Where Are the Anti-People? [Excerpt]

Daily Mail:
Time for a change? Super precise optical lattice clock could 'redefine the second' and be used as a standard for the world's time

Popular Science:
Robot Rodeo, Y'all!

Gizmag:
Giant Crabster robot to explore shipwrecks and shallow seas

IEEE Spectrum:
Honda's ASIMO Gets New Job at Museum

Popular Science:
Watch This Untrippable Robot Strut Its Stuff

Gizmag:
DRC-HUBO revealed for DARPA Robotics Challenge

Daily Mail:
The one-wheeled electric scooter that's a cross between a Segway and a unicycle - and it's apparently impossible to fall off

Daily Mail:
Bubba Watson's hovercraft golf cart now hitting the course as a club in Ohio stocks up on the $58,000 vehicles

Popular Science:
In Chicago, 3-D Printers Are Available To Anyone With A Library Card

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Giant Dinos Shared the Salad Bar

Daily Mail:
Underground Antarctic lake sealed off for 15 million years reveals thousands of forms of life beneath ice two MILES thick

Daily Mail:
Meet the small yellow worm that can REGROW its own head - and its old memories

Daily Mail:
Spider webs found to attract insects by pulling them in using electric charge created by their own flapping wings

Daily Mail:
Neanderthals talked like us half a million years ago and could even have shaped the language we speak today

Stuff NZ:
Farming so nice, it was repeatedly invented

Live Science:
Pharaoh's Sphinx Paws Found in Israel

The History Blog:
In the clearing stands a boxer...

Smithsonian Magazine:
Celebrate Nikola Tesla's Birthday with an Excerpt from a New Biography of the Inventor

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Curious Case of Nashville's Frail Sisterhood

Smithsonian Magazine:
Document Deep Dive: The Day the Confederates Attacked Washington

Smithsonian Magazine:
How the West Was Won... By Waitresses

Daily Mail:
The Ellis Island tourists don't get to see: Inside the infectious disease wards, morgue and giant furnace where the dreams of thousands of immigrants hoping for a new life in America came to a terrible end

Gizmodo:
Where the Future Came From: A Trip Through the 1893 Chicago World's Fair

io9:
How America Could Have Ruled the Earth in 1898

Daily Mail:
The greatest thing since. . . A look at the history of sliced bread and its jeweler inventor as it celebrates 85th anniversary

The Guardian:
80 years ago today: MRC researchers discover viral cause of flu

Daily Mail:
The photographs that helped Roosevelt persuade America's wealthy elite to back the 'New Deal' program to lift Deep South farmers out of crippling poverty

io9:
Sleek and Sexy Bus Concepts from the Future that Never Was

io9:
An Illustrated History of Unbelievably Camouflaged Ships

The Atlantic:
The Hut Where the Internet Began

Daily Mail:
Break into the Bank of England: Virtual tour app takes you inside the famous building and its gold vault with 360° panoramic views

Daily Mail:
Barry Norman was the reporter sent to cover rumours of an on-set affair between Richard Burton and Liz Taylor. Fifty years on, he recalls...How I watched Hollywood's greatest love story unfold

Gizmodo:
To Avoid Cyber Espionage, Russia's Switching Back to Typewriters

Wired UK:
The NSA cracked the Kryptos sculpture years before the CIA

Popular Science:
Big Pic: Life-Sized T. Rex Sculpture Stares Down The Eiffel Tower

The Atlantic:
Blankets, the Original Viral Media

July 12, 2013

Motherboard:
The Long Tail of Roswell: A Brief History of Our Most Famous Aliens

Slate:
The Government Tested a Flying Saucer in 1956. Here's the Full Report

IEE Spectrum:
European Space Agency Reveals New Rocket Design

NASA News:
Third Drive of Curiosity's Long Trek Covers 135 Feet

Space.com:
Blue Alien Planet Explained: Inside Hubble's Exoplanet Color Discovery (Infographic)

Universe Today:
How to Spot and Track Satellites

July 11, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
2020 rover to look for signs of past life on Mars

Discovery News:
Next Mars Rover to Pack Microscope, Look for Fossils

Space.com:
Why NASA's Next Mars Rover Won't Seek Current Life

NASA News:
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Looks at Apollo 12, Surveyor 3 Landing Sites

Discovery News:
Dwarf Planet Ahoy! Spacecraft Spies Pluto and Charon

Space.com:
Earth's 6-Year Twitch Changes Day Length

Popular Science:
True Color Of An Exoplanet Discovered For The First Time

Astrobiology Magazine:
Technology Could Curtail Astronaut Conflict

The DEW Line:
X-47B makes first carrier trap

Discovery News:
When a Soviet Robot Raced Apollo 11 to the Moon

Irish Central:
First flying saucer sighting reported in County Kerry in 1947 five days after Roswell UFO incident

July 10, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
Next Proton payload put in storage during failure probe

Discovery News:
Why R2-D2 Would be the PERFECT Moon Rover

Daily Mail:
Want to go into space for just £25,000? Try the balloon that will fly twice as high as Concorde and take you from Paris to Rome

The Guardian:
Voyager 1 spacecraft's latest find takes the edge off of the solar system

Popular Science:
Turn Household Objects Into Drones With New DIY Kit

Dvice:
The Navaho missile, the supersonic drone, and its legacy

July 9, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
Navy satellite hoisted aboard Atlas 5 launch vehicle

Gizmag:
SpaceX Grasshopper tests sensor system, reaches record altitude of over 1,000 feet

Discovery News:
Tiny Robotic Cubes Could Rule the Solar System

NASA News:
Radio Bursts Discovered From Beyond Our Galaxy

Popular Science:
What The X-47B Reveals About The Future Of Autonomous Flight

Popular Science:
The Future Of Flight: 3-D Printed Planes

Jalopnik:
How Honda Revealed The Government's Top Secret Stealth Bomber First

Popular Science:
Your Burning Questions About The Roswell Incident, Answered

July 8, 2013

Gizmodo:
10 Years Ago, Opportunity Rover Began a 90-Day Mission That Never Ended

Gizmag:
Listening for leaks aboard the International Space Station with ultrasonics

Universe Today:
Moon Dust Could 'Engulf' Lunar Rovers - Especially During Sunrise and Sunset

Universe Today:
'Avalanche' Risk Higher Than Thought For Asteroid Landings: Study

Daily Mail:
The day the earth exploded: Scientist claims moon was created by massive nuclear blast which tore apart our planet four billion years ago

ABC Australia:
Earth generates its own solar wind

The Atlantic:
The Next Big Thing for Exploring the Distant Universe: Balloons

Popular Science:
The Future Of Flight: Planes That Never Need To Land

Popular Science:
What The X-47B Reveals About The Future Of Autonomous Flight

Air & Space Magazine:
Were drones used in the Bikini bomb tests?

Gizmodo:
How to Put on a Space Suit

INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND EDITION: July 4 through July 7, 2013

Daily Mail:
Faces of the American revolution: Amazing early photographs which document some of the heroes of the War for Independence in their later years

Washington Post:
Five things everybody should know about July 4th

Pittsburgh Post Gazette:
A nation's document: from draft to official Declaration

Gizmodo:
Sky Flowers: The Explosive and Deadly History of Fireworks

Gizmodo:
DIY Fireworks Instructions From the 1920s Were Ridiculously Unsafe

Gizmodo:
Google Maps Street View Now Lets You Explore Thomas Jefferson's Digs

The History Blog:
Help recreate the Star Spangled Banner

Inside Science:
Mathematics points the way to updating Old Glory if another state joins the union

Smithsonian Magazine:
How the Higgs Boson Was Found

io9:
Why Randomness May Not Mean What You Think It Means

Popular Science:
From DARPA, A Virtual Tool To Revolutionize Robotics

Gizmag:
Introducing TORO, Germany's new humanoid robot

Popular Science:
A Motorized, Super-Detailed Robot Villain Made By A Doctor Who Fan

Daily Mail:
As BA relaxes on phones in the cabin... Why experts STILL don't know if using a mobile will make your plane crash

Daily Mail:
Dinosaurs 'crawled on all fours like toddlers' before switching to two feet as they grew up

io9:
Weekend Nightmare Fuel: The Biggest Crawling Animals on Earth

IEEE Spectrum:
The Nearly Effortless Flight of the Albatross

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Education of a Bomb Dog

Daily Mail:
What a mucky pup! Tiny sea lion takes a bath in the sand

Science Magazine:
Saying it With Flowers - 14,000 Years Ago

Daily Mail:
Skeleton found beneath Lincoln Castle could belong to a Saxon king dating back more than 1,000 YEARS

The History Blog:
Michelangelo's prisoner graffiti

Daily Mail:
Colonial America's oldest unsolved murder case is finally cracked: Forensic scientists reveal identity of 19-year-old European shot in a Virginia duel in 1624

io9:
The scientific feud that ended in an execution

Daily Mail:
How the French really met their Waterloo... and it WASN'T at Waterloo: As the Chancellor promises funding for the 200th anniversary, Peter Snow says we should be celebrating a battle we've all forgotten

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Brief History of the Baseball

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Past and Future of the Baseball Bat

The Guardian:
Civil war veterans at Gettysburg anniversary in 1913 - in pictures

Gizmodo:
How To Send a Photo Around the World (in 1926)

Gizmodo:
6 Radical Infrastructure Schemes That Almost Changed NYC Forever

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Woman Who (Maybe) Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig

Daily Mail:
How to drive the world record-breaking steam train Mallard: Locomotive gets a final clean and polish ahead of celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of its 126mph landmark journey

Gizmodo:
Check Out These Gorgeous Color Photos From World War II

io9:
1954 film claims a well-kept house could survive a nuclear attack

Smithsonian Magazine:
Never-Before-Seen Photographs of the March on Washington

Smithsonian Magazine:
Top Cities For the Cultural Traveler: London

July 3, 2013

Policymic:
World UFO Day: 9 Most Infamous Sightings

Mother Nature Network:
8 eerie images of UFOs

Daily Mail:
Moment Russian rocket carrying three satellites and 600 tonnes of highly toxic fuel EXPLODES into a spectacular fireball after take-off

Space.com:
Russia Halts Proton Rocket Launches After Explosive Crash

Discovery News:
Russian Rocket Failure Overshadows Mars Mission

Discovery News:
Pluto's New Moons Get Names From Hell

Popular Science:
Space Wind Really Does Exist

Universe Today:
The Hunt for Exomoons Begins!

Space.com:
SETI Evolution: Searching for Aliens Using Whale Songs and Radios (Op-Ed)

Universe Today:
How Cold is Space

Discovery News:
How Old Is E.T.?

Dvice:
Meet the modular, autonomous wingman of tomorrow

Daily Mail:
Glorious photographs capture RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight that pays tribute to airmen who saved us from tyranny of the Nazis

July 2, 2013

The Guardian:
New Crop Circle in Robella, Italy Gives Formula for Energy?

Space.com:
60 Billion Alien Planets Could Support Life, Study Suggests

Stuff NZ:
Leading cultural astrophysicist dies

Space.com:
Meteor Shower and Dancing Planets to Grace July Night Sky

Discovery News:
The Sun -- An Observer's Guide

Discover Magazine:
Meteoroid, Not Comet, Explains the 1908 Tunguska Fireball

Space.com:
Farmers Discover Rare Meteorite in Minnesota Corn Field

Spaceflight Now:
Atlas and Delta rockets get new batch of launch orders

Universe Today:
Orion takes shape for 2014 Test Flight

Discovery News:
Space Nuke Fit to Obliterate Renegade Asteroids

Space.com:
Incredible Technology: How to Make Interstellar Spaceflight a Reality

The DEW Line:
Is this the lightweight fighter of the future?

Popular Science:
The Future Of Flight: Helicopters Will Fly Like Airplanes

Space.com:
'Star Trek' Superfans Restore Galileo Shuttlecraft to 1960s Sci-Fi Glory

Scientific American:
Scientists Search Lunar Landscape for Lost Moon Probes

July 1, 2013

Santa Fe New Mexican:
Another side of Roswell flying saucer incident

Space.com:
Astronaut In Space Drives Robot on Earth, a First

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz launches broadband beacon for developing world

Spaceflight Now:
Pegasus launch puts solar research craft in orbit

Space.com:
China's Spaceflight Success Sets Stage for Big Space Station

Universe Today:
Opportunity Approaching Mountain Climbing Goal and Signs of Habitable Martian Environment

Dvice:
What's the most interesting thing the Mars rovers could find?

Daily Mail:
The view from Mars - new video released by ESA shows what it's like to orbit the red planet

New Scientist:
Astrophile: Tour the scenic lava lakes of Io

Astrobiology Magazine:
First Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster Discovered

Popular Science:
Voyager 1 Entered Weird Region In Space Last Summer

New Scientist:
Reports of Voyager 1's exit still greatly exaggerated

Universe Today:
No, This Image Was Not Taken from the Space Station, But it Sure Looks Like It

Gizmodo:
Bing Maps Has Revealed Russia's Secret Stealth Fighter Jet

Gizmag:
Beyond military drones - the future of unmanned flight

Smithsonian Magazine:
Can We Power a Space Mission To An Exoplanet?

Discovery News:
Wrong Reality: If an American Was First in Space

WEEKEND EDITION: June 29 through June 30, 2013

Simons Science News:
In Lopsided Map of the Cosmos, a Glimmer of Its Origins

Space.com:
How Did the Universe Get Its Stars? An Astronomical Puzzle

io9:
How does spacetime get bent?

Scientific American:
Particle Pals: Neutrino Experiment Shows Protons and Neutrons Pairing Up

Popular Science:
Inside The Most Expensive Science Experiment Ever

io9:
The History of Early Computing Machines, from Ancient Times to 1981

Gizmodo:
The First Ever Electronically Stored Program Ran 65 Years Ago Today

IEEE Spectrum:
Self-Burying Robot Could Be Hiding in Your Backyard Right Now

IEEE Spectrum:
Germans Developing Robot Ape

Daily Mail:
Robotic exoskeleton - that is so soft and light it pulls on like a pair of trousers - could one day give soldiers superhuman strength

Daily Mail:
Fancy a mini-me version of yourself? New 3D printer can make doll-sized twin of you in 24 hours... even down to details like freckles

Popular Science:
License Plate Readers Are Photographing You Everywhere

Popular Science:
Mouse Cloned From A Mere Drop Of Blood

Astrobiology Magazine:
The Anthropocene: Humankind as a Turning Point for Earth

Daily Mail:
The glass menagerie: More than a million zoological species preserved in alcohol go on display at Berlin's Natural History Museum

Live Science:
Bizarre 500-Million-Year-Old Creature Unearthed

Daily Mail:
Who you calling an ugly cow? Fossils of hideous bovine-like animal that predated the dinosaurs is discovered

The Guardian:
What colour were the first birds? Illuminating studies provide new clues

Science Magazine:
700,000-Year-Old Horse Becomes Oldest Creature With Sequenced Genome

Discover Magazine:
Here Be Dragons: The Mythic Bite of the Komodo

Popular Science:
A History Of Daring Red Panda Escapes

The Atlantic:
This Octopus's Camouflage Is Almost Unbelievable

The History Blog:
The mystery of the spinning Egyptian statue

io9:
Now you can visit a 2,000-year-old brothel in Greece

The History Blog:
Red Faun travels to US for the first time

The History Blog:
Unique 6th century gold lady found in Denmark

Live Science:
Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Wasn't a Hoax, Study Suggests

Daily Mail:
Has the mystery of the world's most mysterious manuscript finally been solved? Experts claims messages are hidden in drawings of medieval work

The History Blog:
Powhatan's capital will be preserved for posterity

Daily Mail:
Treasure hunters salvage cannons used by notorious pirate Blackbeard from wreckage of ship he stole to wreak terror on high seas

Daily Mail:
Behind locked doors at the Old Bailey: Exclusive pictures reveal 363-year-old 'dead man's walk' where Britain's most evil killers were led to the gallows

The History Blog:
Napoleonic semaphore telegraph recreated

The History Blog:
Napoleon's death mask sells for $260,000

The History Blog:
Amistad letters at Connecticut Historical Society

Daily Mail:
The real reason why Victoria so adored John Brown: Gamekeeper was a medium who channelled the spirit of Prince Albert

The Atlantic:
The Spy Photo That Fooled NPR, the U.S. Army Intelligence Center, and Me

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Cutting-Edge Second Look at the Battle of Gettysburg

Smithsonian Magazine:
Gettysburg Artifacts From the Smithsonian Collections

Daily Mail:
Welcome to America: Poignant black and white pictures show the brutal hardships endured by immigrant families in 19th century New York

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Child Prodigies Who Became 20th-Century Celebrities

The History Blog:
Saint-Gaudens' Diana to be regilded

Smithsonian Magazine:
Tesla at the Smithsonian: The Story Behind His Genius

Daily Mail:
Royal Navy diver's logbook offers fascinating insight into life on World War One submarine that sank when the door wasn't closed properly

Gizmodo:
Sorry Uber, Los Angeles Has Been Banning Ride-Shares For a Century

Daily Mail:
Signed first draft of FDR's 'Day That Will Live In Infamy' speech up for sale with a $1million price tag

Gizmodo:
Remembering the terror the Luftwaffe's butterfly bombs brought to the North

Daily Mail:
Bodyguard the young Princess Elizabeth never forgot: Queen to honour army officer who died aged 25 during the last week of Second World War

The History Blog:
NSA reveals its OWN embarrassing secrets: Fascinating archive photos show how spy agency held 'Miss NSA' pageants and committed shocking crimes against fashion (just don't tell Edward Snowden)

The History Blog:
Salvador Dalí fruit watercolors sell for $1 million

The Guardian:
Germans are speaking Denglish - by borrowing words from us

Smithsonian Magazine:
Panorama: The New York Skyline

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Beautifully Strange Photography of Roger Ballen

Live Science:
Whatever Happened to Parapsychology?

June 28, 2013

Daily Mail:
The record-breaking Nasa rocket that's run non-stop for five years and could be used in deep space science missions of the future

io9:
The four-hundred-year mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus

New Scientist:
Overprotection may be hampering hunt for Mars life

Space.com:
NASA's Voyager 1 Probe Enters New Realm Near Interstellar Space

Discovery News:
Voyager Reaches Mystery Interstellar Doorstep

Scientific American:
Voyager 1 Returns Surprising Data about an Unexplored Region of Deep Space

Scientific American:
Voyager is in a new region of space, and now that place has a name

The Atlantic:
When We're Looking for Life on Other Planets, What Exactly Are We Looking For?

Dumfried & Galloway Standard:
UFO sightings over Eastriggs

The Bolton News:
Have aliens been to Bolton? One man thinks so

Raleigh News & Observer:
UFO researcher to host weekend conference in Greensboro

WFDD:
International UFO Symposium in Greensboro Looks At Scientific Research Behind Sightings

Gizmodo:
This Gorgeous Warbird Is More Phoenix Than Mustang

June 27, 2013

Daily Mail:
Mission accomplished! Chinese astronauts return from historic trip to their space station... and plan permanent base by 2020

Universe Today:
Another Exoplanet Hunting Mission Ends: CoRoT Spacecraft Can't be Recovered

Scientific American:
Do 3 Habitable Super-Earths Really Orbit a Nearby Star?

Universe Today:
Discovery! More Planets Found Orbiting In A Star Cluster

Daily Mail:
One small step for Kirobo, one giant leap for robotkind: World's first talking robot set to launch into space and chat to astronauts

Daily Mail:
Planet of the apes: Monkey robots may soon be sent to explore the MOON

Daily Mail:
Eye in the sky: Royal Navy is deploying multimillion pound unmanned surveillance crafts to scout out missions and gather intelligence

Gizmag:
Review: Heli-Max 1SQ V-Cam quadcopter

Gizmodo:
A Fantastic Photo of the F-35 Refueling

The DEW Line:
VFA-102 Super Hornets in action

Time Magazine:
Meteor Strike: Investigating a Cosmic Crime Scene

Space.com:
Why Warp Drives Aren't Just Science Fiction

Popular Science:
Europa Is The New Mars: How Sci Fi Follows Science

June 26, 2013

Daily Mail:
Three 'super-Earths' that could harbour life discovered in solar system 22 light years away (and you'd get the bonus of a triple sunset)

Universe Today:
Three Potentially Habitable Planets Found Orbiting Gliese 667C

Dvice:
New record: three potentially habitable exoplanets circling one star

Astrobiology Magazine:
Sunny Super-Earth?

Discovery News:
Meet Asteroid 2013 MZ5, 10,000th Near-Earth Object

Spaceflight Now:
Russian imaging satellite in orbit after Soyuz launch

Space.com:
How to Live on the Moon: A Lunar Base Guidebook

Universe Today:
So You Wanna Go To Space. Can You Put Up With The Superpower Bacteria?

The DEW Line:
Sukhoi Su-35S Flanker-E in Paris

Popular Science:
6 Awesome Aircraft From The 2013 Paris Air Show

South Wales Argus:
Released documents tell of Gwent UFO sightings

Kent Online:
Is the truth out there? Rainham woman spots UFO... on the M2

Briston Post:
The day aliens parked their UFO on my roof

June 25, 2013

Space.com:
Spacewalking Cosmonauts Prime Space Station for New Laboratory

Spaceflight Now:
Russian spacewalk paves way for new lab module

Russia Beyond The Headlines:
Su-35 wows at Le Bourget Paris Air Show

Aviation Week:
Sukhoi Test Pilot Explains 'Supermaneuverability'

The Telegraph:
UFO files: Midlands couple tracked by UFO on 40 mile journey

Mancunian Matters:
'It was a big flying saucer': Altrincham child's UFO spotting among reports released by Ministry of Defence

South Yorkshire Times:
Dearne UFO sightings finally revealed to all

Wichita Eagle:
Kansas astronomer became expert in UFOs

Space.com:
Supermoon Photos: Biggest Full Moon of 2013 in Pictures

June 24, 2013

The Guardian:
Top 10 UFO sightings: from Roswell to a pub in Berkshire

The Telegraph:
UFO files: Rendlesham Forest incident remains Britain's most tantalising sighting

The Telegraph:
UFO files: Police helicopter and UFO in 'near miss'

This Is Hull and East Riding:
Police 'saw UFO over Hull' - MoD

io9:
A New Equation Reveals Our Exact Odds of Finding Alien Life

The Atlantic:
Drone Over Washington

Daily Mail:
Flying high! Incredible pictures from the Paris Air Show of the world's most advanced jets performing for the crowds

Gizmag:
In pictures: Paris Air Show 2013

Daily Mail:
View from the top of the world: Passenger jet pilot's jaw-dropping photographs stunning vistas... taken from his cockpit at 35,000 ft

Gizmodo:
A Space-Inspired Floating Playground That Puts Visitors Into Orbit

WEEKEND EDITION: June 22 through June 23, 2013

io9:
What are neutrinos, and how do they come from beyond our solar system?

Popular Science:
First Known Four-Quark Particle Pops Up In Japanese Collider

Daily Mail:
China beats America to the world's fastest supercomputer title - and it's faster than 338 MILLION ordinary PCs put together

Daily Mail:
Scientists design 3mph 'cheetah-cub' robot to run like a CAT with springs and motors in place of tendons and muscles

Gizmag:
Unleash the Kraken! Robot octopus learning to swim

Gizmag:
DARPA's advanced prosthetics give bomb disposal robot a delicate touch

Popular Science:
Super-Hydrophobic Spray Makes All Your Stuff Liquid-Proof

SB Nation:
Robot Wars: An Oral History of the Birth and Death of Battlebots

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Sunflowers Do the Math

Popular Science:
10 Spectacular Bees Native To The U.S.

BBC News:
Secret life of the cat: What do our feline companions get up to?

Daily Mail:
America's oldest cave paintings found, dating back SIX THOUSAND YEARS

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Octogenarian Who Took on the Shoguns

The Age:
The lost city

Daily Mail:
Lost Mayan city discovered hidden in Mexican jungle for over 1,000 years - and stunning find may shed light on civilization's sudden collapse

Popular Science:
The Greatest Heists In History [Infographic]

Gizmdodo:
The Kite-Borne Camera That Captured Post-Quake San Francisco in 1906

Gizmdodo:
20 Photos of Iconic Buildings and Bridges As They Were Being Built

Gizmodo:
Walk-Through Metal Detectors Were Invented to Catch Thieving Employees

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Daily Planet in Film and Television

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Incredible Disappearing Evangelist

The History Blog:
Rosenberg's diary found in New York state 67 years after Nuremberg Trials

Gizmodo:
Remember When Big Brother's Only Weapon Was CCTV?

Smithsonian Magazine:
There Never Was Such a Thing as a Red Phone in the White House

The Atlantic:
India's Last Telegram Will Be Sent in July

Gizmag:
In pictures: Royal Institute of British Architects 2013 Awards winners

Gizmag:
23 Amazing Labyrinths To Get Lost In

Gizmodo:
The Periodic Table of Muppets Brings Order to Wocka Wocka

June 21, 2013

Daily Mail:
The man who lived with an alien, UFOs over Parliament... and the little girl who wanted answers: How strange sightings trebled in 2009 when MoD axed its X Files hotline

The Irish Times:
British release last of UFO files

Norfolk Eastern Daily Press:
A look back at East Anglia's UFO sightings

The Star:
Why MoD decided to close UFO desk

BBC News:
Crop circle visitors to Wiltshire asked to buy access pass

Space.com:
Summer Solstice Marks Changing Seasons on Earth Friday

Space.com:
Sunday's Supermoon Won't Drive You Mad

Space.com:
See Mercury and Earth's Summer Solstice This Week

Gizmag:
Scientists propose using gravity microlensing to keep Kepler in the hunt

Gizmag:
Herschel farewelled with shot into solar orbit

Discovery News:
Europe Testing Prototype Mini-Shuttle

Daily Mail:
Eye in the sky: Royal Navy is deploying multimillion pound unmanned surveillance crafts to scout out missions and gather intelligence

Gizmag:
EADS unveils its vision for the future of aviation

Gizmodo:
The World's First Supersonic UAV Is Ready for Takeoff

Space.com:
Apollo Astronauts Honor Neil Armstrong, 'The Epitome of a Space Man'

Spaceflight Now:
Armstrong honored by crewmates and co-workers

The Guardian:
Moon walker Neil Armstrong celebrated in Langholm, Scotland

June 20, 2013

Space.com:
China Readying 1st Moon Rover for Launch This Year

Stuff NZ:
Missions to seek life on Mars

Daily Mail:
Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere 'more than a billion years before Earth'

Space.com:
Wow! Mars Rover Captures Stunning Billion-Pixel Photo of Red Planet

Spaceflight Now:
Two engine rivals merge into Aerojet Rocketdyne

Universe Today:
Did a Piece of Mir Really Land in Massachusetts?

June 19, 2013

Scientific American:
New Astronauts Face Limited Opportunities for Spaceflight

Space Daily:
New Horizons Team Sticking to Original Flight Plan at Pluto

Stuff NZ:
Hundreds of craters on the moon identified

Daily Mail:
The revolutionary flying bicycle that means traffic jams, parking fines and road rage could be things of the past

Gizmodo:
Four Insane 60s Military Prototypes That Crashed and Burned

Daily Mail:
Up, up and away! World's first flying car sparks £600,000 bidding war among flying enthusiasts

June 18, 2013

Space.com:
Ailing NASA Telescope Spots 503 New Alien Planet Candidates

Space.com:
Europe Says Goodbye to Herschel Space Telescope

Space.com:
NASA Unveils New Astronaut Class for Deep-Space Exploration

Spaceflight Now:
New class of NASA astronauts picked for training

Discovery News:
Time to Plan for a Mission to Alpha Centauri

The Aviationist:
Forget the F-22 and F-35, this is a real Super Maneuverable Fighter plane: the Russian Su-35 Flanker-E

Popular Science:
How Amelia Earhart Flew Across The Atlantic 85 Years Ago Today

Daily Mail:
The real-life Thunderbirds that never took off: Jumping jeeps, passenger planes which take off vertically and flying aircraft carriers among the British inventions that never were

June 17, 2013

Universe Today:
Details of Yuri Gagarin's Tragic Death Revealed

Space.com:
50 Years Ago, 1st Woman to Fly in Space Wore World's 1st Mission Patch

Space.com:
How Valentina Tereshkova's 1963 Vostok-6 Flight Worked (Infographic)

Spaceflight Now:
ATV arrives at space station with seven tons of cargo

Gizmag:
Carnegie Mellon robot hunts for life in one of the deadest places on Earth

Space.com:
Huge Earth-Passing Asteroid an 'Entirely New Beast'

Daily Mail:
Star Wars-style planets with TWO SUNS are more capable of housing alien life than those which orbit a single star

Daily Mail:
Project Loon takes to the skies: Google launches BALLOONS in bid to bring wi-fi internet to the remotest places on Earth

Space.com:
Hypersonic Scramjet's Final Flight: A Bird's-Eye View

The DEW Line:
Sukhoi PAK-FA spin recovery footage

The DEW Line:
PICTURE: RAF stalwarts make Royal farewell

The Aviationist:
This awesome video shows several U-2 crash landings (proving how difficult landing a Dragon Lady may be)

The Aviationist:
You Are Here: A Whole-Sky Time-Lapse of the Galactic Center

WEEKEND EDITION: June 15 through June 16, 2013

Gizmag:
Quantum entanglement isn't only spooky, you can't avoid it

Gizmodo:
Inside the Weird Mathematical Mystery of "0!"

The Guardian:
Everyday risks: when statistics can't predict the future

Smithsonian Magazine:
5 1/2 Examples of Experimental Music Notation

IEEE Spectrum:
Video: Drones, Quadrupeds, Humanoids, and More Robots From ICRA 2013

IEEE Spectrum:
Video Friday: TurtleBots, Kilobots, and (More) Ikea Furniture Assembly

Daily Mail:
Now you see me, meow you don't: The incredible moment a cat steps behind an 'invisibility cloak' and vanishes

Gizmag:
Shark Wheel literally reinvents the wheel, at least for skateboards

Popular Science:
How Do You Move An Entire Bridge?

Popular Science:
Let This Rube Goldberg Machine Show You How Cows Eat And Poop

io9:
Gorgeous Floating Buildings Around the World

National Geographic:
Antarctic's Mountains Revealed By Sharpest Map Yet

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Do Death Valley's "Sailing Stones" Move Themselves Across the Desert?

The Atlantic:
How Do You Have a Mass Extinction Without an Increase in Extinctions?

Live Science:
T. Rex at 20: How 'Jurassic Park' Science Has Evolved

Live Science:
Lost World Locked in Stone at Fossil Lake

ABC Australia:
Fossil teeth reveal roo survival strategy

ABC Australia:
Speed and braking make cheetahs a champion

Live Science:
Languages May Be Shaped By Geography

Gizmodo:
17 of the Oldest Man-Made Structures On Earth Still In Use

io9:
Three 15th-century figures try to alter fate by moving the stars

Gizmodo:
Exactly 261 Years Ago, Ben Franklin Flew a Kite in a Lightning Storm

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Desperate Would-be Housewife of New York

io9:
These Miniature Spy Cameras Could Make You The Perfect James Bond

Daily Mail:
Portraits of madness: Some were brilliant. All had a compulsion to kill. Broadmoor's first inmates caught on camera

io9:
Six Abandoned Asylums with Genuinely Chilling Backstories

Daily Mail:
The chilling pictures of suitcases left in a New York insane asylum by patients who were locked away for the rest of their lives

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Architecture of Superman: A Brief History of The Daily Planet

io9:
Zoomable Photo of San Francisco in 1938 is Like Old-Timey Google Earth

The Guardian:
Meet Ming, the panda who left China to boost Britain's wartime morale

Daily Mail:
'We are fighting until the last but I'm afraid the end is threatening closer and closer': Despairing words of Hitler's bride Eva Braun in 'last letters' from beseiged bunker

Daily Mail:
'She may look clean, but. . .' 1940s anti-STD posters warn soldiers of the 'booby trap' of disease-ridden prostitutes

io9:
Stunning Behind-the-Scenes Photos Show Iconic Movies in a New Light

io9:
Want to see a train crash into a nuclear containment pod?

U.S. Air Force News:
Making the trip: Airmen tackle life at missile facilities

Dvice:
Amazon's 'Storyteller' turns your script into a graphic novel

Gizmodo:
What Exactly Is a Meme?

The Atlantic:
Skinner Marketing: We're the Rats, and Facebook Likes Are the Reward

June 14, 2013

Space.com:
Three Chinese Astronauts Dock to Nation's Space Station

Space Daily:
China astronauts enter space module

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX signs framework for potential military launch deal

Discovery News:
Old Space Station Treadmill to be Dumped from Orbit

New Scientist:
Is Earth's orbit scarily close to Venus's sultry zone?

Space.com:
Toxic Mars: Astronauts Must Deal with Perchlorate on the Red Planet

Astrobiology Magazine:
Precious Opals Shine a Light on Mars

Universe Today:
MESSENGER's Unique View: A Colorful, Spinning Planet Mercury

Space.com:
Catch Elusive Mercury in June's Night Sky

Scientific American:
Trifecta of Celestial Wonders in Next Week's Night Sky

The DEW Line:
Chinese aerospace renaissance underway?

Gizmodo:
Watch Police Shoot Down a Drone Flying Over Istanbul

Universe Today:
The Epitome of Cool: Neil Armstrong and David Scott, 1966

June 13, 2013

Time Magazine:
Beijing, We Have a Space Program

The Daily Fusion:
Scientists Testing Nuclear Fusion-Powered Rocket Engine

Universe Today:
Lone Signal: First Continous Message Beacon to Find and Say Hello to an Extraterrestrial Civilization

Universe Today:
What is a Super Moon?

EarthSky:
How to see the brightest planet Venus in a blue daytime sky

Popular Science:
Watch This Insane Helicopter-Bike Fly Around

BBC:
What would happen if all satellites stopped working?

June 12, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
Successful start for China's fifth human spaceflight

Discovery News:
China Launches to Prototype Space Station

New Scientist:
China inches closer to building its own space station

Space.com:
Blast Off! Chinese Astronauts Launch Into Orbit

Space.com:
Shenzhou 10 Explained: Crew of Three Chinese Astronauts Head to Space Lab (Infographic)

Stuff NZ:
China marks decade of human spaceflight

New Scientist:
Are the gods playing marbles on Mars?

The Aviationist:
Is this China's new Long Range Strike stealth aircraft?

The Guardian:
Picturing science: Mapping the moon

June 11, 2013

Riverside Press Enterprise:
Redlands: 1968 UFO sighting remains unexplained

Spaceflight Now:
Russian spy payload in orbit after successful Soyuz launch

Discovery News:
China Ready for Launch to Prototype Space Station

Space.com:
Spot Space Station & Cargo Ship Together in Night Sky This Week

Discovery News:
The Metallic Snow-Capped Mountains of Venus

Discovery News:
Ancient Martians May Have Been Hydrogen Powered

Astrobiology Magazine:
Tiny Submersible Could Search for Life in Europa's Ocean

Universe Today:
Interesting Facts About Saturn

Space.com:
Saturn's Icy Moon Dione May Hide Watery Secret

Daily Mail:
Revealed: The 'comet factory' where planets first form after particles are clumped together in a dust trap

The New Yorker:
How An Exploding Comet Might Have Forged Life On Earth

Universe Today:
What Are Lagrange Points?

Daily Mail:
Alien-hunting $1 billion telescope could be ready in just 5 years

Discovery News:
Stunning Space Photos of the Week (June 1-8)

Daily Mail:
First woman to go into space offers to set out on one-way trip to Mars at the age of 76

io9:
The Soviet Union's space-themed stamps will make you love Cosmonauts

io9:
The Greatest Science Fiction-Themed Bars and Restaurants on Earth

June 10, 2013

Stuff NZ:
Small asteroid buzzes Earth

Space.com:
Huge Asteroid's Earth Flyby Captured in New Video

Space.com:
NASA's Biggest Rocket Yet Aims for 2017 Test Flight

Gizmag:
Stratolaunch air launch system for spacecraft comes closer to reality

Universe Today:
10 Years & Top 10 Discoveries from Marvellous Mars Express

Daily Mail:
Is this the ultimate bird of prey?: 'Robo-Raven' so realistic it could become a weapon of war (despite losing out to a REAL hawk during testing!)

The Aviationist:
[Video] Rafale fighter jets perform aerobatics with the Patrouille de France

Gizmodo:
Disney's Epic Plan to Save a Terminal From LA's Oldest Airport

WEEKEND EDITION: June 8 through June 9, 2013

Live Science:
No End in Sight: Debating the Existence of Infinity

Scientific American:
New Physics Complications Lend Support to Multiverse Hypothesis

Live Science:
The Drama of Quantum Physics Takes to the Stage

Daily Mail:
Scientists create device that tears a hole in time, enabling undetectable secret messages to be sent (so long as you do it in 0.00012 of a second)

Gizmag:
Charlotte the robot talks its way around obstacles

Gizmag:
Mini humanoid robots are beginning to walk more like people

Daily Mail:
Floating by at 311mph: Japanese 'Maglev' bullet train undergoes its first successful test run

Gizmag:
How does Elon Musk's Hyperloop work?

Gizmag:
"Things Come Apart" reveals the inner workings of everyday consumer tech

New Scientist:
Mind-controlled exoskeleton lets paralysed people walk

Daily Mail:
The mind-reading computer that could communicate with coma patients: Groundbreaking system can understand answers to simple questions from brain scans

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Evolution of the Treble Clef

The Atlantic:
Genetically Engineering an Icon: Can Biotech Bring the Chestnut Back to America's Forests?

Popular Science:
Island Formations Might Make Tsunamis Worse

Daily Mail:
The terrifying 12-tonne dinosaur that ruled the seas 150 million years ago... named after Kevan the cafe owner who found its fossil

Daily Mail:
How the turtle got its shell: The fossil that reveals the 'missing link' and shows RIBS are the key to the animal's protection

Daily Mail:
World's oldest primate dating back 55m years is found in China (and it's small enough to fit in the palm of your hand)

Science Magazine:
Early Primate Weighed Less Than an Ounce

Daily Mail:
Frog not been seen for 50 years and thought to be extinct is discovered in Israel - and dubbed a 'living fossil'

Popular Science:
Bear Species, In Order Of Quality

Daily Mail:
Why Homo sapiens won the battle of human survival: Neanderthals had larger eyes but less brain power to make decisions

Daily Mail:
Mass immigration was a grave concern for Bronze Age Britons: Archaeologists discover 3,000-year-old burial site is filled mainly by Europeans

Daily Mail:
Eight Bronze Age log boats that are 'more important than the Mary Rose' emerge from a silted up river thousands of years after they were sunk and left to rot

Daily Mail:
Sunken city gives up its treasure: Ancient Egyptian metropolis lost for 1,200 years below Mediterranean sea set to go on display

The History Blog:
Oldest complete Torah found at Bologna University

Live Science:
What Ancient Roman Concrete Could Teach Modern Builders

Daily Mail:
The French may be the kings of wine, but the ITALIANS taught them everything they know, claim researchers

Daily Mail:
The designer watch commissioned by Stuart-era aristocracy: 'Priceless' emerald timepiece found among 350-year-old Cheapside Hoard under cellar floor in 1912 goes on display

Daily Mail:
Amateur historian proves '15th century map' that showed Vikings discovered America before Columbus is a FAKE

io9:
The Weirdest and Fiercest Helmets from the Age of Armored Combat

Gizmodo:
This Nondescript NYC Mechanic's Shop Has an Unbelievable Past Life

Gizmodo:
How the 1920s Thought Electricity Would Transform Farms Forever

Gizmodo:
The Dust Bowl Skyscrapers That Were Supposed to Make It Rain

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Story Behind the Lacoste Crocodile Shirt

The Atlantic:
'Pilot's Salt': The Third Reich Kept Its Soldiers Alert With Crystal Meth

io9:
11 Jaw-dropping Weapons From World War II You Probably Never Heard Of

The Aviationist:
Radio chatter clip of WWII Lancaster bomber engaged by German plane during a attack mission

Daily Mail:
'The ghost fleet of Chuuk Lagoon: World's biggest ship graveyard lies at site of WW2 battle where US crushed Japanese fleet

Daily Mail:
Forged in steel: Legendary street photographer 'Teenie' Harris' portrait of Pittsburgh life during the 40s and 50s

Gizmodo:
The 1960s Office Desk of the Future Was More NASA Than Mad Men

Gizmodo:
The Father of Radio's Stunningly Accurate 1960 Vision of the Year 2000

io9:
This experiment proved that anyone could design a nuclear weapon

Gizmodo:
The Controversial Story of the Arizona Desert's Real-Life Biodome

The Guardian:
The longest words in English: do you know what they mean?

io9:
Here's what Pangea looks like mapped with modern political borders

June 7, 2013

Universe Today:
June Arietids - The Invisible Meteor Shower You Just Might See

Live Science:
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's ... Robo Raven!

Daily Mail:
The great aviation graveyard: New aerial images show hundreds of planes left to die across the American deserts

Daily Mail:
Britain's top guns: Previously-unseen photographs reveal high-life of RAF pilots in cockpit of fascinating 1,320mph Typhoon aircraft

June 6, 2013

Universe Today:
SpaceX Tests Falcon 9-R Advanced Reusable Prototype Rocket

Spaceflight Now:
Mars rover Curiosity poised for trek to Mount Sharp

Discovery News:
Asteroid Initiative Could Lead to Mars Sample Return

Astrobiology Magazine:
Infrared Photosynthesis: A Potential Power Source for Alien Life in Sunless Places

Universe Today:
How do Hypervelocity Stars End up Breaking The Speed Limit?

NASA News:
NASA Chandra, Spitzer Study Suggests Black Holes Abundant Among The Earliest Stars

Gizmodo:
The Most Terrifying Cherry Blossom to Ever Take Flight

June 5, 2013

Astronomy Magazine:
How to find ET with Infrared Light

Air & Space Magazine:
Can't You Just Move the Space Station?

Spaceflight Now:
Proton flies to high orbit with communications satellite

Spaceflight Now:
Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft set to launch in mid-June

Discovery News:
Dying Space Rock: Asteroid-Comet Hybrid Discovered

IEEE Spectrum:
Interplanetary GPS Comes a Step Closer

Smithsonian Magazine:
VIDEO: This Helicopter is Controlled Entirely By A Person's Thoughts

Dvice:
Aerial drone delivers tour of deserted James Bond island

io9:
The World's Most Bizarre Aircraft Graveyards

June 4, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
Boeing's crew capsule tested for launch environment

Space.com:
NASA Open to Hitching Ride to the Moon, Agency Chief Says

Space.com:
Hunt for Closest Alien Planet Gets Rare Boost From Stellar Alignment

Universe Today:
How Many Stars are There in the Universe?

Universe Today:
Incredible Astrophoto: Rare Red Sprite Lightning Shows Up During Aurora

Gizmodo:
Is This a Real Picture or a Frame from a JJ Abrams Movie?

io9:
This Is The Incredibly Swirling North Polar Ice Cap Of Mars

Dvice:
Japan developing prototype supersonic passenger airplane

Gizmag:
Saker S-1: Military-inspired personal jet aims to reach Mach 0.99

io9:
A Treasury of Flying Cars, from the Golden Age of Aviation

June 3, 2013

Space.com:
Huge Asteroid Cruises Past Earth

WCPO:
Large fireball screams across Tri-State skies

YLE News Finland:
Ursa: Light phenomenon was an exceptionally large meteor

Space.com:
Possible 'Comet of the Century' Blazes Up in New Photos

Universe Today:
Getting Ready for "ISS All-Nighters" in June

Universe Today:
Boeing Commercial Space Taxi and Atlas V Launcher Move Closer to Blastoff

Spaceflight Now:
Radiation shields, new engines mandatory for Mars

Daily Mail:
Masterpieces of the universe: Stunning images reveal how astronomers have mapped space through the centuries

Spaceflight Now:
Aging Hubble still focused on astronomical frontier

Spaceflight Now:
Healthy Hubble telescope raises hopes of longer life

New Scientist:
Skylab: The trailblazing outpost in space

Gizmodo:
Unique Photo Shows the Ridiculous Size of America's First Spaceships

Universe Today:
Armstrong's Ohio Accent May Have Masked His Missing "A"

Daily Mail:
A giant leap for womankind: In the 1960s, while Nasa's astronauts performed heroics in space, back on earth their wives also became celebrities

Air & Space Magazine:
Paint it White

WEEKEND EDITION: June 1 through June 2, 2013

New Scientist:
Quantum gravity takes singularity out of black holes

Space.com:
Do Black Holes Create New Universes? Q&A With Physicist Lee Smolin

Popular Science:
Who Was H.M.? Inside The Mind Of The Amnesiac Who Revolutionized Neuroscience

Daily Mail:
The real-life MacGyver! High school student builds working one-man SUBMARINE

io9:
13 Unlucky Inventors Killed by Their Own Inventions

io9:
The Curious Evolution of the Typewriter, in Pictures

Daily Mail:
Can you decipher Darwin's handwriting? Museum calls for help in deciphering handwritten labels on priceless collection

The Guardian:
Early bird beat Archaeopteryx to worm by 10m years

Montreal Gazette:
Was it a comet that killed off the mammoths?

Daily Mail:
Woolly mammoths could be brought back from extinction after scientists discover blood and muscle tissue buried in an ice tomb for 10,000 years

Daily Mail:
The REAL Angry Birds: Extinct relation of the pigeon was 'built for fighting'

Daily Mail:
Mystery of Anteater's 'virgin birth' at Connecticut zoo SOLVED as experts say it was freak biological phenomenon

Daily Mail:
The REAL reason why early man took to two feet: Rocky terrain and NOT climate change forced us to stand up

Daily Mail:
The 2,300 year old Celtic logboat carved from a fallen oak tree (and it worked perfectly)

The Guardian:
How the internet is fast unravelling mysteries of the Mayan script

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Trial That Gave Vodou A Bad Name

io9:
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine

Daily Mail:
Palace plot that almost stopped her from being Queen: On the 60th anniversary of the Coronation, explosive documents reveal how her uncle Edward VIII wanted to regain throne after his abdication

Daily Mail:
Identity of double agent killed by MI6 in WWII revealed: How Ian Fleming helped cover up secret that stayed buried for 70 years

io9:
There's nothing sadder than the wreck of a once-great submarine

May 31, 2013

Space.com:
Huge Asteroid 1998 QE2 Sails By Earth on Friday

NASA News:
NASA Radar Reveals Asteroid Has Its Own Moon

Space.com:
Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Pebbles Likely Shaped by Ancient River

Spaceflight Now:
Cassini finds hints of activity at Saturn moon Dione

Space.com:
Mars-Bound Astronauts Could Face Higher Risk of Cancer

Discovery News:
Mars Explorers Face Huge Radiation Problem

New Scientist:
Return trips to Mars pose unacceptable radiation risk

Space.com:
How Radiation in Space Poses a Threat to Human Exploration (Infographic)

Scientific American:
50 Years Ago an Astronomer Discovered the First Unambiguous Exoplanet (or So He Thought)

Dvice:
What made the perfect NASA astronaut in 1959

May 30, 2013

Daily Mail:
Soyuz rocket blasts astronauts to the International Space Station in less time than it takes to fly from New York to LA

Space.com:
International Astronaut Crew Arrives at Space Station in Record Time

Space.com:
Nuking Dangerous Asteroids Might Be the Best Protection, Expert Says

Discovery News:
While Venus Simmered, Fast-Cooling Earth Thrived

Universe Today:
Astrophoto: Airplane Meets Sundog

May 29, 2013

Space.com:
Astronauts Launch to Space Station on Express Trip

Space.com:
US Military's Secretive Robot Space Plane Mission Passes 5-Month Mark

New Scientist:
Xenon-ion engine makes space travel a rhapsody in blue

Universe Today:
Mysterious and Well-Preserved Oort Cloud Object Heading Into Our Solar System

New Scientist:
Nearest exoplanet to Earth may be a ghost world

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Ludek Pesek's Ill-Starred Lunar Expedition (1964)

Air & Space Magazine:
Cockpit 360°

May 28, 2013

Yahoo News Canada:
Bright fireball seen streaking over southern Ontario

Space.com:
Powerful New US Military Satellite Launches Into Orbit

Universe Today:
How to Spot Near-Earth Asteroid 1998 QE2 This Week

Space.com:
Surprise! Moon Craters May Hold Ancient Asteroid Pieces

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Impact: Moon!

Universe Today:
Opportunity Discovers Clays Favorable to Martian Biology and Sets Sail for Motherlode of New Clues

Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity tasked with hunting for elusive Martian organics

Popular Science:
NASA Inspects Ion Engine Prototype For Asteroid-Hauling Rocket

Daily Mail:
The real-life Iron Man suit: 'Space diving' system could let daredevils jump from orbit and land using rocket boots - WITHOUT a parachute

Popular Science:
A Pet Drone That Follows You Like A Lost Puppy [Video]

Gizmag:
Together at last - an RC car and a quadcopter

Gizmag:
Aeryon Labs' portable SkyRanger UAV brushes off harsh weather conditions

The Aviationist:
Video shows U.S. Navy's new gigantic drone on its first flight

Air & Space Magazine:
Why did Lindbergh leave the windows open?

Daily Mail:
How the bra and girdle put man on the Moon: Crack team of seamstresses from underwear maker Playtex revealed as secret behind the Apollo spacesuits

Universe Today:
Hunting for Alien Megastructures

Discovery News:
The Wow! Signal: Intercepted Alien Transmission?

Hudson Valley Chronogram:
Local UFO Documentary Featured at Hoboken International Film Festival

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND EDITION: May 25 through May 27, 2013

The Guardian:
Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to physics' biggest problems

The Guardian:
Roll over Einstein: meet Weinstein

New Scientist:
String theory may limit space brain threat

Daily Mail:
Is our universe merely one of billions? Evidence of the existence of 'multiverse' revealed for the first time by cosmic map

Science Magazine:
Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don't Exist at the Same Time

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Edwin Hubble Became the 20th Century's Greatest Astronomer

io9:
The fraud who worked with Einstein

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Brief History of Robot Birds

Gizmodo:
The Mechanical Beauty of Early Automatons

Gizmag:
Christie's putting 1950s vintage Cygan robot under the hammer

Gizmodo:
How to Make Your Own DIY Etch A Sketch

Daily Mail:
At the third oak, the time will be... Carpenter carves functioning watches entirely from wood

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Past, Present, and Future of the Cuckoo Clock

Live Science:
Speedy New Dinosaur Found in Canada

io9:
Allosaurus Ate Like a Terrifying Two-Ton Falcon

Daily Mail:
A giant meteor - not overhunting - wiped out the woolly mammoth because it struggled to cope with the rapid climate change that followed

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: How the White Tiger Got Its Coat

io9:
When Pets Get Drafted: The Bizarre History of Animal Soldiers

Daily Mail:
Early humans were using sophisticated stone-tipped spears at least 90,000 years ago, new technique shows

Daily Mail:
The discovery that could rewrite Australian history: Ancient copper coins suggest the country was found SIX CENTURIES before Captain Cook arrived

Live Science:
Battle-Bruised King Richard III Buried in Hasty Grave

Daily Mail:
So THIS is what caused the Irish potato famine: Scientists finally identify unique pathogen that caused the blight

Daily Mail:
From squashed ribs to displaced spleens vintage X-Rays reveal the shocking impact corsets had on women's bodies

Los Angeles Times:
Navy dolphins discover rare old torpedo off Coronado

Daily Mail:
Perfectly preserved helmet of real-life Boy's Own hero who was awarded Victoria Cross after running through hail of bullets to rescue captain in 1897 India goes on sale

Daily Mail:
Boy sailor who went to sea with his father when he was just 13... only for BOTH of them to be killed by German U boat

Smithsonian Magazine:
When an Army of Artists Fooled Hitler

The Atlantic:
Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler

San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco in 1951 as seen from a U.S. Navy submarine

Daily Mail:
Cold War cartography: Mapping where Soviets could - and could not - go in 1950's America

Wired - Danger Room:
New Documents Reveal How a 1980s Nuclear War Scare Became a Full-Blown Crisis

io9:
Every President's Underground Lair: The Raven Rock Mountain Complex

Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Fire Makes Us Human

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Did Water Come to Earth?

May 24, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
Space station power system restored to full operations

Spaceflight Now:
With Russian Meteor Fresh In Everyone's Memory, ESA Opens An Asteroid Monitoring Center

Scientific American:
The Moon has it all: Explosions, Water, and Clues to the Grand Tack

Air & Space Magazine:
Where Have All the Shuttle Engineers Gone?

The Aviationist:
Awesome video shows B-52 bombers during a MITO (Minimum Interval Take Off)

Dvice:
A fond farewell to the X-51A, Boeing's hypersonic scramjet

Daily Mail:
The camera that is out of this world: Rare Nasa Hasselblad used to photograph Earth from the first orbiting space station set to be sold

io9:
The Earth and the Astronaut - 1969

Gizmodo:
15 Photographs of the Superstructures That Put Us in Space

The Awl:
You Can Buy Carl Jung's Letter To The 'New Republic' About UFOs

May 23, 2013

Frederick News Post:
County witnesses report seeing large, bright meteor

Space.com:
Big Meteor Explosion on Moon Shows Lunar Exploration Risks

New Scientist:
Earth's tides are shoving the moon away faster

Space.com:
More Evidence That Ancient Mars Could Support Life Found by Old Rover

Discovery News:
Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheels Show Damage

Popular Scie3nce:
Navy Completes First Flight Of Game-Changing MQ-4C Triton Spy Drone [Video]

Smithsonian Magazine:
Unpack a Meal of Astronaut Space Food

Air & Space Magazine:
A New Dawn, Partially Realized

May 22, 2013

Popular Science:
Russia's 'Space Ark' Returns All Of Its Lizards And Half Its Mice Safely To Earth

Wired - Danger Room:
After $200 Million, Darpa Gives Up on Formation-Flying Satellites

Space.com:
Extreme Solar Storm Could Cause Widespread Disruptions on Earth

ABC Australia:
ABC comets rise from the dead

Popular Science:
Another Big Milestone For The X-47B: Its First Touch And Go Landing

Air & Space Magazine:
The Astronaut's Wife

Air & Space Magazine:
Alaska and the Airplane

Air & Space Magazine:
Water World

Air & Space Magazine:
Alaska's Crash Epidemic

Air & Space Magazine:
The Pilots of Mount McKinley

Air & Space Magazine:
Bush Pilot Hall of Fame

Air & Space Magazine:
The Navy Gets a Panther

Air & Space Magazine:
Panthers At Sea

Air & Space Magazine:
When Republic Aviation Folded

The Atlantic:
Charles A. A. Dellschau Dreams of Flying: The Amazing Story of an Airship Club That Might Never Have Existed

May 21, 2013

Space.com:
Neil Armstrong's 'Heartbeat,' Apollo Joystick Pulled from Auction

Stuff NZ:
Assessing the chance of alien life

Daily Mail:
The Wright Brothers were NOT the first to fly a plane - a German pilot beat them to it two years earlier in a flying car, claims leading aviation journal

Gizmag:
Dambusters 70 years on: Barnes Wallis - an engineer ahead of his time

Space.com:
Warp Drive & Transporters: How 'Star Trek' Technology Works (Infographic)

May 20, 2013

Universe Today:
Super-Bright Explosion Seen on the Moon

Space.com:
Huge Asteroid to Fly Past Earth This Month

Discovery News:
1998 QE2: Massive Asteroid to Make 'Royal' Flyby

Discovery News:
Opportunity Breaks NASA's 40-Year Roving Record

Dvice:
The continuing controversy over history's first aviator

WEEKEND EDITION: May 18 through May 19, 2013

io9:
Mathematician Makes Astounding Prime Numbers Breakthrough

IEEE Spectrum:
Why Teaching a Robot to Fetch a Cup of Coffee Matters

Scientific American:
Climate Change Has Shifted the Locations of Earth's North and South Poles

Science Magazine:
Fossils May Pinpoint Critical Split Between Apes and Monkeys

Live Science:
Plague Helped Bring Down Roman Empire, Graveyard Suggests

Daily Mail:
Have scientists found the lost 'white city of gold'? Radar scans taken from the air reveal mysterious ancient city in dense Central American jungle

Smithsonian Magazine:
Benjamin Franklin's Phonetic Alphabet

Daily Mail:
Ye royal fashion bible: New art exhibition shows how Britain's Tudor monarchs led London to the top of the style stakes more than 300 years ago

Daily Mail:
Open-topped buses, flat claps and bobbies on the beat: Colour video of 1920s London captures the capital in all its pre-war glory

Daily Mail:
What happened to the White Bird? Fresh search for French plane that mysteriously disappeared as it tried to cross the Atlantic ten days BEFORE Charles Lindbergh's record breaking solo flight

Gizmodo:
The US Military's Disastrous Plan to Use Napalm-Strapped Bats in WWII

Daily Mail:
Inside the Paris apartment untouched for 70 years: Treasure trove finally revealed after owner locked up and fled at outbreak of WWII

Daily Mail:
The last Brit on the River Kwai: Reg Twigg, one of the few remaining survivors of the Death Railway, died last week - but the story he left behind will stay with you forever

io9:
An Illustrated History Of Gas Masks

io9:
After the Games: Photographs of Decaying Olympic Sites

Gizmodo:
10 Little Things That Would Make Time Travel Super Annoying

May 17, 2013

Space.com:
Can NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Mission Be Saved?

Universe Today:
More Insight on How NASA Might Revive the Kepler Space Telescope

Discovery News:
Does Alien Life Thrive in Venus' Mysterious Clouds

Space.com:
Amazon CEO's Moon Rocket Engines on Public View in Kansas

Discovery News:
When (Part of) Apollo 13 Reached the Moon

May 16, 2013

Space.com:
Huge Solar Flares Keep Erupting from Busy Sunspot

Discovery News:
Sun Kicks Off Another X Flare -- Should We Care?

Space.com:
Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Suffers Major Failure, NASA Says

Discovery News:
Kepler's Planet-Hunting Mission May Be Over

Universe Today:
Kepler Planet-Hunting Mission in Jeopardy

Space.com:
NASA May Launch Donated Spy Satellite Telescope to Mars

Dvice:
Skylab 2 could become humanity's first deep space station

Space.com:
Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell Joins Private Moon Flight Company

Space.com:
'Pumpkin' Moonship for Private Manned Lunar Landings Passes Key Review

Universe Today:
Mars Gets Bombarded by 200 Small Asteroids and Comets Every Year

New Scientist:
How to build a Mars colony that lasts -- forever

Dvice:
Warping the space-time continuum to magnify distant stars

Gizmag:
X-47B makes historic carrier launching

Wired - Danger Room:
Navy's Historic Drone Launch From an Aircraft Carrier Has an Asterisk

The Aviationist:
[Video] U.S. Navy launches its killer drone off the deck of an aircraft carrier. A new era has begun.

The Aviationist:
New image of China's first weaponized stealth drone emerges (as US launched its own one from an aircraft carrier)

Gizmag:
Ion Tiger sets new UAV endurance record

Daily Mail:
Welcome to drone air: First passenger plane piloted remotely flies across the UK in pioneering trial

The Aviationist:
Disbandment of Swiss Air Force display team could make its "Flat Eric" yellow puppet mascot unemployed

Discovery News:
New York City Under 5 Alien Skies

Dvice:
Boris Volynov's little known near-death experience in space

Vanity Fair:
Alien Nation: Have Humans Been Abducted by Extraterrestrials?

May 15, 2013

Discovery News:
Sun Unleashes THREE Record X-Class Flares

Space.com:
Sunspot Blasting Out Major Solar Flares Will Face Earth Soon

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz capsule brings three-man crew to safe landing

Discovery News:
Into Reality: Top Star Trek Warp Speed Concepts

Space.com:
Warp Speed, Scotty? Star Trek's FTL Drive May Actually Work

Space.com:
The Enterprise Throughout History

May 14, 2013

NASA News:
First X-Class Solar Flares of 2013

Universe Today:
The Sun Blasts Out Two X-Class Flares, Strongest of the Year

Space.com:
Solar Flares Explained: What You Need to Know

NASA News:
Impacts of Strong Solar Flares

Space.com:
'Einstein's Planet': New Alien World Revealed by Relativity

Discovery News:
Pulsar Planets: Strange Worlds Orbiting Undead Stars

Daily Mail:
Drone that can follow you home: The 'personal quadcopter' that can automatically follow its owner and take pictures and video

The DEW Line:
F-35B performs first vertical take-off

Universe Today:
Skylab: NASA Commemorates 40th Anniversary of America's First Space Station - Photo Gallery/Broadcast

Space.com:
Skylab's Grave: Remains of 1st American Space Station in Australia

May 13, 2013

Collect Space:
Astronauts performing 'precedent-setting' unplanned spacewalk

Space.com:
After Last-Minute Spacewalk Fix, It's Wait-and-See on Space Station

Space.com:
International Space Station's Cooling System: How It Works (Infographic)

Dvice:
How does space affect your senses? An astronaut explains

Space.com:
Mystery of Moon's Magnetic Field Deepens

IEEE Spectrum:
Quadrotor With Tilting Propellers Can Twist in Midair

Gizmag:
Sticky spy UAV turns things upside down with ability to land on walls and ceilings

Popular Science:
College Students Make First-Ever Successful Flight And Landing Of A Concrete Airplane

Discovery News:
The X-15B: The Spaceplane That Wasn't

Dvice:
History's first spacewalk was very nearly fatal

io9:
The Space City That Could Have Been, If Not For Wernher Von Braun

WEEKEND EDITION: May 11 through May 12, 2013

Scientific American:
Why the search for a unified theory may turn out to be a pipe dream

Popular Science:
The Weirdest Things Science Has Revealed About The Past

Gizmodo:
14 Stunning Timepieces From the Greatest Watch Show on Earth

Gizmag:
Breitling Emergency II watch doubles as a satellite emergency beacon

Popular Science:
What Makes Ebola So Deadly?

Live Science:
Tiny Baby Dinosaur Discovered in China

Daily Mail:
The first bonehead: The dog-sized dinosaur with a 2 INCH thick skull so it could headbutt others

Science Magazine:
English May Have Retained Words From an Ice Age Language

Live Science:
Stunning Astronomical Alignment Found at Peru Pyramid

The Guardian:
Babylon's hanging garden: ancient scripts give clue to missing wonder

Daily Mail:
The Hanging Gardens of... Nineveh? Lost Wonder of the Ancient World may have actually been 300 miles from Babylon

Daily Mail:
How the Europeans are one big family: People from across the continent are all related through ancestry dating back just 1,000 years

Smithsonian Magazine:
Fact of Fiction? The Legend of the QWERTY Keyboard

Gizmodo:
The Great California Cycleway That Never Was

Smithsonian Magazine:
Will the Real Great Gatsby Please Stand Up?

io9:
Seriously Scary Radioactive Products From The 20th Century

Dvice:
The little-known WWII bombing of Brookings, Oregon

Popular Science:
7 Amazing Images Of The Future From 1947

Gizmag:
A Red Flag rises: The return of China's Hongqi limousine

The Guardian:
Henry Molaison: the amnesiac we'll never forget

May 10, 2013

Space.com:
Space Station Leaking Vital Coolant, NASA Says

Spaceflight Now:
Mission control monitoring space station coolant leak

Daily Mail:
Green 'fireball' meteor spotted shooting across the UK at 150,000 miles per hour

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Water On the Moon Probably Came From Earth

Universe Today:
How Long Does it Take to Get to Mars?

io9:
Did NASA send the Curiosity Rover to the wrong place?

Popular Science:
Whoops: Moon Dust From Apollo 11 Lost In Storage For Years

Dvice:
Why it's so hard for North Korea (or anyone) to build an ICBM

Air & Space Magazine:
The X-51 Ends on a High Note

The Aviationist:
Although it's hard to believe these images depict Soviet maritime patrol aircraft flying in U.S. Navy markings

May 9, 2013

BBC News:
Large meteor spotted in night sky in England and Wales

New Scientist:
Toxic Mars dust could hamper planned human missions

ABC Australia:
Apollo rocks put new spin on Moon's magnetic past

Space.com:
How Exoplanet Atmosphere Density Can Change Odds of Alien Life

Space.com:
Solar Eclipse This Week Is Australia's 2nd in 6 Months

Daily Mail:
Is the flying car FINALLY here? First model set to go on sale in two years - and there is even a version that can take off vertically if you get stuck in a traffic jam

Discovery News:
Why Would Aliens Obliterate Our Moon?

Blogcritics.org:
Book Review: The Alien Abduction Files by Kathleen Marden and Denise Stoner

Independent Ireland:
Newly uncovered footage emerges of Hindenburg airship just hours before giant fireball killed 35 people

Gizmag:
Armstrong's "one small step" EKG among aerospace treasures up for auction

May 8, 2013

Billings Gazette:
Large meteor dances across Wyoming sky

Spaceflight Now:
Military communications satellite put atop Delta 4

Discovery News:
Ex-NASA Shuttle Pilot Joins Virgin Galactic

Universe Today:
Claims of Tunguska Meteorite Fragments "Ridiculous," Scientist Says

The DEW Line:
X-47B makes its first trap on land

Gizmodo:
At Least Antarctica's Last Sunset Until August Is a Stunner

io9:
Are we screwing ourselves by transmitting radio signals into space?

Farmington Daily Times:
Aztec native Shriver debunks UFO crash at Hart Canyon

May 7, 2013

U.S. News & World Report:
NASA's Asteroid Mission Hopes to Prevent 'Large Scale Destruction'

Stuff NZ:
It's space, man

Discovery News:
Where Do Baby Comets Come From?

Popular Science:
An Animation Of Every Recorded Meteorite Blast In History

Gizmag:
Terrafugia announces its plans for a VTOL "flying car"

Wired - Danger Room:
Watch This Navy Robot Make a Top-Gun Move

The Aviationist:
Rare look inside the elusive EC-130J Commando Solo, the U.S. Air Force PSYOPS plane

Air & Space Magazine:
In the Age of Stratojets

io9:
This Early Lunar Rover Prototype Was Almost Forgotten

Popular Science:
The Impossible Dream Of The Hindenburg: How Airships Were Going To Change The World

May 6, 2013

Space.com:
Sun Unleashes Spectacular Solar Eruption (Photos)

Space.com:
Sun Unleashes Spectacular Solar Eruption (Photos)

NASA News:
Success Continues as NASA's Orion Parachute Tests Get More Difficult

Universe Today:
How Saturn's Magnetic Activity Could Help us Pinpoint Time on the Ringed Planet

Daily Mail:
Solar Impulse takes off on record-breaking flight across the US powered only by the SUN

Daily Mail:
Air Force's hypersonic plane finally works as it flies five times the speed of sound for three minutes

Gizmag:
Waverider makes hypersonic history

Wired UK:
Gallery: manned missions to Mars that never were

Discovery News:
NASA's Spacesuits Through the Years: Photos

Daily Mail:
Remarkable survival of Russian space dogs who plummeted 125 miles to Earth when rocket malfunctioned then spent four days in -40C Siberian wilderness

WEEKEND EDITION: May 4 through May 5, 2013

Live Science:
Controversially, Physicist Argues Time Is Real

Simmons Science News:
Perpetual Motion Test Could Amend Theory of Time

Daily Mail:
Does antimatter fall up? Researchers launch bizarre study into 'mirror image' atoms

Gizmodo:
Incredible Pictures of Early Science Labs

IEEE Spectrum:
Cheetah-Cub Quadruped Robot Learns to Walk, Trot Using Gait Patterns from Real Animal

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Life After Extinction

ABC Australia:
Dinosaur ancestors out of ancient Africa

ABC Australia:
Crouching bird, big dinosaur arms

Daily Mail:
Cannibalism. Murder. Incest. What bumblebees are really up to in your garden

Live Science:
Earliest Great Ape Had Posture Like Humans, Fossils Suggest

Daily Mail:
Did the great apes evolve later than we thought? Researchers say 11.9 million year old fossil could rewrite evolutionary history

Daily Mail:
Early human ancestors were 'aquatic apes': Living in water helped us evolve big brains and walk upright, scientists say

Daily Mail:
3D map raises the real-life Atlantis from the deep: Scientists recreate Egyptian trading town buried for 1,200 years

Daily Mail:
Does this mysterious Hebrew stone reveal a messiah BEFORE Jesus? Controversial 'Gabriel stone' tablet goes on show in Jerusalem

Smithsonian Magazine:
Europe's Hypocritical History of Cannibalism

Smithsonian Magazine:
Starving Settlers in Jamestown Colony Resorted to Cannibalism

Daily Mail:
First permanent British settlers in America were CANNIBALS who even ate a 14 year old girl to survive deadly 1609 winter

Daily Mail:
The amazing interactive maps that blend the past and present to reveal how cities have changed since the 17th century

Daily Mail:
Careful where you point that: How the first portable film camera was based on a rifle

Smithsonian Magazine:
Nobody Walks in L.A.: The Rise of Cars and the Monorails That Never Were

Wired - Danger Room:
Inside the CIA Mission to Haul Plutonium Up the Himalayas

Daily Mail:
The world's smallest film: IBM reveals incredible animation made using individual MOLECULES

May 3, 2013

Space.com:
Astronaut Spies 'Bullet Hole' in Space Station Solar Wing (Photo)

Universe Today:
Possible Meteorite Fragments from 1908 Tunguska Explosion Found

Futurity:
Meteorite 'mosaic' hints at life on Mars

Universe Today:
A New View of Comet ISON

Arizona Daily Sun:
Nuking an asteroid among options considered at conference

Spaceflight Now:
Delta 4-Heavy rocket moved to Vandenberg launch pad

Spaceflight Now:
Vega rocket's second launch adds fresh challenges

Space.com:
Why Is Our Solar System Such a Cosmic Weirdo?

Discovery News:
Our Solar System: Rare Species in Cosmic Zoo

Space.com:
Search for E.T. Should Extend Beyond 'Alien Earths,' Astronomer Says

Discovery News:
Dead Stars Could Shine Light on Alien Life

Daily Mail:
The flight of the RoboBee: Tiny winged craft that could be used as surveillance drone takes to the air for the first time

Popular Science:
Gecko-Like Drone Can Land On Walls And Ceilings

The Aviationist:
[Photo] Three B-2 Spirit stealth bombers are prepared for a night mission

Daily Record:
Scottish UFO mystery: Little Billy loses grip on helium shark then pilots report near miss with blue and silver object

May 2, 2013

Space.com:
NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Faces Serious Health Problems

Scientific American:
Astronomers Discover New Neighbor Galaxy to the Milky Way

Space.com:
Meteor Shower and Eclipses of Sun and Moon to Grace May Sky

Space.com:
Astronomer Sleuths Solve Civil War Mystery of 'Stonewall' Jackson's Death

May 1, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
NASA buys six more seats on Russian Soyuz spacecraft

Space.com:
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Rocket Test Heralds Rise of Passenger Space Travel

Space.com:
Ticket Price for Private Spaceflights on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Going Up

Universe Today:
Watch for the Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower this Weekend

NASA News:
The Day NASA's Fermi Dodged a 1.5-ton Bullet

Daily Mail:
Is this the son of Concorde? Boeing's supersonic passenger plane tested by Nasa

Universe Today:
Can You Solve This Apollo 1 Spacesuit Mystery?

Daily Mail:
Pilot describes moment an Airbus with up to 220 people on board came dangerously close to crashing into 'UFO' as it came in to land

April 30, 2013

Space.com:
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Makes History with 1st Rocket-Powered Flight

Spaceflight Now:
SpaceShipTwo's first rocket flight breaks sound barrier

Discovery News:
When Virgin Galactic Broke the Speed of Sound: Photo

Spaceflight Now:
Herschel observatory goes dark after four-year mission

Space.com:
Mars Rover Opportunity Slips Into Standby Mode, NASA Says

April 29, 2013

Space.com:
Will Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Take 1st Rocket-Powered Flight Monday?

Space.com:
How Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Passenger Space Plane Works (Infographic)

Spaceflight Now:
Russian Progress cargo craft arrives at space station

Spaceflight Now:
Third Soyuz launch in a week bolsters Glonass system

The Guardian:
Starwatch: The May night sky

WEEKEND EDITION: April 27 through April 28, 2013

Live Science:
What's the Matter with Antimatter in the Atom Smasher?

The Guardian:
Picturing science: inside a Georgian observatory

Gizmag:
This Is the World's Most Complicated Timepiece

Gizmodo:
The 8 Types of Shovels Everyone Should Know

Science Magazine:
Who Were the First Australians, and How Many Were There?

ABC Australia:
Ancient Australia 'deliberately' settled

Daily Mail:
Is 'Siberian Stonehenge' really the birthplace of astronomy? Astonishing theory about remote spot 'used by stargazers 16,000 years ago'

Daily Mail:
Ancient burger vans: Archaeologists uncover remains of massive catering operation to feed builders who made the pyramids at Giza on 4,000lbs of meat a day

Daily Mail:
The first Queen of Windsor? Skeleton of 4,400-year-old woman wearing golden jewellery is discovered in royal borough

Daily Mail:
Why did European DNA suddenly change 4,000 years ago? Experts reveal evolutionary mystery - and say the makers of Stonehenge may hold the key

Gizmag:
Archaeologists Are Unlocking a 1900-Year-Old Burial Chamber's Secrets -- With Drones

Smithsonian Magazine:
The True Story of the Battle of Bunker Hill

BBC News:
The story of how the tin can nearly wasn't

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Story of Elizabeth Keckley, Former-Slave-Turned-Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

Smithsonian Magazine:
Curses! Archduke Franz Ferdinand and His Astounding Death Car

io9:
The Bizarre Phenomenon of Mass Photography

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Revolutionary Effect of the Paperback Book

Daily Mail:
From not-so-pocket calculators to the first iPad chip: Amazing archive pictures from a tiny lab in Cambridge show gadgets that changed the world

Daily Mail:
Incredible story of how two white anti-apartheid freedom fighters broke out of South Africa's toughest prison in the 1970s with keys they made from WOOD

io9:
Summer Movie Preview: 34 Movies To Watch Out For

Daily Mail:
This age test will drive you dotty! Online quiz reveals how old you REALLY are... based on reaction time

April 26, 2013

Discovery News:
Lost In Space? Russian Spaceship Suffers Glitch

The DEW Line:
F-22 Raptor over Alaska

Air & Space Magazine:
Sex and the Airlines

io9:
Stunning photos of plane crashes where everyone aboard survived

April 25, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
Russians launch space station resupply ship

Discovery News:
SpaceShipTwo Ready to Break Sound Barrier

Discovery News:
The Mysterious Loss of Mars 3

The Aviationist:
Broken Arrow incidents: when U.S. B-52 bombers lost their nuclear weapons during the Cold War

Cleveland Daily Banner:
WRIGHT WAY: The UFO-FBI mystery

April 24, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
Private 'Grasshopper' Rocket Prototype Makes Highest Flight Yet

Space.com:
Hubble Telescope Photographs Potential 'Comet of the Century'

Stufff NZ:
Comet's hot date with the Sun

Discovery News:
Comet Could Blast Earth With Weird Meteor Shower

Universe Today:
Meteorite Crashes Through Roof of a House in Connecticut

Space.com:
Heads Up! 'Fireball Season' Peaks This Week

Popular Science:
The Math: What Life On Kepler-62e Would Be Like

The Aviationist:
This rocket-like plane could have been the SR-71 Blackbird replacement

Gizmodo:
How the US Built Its Super-Secret Spy Satellite Program

April 23, 2013

Air & Space Magazine:
Moon Rocket Engines Reach Space At Last

Daily Mail:
Now that's what you call pyrotechnics! 130,000km per hour meteor turns night to day as it enters atmosphere over concert in Argentina

Scientific American:
Scientists Work to Keep New Horizons Spacecraft Busy after It Maps Pluto

Daily Mail:
Nasa image reveals the magnetic 'bubble' that is protecting the Earth from solar particles as it speeds through space

Daily Mail:
Is there anyone there? Alien hunters target two latest 'super Earths' found by Nasa

Discovery News:
How Habitable Are Kepler's New Worlds?

Gizmag:
Hybrid RotorWing design transitions from fixed to rotary wing mid-flight

Gizmodo:
How to Jump Out of a Chinook in Style

Discovery News:
Project Hermes: America's V-2 Rocket Program

Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Missions to Comet d'Arrest & Asteroid Eros in the 1970s (1966)

Universe Today:
The Curious History of the Lyrid Meteor Shower

Gizmag:
The best springtime astronomical views for small telescopes and binoculars

April 22, 2013

Discovery News:
New Private Rocket Launches Into Orbit On Maiden Voyage

Space.com:
Russian Cosmonauts Take Spacewalk Outside Space Station

Space.com:
World's Oldest Spacewalker: Russian Cosmonaut Makes Space History at 59

Space.com:
Russia Launches Animals Into Space on One-Month Journey

Spaceflight Now:
Russian spacecraft launched with cosmic cache of critters

NASA News:
X-48 Research: All good things must come to an end

Daily Mail:
Did life exist BEFORE Earth? Researchers calculate it began 10 billion years ago - predating our planet

Universe Today:
Zoom into the Moon with this Insanely High-Resolution Mosaic

WEEKEND EDITION: April 20 through April 21, 2013

Gizmodo:
Why Scientists Think Our Timeline Could Be Splitting

Live Science:
A Second Higgs Boson? Physicists Debate New Particle

Live Science:
Mysteriously Shrinking Proton Continues to Puzzle Physicists

Gizmodo:
A Flow Chart Explaining All Time Travel in Movies

Live Science:
Image Gallery: How Technology Reveals Hidden Art Treasures

The Guardian:
Alan Turing's Pilot Ace computer - video

Popular Science:
Look At This Insane 2-Ton Insect-Robot

Popular Science:
Synthetic Marijuana: What Is It, And Is It Riskier Than Regular Pot?

Popular Science:
Popular Science Takes Drugs

Live Science:
Yellowstone's Volcano Bigger Than Thought

Live Science:
Could Life Be Older Than Earth Itself?

Daily Mail:
Giant 'living fossil' fish could hold the key to evolution and how fins became feet

The Guardian:
Life on Earth... but not as we know it

Wired UK:
Chinese dinosaur embryo fossils are oldest found so far

Popular Science:
Human Ancestor Reconstructed, Halfway Between Chimp And Human

Popular Science:
New Species Of Brazilian Porcupine Found, Has Very Cool Rubbery Nose

Daily Mail:
How the axe gave humans their hands: Discovery finds tool was key to our evolution

Daily Mail:
Researchers find 'hobbit human' had an orange-sized brain - and may have evolved from the first human species to walk fully upright

Gizmodo:
15 Human Weapons Made from Animal Weapons

Cosmos:
Rock art may last up to 60,000 years

Daily Mail:
Stonehenge was occupied by humans 5,000 years EARLIER than we thought

Daily Mail:
'World's oldest port' found in Egypt - complete with scrolls revealing everyday life for Ancient Egyptians

Daily Mail:
Has Sir Walter Raleigh's missing 'El Dorado' ship been found? Divers discover wreck they believe is 1617 vessel named Flying Joan

Daily Mail:
Tragic decline of the world's biggest palace: Desperate mayor demands army protects 1,200-room Naples masterpiece from looters and vandals

Smithsonian Magazine:
Edinburgh's Mysterious Miniature Coffins

Daily Mail:
One photographer's stunning catalog of the lives of EIGHTY Native American tribes before they were influenced by settlers

Daily Mail:
End of the Samurai: Stunning portraits of Japan's warrior class captures men at the height of their power before 19th century demise

Daily Mail:
Portrait of a mistress: Album of King Edward VII's lover Lillie Langtry is uncovered after 135 years

Smithsonian Magazine:
The 64-Square Grid Design of 'Through the Looking Glass'

Gizmodo:
Photos of the Titanic Tragedy from 101 Years Ago

Smithsonian Magazine:
The History of the Flapper, Part 5: Who Was Behind the Fashions?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Document Deep Dive: What Was on the First SAT?

Live Science:
Did Admiral Byrd Fly Over the North Pole or Not?

Daily Mail:
Drinking milkshakes, an evening at the drive-in and dancing the night away: Candid pictures capture the birth of the 'teenage' generation having a gas in 1940s America

Daily Mail:
France after D-Day: Astonishing online archive of pictures shows the horror, devastation and moments of humanity in the aftermath of the liberation by Allied forces

Smithsonian Magazine:
Document Deep Dive: The Heartfelt Friendship Between Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey

Popular Science:
Why Doctors Can't Give You LSD (But Maybe They Should)

Gizmodo:
Why Your Cell Phone Doesn't Have a Dial Tone

The Guardian:
The cutting-edge chimes of Notre Dame

Smithsonian Magazine:
Cheating Their Way to Fame: The Top 9 Adventure Travel Hoaxes

Smithsonian Magazine:
A Peek Into the Jetsons Archive at Warner Brothers Animation

April 19, 2013

Daily Mail:
Welcome to Earth II... and III: Astronomers hail 'most similar' planets to ours ever found

Space.com:
Discovered! Most Earth-Like Alien Planet & 2 Other Possibly Habitable Worlds

Spaceflight Now:
Kepler discovers its smallest habitable zone planets so far

Space.com:
3 Potentially Habitable 'Super-Earths' Explained (Infographic)

Space.com:
Three Possibly Habitable 'Super-Earth' Alien Planets Found (Gallery)

Space.com:
What Might Alien Life Look Like on New 'Water World' Planets?

The DEW Line:
USAF can perform parts of Global Hawk mission set with "classified platform"

April 18, 2013

Space.com:
Glitch Delays New Private Rocket's Launch Debut

Spaceflight Now:
Antares rocket engines lean on Russian moon legacy

Gizmag:
New Citation X rolls out of the hangar to claim world's fastest business jet crown

Universe Today:
Ken Mattingly Explains How the Apollo 13 Movie Differed From Real Life

Gizmodo:
I Can't Believe This Amazing Flying Guy in a Wingsuit Didn't Crash Into the Mountain at 155MPH

April 17, 2013

Space.com:
New Private Rocket Cleared for Critical Launch Test Wednesday

Space.com:
Private Rocket's Wednesday Launch a Long-Awaited Debut

Space.com:
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Makes Stunning Leap Toward Private Spaceflight (Photo)

Air & Space Magazine:
Plane Spotting

Air & Space Magazine:
The Titanium Gambit

The Atlantic:
A Rare Audio Visit to the Apollo 11 Triumph

April 16, 2013

Digital Journal:
Video: Massive fireball in the sky over central Spain

Space.com:
Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaks this Weekend

Daily Mail:
World's largest optical telescope gets go-ahead: 30m mirror will let astronomers look 13 BILLION light years away

NASA News:
NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test

Gizmag:
X-48C Blended Wing Body aircraft flight testing

Gizmag:
Self-powered aircraft sensors undergo flight tests

Space Daily:
NASA, Air Force Seek Next Generation Space Processor Program

Washington Post:
Mock congressional hearing on alien life brings former members back to planet Washington

April 15, 2013

Universe Today:
New Calculations Effectively Rule Out Comet Impacting Mars in 2014

Universe Today:
Mysterious Moon Flashes: Could the Transient Lunar Phenomena be Linked to the Solar Cycle?

Universe Today:
Orion Capsule Accelerating to 2014 Launch and Eventual Asteroid Exploration

Discovery News:
NASA's Monster Mars Rocket Set For 2017 Launch

Stuff NZ:
Russia targets 2018 for space relaunch

Discovery News:
Skylab II: Living beyond the Dark Side of the Moon

Discovery News:
NASA Plans to Make Water on the Moon

Daily Mail:
Stunning images reveal the sun's most powerful solar flare of the year as 'spring fling' knocks out radio communications

Gizmodo:
FAA: No, You Can't Take Down a Plane With an Android App

The Aviationist:
This is as close to flying a MiG-29 as you can get without actually flying it!

The Aviationist:
Here's Russia's (badass) next-generation stealth strategic bomber

Space.com:
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility: Rocket Launches from Virginia (Photos)

Gizmodo:
The Most Badass Plane Ever Had An Equally Awesome Flight Suit

Dvice:
Yuri Gagarin had the Soviets' right stuff

Russia Beyond The Headlines:
Former KGB agent reveals Soviet UFO studies

Foreign Policy:
WikiLeaked: The Soviet space junk that became a Moroccan UFO

WEEKEND EDITION: April 13 through April 14, 2013

Universe Today:
The Beginning of the Universe in 3 Minutes

Stuff NZ:
So, how does a nuclear bomb work?

IEEE Spectrum:
Take a Tour of the National Ignition Facility

Gizmodo:
Watch the Mind-Bending Mathematical Films of an Early Computer Artist

The Guardian:
What type of scientist are you?

Daily Mail:
Mind control experiment lets users wag a rat's tail just using brain power

Live Science:
Dino-Killing Asteroid Sparked Global Firestorm

Live Science:
Sahara Went from Green to Desert in a Flash

ABC Australia:
Yellowstone's hotspot theory heats up

Daily Mail:
Researchers find unprecedented cache of 200 dinosaur eggs that reveal they MOVE before they emerge like modern birds

io9:
Could you outrun a Tyrannosaurus rex?

Popular Science:
Dinosaurs Could Doggy Paddle Long Distances, Study Finds

Popular Science:
Long-Necked Giant Was Fastest-Growing Dinosaur

ABC Australia:
Ancient ancestor had chimp and human traits

Daily Mail:
The first kitchen pots: 15,000 year old ceramic bowls developed so hunter-gatherers could cook fish revealed

Live Science:
Mysterious Structure Discovered Beneath Sea of Galilee

Daily Mail:
Mysterious 60,000 ton stone 'grave marker' at the bottom of the Sea of Galilee baffles archaeologists

Daily Mail:
Mayans were wiped out by drought, say scientists after tests on temple beam confirm accuracy of ancient calendar

Daily Mail:
The father of ALL racehorses: Scientists discover majority of modern thoroughbreds are descended from the British stallion Eclipse

Daily Mail:
Incredible video of TALKING monkeys: Lip-smacking Geladas show 'striking similarities' with human speech

Live Science:
Truth Behind Gospel of Judas Revealed in Ancient Inks

Daily Mail:
The brutal 'giant fork' battering ram from a 2,000 year old warship that sheds new light on ancient manufacturing skills

Live Science:
Secrets to Viking Navigation Unearthed?

Daily Mail:
From rickshaws pulled by humans to a 155mph bullet train in just 100 years: Amazing transformation of transport in Japan

Daily Mail:
The photos that changed America's child labor laws: Harrowing images of children as young as three forced to do back-breaking work in fields, factories and mines

Live Science:
Curse of King Tut's Tomb Turns 90

Daily Mail:
The Girls of Atomic City: New book reveals the untold story of how tens of thousands of women worked on the Manhattan Project in a secret nuclear base in Tennessee and helped win the Second World War

Smithsonian Magazine:
Pay No Attention to the Spies on the 23rd Floor

Daily Mail:
Do YOU know what an intake manifold does? Notes from 1969 driver's ed class in 1969 show how complex driving used to be

The Atlantic:
Enter a Monster: How a Hollywood Effects Studio Builds Movie Creatures

April 12, 2013

Space.com:
Sun Unleashes Biggest Solar Flare of the Year Yet

Spaceflight Now:
Canada's first all-weather observing satellite feared lost

Discovery News:
New Spy Tech Keeps Satellites From Bumping

Stuff NZ:
Soviet Mars spacecraft possibly spotted

io9:
An Earth-Sized Planet is Orbiting the Nearest Star

New Scientists:
Twist in dark matter tale hints at shadow Milky Way

The DEW Line:
More UCLASS details from Lockheed

Daily Mail:
Could a computer hacker take control of an airliner in flight using a smartphone app? Internet security consultant raises terrifying prospect

Gizmodo:
The Science of Rocket Fuel Explained With Soda Bottles and Slo-Mo

io9:
Did a 19th century novel inspire a group of Nazi UFO hunters?

April 11, 2013

Popular Science:
New Exoplanet-Hunting Mission To Launch In 2017

Space Daily:
Exposure to space radiation reduces ability of intestinal cells to destroy oncoprotein

Space Daily:
Wing adopts new space surveillance mission

Universe Today:
NASA Explains Their New Asteroid Retrieval Mission

Popular Science:
This Full-Size Helicopter Is Actually A Drone

Air & Space Magazine:
Does Missile Defense Actually Work?

io9:
An Alien Code May Be Hidden Inside Our DNA!

UPI:
O'Hare exhibit includes 'UFO video'

Myrtle Beach Sun News:
UFO experience in Myrtle Beach a walk through space, history

The Age:
UFO returns to park

Sarasota Herlad-Tribune - De Void:
When all else fails ...

April 10, 2013

Popular Science:
How It Works: The Star-Mapping Spacecraft

Air & Space Magazine:
The Mystery of Shackleton Crater

Gizmodo:
The Navy's Next Gen Fighter Jets Will Heal Themselves

The DEW Line:
Lockheed reveals UCLASS design

Wired - Danger Room:
Boeing Bills Its Massive Hydrogen-Powered Drone as a Flying Cell Tower

IEEE Spectrum:
Autonomous Balloon Destruction Wins Stanford Drone Games

Gizmodo:
Watch a Navy Laser Gun Blast a Drone Right Out of the Sky

Popular Science:
4 Things You Need To Know About The Future Of Defense Technology

Popular Science:
The 10 Coolest Machines From Sea-Air-Space Exposition

Washington Post:
Thunderstorms contain 'dark lightning,' invisible pulses of powerful radiation

The Atlantic:
Astronauts' Favorite Space Food: Shrimp Cocktail

The Atlantic:
The Sounds of the Fastest Plane in the World, an ICBM Missile, and 28 Other Jets, Rockets, and Weapons

io9:
What the Death of the Sun Will Look Like

io9:
Want to live in a spaceship? These houses are for you.

April 9, 2013

Space.com:
US Won't Lead New Manned Moon Landings, NASA Chief Say

Space.com:
Green Meteorite's Age Casts Doubt on Possible Mercury Origin

Space.com:
Most of Mars' Atmosphere Is Lost in Space

NASA News:
Remaining Martian Atmosphere Still Dynamic

Discovery News:
Intraterrestrials: Mars Life May Hide Deep Below

Scientific American:
Voyager's Exit To The Stars...In 17,000 Years

Popular Science:
Fusion Rocket Would Shoot People To Mars In 30 Days

The DEW Line:
Boeing reveals updated F/A-XX concept

Daily Mail:
Thank God your pilot doesn't take off like THAT! Video shows Boeing 787's acrobatic abilities as it's set to be cleared to fly again

Gizmodo:
Watch a Navy Laser Gun Blast a Drone Right Out of the Sky

Flying Magazine:
Top 50 Navigation Innovations

Discovery News:
Yuri Gagarin's Spaceplane Quest

Salt Lake Tribune:
UFO panel includes former Utah congressman

io9:
Alien life in our solar system, according to pulp-art legend Frank R. Paul

April 8, 2013

Universe Today:
Official Confirms NASA Plan to Capture an Asteroid

Space.com:
Virgin Galactic's Private SpaceShipTwo Soars in Test Flight

Universe Today:
Antares Rocket Erected at Virginia Pad for Inaugural April 17 Launch - Photo Gallery

Gizmag:
Boeing completes preliminary design review of CST-100's Launch Vehicle

Universe Today:
How Do Astronauts on the Space Station Stay in Touch with Earth?

Discovery News:
Curiosity, Interrupted: Sun Makes Mars Go Dark

Space.com:
Ingredient for Life Common on Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa

Universe Today:
Was the Repeating Passage of Halley's Comet Known of in Ancient Times?

The DEW Line:
A/F-X

The DEW Line:
F-35B completes first night short take-off and vertical landing

Space.com:
40 Years Later, NASA's Pioneer 11 Probe's Solar System Legacy Lives On

Daily Mail:
Breaking the sound barrier, ejecting at low level and pushing new aircraft to the limits - it's all in a day's work for the military's elite test pilots

Dvice:
What would really happen if a huge asteroid hit Earth?

WEEKEND EDITION: April 6 through April 7, 2013

Gizmodo:
How Parallel Universes Actually Work, Scientifically

Smithsonian Magazine:
Marshmallows: The Perfect Media for Demonstrating Principles of Physics

Daily Mail:
Gulp! Spooky timelapse video shows magnetic putty eating a cube

Daily Mail:
Shutdown: Roadrunner meets the end of its line as world's former fastest supercomputer is decommissioned

Gizmag:
Mantis - a two ton turbo diesel hexapod you can drive

IEEE Spectrum:
This Humanoid Robot Gets Pushed Around But Stays on Its Feet

Gizmag:
Festo demonstrates BionicOpter dragonfly robot

Daily Mail:
Is this how the world looked when dinosaurs roamed the Earth? Researchers discover new tectonic plates that could rewrite history

Daily Galaxy:
Prevailing Extraterrestrial Theory of Dinosaur Extinction Challenged --Dartmouth Scientists

Smithsonian Magazine:
Microbes Buried Deep in Ocean Crust May Form World's Largest Ecosystem

Daily Mail:
The burrowing owls who live underground instead of in trees

Daily Mail:
Have they found Abraham's lost city? Huge building complex unearthed in Iraq near ancient civilisation of Ur

Science Magazine:
Stonehenge Site of First 'Rock' Concert

Daily Mail:
Is this the Gate of Hell? Archaeologists say temple doorway belching noxious gas matches ancient accounts of 'portal to the underworld'

Daily Mail:
Was this 'cursed' Roman ring JRR Tolkien's inspiration for The Hobbit? Remarkable story of jewellery found by a farmer in his field told for first time in exhibition

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Worst Parade to Ever Hit the Streets of Boston

Live Science:
Anniversary of Niagara Falls Running Dry

Popular Science:
9 Revolutionary Elevators From The Otis Elevator Company

Smithsonian Magazine:
When New York City Tamed the Feared Gunslinger Bat Masterson

Daily Mail:
Ripping the heart out of Wounded Knee: Indian massacre descendants 'devastated' at plan to sell off site where 300 were killed by U.S Cavalry

Daily Mail:
'The forgotten airship disaster': 80th anniversary of U.S.S. Akron crash that killed 73... TWICE as many people as the Hindenburg

Popular Science:
How The World Will End, According To 1939

Gizmodo:
The Prefabbed Lustron House Is a Peep at Post-WWII America

Smithsonian Magazine:
Frank Sinatra's Las Vegas

Smithsonian Magazine:
Now You Know the History of G.I. Joe. And Knowing Is Half The Battle

Daily Mail:
Rare pictures of pinup queen Bettie Page accused of inciting juvenile delinquency in the 1950s to be auctioned off

Daily Mail:
This is us with Hitler by the Eiffel Tower: Amazing time-travel pictures combine past and present as dictator is seen in Paris and D-Day landing soldiers on modern-day beach

The Atlantic:
8 Guys, 6 Weeks: How the Cell Phone Was (Finally) Invented

Smithsonian Magazine:
How to Tour the World's Greatest Science Labs

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Jetsons Get Schooled: Robot Teachers in the 21st Century Classroom

April 5, 2013

Universe Today:
How the Air Force and SpaceX Saved Dragon from Doom

Gizmag:
Austria sends manned mission to Mars ... in Morocco

Universe Today:
Io's Volcanoes are in the Wrong Place

Daily Mail:
The furthest supernova: Hubble captures record-breaking explosion 10 BILLION years ago

Gizmodo:
This Supersonic Jet Has Trained 50,000 of America's Best Pilots

The Aviationist:
[Video] B-2 stealth bomber out of Guam refuels over the Pacific

New Scientist:
Meteorites could have been source of life's batteries

Discovery News:
Shaping a New Earth on Mars

Astrobiology Magazine:
The Rio Scale: Quantifying the Consequences of an ET Discovery

April 4, 2013

Air & Space Magazine:
Beyond the Moon

Discovery News:
Curiosity's Old Parachute Flaps in the Martian Wind

Universe Today:
How Big Are Galaxies?

The Guardian:
The first flight over Everest: a physiologist's dream

Air & Space Magazine:
Canaveral Junior

io9:
The first image of Earth taken by a weather satellite

April 3, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
Shenzhou spacecraft arrives at Chinese launch base

Space.com:
NASA Mega-Rocket Could Lead to Skylab 2 Deep Space Station

Astrobiology Magazine:
Dawn is in Silent Pursuit of Ceres

The Atlantic:
Joseph and the Giant Balloon: The First Aeronaut of the American West

April 2, 2013

Space.com:
Destination Moon: Russia to Launch New Wave of Lunar Robots

Space.com:
Scotland's 1st Spacecraft Is Tiny Satellite with Big Mission

Space.com:
Has NASA's Curiosity Rover Found Clues to Life's Building Blocks on Mars?

Daily Mail:
The rings of Saturn are 4 BILLION years old... And could help us understand the origins of our universe

Space.com:
Look Up! Night Sky Guide for April 2013 (Sky Maps)

Discovery News:
Seeing Saturn at its Best

Universe Today:
Comet Lemmon: A Preview Guide for April

Air & Space Magazine:
Docking on the Empire State Building

io9:
How Germany Planned to Fry the World

Gizmodo:
The World's Biggest Jet Engine Is Brawnier Than Alan Shepard's Orbital Rocket

Popular Science:
Warp Factor

Popular Science:
Faster-Than-Light Drive

Discovery News:
Is An Alien Message Embedded In Our Genetic Code?

April 1, 2013

Daily Mail:
'Hey, is anyone home?' Russian shuttle carrying former Navy Seal honoured for bravery in Afghanistan docks with International Space Station

Discovery News:
Docked! Soyuz Takes Shortcut to Space Station

Space.com:
New US-Russian Crew Docks at Space Station After Super-Fast Flight

Universe Today:
Space Station Crew Captures Soyuz Launch, As Seen from Orbit

The Atlantic:
PWOPPP, Click! This Is What Spaceships Sound Like When They're Docking

Space.com:
Russia's Proton Rocket Returns to Flight with Satellite Launch

Popular Science:
4-Billion-Pixel Panorama Lets You Explore Mars As If You Were Standing Next To Curiosity

Space.com:
Mars vs. Comet in 2014: Scientists Prepare for Red Planet Sky Show

Spaceflight Now:
InSight mission to find what lies beneath Martian surface

Scientific American:
Jupiter's Moon Europa May Have "Spikes of Ice"

New Scientist:
Astrophile: Mighty Trojan found marching with Uranus

Astrobiology Magazine:
Ancient Asteroid Caused Global Firestorm

Space.com:
Earth's Moon and Huge Asteroid Vesta Share Violent History

Universe Today:
5 Weird Things About Vesta

Air & Space Magazine:
How often does the B-2 fly?

Shropshire Star:
20 years since Cosford UFO mystery

WEEKEND EDITION: March 30 through 31, 2013

Gizmag:
So you think YOU'RE confused about quantum mechanics?

Live Science:
What Is Nothing? Physicists Debate

Scientific American:
Cosmos Study Dashes Hope for New Neutrino

Cosmos:
Rare find backs shape-shifting neutrino

Live Science:
Elusive 'Superman' Particle Found Changing Flavor

io9:
The Scharnhorst Effect claims we've got the speed of light wrong

Popular Science:
Speed Of Light In Vacuum Is Not Actually Constant, Study Finds

IEEE Spectrum:
Better Eyes for Flying Robots

Gizmag:
Virginia Tech develops a better robotic jellyfish

The Atlantic:
'Ogooglebar' ... and 14 Other Swedish Words We Should Incorporate Into English Immediately

Live Science:
5 Tornado Safety Myths Debunked

The Economist:
The Cambrian explosion: Kingdom come

Daily Mail:
That's a cracking big breakfast! Elephant bird egg ONE HUNDRED times bigger than a hen's egg goes on sale… and it's yours for £30,000

Live Science:
First Love Child of Human, Neanderthal Found

Daily Mail:
The view from the TOP of the Great Pyramid: Illicit photos taken by tourists who secretly climbed wonder of the world at night

Live Science:
Stone Age Phallus Found in Israel

Daily Mail:
Stonehenge to get virtual 360-degree cinema to allow visitors to step inside the ancient circle again

Daily Mail:
The day the sky fell in on Sin City: Exhibition captures the moment entire families were burnt alive in Pompeii... but it also reveals how utterly depraved the Romans were

Daily Mail:
Archaeologists remove 'King Alfred the Great's remains' over fears there were plans to STEAL them

Daily Mail:
Nine secret crypts discovered hidden beneath Coventry's bombed cathedral

Daily Mail:
Living on the edge: Vintage photos from the turn of the century show tourists risking life and limb by posing on Overhanging Rock in Yosemite National Park

io9:
The Most Astounding Steam-Powered Vehicles in History

Gizmag:
Rare 1905 Fiat 60HP to go under the hammer at Concorso d'Eleganza

io9:
Gorgeous, Strange and Intense Propaganda Posters from China in the 1950s

Daily Mail:
Rust in peace: SS United States faces the scrap heap unless $500,000 can be found to save the historic transatlantic cruise liner

The Atlantic:
The True Story of the Government Programs That Tried to Build an Atomic Heart

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Minivan Turns 30

Popular Science:
Can You Crack The NSA's Top-Secret Crossword Puzzles?

Gizmodo:
11 Splendid Sand Sculptures Made For the Movie Geek

Smithsonian Magazine:
Sad Jetsons: Depression, Buttonitis and Nostalgia in the World of Tomorrow

March 29, 2013

Space.com:
Astronauts Launch on First 'Express' Flight to Space Station

Space.com:
Soyuz 'Fast Track': How 1-Day Space Station Trips Work (Infographic)

Space.com:
Soyuz Rocket Launches 'Express' Trip to Space Station (Photos)

Space.com:
SpaceX's Dragon Capsule 2.0 Looks Like 'Alien Spaceship,' Elon Musk Says

Space.com:
Green Meteorite May Be from Mercury, a First

Daily Mail:
The meaty ore: Rock used by Spanish farmer to press ham for 30 years turns out to be iron meteorite worth £3.5million

Universe Today:
Solar System Antiquities Abound in Saturn's Rings

Daily Mail:
Stargazers capture first picture of a planet with two suns - just like Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine in Star Wars

Discovery News:
Why a Mars Comet Impact Would be Awesome

March 28, 2013

Air & Space Magazine:
Area 51: Origins

The Guardian:
Space tourism: the annoying details

Space.com:
Mars Rover Curiosity's 7 Biggest Discoveries (So Far)

Science Daily:
New Evidence Ancient Asteroid Caused Global Firestorm On Earth

Space.com:
Solar System's Mysterious Rock Origin Puzzle Revealed

Space.com:
NASA 'Super Guppy' Swallows Supersonic NASA Jets (Photos)

Wired - Danger Room:
One of These 'Bots Will Be the Navy's Next Killer Drone

Gizmag:
Review: DJI Phantom quadcopter

Discovery News:
When the Soviets Sent a Dummy Into Space

March 27, 2013

Space.com:
Splashdown! SpaceX Dragon Capsule Returns to Earth

Wired UK:
Nasa to launch enormous, Arthur C Clarke-inspired solar sail in 2014

Popular Science:
In The Same Cataclysm That Gave The Moon Its Craters, Lots Of Asteroids Suffered Too

Air & Space Magazine:
Why Don't Today's Fighters Have Narrow Waists?

Space.com:
Apollo 13 Souvenir Rakes In $84,100 in Space History Auction

Collect Space:
Jeff Bezos' Apollo Rocket Engines Land in Kansas for Conservation

March 26, 2013

Federal Bureau of Investigation News Blog:
UFOs or No? The Guy Hottel Memo

io9:
This map shows the incredible extent of Friday's meteor sightings

Significance:
Fireballs falling to Earth: Part 1

Space.com:
Potential 'Comet of the Century' Not Brightening as Expected

Space.com:
Ever-Changing Venus Superstorm Sparks Interest

Popular Science:
The Most Incredible Pictures Of Every Planet In Our Solar System

Discovery News:
Where's the Edge of the Solar System? It's Complicated...

Dvice:
How to safely do a barrel roll in a Boeing 707

Gizmodo:
30 Quadrotors Form a Star Trek Constellation In the London Skyline

March 25, 2013

Daily Mail:
Meteor streaks over East Coast: Millions of Americans witness fireball as yard-long rock enters Earth's atmosphere

Space.com:
Private SpaceX Cargo Capsule's Return to Earth Delayed One Day

Universe Today:
Powerful Private Rocket Crucial to ISS Set for Maiden April Blast Off from Virginia - Launch Pad Gallery

Universe Today:
Curiosity is Back ! Snapping Fresh Martian Vistas

Universe Today:
MESSENGER Sees a Smoother Side of Mercury

Space.com:
Slumbering Sun Should Wake Up This Year

ABC Australia:
Migrating planets caused meteor storm

Popular Science:
Did A Comet Kill The Dinosaurs?

Universe Today:
Extreme Telescopes: Unique Observatories Around the World

The Aviationist:
This is what taking off with an F-15 Eagle fighter jet looks like

Smithsonian Magazine:
Postwar Dreams of Flying in Style

Space.com:
Buzz Aldrin Refutes Space Sale, Is Keeping Moon Memorabilia

Bernews:
Origins Of The Bermuda Triangle Myth

WEEKEND EDITION: March 23 through March 24, 2013

Live Science:
Spooky! Quantum Action Is 10,000 Times Faster Than Light

io9:
There is no such thing as emptiness. There is only quantum foam.

The Economist:
How to build a multiverse

Daily Mail:
A REAL Transformer: The human-sized robot 'chimp' that can walk, climb walls and even move like a TANK

Popular Science:
Meet The Robotic Salamander That'll Walk, Swim, And Crawl Into Your Nightmares

IEEE Spectrum:
CMU Snake Robots Can Now Strangle Things on Contact

Our Amazing Planet:
'Lost' Tectonic Plate Found Beneath California

Popular Science:
Huge Volcano Eruptions May Have Caused The Die-Off That Paved The Way For Dino Domination

National Geographic:
Behind the Cover: April 2013 - Meet the Extinct Animals

Live Science:
How Whales' Ancestors Left Land Behind

Live Science:
5-Million-Year-Old Saber-Toothed Cat Fossil Discovered

Daily Mail:
Unique whale skeleton discovered on the Antarctic sea bed has NINE new species living on it

Smithsonian Magazine:
After 17 Years, the Northeast Is About to Be Blanketed by a Swarm of Cicadas

Stuff NZ:
Ancient DNA ages first human exodus

The Guardian:
Valcamonica rock carvings brought to life in digital animations

Live Science:
Ancient Stone Ships Reveal Life and Death in the Bronze Age

The Guardian:
Return to Antikythera: what divers discovered in the deep

Daily Mail:
The 'stunning' bronze cockerel parents placed in the grave of a two-year old Roman girl as a message to the Gods

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Vengeance of Ivarr the Boneless

Smithsonian Magazine:
Remembering the Last Great Worldwide Sailing Expedition

Daily Mail:
The first EVER photographs of a Royal tour: Banished to the Holy Land after a notorious sex scandal, Edward VII spent his days smoking and shooting crocodiles before returning home... with a tattoo

Smithsonian Magazine:
Has Gettysburg Kicked Its Kitsch Factor?

Daily Mail:
Death on the Mississippi: The maritime tragedy that cost more lives than the Titanic... but history has forgotten

Smithsonian Magazine:
Where Was the Birthplace of the American Vacation?

Daily Mail:
He caroused with West End call girls and proposed to THREE society beauties - who turned him down. A startling portrait of Winston Churchill in his youth

Daily Mail:
WWII in color: Rare photos from 1942 show Flying Fortress bombers and their heroic crews in The Mighty 8th Command

Daily Mail:
Tracked down, the widow in Mind the Gap saga: Late actor's wife puts a face to the voice of the London Underground

Smithsonian Magazine:
Kon Artist?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Kon-Tiki Sails Again

Daily Mail:
Road trip! The psychedelic bus featured in 'Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' getting fixed up ahead of 50th anniversary of LSD-fueled journey

The Atlantic:
The End of the Hangup

The Atlantic:
A Brief History of Applause, the 'Big Data' of the Ancient World

Daily Mail:
Painted faces, scarred bodies, wooden guns and extravagant headdresses: Amazing photographs reveal the lost world of the Omo tribes of Ethiopia

Air & Space Magazine:
Rescued

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Top Ten Most Influential Travel Books

Daily Mail:
Life in ruins: The haunting images of abandoned towns around the world

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Newspaper of Tomorrow: 11 Predictions from Yesteryear

Gizmodo:
Backward Walking Played Backward Is A Good Introduction To Opposite World

Smithsonian Magazine:
Projection Chic: Jane Jetson Tries on Clothes in the Future

March 22, 2013

Popular Science:
How It Works: The Most Powerful Space Rocket

Popular Science:
Next Month, Mars Solar Conjunction Means Vacation For NASA Teams

Discovery News:
Universe Older Than Thought, New Map Reveals

Universe Today:
Planck's Cosmic Map Reveals Universe Older, Expanding More Slowly

Scientific American:
New View of Primordial Universe Confirms Sudden "Inflation" after Big Bang

Space.com:
New Map of Big Bang Light Hints at Exotic Physics

Spaceflight Now:
Planck reveals big bang's fireball in hi-def

Space.com:
Cosmic Microwave Background: Big Bang Relic Explained (Infographic)

NASA News:
Supercomputer Helps Planck Mission Expose Ancient Light

The Aviationist:
New images of the weird, futuristic "Project Zero" All-Electric Tilt Rotor unmanned aircraft released

Space.com:
Library of Congress to Preserve 1st Message from Space

Smithsonian Magazine:
Photos: The U.S. Military's Prototype for a Flying Submarine

Popular Science:
11 Relics Of Space History That You Can Buy

Smithsonian Magazine:
How the DC-3 Revolutionized Air Travel

io9:
The Fading Grandeur of Abandoned Soviet Space Facilities

Discovery News:
Cosmonauts Faced Cold, Snow After Dicey Landing

The Atlantic:
Charles A.A. Dellschau Dreams of Flying: The Amazing Story of an Airship Club That Might Never Have Existed

March 21, 2013

Daily Mail:
Nasa confirms Voyager 1 probe has LEFT the solar system 35 year after its mission to explore space began

Popular Science:
Is Voyager 1 Finally Out Of The Solar System? Not Quite

Scientific American:
Voyager 1?s Whereabouts: No News, but Plenty of Noise

Daily Mail:
The Milky Way's newborns: Herschel telescope reveals galaxy's youngest stars for the first time

Daily Mail:
Has Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos recovered from the seabed rockets that launched Apollo 11's historic 1969 mission to the moon?

io9:
11 of the Weirdest Solutions to the Fermi Paradox

March 20, 2013

Universe Today:
Curiosity Once Again in Safe Mode - If Only Briefly

Space.com:
Graves of Twin Moon Probes Spotted by NASA Spacecraft

Universe Today:
Close Passing Asteroid 2013 ET Gets Its Picture Taken

Space.com:
Oceans May Be Common on Rocky Alien Planets

Dvice:
Gallery: Detailed shots of different aircraft underbellies

Air & Space Magazine:
The Galileo Project

io9:
The strangest asteroid that astronomers had ever seen

Air & Space Magazine:
Lindbergh's Trainer: The Brunner-Winkle Bird

Air & Space Magazine:
The Man Who Invented the Predator

Air & Space Magazine:
Cancelled: Britain's High-Mach Heartbreak

Air & Space Magazine:
Close Formation

Air & Space Magazine:
The Titanium Gambit

March 19, 2013

Space.com:
Mars Science by Curiosity Rover Hits New Snag

Spaceflight Now:
New security satellite will peer down on Earth

Gizmag:
SinterHab concept calls for a sustainable moon base made from baked lunar dust

The Aviationist:
"Welcome to Russia, Blue Angels": the first U.S. military presence over Moscow since the end of the Cold War

Air & Space Magazine:
Not the First?

March 18, 2013

WCNC:
Fireball seen gliding across the Carolina skies Saturday night

Space.com:
Soyuz Space Capsule Makes Foggy Landing with US-Russian Crew

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz lands with three-man crew from space station

Space.com:
Mars Rover Curiosity's Next Big Drive Is Months Away

Daily Mail:
Incredible pictures reveal the battered surface of Saturn's icy moon Rhea in satellite's last ever close-up trip

Discovery News:
Kuiper Belt Was a 'War Zone' -- A Detective Story

Discovery News:
Quarter of Sun-Like Stars Host Earth-Size Worlds

Los Angeles:
Quasar discovery a milestone that revealed a violent universe

Los Angeles Times:
Comet Pan-STARRS? Meh. Just wait till you see Comet ISON

Daily Mail:
We're walking in the air (for a considerable sum): Europe's first flight which allows paying passengers to experience weightlessness takes off

Daily Mail:
Animal welfare charity is to use DRONES to spy on people illegally hunting

Universe Today:
Citizen Science, Old-School Style: The True Tale of Operation Moonwatch

Universe Today:
Survival: Terrifying Moments in Space Flight

IT World
UFO databases for extraterrestrial seekers

WEEKEND EDITION: March 16 through 17, 2013

The Guardian:
Searching for supersymmetry: some frustration but no despair

Live Science:
Confirmed! Newfound Particle Is a Higgs Boson

Live Science:
Beyond Higgs: 5 Elusive Particles That May Lurk in the Universe

io9:
How does the Anthropic Principle change the meaning of the universe?

Live Science:
Who Invented Zero?

io9:
7 Numbers That Are Just as Cool as Pi

Science Magazine:
Physicists Discover a Whopping 13 New Solutions to Three-Body Problem

Popular Science:
5 Classic (Read: Fabulously Corny) Pi Jokes

Daily Mail:
Who said old TVs were useless? Analogue televisions can be transformed into solar-powered DEATH RAYS that will burn anything in its path at 2,000F

Daily Mail:
Man with the world's most advanced bionic hand can now tie his own shoelaces (and, more importantly, drink beer)

Gizmodo:
How the World's Biggest Clock Tried to Change the Center of Time

io9:
The robots of Europe are more debonaire than you

io9:
17 One-Man Submarines That Will Take Your Breath Away

Popular Science:
With 581 Copies So Far, Reclonable Mouse Will Live Forever

Our Amazing Planet:
Evidence Oceans Flowed on 'Snowball Earth'

Discovery News:
Four wings bad, two wings better - for early birds

Daily Mail:
Two wings or four? Researchers uncover new evidence first birds had extra wings on their legs and flew 'like a biplane'

Daily Mail:
Have scientists discovered reverse evolution? Study shows how house dust mites have abandoned their parasitic lifestyle to become free-living just like their ancestors

Smithsonian Magazine:
Spiders Like You've Never Seen Them Before (Photos)

Live Science:
Early Human Ancestor Surprisingly Smart

New Scientist:
Neanderthals may have swapped social lives for big eyes

Live Science:
Bronze-Age Donkey Sacrifice Found in Israel

Live Science:
Shape-Shifting Jesus Described in Ancient Egyptian Text

Daily Mail:
The 600-year-old coin that proves China was trading with East Africa BEFORE Europeans arrived

Live Science:
Medieval Knight's Tomb Found Beneath Parking Lot

Daily Mail:
The scans that reveal Leonardo da Vinci was right all along: New show reveals 'startling accuracy' of anatomical sketches which lay undiscovered for hundreds of years

The Guardian:
Gulliver's travels in science and satire

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Secret Plot to Rescue Napoleon by Submarine

io9:
The far-sighted entrepreneur who brought ice to India in 1833

Smithsonian Magazine:
Why the Department Store Brought Freedom for the Turn of the Century Woman

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Most Audacious Australian Prison Break of 1876

Daily Mail:
The smile of a stern-faced hero: Rare footage of WW2 fighter ace Douglas Bader walking with false legs shown for first time

io9:
Check out this picture of a building just before a nuclear bomb hits

Smithsonian Magazine:
Who Really Invented the Smiley Face?

Popular Science:
Photos From 11 Of The World's Coolest Nuclear-Monitoring Stations

Smithsonian Magazine:
Mid-21st Century Modern: That Jetsons Architecture

March 15, 2013

Space.com:
Space Station Crew's Landing Delayed by 'Horrible' Earth Weather

Popular Science:
NASA Resumes Production Of Plutonium-238 Space Fuel After 25 Years

Space.com:
NASA Fireball Website Launches with New Russian Meteor Explosion Details

Daily Mail:
The Swiss shuttle that launches from the top of a plane: Pioneering plan for low cost satellite launches revealed

Scientific American:
Alien planet's atmosphere contains water and carbon monoxide

Space.com:
Giant Alien Planet in Supersized Solar System May Solve Mystery

Discovery News:
Life Under a Tiny, Red, Angry Sun

Dvice:
100 Year Starship video offers a virtual trip through the galaxy

Popular Science:
Watch This Quadrotor Fly Like A Drone And Fish Like An Eagle

Daily Mail:
Is history wrong about the Wright Brothers? New evidence suggests German immigrant flew TWO YEARS before pioneers took off at Kitty Hawk

Dvice:
John Glenn inspired the Soviets to push harder

io9:
Awe-inspiring homes and buildings made out of old airplanes

March 14, 2013

Universe Today:
O Canada! Hadfield Becomes First Canadian Commander of ISS

Daily Mail:
First pictures from the £1bn time machine telescope reveal faraway galaxy forming stars at 'breathtaking rate'

Space.com:
Quasars Still Mystify Scientists 50 Years After Discovery

Live Science:
Could Life Have Evolved on Mars Before Earth?

Air & Space Magazine:
That Sounds Familiar

Discovery News:
What Is Life, Anyway?

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Do Astronauts Go to the Bathroom in Space?

Universe Today:
Live from 1969: Apollo 9 Returns Home

io9:
Now You Can Watch this Lost Space Movie from the Dawn of World War II in Germany

WFIE:
'Phoenix Lights' UFO theories still swirl 16 years after sightings

March 13, 2013

Daily Mail:
Nasa's Curiosity rover finds conditions WERE once right for primitive life on Mars - and scientists say there was even DRINKABLE water on the red planet

Universe Today:
Curiosity Discovers Environment Where Life Could have Thrived on Ancient Mars

Science Magazine:
Mars Was Habitable, but No Sign of Inhabitants

Space.com:
Mars Could Once Have Supported Life: What You Need to Know

Space.com:
The Search for Life on Mars (A Photo Timeline)

Universe Today:
How Mars Failures Helped the Curiosity Rover Land

Daily Mail:
The £1billion 'time machine' which could finally reveal mysteries of the universe: World's largest telescope will finally be turned on today

New Scientist:
Closest Earth-like world could be 6.5 light years away

Daily Mail:
Is this alien life? Controversial scientists publish second paper claiming they have found 'extra-terrestrial fossils' in meteor fragment

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
UPDATE: No, Life Has Still Not Been Found in a Meteorite

Space Daily:
Combat Ops Space Cell: Defending critical satellite links

March 12, 2013

WEWS Cleveland:
Dozens of people in 7 states report seeing fireball in sky Saturday, some from northern Ohio

Daily Mail:
PayPal billionaire reveals reusable rocket: Grasshopper that can HOVER at 80 metres before flying back gently back to Earth

Daily Mail:
Gliding high: The beautiful images from a remote controlled aircraft lifted to 100,000 feet and dropped back to Earth

Daily Mail:
The humans who are exploring 'Mars' already: Researchers in space suits recreate Red Planet base in the Utah desert

Space.com:
Scientists Hope to Extend Mercury Spacecraft's Mission

Futurity.org:
Moon impact left sea of molten rock 6 miles deep

NASA News:
Cassini Returns Images of Battered Saturn Moon

Penn State Science:
The Closest Star System Found in a Century

Universe Today:
Top 9 Weird Asteroid Names (and 1 Awesome Asteroid Moon Name)

io9:
The Artist Who Helped Invent Space Travel

The Atlantic:
The Best Fake Martian Story Ever: 'Mars Peopled by One Vast Thinking Vegetable'

March 11, 2013

Daily Mail:
The calm before the solar storm? NASA warns 'something unexpected is happening to the Sun'

Space.com:
Russian Satellite Hit by Debris from Chinese Anti-Satellite Test

io9:
NASA's Guide to Viewing the Comet PANSTARRS this Month

Daily Mail:
Asteroid the size of a football pitch, only discovered last week, passes within one million miles of Earth - (a close shave in space terms)

io9:
Four Asteroids Buzz Earth in Single Week

Discovery News:
Curiosity Will Encounter Mars' Moving Dunes

The Atlantic:
What Would Happen If the Earth Spun Backward?

Discovery News:
13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens

The Aviationist:
Air Force releases photo of F-22 stealth fighter with Area 51 base in the background

Universe Today:
Lessons From a Space Dummy

Bernews:
Close Encounters Of The Bermuda Kind

WEEKEND EDITION: March 9 through 10, 2013

Live Science:
Quantum Meets Macro: Strange Particle Behavior Found

io9:
Does our solar system have a special connection to the structure of the universe?

Popular Science:
Watch BigDog, Our Favorite Four-Legged Military Robot, Hurl A Cinder Block

IEEE Spectrum:
Polite Robot Overlords Will Be More Persuasive

Gizmodo:
This Warship Radar Can Detect a Tennis Ball From 15 Miles

Gizmag:
Austria's highest cable car unveiled atop the Pitztal Glacier

National Geographic:
Species Revival: Should We Bring Back Extinct Animals?

National Geographic:
Pictures: Extinct Species That Could Be Brought Back

Stuff NZ:
Key alligator evolution link unearthed

Stuff NZ:
Camels tracked back to large ancestor

Daily Mail:
Camels used to live in the Arctic, reveal scientists (although it was 3½ million years ago when it was at least 14C warmer)

Daily Mail:
Woolly rhino bones discovery allows scientists to calculate Britain's temperature 42,000 years ago (and if you think it's cold now, it used to be -22C!)

Daily Mail:
Scientists solve the 320-year-old mystery of how the Falklands wolf ended up on the island: It skated across a frozen sea chasing a penguin

io9:
Are gorillas left-handed or right-handed?

Daily Mail:
The family tree that rewrote human history: Researchers stunned to find DNA submitted to online project dates back 338,000 years

Science Magazine:
Human Ancestors Were Fashion Conscious

The Atlantic:
The Neanderthals May Have Died Out Because of ... Bunnies?

Live Science:
Stone-Age Skeletons Unearthed In Sahara Desert

Live Science:
Most Ancient Romans Ate Like Animals

Daily Mail:
Richard III was NOT a psychopath: Researchers say Shakespeare's portrayal of the king was wrong... but admit he was a control freak

Smithsonian Magazine:
Digital Files and 3D Printing - in the Renaissance?

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Sunstone Unearthed From Shipwreck

Smithsonian Magazine:
The True-Life Horror that Inspired Moby-Dick

Daily Mail:
Was a Pointer called Major the world's first pedigree dog? Historians uncover the earliest attempt to define a canine breed standard

The Atlantic:
Tower of Light: When Electricity Was New, People Used It to Mimic the Moon

Smithsonian Magazine:
Document Deep Dive: A Historic Moment in the Fight for Women's Voting Rights

Daily Mail:
Pictured: The women's suffrage parade a century ago today when 100 marchers were hospitalized when they clashed with a hostile male crowd

Daily Mail:
Before it was Tinseltown: Fascinating photos reveal sleepy town of Hollywood before it became the center of the celebrity universe

Gizmodo:
The Battleship That Took Over Union Square

Daily Mail:
Inside the 'Kool Koast Kamp': Brochure shamelessly advertises the Ku Klux Klan Texas summer resort where white supremacists went to relax in the 1920s

Daily Mail:
A life of grit and guts after the Great Depression: Poignant pictures of farmers their families scratching a living in 1940s Pie Town

Daily Mail:
Hindenburg mystery solved 76 years after historic catastrophe: static electricity caused the airship to explode

New York Times:
The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking

Daily Mail:
Worse than the world ever imagined: True scale of the Holocaust revealed as it's discovered Nazis created 42,500 camps and ghettos to persecute Jews - not 7,000 as previously thought

Daily Mail:
The Great Escape murders: How the Nazi slaughter of escaped heroes led to one of post-war Europe's biggest manhunts

Daily Mail:
Revealed: The banker who shaped the modern financial world after WWII was a Soviet spy who wanted America to become communist

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Fishy History of the McDonald's Filet-O-Fish Sandwich

io9:
Read Timothy Leary's brain-melting comic about space migration and the future of human consciousness

io9:
The Tragic Story of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site

io9:
The groovy socialist world of 1970s Soviet futurism

io9:
The Canadian Documentary That Inspired 2001

Wired - Danger Room:
Russia Fears Its Troops Will Riot if Cigarette Rations End

Live Science:
6 Strange Facts About Choosing the Next Pope

Smithsonian Magazine:
Top Ten Afterlife Journeys of Notable People

Gizmodo:
The 11 Greatest Computer Supervillains in Film

io9:
The 10 Least Competent Time Travelers

March 8, 2013

Discovery News:
Comet Invading Northern Skies

Discovery News:
'Hairy' Visitor: How to Observe Comet Panstarrs

Popular Science:
Curiosity Hunkers Down While Solar Blast Races Toward Mars

National Geographic:
Monster Comet may have Mars in its Crosshairs

Daily Mail:
Could massive floods on Mars have caused climate change? New 3D maps suggest the red planet suffered major upheaval

Discovery News:
Ancient Flood Channels Cut Deep into Mars

Discovery News:
'Methuselah' Star Looks Older Than the Universe

Popular Science:
Flying Robots 101: Everything You Need To Know About Drones

Smithsonian Magazine:
A History of the Parachute's Earliest Days

Daily Mail:
Houston, we have a solution: The frantic life-or-death scribblings by astronaut Jim Lovell that brought crippled Apollo 13 home

March 7, 2013

Discovery News:
Big Asteroid to Zoom By Earth This Weekend

Time Magazine:
Comet Making Closest Approach Ever of Earth

Stuff NZ:
One in 110,000 year chance to see comet

Smithsonian Magazine:
When, Where and How to Watch the Comet PanSTARRS This Month

Space.com:
NASA Puts Mars Rover Curiosity on Standby After Solar Flare

Discovery News:
Could Earth Germs Colonize Mars?

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Europa's Underground Ocean Surfaces

Daily Mail:
Astronomers measure the distance to our closest neighbouring galaxy - and reveal it is just 163,000 light years away

Popular Science:
Kepler's Hunt For Planets Outside Our Solar System: The Greatest Hits

io9:
Has the Milky Way devoured other galaxies?

Gizmag:
Improved ion engines will open up the outer Solar System

Daily Mail:
Did life on Earth arrive on a comet? Study finds rocks that fell from space could have carried the molecules that started it all

Our Amazing Planet:
Meteorite Crater Under Iowa Confirmed in New Images

March 6, 2013

Discovery News:
Astronaut Guide: How to Train Your Dragon: Photos

New Scientist:
SpaceX glitch may be deemed secret under US arms laws

Scientific American:
Commercial Space Race Intensifies as Antares Rocket Creeps Up on Falcon 9

Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz crew approved for fast approach to space station

Spaceflight Now:
More Curiosity computer troubleshooting on tap

Universe Today:
Update on the Comet that Might Hit Mars

The Planetary Society:
Will comet Siding Spring make a meteor shower on Mars?

Discovery News:
Voyage of the Sunjammer: Sailing on Solar Winds

CBC Canada:
Comet makes closest approach ever to Earth

New Scientist:
Naked-eye comet offers glimpse of solar system's edge

Space.com:
Wow! Rare Photos Capture 2 Comets Together in Night Sky

Stuff NZ:
Flying high to meet a comet

Space.com:
Comet Pan-STARRS in Night Sky Explained (Infographic)

Popular Science:
There's Salt Water On The Surface Of Europa, Which Could Be Good News For Extraterrestrial Life

Daily Mail:
Spot the planet: Nasa reveals stunning image of Venus sparkling behind the rings of Saturn (if you can find it)

Gizmodo:
Plane Passenger Spots Mystery Drone Over Brooklyn (Updated: The FBI Has No Idea What It Is)

The Aviationist:
Amazing St. Maarten-like photo of a B-2 stealth bomber landing in Guam. Ops, it's Diego Garcia.

Smithsonian Magazine:
Hot Air Balloon Travel for the Luxury Traveler of the 1800s

Discovery News:
Mystery SETI Signal Set Rules of Engagement

Las Cruces Sun-News:
Couple give tour of alleged Aztec UFO crash site

March 5, 2013

Daily Mail:
ANOTHER close shave: Asteroid the same size as the one that exploded above Russia passes within 246,000 miles of Earth

Space Daily:
Dawn forging through the main asteroid belt

ABC Australia:
Two comets streak across southern skies

Space.com:
Bright Comet Set for Dazzling Sky Show this Month

Space.com:
New Comet's Potential Mars Collision in 2014 Explained

ABC Australia:
Impact craters may be cradles of life

Popular Science:
DJI Phantom RC Quadrotor UAS Review: A Powerful Personal Drone That Knows Its Place

Techno Buffalo:
Out of the Ashes: The Rebirth of the Airship

Discovery News:
When NASA Blew Holes In Arizona for Apollo

io9:
This is how we envisioned spacesuits back in the 1950s

March 4, 2013

Universe Today:
Newly Found Asteroid to Pass Within Moon's Orbit on March 4, 2013

Daily Mail:
Phew! Privately owned SpaceX makes delivery of supplies to space station after losing control of capsule for hours

Spaceflight Now:
Dragon cargo ship reaches destination after shaky start

Universe Today:
Berth of a Dragon after Thruster Failure Recovery Establishes American Lifeline to ISS

Space.com:
NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity in Safe Mode After Computer Glitch

Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity rover suffers computer glitch on Mars

Daily Mail:
Is Mars about to get hit? Warning over approaching comet that could cause one BILLION megaton blast

Daily Mail:
Scientists solve the mystery of Mercury's surface - and say it was once covered in an ocean of magma

The Economist:
The hits keep coming

Daily Mail:
Fresh from space: Giant 18kg meteorite untouched by human hand discovered in the frozen wastes of Antarctica

The DEW Line:
Boeing Phantom Eye: Second take-off, first successful landing

Space.com:
1960s Rocket Plane Tests May Boost Suborbital Spaceflight Safety

Smithsonian Magazine:
Rescue, James Bond Style

io9:
The History of How We Discovered All the Planets in the Solar System

WEEKEND EDITION: March 2 through 3, 2013

Gizmodo:
Just How Incomprehensibly Massive Is the Universe? (Hint: Even Bigger Than That)

The Atlantic:
On Nuclear Weapons as Units of Measurement

Popular Science:
The Amazing Story Of The $300 Glasses That Correct Colorblindness

Daily Mail:
Telepathy is real! Scientists develop mind-reading implant that links the brains of rats in the US and Brazil

Stuff NZ:
Lost land beneath the Indian Ocean

Daily Mail:
The long-lost continent found hidden beneath the paradise beaches of Mauritius

io9:
How we know that this is a piece of fossilized lightning

Live Science:
How Dinosaurs Grew the World's Longest Necks

Daily Mail:
I'm not fat, I'm big boned: Expert reveals huge dinosaurs stayed upright because sacs of air in their skeletons meant they were lighter than they look

The Guardian:
The carnivorous dinosaurs who turned vegetarian

Daily Mail:
The terrifying 25 foot long prehistoric shark with a 'spiral' of teeth that worked like a CHAINSAW

Stuff NZ:
Rare NZ native frog breeds at Auckland Zoo

Daily Mail:
Talk is cheep! Study finds human speech evolved from birdsong

Science Magazine:
Seeking Meaning in the Earliest Female Nudes

Live Science:
Lost and Found: Ancient Shoes Turn Up in Egypt Temple

Daily Mail:
Shoe-dunnit? Archaeologists determined to solve the mystery of who hid 2,000-year-old footwear in an Egyptian temple... and why

Live Science:
Have Bones of Cleopatra's Murdered Sister Been Found?

Daily Mail:
Unearthed after 1,400 years: The eerie pre-Inca 'mummies' emerging from their tombs in Peru

New York Times:
As One Renaissance Door Closes, Others Open

The Atlantic:
Behold, the Kindle of the 16th Century

Aeon Magazine:
Small things

io9:
The first cola wars began in the 1700s - long before Coke and Pepsi

Smithsonian Magazine:
Photo Interactive: The Civil War, Now in Living Color

Daily Mail:
Death on the Mississippi: The maritime tragedy that cost more lives than the Titanic... but history has forgotten

Daily Mail:
The women who fought as men: Rare American Civil War pictures show how females disguised themselves so they could go into battle

Smithsonian Magazine:
The History of the Flapper, Part 4: Emboldened by the Bob

io9:
The Most Futuristic Electrified Devices of the 1920s and 30s

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Dead Woman Who Brought Down the Mayor

Daily Mail:
This Old (White) House: Fascinating black and white photos show the Truman-era reconstruction of the White House after it was declared to be in danger of collapsing

io9:
The mysterious spikes on a nuclear explosion

io9:
The camera that captured the first millisecond of a nuclear bomb blast

io9:
Read the US government's rules for Yeti hunting from 1959

Daily Mail:
Communists who tore down a government - then went for a nice game of golf: Rare pictures Castro and Che Guevara tweaking Eisenhower's tail

Smithsonian Magazine:
The American Plan to Build Nuclear Power Plants in the Ocean

io9:
That time the Russians designed a hovercraft so insane we had no clue what the hell it was

Daily Mail:
No intrusive security checks OR paying for your drinks: Inside the bygone era when flying across the globe was a real pleasure

Daily Mail:
Guns n' goulash: New recruit's Instagram photo diary gives rare and very raw glimpse into life in the Russian army

Science Magazine:
One-Two Punch of Infection, Stress May Lead to Schizophrenia

Gizmodo:
Photoshopping Calvin and Hobbes into Real Life Makes Me Really Happy

Smithsonian Magazine:
George Jetson Navigates a Series of Tubes

March 1, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
Smartphone satellite calls home from final frontier

Stuff NZ:
Comet duet a rare event

Universe Today:
Comet PANSTARRS Cranks up the Volume

Discovery News:
Space Radiation Probes Make 'Shock' Discovery

New Scientist:
Mystery ring of radiation briefly encircled Earth

Popular Science:
Astronomers Think They've Captured The Birth Of The Youngest Planet Ever

Our Amazing Planet:
Big Meteorite Discovered in Antarctica

Live Science:
Did a Comet Really Chill and Kill Clovis Culture?

National Geographic:
Mars Missions: A Time Line of Success and Failure

Universe Today:
The Men Who Didn't Go to the Moon

Popular Science:
Did The U.S. Buy Its Moon Program From Yugoslavia?

February 28, 2013

Daily Mail:
The 'Death Star' space laser powerful enough to create an artificial star in the sky

Universe Today:
Big Meteorite Chunk Found in Russia's Ural Mountains

Fort Mill Times:
Expert: Fireball over Texas likely Chinese craft

Business Insier:
A 'Nation-Busting' Asteroid Could Hit Earth In 2036

Universe Today:
3 Comets That Fizzled

Daily Mail:
Rare 'gigantic jet' lightning spotted over China in northernmost sighting yet of the mysterious storm event that reaches space

Daily Mail:
How fast does a supermassive black hole spin? Groundbreaking measurement could help unlock the history of our galaxy

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Superfast Spinning Black Hole Tearing Up Space at Nearly the Speed of Light

io9:
How One Man Recreated the First Spaceship that Ever Appeared on Film

February 27, 2013

Space.com:
House Votes to Rename NASA Center for Neil Armstrong

Space.com:
Europe May Work With China on Space Station

Daily Mail:
Researchers plot the path of the Russian meteor and say it probably came from asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter

Popular Science:
Astronomers Calculate Russian Meteorite's Orbit, Find It Has 80 Million Cousins

Popular Science:
European Space Agency Decides Which Asteroid They'll Go Smash Into First

ABC Australia:
Saturn's birth place discovered

io9:
The weirdest stories about objects that came shooting out of the sky

Gizmodo:
The Suit Won't Save You: Four Ways Space Can Kill You Dead

Dvice:
When Friendship 7 nearly killed John Glenn

The DEW Line:
Was there ever a YF-24?

io9:
Are there UFOs in hidden hangars at Papoose Dry Lake?

February 26, 2013

Space.com:
Indian Rocket Launches Asteroid-Hunting Satellite, Tiny Space Telescopes

Discovery News:
Could a Comet Hit Mars in 2014?

Space.com:
Mars May Be Habitable Today, Scientists Say

Discovery News:
Mercury's Ancient Magma Oceans

Universe Today:
Why Dying Stars Might be a Good Place to Look for Life

Scientific American:
The Fastest Spacecraft Ever?

Popular Science:
Homemade Jetpack Designed To Reach An Altitude Of 25,000 Feet

The Aviationist:
How the "Black Jet" became the "Gray Dragon": the story of the only gray F-117 stealth plane

Universe Today:
The Mars Spacecraft That Was Almost Destroyed On The Launchpad

Mother Nature Network:
Astronomer detectives tackle 100-year-old meteor mystery

io9:
How to Measure the Power of Alien Civilizations Using the Kardashev Scale

February 25, 2013

Smithsonian Magazine:
What Damage Could Be Caused by a Massive Solar Storm?

Daily Mail:
Massive green 'fireball' blazes across California sky in another too-close-for-comfort meteor shower

Gizmodo:
What the Russian Meteorite's Shockwave Really Felt Like on the Ground

Daily Telegraph:
Bosnia 'meteor' intrigues new generation in wake of Russia strike

Universe Today:
Satellite Swarm - Including an Asteroid Hunter - Readies For Spaceflight

Gizmag:
First asteroid-tracking satellite will be Canadian

Space.com:
Asteroid-Smashing Mission Picks Space Rock Target

Space.com:
Spray-Painting Asteroids Could Protect Earth from Space Rock Threat

Daily Galaxy:
Rare Asteroid Observed with Comet-like Dust Trail

Universe Today:
Russian Fireball Inspires Journey into the World of Meteorites

Universe Today:
Comet PanSTARRS: How to See it in March 2013

Universe Today:
Hieroglyphic-like Features Point to Past Subsurface Water on Mars

Universe Today:
Nearby Ancient Star is Almost as Old as the Universe

Daily Mail:
Incredible video shows robot drones as they throw and catch a pole ON ITS END

Daily Mail:
Pentagon grounds entire $400B fleet of F-35 fighter jets after finding crack in engine blade

Gizmag:
Skyflash: Jetman-like wings designed to allow ground take off

Autonet Canada:
Time Machines: Avro car never got off the ground

WEEKEND EDITION: February 23 through February 24, 2013

Gizmodo:
What Is the Universe? (In One Minute)

Science Magazine:
Do We Live Inside a Mathematical Equation?

Discovery News:
Higgs Boson Discovery = Cosmic Doomsday?

Science Magazine:
The Unparticle May Lurk in Earth's Mantle

Gizmodo:
How Many Digits of Pi Do You Really Need?

Gizmodo:
What Is Light, Anyway?

Cosmos:
New clock hints at beginning of time, could redefine kilogram

Daily Mail:
Revealed: The world's first bionic hand that allows patients to 'feel' sensations is ready to be transplanted

Dvice:
Russians build walking ostrich robot from scratch for just $1,500

Dvice:
Gallery: Adorable mini robots built from recycled electronic guts

Daily Mail:
Doodling in mid-air: The £30 '3D printer' pen that can create complex sculptures from plastic wire

Stuff NZ:
The great 'do bears hibernate' debate

Science Magazine:
Dolphins Can Call Each Other, Not by Name, But by Whistle

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Meanest Girls at the Watering Hole

Daily Mail:
Our ancestors did NOT begin walking on two legs to see further on plains of Africa: New study casts doubt on long-held theory

Daily Mail:
Bronze Age beads that are worth their weight in gold: 4,000-year-old burial chest unearthed on Dartmoor 'one of most significant historical finds in a century'

Live Science:
Treasure-Filled Warrior's Grave Found in Russia

The Atlantic:
1 Kitty, 2 Empires, 2,000 Years: World History Told Through a Brick

Daily Mail:
How the British weather led to the Battle of Bosworth: Huge storms thwarted previous attacks on Richard III, researchers claim

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Shocking Savagery of America's Early History

Daily Mail:
'I have no friends of my own': Last desperate letters of 19th century mass-poisoner known as the Black Widow before she was executed

Smithsonian Magazine:
How Two Women Ended the Deadly Feather Trade

Smithsonian Magazine:
The History of the Flapper, Part 3: The Rectangular Silhouette

Gizmodo:
These Rare Full-Color WWII Photos Celebrate the American War Effort's Most Thankless Jobs

Smithsonian Magazine:
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Soviet Sniper

io9:
How one man's lies almost destroyed the comics industry

Popular Science:
7 Of The Creepiest Cold War Fallout Shelters

Smithsonian Magazine:
The History of the Lava Lamp

Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Was This Man an Outcast Among Anthropologists?

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Lost Tribes of the Amazon

Gizmodo:
Water Jetpacks Are Another Perfect Use of GoPro

Daily Mail:
London, from above: Record-breaking 320-gigapixel interactive picture of the capital that lets you zoom in on streets and buildings 20 MILES away

Popular Science:
When Brain Damage Unlocks The Genius Within

The Guardian:
Renaissance brains: William Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei

io9:
Watch The Simpsons' Oscar-Nominated, Hans Zimmer scored short film

Smithsonian Magazine:
Jane Jetson and the Origins of the "Women Are Bad Drivers" Joke

Smithsonian Magazine:
Automating Hard or Hardly Automating? George Jetson and the Manual Labor of Tomorrow

February 22, 2013

Daily Mail:
Giant sunspot that's SIX TIMES the diameter of Earth has formed in less than 48 hours - and could lead to solar flares

Daily Mail:
The most breathtaking pictures yet of Russian meteorite: Photographer captured exploding space rock on camera... despite thinking it was nuclear bomb that would kill him

Spaceflight Now:
US Military's Robot Space Plane Settles Into Mystery Mission

Popular Science:
FYI: Now We've Looked Below The Surface, Why Isn't Mars Red On The Inside?

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
All That Plasma Will Be Lost in Time, Like Tears in Rain

Scientific American:
Has NASA Become Mars Obsessed?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Hidden Treasures

io9:
The Secret Drone Mission that Killed Joseph Kennedy Jr.

Dvice:
Image of the Day: The first flying car to actually fly

Dvice:
Dornberger's 'ultra planes' were yesteryear's spaceliners

February 21, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity drill delivers first sample in major milestone

Space.com:
Found! Tiny Moon-Size Alien World Is the Smallest Exoplanet

Space.com:
Smallest Alien Planet Kepler-37b Explained (Infographic)

Dvice:
Meet the 9 most habitable worlds in the universe (so far)

Space.com:
Death Valley Named Largest Dark Sky Park

Gizmag:
NASA's basement nuclear reactor

Stuff NZ:
Missile defence blimp test success

Air & Space Magazine:
KO'd by 8 Gs

The Atlantic:
JFK's Once Futuristic Pan Am Terminal Is In Danger of Getting Torn Down

Discovery News:
How John Glenn Drew the First Orbital Flight

February 20, 2013

Daily Mail:
NASA loses contact with International Space Station during software upgrade

Popular Science:
Here's A Video Of Last Week's Asteroid Fly-By

Astrobiology Magazine:
Asteroid 2012 DA14 Speeds Away From Earth

Popular Science:
The Moon Has Had Water Its Whole Life, New Study Says

The Atlantic:
How Did the Moon Form? We May Need a New Theory

Daily Mail:
Ancient impact of a gargantuan asteroid in southern Australia changed the face of the world forever, study reveals

Space.com:
Shoemaker-Levy 9: Comet's Impact Left Its Mark on Jupiter

Universe Today:
The Year of the Comets: Three Reasons Why 2013 Could be the Best Ever

Daily Mail:
Brecon Beacons granted 'international dark sky reserve' status to save its incredible starry views from light pollution

Daily Mail:
U.S. Air Force developing terrifying swarms of tiny unmanned drones that can hover, crawl and even kill targets

Discovery News:
Skylon Spaceplane: The Spacecraft of Tomorrow

Christian Science Monitor:
How Nicolaus Copernicus rewrote the rules of the solar system

Popular Science:
8 Things You Didn't Know About Copernicus

io9:
Scenes from the 1950s Space Movie That No One Saw

February 19, 2013

The Guardian:
Russian meteorite: hunt for debris begins, but was it a comet?

Daily Mail:
How did Russia's early warning system miss the meteorite? Nuclear missile-detecting radars never saw it coming

Daily Mirror:
Cosmic coincidence: Watch a SECOND meteor in the sky 6,000 miles from Russian space rock crash

Wired UK:
Study: the Moon may have always held water, from its formation

New Scientist:
Traces of life on Mars may have been bleached away

Daily Mail:
Jupiter's Europa moon is 'more likely to support life than the deserts of Mars', claim NASA scientists

The Berkshire Eagle:
Reed family's encounter to be part of 'Alien Mysteries' show

February 18, 2013

Daily Mail:
The world is safe! Asteroid capable of destroying London skims past Earth in nearest flyby since records began

Daily Mail:
Fireball from outer space: 1,000 injured as 40-ton meteor travelling at 33,000mph explodes over a terrified town

Scientific American:
Russian Meteor Largest in Century

Space.com:
Russian Meteor Blast Bigger Than Thought, NASA Says

Space.com:
Russian Meteor Explosion Outshone Sun

Discovery News:
Russian Meteor Strike Aftermath: Photos

Discovery News:
Satellite Sees Russian Meteor Explosion from Space

New York Times:
After Assault From the Heavens, Russians Search for Clues and Count Blessings

New York Times:
In Russia, Ruins and Property Spared by Meteor, Side by Side

Discovery News:
What Makes a Space Rock a Killer?

Popular Science:
Shouldn't We Have Been Able To See This Huge Meteorite Coming?

Space.com:
Russian Fireball Explosion Comes Amid Fireball Season

The Independent:
'Sporadic meteor': Fireball reported across California sky

NBC Bay Area:
Watch: Fireball Streaks Across Bay Area Sky

South Florida Sun-Sentinel:
Possible meteor shower sighting in South Florida

Gizmodo:
How Common Are Meteor Strikes?

New Scientist:
Meteor guide: science and safety of Earth-bound rocks

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Last Massive Exploding Meteor Hit Earth in 1908, Leveling 800 Square Miles of Forest

io9:
How to stop an asteroid... in 1915

Forbes:
Russian Meteorite Recalls 1934 Farmville, North Carolina Fireball

ABC Australia:
Major asteroid site found in Aussie outback

The Guardian:
Mercury's 'dynamic and complex world' revealed by Nasa's Messenger

New Scientist:
Comet rain took life's ingredients to Jupiter's moons

Space.com:
Stargazer Captures Amazing Photo of Comet Lemmon

Universe Today:
The Astronomy of Shakespeare

WEEKEND EDITION: February 16 through 17, 2013

io9:
Physicists discover what a multiverse might really be like

The Guardian:
How big is the universe ... compared to a grain of sand? - video

Scientific American:
How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment, Part 1 (of 2)

Scientific American:
How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment, Part 2 (of 2)

io9:
The most perfect sphere ever made tests Einstein's theories

The Guardian:
Halley VI and other Antarctic research stations - in pictures

Gizmodo:
The Ronco Food Dehydrator Was My Gateway Gadget

Gizmodo:
The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World

io9:
Did dinosaurs produce "milk" for their young?

Cornell University Chronicle:
Blame Barney: Students' perception of T. rex is outdated

io9:
Zoologists watch as monkey midwife delivers baby

Futurity:
Young bonobos comfort friends in need

io9:
A 40,000 year-old sculpture made entirely from mammoth ivory

Daily Mail:
New DNA analysis suggests Nefertiti was King Tut's mom

Daily Mail:
Is this the first Mona Lisa? Experts say Leonardo DID paint early version of iconic masterpiece after months of tests

Daily Mail:
Think the dig-out after Nemo was bad? These photographs show how 19th century Americans dealt with snow removal (and all without the help of a single salt truck)

Daily Mail:
The many faces of bygone Russia: From woodsmen and tramps to soldiers of the Revolution, amazing photos of a changing nation (and its first ever car)

Smithsonian Magazine:
Document Deep Dive: The Most Influential Art Show You've Never Heard Of

Daily Mail:
Dawn of the age of color movies: Actresses pose and preen for the camera as they test out the new Kodachrome moving full color film in 1922

Daily Mail:
Knights at war: How Sir Alec Guinness's diaries reveal he branded Sir Laurence Olivier 'unpleasant' the day after his death

Daily Mail:
I was Hitler's food taster: Margot Woelk tells for the first time how she was forced to eat the Fuhrer's vegetarian meals to make sure they weren't poisoned

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Battle Over Richard III's Bones ... And His Reputation

Stuff NZ:
The real doomsday preppers

Smithsonian Magazine:
Viva Las Venus: The Jetsons and Wholesome Hedonism

February 15, 2013

Washington Post:
Meteor injures more than 900 in Russian city

NASA News:
NASA to Chronicle Close Earth Flyby of Asteroid

Space.com:
Asteroid 2012 DA14's Friday Flyby: A Stargazer's Guide

Space.com:
Friday Flyby May Trigger 'Asteroid-Quake' on Space Rock

Popular Science:
How Powerful New Telescopes Are Helping Us Spot More Asteroids, Maybe Just In Time

Daily Mail:
Stars trekking across the universe: Ultra-fast suns found racing through the Milky Way at TWO MILLION miles per hour

Discovery News:
Space Invaders Unlikely -- For Now

Wired - Danger Room:
Army Kills The Military's Last Remaining Giant Spy Blimp

io9:
And now for a sense of scale: a map of the U.S. overlaid on the Moon

February 14, 2013

Daily Mail:
Watch out Earth, the space rock is coming: Asteroid that could do as much damage as 1,000 atomic bombs will whizz past our planet tomorrow

Discovery News:
Asteroid 2012 DA14: Will It Smash a Satellite?

Space.com:
Violent Asteroid Crashes Shaped Protoplanet Vesta's Odd Interior

Air & Space Magazine:
Geological sampling and planetary exploration

Air & Space Magazine:
The Misty Mystique

February 13, 2013

Space.com:
Space Rock! What You Need to Know About Friday's Asteroid Flyby

Popular Science:
Near-Miss Asteroid Highlights Earth's Risk Of A Nuke-Sized Collision

Live Science:
Friday Flyby: How Scientists Track Near-Earth Asteroids

Space.com:
Tunguska Lessons: What If Friday's Asteroid Hit Earth

Space.com:
NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Weird 'Hood Ornament' on Mars

The Verge:
Google uses Street View backpacks to map Meteor Crater

The DEW Line:
Awesome US Navy F/A-18F video, enjoy it while it lasts.

Daily Mail:
The family portrait that has been on the MOON for 40 years: Astronaut left behind a picture of himself and his wife and kids in 1972

io9:
How the Nazis Tried to Bomb New York

February 12, 2013

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Everything You Need to Know About This Friday's Close Shave by Asteroid 2012 DA15

Universe Today:
Freaky Fast Delivery: Progress Blasts Off, Docks at ISS Hours Later

Universe Today:
Continuing the Landsat Mission: New Satellite Launches to Space

io9:
NASA Video Shows Landsat Successful Separation from Rocket

Space Daily:
Can we live farther away from the Sun

Gizmodo:
Why Are the Most Vital Aircraft in the USAF Arsenal Owned by NASA?

The Aviationist:
The Flying Rooster proves even weird planes (except Iran's new stealth fighter jet) can fly

Wired UK:
In depth: UK space sector reaches for the stars

February 11, 2013

EarthSky:
This date in science: Great Meteor Procession of February 9, 1913

National Geographic:
Asteroid to Make Closest Flyby in History

The Guardian:
Asteroid to pass closer to Earth than TV satellites

Daily Mail:
Nasa video shows just how close asteroid will come to hitting Earth (and if you're in Australia you'll even be able to SEE it)

Astrobiology Magazine:
Newly-Discovered Comet Will Put on a Show Next Winter

Daily Mail:
Nasa's rover Curiosity becomes first ever robot to drill a hole in Mars for dust sample to see if life existed on the planet

Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity collects powder sample in first drill on Mars

Discovery News:
Curiosity Drills Hole Into Mars Rock: Pictures

Gizmodo:
Was This Photo of the Mars Curiosity Rover Taken By an Alien or What?

The Atlantic:
Thousands of Minimoons: Our Moon Is Not Alone

Discovery News:
Teleoperated Robots to Explore Lunar Farside?

Spaceflight Now:
Study shows Earth-like planets likely commonplace

Popular Science:
A Map Of Where Drones Are Allowed In The U.S.

Wired - Danger Room:
5 Homeland Security 'Bots Coming to Spy on You (If They Aren't Already)

The Guardian:
From Terminator to Toy Story: drones for a better tomorrow

The Guardian:
The secret history of drones

Gizmag:
Boeing's hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye taxis closer to second flight

Discovery News:
The Hypersonic Spaceplanes of Yesteryear

WEEKEND EDITION: February 9 through 10, 2013

io9:
What is the purpose of the Universe? Here is one possible answer.

Live Science:
Largest Prime Number Discovered

The Guardian:
The largest prime number yet discovered - all 17 million digits of it

io9:
Do objects of different masses really fall at the same rate? The Nordtvedt effect posits they don't

Popular Science:
Awesome Vintage Science Illustrations By The Founder Of Popular Science

Daily Mail:
Robot Rex comes face-to-face with the man he is modelled on: Science Museum unveils $1million 'bionic man' with his own heart, blood and lungs

Popular Science:
All Of The World's Undersea Cables In One Map

Live Science:
Fossil of Flying Dino-Age Reptile Found

Daily Mail:
Bet he had sharp teeth! Scientists discover prehistoric Transylvanian reptile that walked on all fours and had a 3m wingspan

Daily Mail:
Is this the ancestor we share with Fido and Fluffy? First picture of shrew-like creature which evolved 200,000 years after the dinosaurs were wiped out

Daily Mail:
We DIDN'T live together: Humans and Neanderthals never co-existed and missed each other by millennia, study claims

Stuff NZ:
Neanderthal extinction came earlier

Live Science:
Neanderthals Died Out Earlier Than Thought

io9:
2,300 Year-Old Golden Wreath Found On Head Of Buried Body In Greek Subway Dig

The Guardian:
York Minster discoveries shine light on period between Romans and Vikings

Daily Mail:
It IS Richard III: Scientists reveal DNA results confirm 15th century king's body has been found under a car park in Leicester

Daily Mail:
The REAL face of Richard III: King who died in battle at 32 is brought back to life with reconstruction of 500-year-old skull found beneath council car park

Daily Mail:
Now researchers are looking for TWO MORE lost kings: Archaeologists prepare to dig up Alfred the Great and Henry I

The Guardian:
Will they now dig up Alfred the Great?

Daily Mail:
The stubborn American who introduced ice to the world: Frederic 'The Ice King' Tudor was first to carve frozen water out of Massachusetts ponds and send it as far away as India

The Atlantic:
The Oldest Known Photographs of a U.S. President

Daily Mail:
Arrested for cross-dressing! Meet Fanny and Stella, the Victorian gentlemen charged with the 'unnatural offence' of being transvestites

io9:
Did the very first science fiction magazine appear in Russia in 1894?

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla and his Tower

Smithsonian Magazine:
The History of the Flapper, Part 1: A Call for Freedom

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Flapper Era, Part 2: Makeup Makes a Bold Entrance

Gizmodo:
The Bizarre Disappearance of the Peking Man Fossil

Argonne National Laboratory:
High-energy X-rays shine light on mystery of Picasso's paints

Daily Mail:
Spitfire base home to 24 RAF squadrons during WWII goes on the market for £1.5million after phone magnate decides to sell up

Spaceflight Now:
Doubt Cast On Sir Bernard Lovell's 'brainwashing'

Daily Mail:
What a cracking idea! Wallace and Gromit-style contraption turns freshly laid eggs into pancakes in just one MINUTE

February 8, 2013

Space.com:
How Asteroid 2012 DA14 Will Give Earth Close Shave (Infographic)

NASA Science:
A Possible Naked-eye Comet in March

Discovery News:
Mystery Mini Moons: How Many Does Earth Have?

Space.com:
Curiosity Rover Drills Into Mars for 1st Time

Discovery News:
No Alien Signals Detected in Kepler SETI Search

Discovery News:
Gamma-Ray Burst Blasted 8th Century Earth

Daily Mail:
Dinosaurs died out 'within a gnat's eyebrow' of devastating meteor impact 66million years ago

Stuff NZ:
Cosmic collision destroyed dinosaurs, analysis

Space.com:
Chicxulub Asteroid Impact: The Dino-Killer That Scientists Laughed At

Gizmodo:
What and How Do U-2 Spy Plane Pilots Eat During Their 12 Hour Missions?

February 7, 2013

Daily Mail:
Space storms will cause widespread power cuts and cripple phones, satellites and railway signals, report claims

Spaceflight Now:
Six new Globalstar satellites ride Soyuz rocket to orbit

Gizmodo:
If You Were Arriving at Venus, This Is What You Would See

Scientific American:
The New Way to Look for Mars Life: Follow the Salt

Discovery News:
Nearest 'Second Earth' May Be Right Next Door

Space.com:
Closest 'Alien Earth' May Be 13 Light-Years Away

New Scientist:
Closest Earth-like planet may be 13 light years away

Discovery News:
Major Bummer: Super-Earths May Be Mini-Neptunes

Space.com:
4.5 Billion 'Alien Earths' May Populate Milky Way

Gizmag:
Handheld Black Hornet Nano drones issued to U.K.

Air & Space Magazine:
"Vermin of the Skies"

Scientific American:
Will This Be The Comet Of The Century?

February 6, 2013

Christian Science Monitor:
Earth-buzzing asteroid: Big enough to level a city, it was found by amateurs

Space.com:
Next Week's Asteroid Flyby Shows Earth is in 'Cosmic Shooting Gallery'

NASA News:
NASA's Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes Comet ISON

New Scientist:
NASA spy telescopes won't be looking at Earth

Space.com:
Asteroids May Be Tougher Target Than Mars for Manned Missions

Smithsonian Magazine:
"Earth-Like" Exoplanets May Actually Be Mini-Neptunes

Popular Science:
Weather Balloon Breaks World Record For Longest Flight

Gizmodo:
Who the Hell Can Understand the Voyager Disc's User Manual?

February 5, 2013

Daily Mail:
Close shave for Earth as asteroid is set to whizz by INSIDE orbit of communication satellites

Wired UK:
Asteroid heads towards closest-ever predicted flyby of Earth

NY Daily News:
Felix Baumgartner hit speed of 843.6 miles per hour during record setting skydive, breaking sound barrier

NASA News:
Twenty NASA Balloons Studying the Radiation Belts

Universe Today:
Is This Meteorite a Piece of Mercury?

Discovery News:
Curiosity Drills into Pristine Mars Rock

Space.com:
How Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles Work (Infographic)

Time Magazine:
Drone Home

Popular Science:
How To Design A Drone-Proof City

Smithsonian Magazine:
Drone Couture: Designing Invisibility

Scientific American:
Watch this Amazing 12-Year-Old Launch a Hello Kitty into Space

Discovery News:
The Apollo 1 Conspiracy Theory

Sky Valley Chronicle:
Photo Of The Day: UFO that came from outer space

February 4, 2013

Daily Mail:
Russian rocket carrying U.S. satellite plunges into Pacific Ocean 40 seconds after launch

Daily Mail:
One small hut for man: European Space Agency unveils plans for mankind's first habitable MOON BASE... built almost entirely out of lunar soil by robots

New Scientist:
Dinosaur-killing asteroid was a twin terror

Stuff NZ:
Blimps deploy in missile defence

io9:
And now, see what it was like to drive on the Moon

Discovery News:
NASA's Barnstorming Gemini Capsule-Moon Plan

WEEKEND EDITION: February 2 through 3, 2013

Science Magazine:
Purported Relativity Paradox Resolved

Live Science:
Album: The World's Most Beautiful Equations

Scientific American:
The Age of the Earth -- An Age-Old Question [Excerpt]

Daily Mail:
Bad to the bone: The killer dino-dolphin revealed by skeleton that lay untouched for almost 100 years

Daily Mail:
Captured dead or alive: Astonishing pictures of the bizarre creatures that lurk deep beneath the ocean waves

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Komodo Dragon is an All-Purpose Killing Machine

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Most Infamous Komodo Dragon Attacks of the Past 10 Years

Live Science:
Did Rise of Ancient Human Ancestor Lead to New Stone Tools?

Smithsonian Magazine:
When Did Humans Come to the Americas?

Smithsonian Magazine:
An Illustrated Guide to the World's Creation Myths

The Guardian:
Ice age art at the British Museum was crafted by 'professional' artists

Daily Mail:
Race to save the language of Jesus: Aramaic in danger of becoming extinct as number of speakers of ancient tongue plummets

The Atlantic:
When Newspapers Were New, or, How Londoners Got Word of the Plague

Daily Mail:
Glittering collection of gold and silver artefacts worth millions donated to Oxford's Ashmolean Museum

Daily Mail:
Have scientists finally solved mystery of Civil War submarine that perished after becoming first in history to sink an enemy ship?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Everything Was Fake but Her Wealth

Gizmodo:
Why Aren't Telephone Towers This Beautiful Anymore?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Lost and Found Again: Photos of African-Americans on the Plains

io9:
Not content to merely revolutionize our ideas about space and time, Einstein also studied this obscure geological law

Daily Mail:
Happy 100th birthday, Grand Central Station! New York's Old Lady celebrates centenary with spectacular pictures that show she's still going strong

io9:
These exceptionally rare color photographs show Paris at turn of the 20th century [Updated]

Gizmodo:
22 Awesome Rotary Phones: Beautiful Relics of a Bygone Era

Smithsonian Magazine:
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II

Smithsonian Magazine:
3D-TV, Automated Cooking and Robot Housemaids: Walter Cronkite Tours the Home of 2001

io9:
Script pages from The Shining reveal the ending Kubrick had destroyed

Smithsonian Magazine:
Top Ten Cases of Nuclear Thefts Gone Wrong

Smithsonian Magazine:
Where is the Costa Concordia Now?

Gizmodo:
This Is the New South Pole

Daily Mail:
Return to the fold: Artist brings back the lost art of creating animals and landscapes from NAPKINS

Popular Science:
The Human Race Will Come To An End. What's Next?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Future Calling: Videophones in the World of The Jetsons

February 1, 2013

Daily Mail:
'It was better for them to die unexpectedly': NASA expert reveals Columbia shuttle crew were not told of problem with re-entry as families mark 10-year anniversary

U.S. News & World Report:
Asteroid to Buzz by Earth Closer Than Satellites

IEEE Spectrum:
Details Emerge of Chang'e-2 Asteroid Encounter

Forbes:
Why Our Main Asteroid Belt Is Hardly The Remnant Of An Exploded Planet

Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 puts science-relay satellite into orbit for NASA

Popular Science:
NASA Will Launch A 13,000-Square-Foot Solar Sail Next Year

Discovery News:
Nuclear Thermal Rocket: A Misunderstood Beast

io9:
That One Time a Fire Almost Destroyed the Mir Space Station

Gizmodo:
The Life of an Astronaut

January 31, 2013

Daily Mail:
'Thunderbird 2' is go! U.S. military blimp set to revolutionise warfare makes first successful test flight

New Zealand Herald:
Comet Lemmon visible in NZ skies

UPI:
Study: Comet didn't end ancient culture

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
More Evidence That Mars Once Had Flowing Water

New Scientist:
Earth and others lose status as Goldilocks worlds

Daily Mail:
Alien planet hunters redefine the 'habitable zone' where life can exist - and find Earth is right on the edge

Discovery News:
'Zombie Planet' Resurrected: Fomalhaut b is Real

NASA News:
Herschel Finds Past-Prime Star May Be Making Planets

Popular Science:
The Pentagon Plans To Test More Airborne Laser Weapons As Soon As Next Year

Popular Science:
One Small Pawprint: Meet The Astro-Animals That Went Before Iran's Space Monkey

What If?:
What would happen if you tried to fly a normal Earth airplane above different Solar System bodies?

Daily Mail:
Astronaut's incredible picture of the Golden Gate Bridge as seen from space... plus more out of this world shots from patterns on the ocean and quirky cloud formations to glowing city lights

January 30, 2013

NASA Science:
Record Setting Asteroid Flyby

USA Today:
NASA: Asteroid to give Earth close shave

Universe Today:
In Two Weeks This 50-Meter Asteroid Will Buzz Our Planet

The Atlantic:
Here Is the Robot That Will Extract Water From the Moon

Popular Science:
Step into the Twilight Zone: Can Earthlings Adjust to a Longer Day on Mars?

WebPro News:
Comet-Like Ionosphere Seen on Venus

Popular Science:
'Habitable Zone' for Alien Planets Redefined

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Want: Part XVI, The Danger Will Robinson Edition

Air & Space Magazine:
Tennis, Anyone?

January 29, 2013

Space.com:
Effects of Worst Satellite Breakups in History Still Felt Today

Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 comes together at record pace for NASA launch

Daily Mail:
The incredible U.S. military spy drone that's so powerful it can see what type of phone you're carrying from 17,500ft

Space.com:
Monkeys in Space: A Brief Spaceflight History

Air & Space Magazine:
In the Zero-G Cockpit

Space.com:
Remembering Challenger: NASA's 1st Shuttle Tragedy

Daily Mail:
'It could have been me': Teachers on shortlist for doomed Challenger flight reflect on 27th anniversary of space shuttle explosion

January 28, 2013

Alaska Dispatch:
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin mum on whether he saw a UFO

Birmingham Mail:
Black Country crop circles prove phenomenon is no hoax, claims Australian expert

Daily Mail:
Nasa fires up museum-piece Apollo rocket for the first time in 40 years after dragging it out the Smithsonian

Space.com:
Curiosity Rover Snaps 1st Photos of Mars at Night

io9:
The most distant object in our solar system is actually the second red planet

Scientific American:
Fall That Glitters: Microscopy Reveals Stained-Glass Beauty in Ancient Meteorites [Slide Show]

Daily Mail:
London to Sydney in 90 minutes: Hypersonic SpaceLiner that travels at 24 times the speed of sound 'to be built by 2050'

Daily Mail:
Set for take-off: Britain's deadly superdrone that picks its own targets but experts warn plane could mark the start of 'robot wars'

Air & Space Magazine:
Geological mapping of another world

io9:
A Trip to the Moon in 1892

Space.com:
Distances Driven on Other Worlds (Infographic)

Popular Science:
A History Of Spacesuits, In Pictures

Discovery News:
NASA's First Disaster Happened on the Launch Pad

Gizmodo:
Remembering Apollo 1, NASA's First Major Disaster

Space.com:
Remembering the Apollo 1 Fire (Infographic)

Discovery News:
The Soviet Fire That Might Have Saved Apollo 1

WEEDEND EDITION: January 26 through 27, 2013

io9:
One physical phenomenon that orders our entire universe

Live Science:
Remembering the Apollo 1 Fire (Infographic)

ABC Australia:
Making teleportation 'fuel-efficient'

Stuff NZ:
Research unravels mystery of life's origin

Live Science:
Biggest Dinosaurs Had Brains the Size of Tennis Balls

Live Science:
Stampeding Dinosaurs Were Actually Swimming

Daily Mail:
The dinosaur that could change the way we look at birds

Daily Mail:
The two MILLION year old fox (and even then, it got in the way of human ancestors)

Science Magazine:
Slideshow: Sperm Whales Adopt Deformed Dolphin

The Economist:
An Antipodean Raj

Science Magazine:
Earliest Evidence of Chocolate in North America

Wall Street Journal:
Bones of Contention: If the Skeleton Is Richard III, Where to Bury It?

Smithsonian Magazine:
Does this Marie Antoinette automaton dream of mechanical cake?

The Guardian:
Royal Institution puts historic Mayfair building up for sale

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Unsuccessful Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln

Daily Mail:
The real-life Django: The legendary African-American Wild West marshal who arrested 3,000 outlaws and killed 14 men

Smithsonian Magazine:
Party Like It's 1881: President Garfield's Inaugural Ball

The Guardian:
Alfred Russel Wallace, the forgotten man of evolution, gets his moment

Daily Mail:
Ice with that whisky sir? Three bottles of rare 19th century Scotch returned to Shackleton's Antarctic hut after experts recreate long-lost recipe

Smithsonian Magazine:
PHOTOS: Who Were the Six Indian Chiefs in Teddy Roosevelt's Inaugural Parade?

Smithsonian Magazine:
"The Grave Looked So Miserable"

Air & Space Magazine:
The First Presidential Flight

Gizmodo:
The Biggest Bomb In the History of the World

Air & Space Magazine:
Disaster at Xichang

Wired:
Spy Bases: 9 Secretive HQs of the World's Intelligence Agencies

Daily Mail:
Rust In Pieces: Poignant pictures capture tragic beauty of world's most haunting shipwrecks

Gizmodo:
Watch This Video to See How Freaking Awesome People Can Be

January 25, 2013

Stuff NZ:
Vintage rocket refired

Space.com:
Hypersonic 'SpaceLiner' Aims to Fly Passengers in 2050

Space Daily:
Competition for hypersonic vehicles resumes

Gizmodo:
US Military Will Install Laser Turrets on Bombers and Fighter Jets

Universe Today:
27 Years Ago: Voyager 2's Visit to Uranus

Discovery News:
NASA's First Disaster Happened on the Launch Pad

Space.com:
Wow! Dung Beetles Navigate by the Stars

January 24, 2013

Space.com:
Cosmic Ray Hunting Balloon Sets Record for Longest Flight

Popular Science:
Meet ATHLETE, NASA's Next Robot Moon Walker

Space Ref:
Celestial Sleuths Track Historic Meteor Procession to South Atlantic

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Building Blocks of Life May Have Come From Outer Space

Dvice:
Gallery: Half a century of space food

The Atlantic:
When We Blew Up Arizona to Simulate the Moon

Air & Space Magazine:
The 727 Turns Fifty

Air & Space Magazine:
Kings of the Air

Live Science:
Crop Circles Explained

Charlotte Observer:
Lincolnton UFO pioneer dead at 83

January 23, 2013

Gizmag:
NASA and CSA begin testing satellite refueling on the ISS

Gizmag:
NASA team pushing towards thermal nuclear propulsion systems

NASA News:
Sun Primer: Why NASA Scientists Observe the Sun in Different Wavelengths?

New Scientist:
Did Mars hide life in its watery pockets?

Gizmodo:
Real Life Death Star? No, It's How GE Tests Jet Engines

Daily Mail:
The 'ghost cape' that could make fighter jets look like passenger planes

Air & Space Magazine:
A Tale of Two Satellites

Air & Space Magazine:
Into The Great Unknown

Air & Space Magazine:
10 Billion Miles From Home

Air & Space Magazine:
Mr. Arango's Aeroplanes

Air & Space Magazine:
Even Lindbergh Got Lost

Air & Space Magazine:
Nuke the Pilot

Gizmodo:
25 Bizarre Aircraft That Don't Look Like They Should Fly

January 22, 2013

The Windsor Star:
Federal government to fund Windsor hum research

Space.com:
NASA's Alien Planet Archive Now Open to the World

Daily Mail:
Martian minerals 'strongest evidence yet' of life on the red planet - and it could still be there

Popular Science:
A Huge Burst Of Gamma Rays Hit Earth -- And No One Noticed

Gizmodo:
DARPA's SeeMee Satellites Are a Soldier's On-Demand Eye In the Sky

The Guardian:
A cracking tale: why did the world's first jetliner fall out of the sky?

January 21, 2013

NASA Science:
Comet of the Century?

Contra Costa Times:
Did you see it? Exploding meteor lights Bay Area skies Thursday morning

Reno Gazette-Journal:
Update: Meteor lights up sky, seen by people from Reno to San Francisco

Gizmag:
More details emerge on NASA's plan for inflatable ISS module

Daily Mail:
Rivers on the red planet: Astonishing new pictures reveal a 4mile wide, 900mile long river that once ran across the Martian surface

Space.com:
Giant Mars Crater Shows Evidence of Ancient Lake

Cosmos:
Ancient Martian lake fed by groundwater

Popular Science:
How Much Would It Cost To Live On Mars? [Infographic]

Stuff NZ:
North Star not so close afterall

The Guardian:
A winter wonderland on Mars, ultramassive black holes and a cosmic sneeze - in pictures

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
To Surf a Hundred Million Stars

Space.com:
Space Station and Full Moon Glow in Yosemite Night Sky (Photo)

Gizmodo:
This Awesome Animated Short Is a Student Film. A+!

Daily Mail:
How do you restore a 60-year-old Spitfire to its former glory? With patience, a set of machine guns and the RAF's top mechanics

Bloomberg News:
Boeing Should Heed the Comet's Cautionary Tale

Daily Mail:
New £150million combat jet is banned from flying in bad weather because it could EXPLODE

The Telegraph:
Lightning will ground F35 fighter jet known as the Lightning II

The Telegraph:
Inside the Lockheed Martin F-35B

The DEW Line:
Pratt & Whitney delivers last Raptor engine

Air & Space Magazine:
Son of Transhab

Sri Lanka Sunday Times:
Jigsaw puzzle from outer space divides scientists

Slate - Bad Astronomy:
No, Diatoms Have Not Been Found in a Meteorite

Film Threat:
The Bootleg Files: The UFO Incident

WEEKEND EDITION: January 19 through 20, 2013

New Scientist:
Largest structure challenges Einstein's smooth cosmos

io9:
Poll shows that quantum physicists agree to disagree about the nature of reality

The Guardian:
The secret of life won't be cooked up in a chemistry lab

IEEE Spectrum:
Will Machines Ever Master Translation?

Daily Mail:
Mechanic masterchef: Robots cook dumplings, noodles and wait tables at restaurant in China

The Guardian:
The world's fossils are going extinct

Daily Mail:
ScienceShot: Fossils of Enigmatic Sea Creature Surface

Daily Mail:
Astonishing 3D images reveal the first four-legged land animals in amazing detail - and overturn a century of research

Popular Science:
More Evidence Emerges That "Hobbits" Were A Separate Species

Daily Mail:
Migrants from India settled in Australia 4,000 years ago before Captain Cook's arrival (and they took their dingos with them)

Live Science:
Did Mega-Drought Kill Ancient Aboriginal Culture?

Live Science:
Mysterious Shaman Stones Uncovered in Panama

Daily Mail:
Weapons that dominated European warfare for 3,000 years were introduced from Ancient Crete, study finds

Live Science:
Pompeii 'Wall Posts' Reveal Ancient Social Networks

Live Science:
Ancient Pompeians Could Go Upstairs to Pee

Live Science:
Down the Drain: Lost Items Reveal Roman Bath Activities

Daily Mail:
The incredible treasures buried at a Black Sea fortress 2,000 years ago to save them from invading Romans

Live Science:
Ancient Louisiana Earthworks Nominated for World Heritage Site

Live Science:
Scale Model Discovered for Florence Cathedral

Smithsonian Magazine:
Document Deep Dive: The Menu From President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Ball

Smithsonian Magazine:
War and Peace of Mind for Ulysses S. Grant

Daily Mail:
'I'd rather walk in front of a live cannon than do it again': Words of widow, 63, as she emerged from barrel after becoming the first person to survive drop over Niagara Falls

Daily Mail:
Abandoned for gas guzzlers, the astonishing 103 year old electric car that was ahead of its time

Daily Mail:
U.S. student's Russian Revolution gap year: Remarkable images of the 1917 uprising taken by a young Yale graduate discovered nearly a century later by his granddaughter

Daily Mail:
The real life Private Ryan: Agony of the First World War mother who sent four sons into battle... but only one came back

Daily Mail:
Mind the 150-year gap: ROBERT HARDMAN climbs aboard an original steam-powered London Underground train as it prepares to host a group of VIPs to mark its anniversary

Daily Mail:
Through Japanese eyes: Seen for the first time, photograph shows Hiroshima mushroom cloud from the ground minutes after blast

Daily Mail:
Vintage photos show Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr in their heyday hobnobbing at Hollywood hotspot

The Guardian:
Julie Burchill, transphobia and hostility towards the victims of oppression

Daily Mail:
The hunt for Red October: The astonishing hacking ring that has infiltrated over 1,000 high level government computers around the world

Gizmodo:
Russia's Newest Ballistic Missile Sub Something Something Red October

Live Science:
Huge Animal Sound Archive Goes Online

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Jetsons and the Future of the Middle Class

January 18, 2013

Space.com:
Next Space Station Crew Faces Out-of-This-World Final Exams

Space.com:
NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Moon with Laser

Daily Mail:
Rivers on the red planet: Astonishing new pictures reveal a 4mile wide, 900mile long river that once ran across the Martian surface

Daily Mail:
The secret of Titan's youthful looks revealed: Astronomers find sand dunes are filling in its pockmarked surface

Universe Today:
The Secrets of Moondogs

Gizmodo:
Watch a Balloon Explode 100,000 Feet Above the Earth

January 17, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
Trio of Russian military satellites launched by Rockot

Daily Mail:
Beyond the moon: US and Europe join forces to develop spacecraft that could take man to Mars (and even land on an asteroid)

Space.com:
Inside NASA's Deal for an Inflatable Space Station Room

Space.com:
Alpha Station: Private Inflatable Space Outpost Envisioned

Space.com:
Orion Explained: NASA's Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Infographic)

Discovery News:
NASA's Original Inflatable Space Station

Space.com:
Space Shuttle Columbia Launched on Tragic Mission 10 Years Ago

Slate:
A Puff of Celestial Smoke

January 16, 2013

Gizmag:
Asteroid to miss Earth by less than 20,000 miles next month

Popular Science:
Russia Will Launch Its First Moon Mission Since The 1970s

Space.com:
Inflatable Private Space Stations: Bigelow's Big Dream

Popular Science:
Trial Run Mission Will Make Sure Asteroid Deflection Method Really Works

Popular Science:
Curiosity Rover Gets Ready To Drill Into Mars For The First Time

Gizmodo:
How to Literally Shoot the Moon

January 15, 2013

Popular Science:
The Next Crews With The Right Stuff Will Work For Private Companies, Not NASA

Universe Today:
What Happened During the Huygens Mission?

Gizmodo:
These UAVs Fly Through Fallout Clouds To Learn Who Launched a Nuke

Daily Mail:
What hyperspace travel REALLY looks like (and why Star Wars got it wrong

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Fisher Space Pen Boldly Writes Where No Man Has Written Before

Discovery News:
NASA's U-2 Clandestine Cover Story

January 14, 2013

Space.com:
NASA Buys Private Inflatable Room for Space Station

Universe Today:
Bigelow Inflatable Module Will be Added to Space Station

Universe Today:
Private Test Pilots to Fly 1st Commercial Crewed Space Flights for NASA

Space.com:
Streaming Video from Space Will Document Planet Earth

Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Moons as Big as Earth? Not Yet

Scientific American:
Star Near Our Solar System May Be the Oldest Known

Live Science:
Danger! Falling Rocks: Meteorites and Asteroids (Infographic)

The Aviationist:
Amazing footage of Sukhoi Su-33 on the Admiral Kuznetsov "heavy aircraft-carrying missile cruiser"

Smithsonian Magazine:
Stratomouse!

WEEKEND EDITION: January 12 through 13, 2013

Scientific American:
Scientists Extend Einstein's Relativity to the Universe's First Moments

Space.com:
Einstein Was Right: Space-Time Is Smooth, Not Foamy

io9:
Why does relativity mean that mass changes with speed?

io9:
What's the rarest figure eight in the universe?

Live Science:
The Kilogram Has Gained Weight

Live Science:
Energy-Efficient Light Bulbs Might Cause Skin Damage, Study Suggests

Gizmag:
Top 10 robots of 2012

Astrobiology Magazine:
Origin of Life May Have Emerged From Bioenergetics

New Scientist:
ScienceShot: The First Sea Monster

Live Science:
'T. Rex' of the Seas Called First Top Killer

Daily Mail:
The terrifying prehistoric 'sovereign of the sea' - with razor-sharp five inch teeth

Stuff NZ:
'Stampeding' swimming dinosaurs' tracks

Live Science:
Weird! This Odd, Ancient Bird Had Sharp Teeth

Daily Mail:
Giant squid captured on film for the first time: Japanese film crew records elusive creature in its natural habitat

The Atlantic:
The Coolest-Looking Dolphin in the World

Live Science:
Over 300 Clay Figures Found at Ancient Site

Live Science:
Athenian 'Snake Goddess' Gets New Identity

Live Science:
Oldest Roman Hairstyle Recreated for First Time

io9:
The Ironic End of the Man who Made Himself Immune to Poison

Live Science:
2,000-Year-Old Treasure Discovered In Black Sea Fortress

Dvice:
Famed Roman Shipwreck Could Be Two

New Scientist:
Ancient Eye Treatment Recovered From Tuscan Shipwreck

Live Science:
Ancient Mexico's Dead Got Makeovers

io9:
Why did the Vikings abandon Greenland?

Daily Mail:
American bounty hunters submit plans to raise gold coins worth hundreds of millions from the wreck of HMS Victory

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Murky History of Foosball

Daily Mail:
Tunnelling into history: Amazing images show London houses being demolished to make way for the Tube in 1863, the world's first underground railway

io9:
The first proof of the Doppler Effect

Daily Mail:
Is this the world's oldest baseball card? Rare mounted photo from 1865 expected to make $100,000 at auction

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Gadgets of the Future From the Electrical Shows of Yesterday

Daily Mail:
How we used to holiday: Photographs taken by disabled son from wealthy family reveal their seaside adventures during the early 1900s

Daily Mail:
The forgotten photographs of WW1: Images of wartime France that lay undeveloped for nearly a century are discovered inside a camera at a Los Angeles antique store

The Photo Place:
WWI and Russian Revolution photos found

Daily Mail:
Step into the Dark City: Evocative 1930s' pictures reveal the eerie alleys and lost buildings of London

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Candor and Lies of Nazi Officer Albert Speer

Daily Mail:
Band of mothers: Bravery of women who confronted downed Luftwaffe airman with pitchforks... to steal his parachute and make silk knickers for entire village!

Daily Mail:
The ghosts of Hitler's European fortress: Photographer captures images of decaying World War Two bunkers in Holland, France and Belgium

The Atlantic:
The Story of the Slinky

Vanity Fair:
The Long Good-Bye

Dvice:
Letters show IBM was worried about HAL's psychotic AI behavior

The Verge:
Incredible photos from the CES vault: 1967 to 2012

Smithsonian Magazine:
Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About San Francisco's Cable Cars

Daily Mail:
Chinese fakeaway: How the world's most famous buildings - and even whole cities - are being cloned in the Far East

The Atlantic:
Could Human Enhancement Turn Soldiers Into Weapons That Violate International Law? Yes

Daily Mail:
The war that never was: Most elaborate Wikipedia hoax ever as 4,500 word article on 'Bicholim Conflict' - a fictitious fight for Goan independence - fooled site for FIVE YEARS

io9:
The Ultimate Guide to 2013's Science Fiction and Fantasy TV

Gizmodo:
This Trippy Animation Is Nothing But Coffee, White-Out, and Ink

io9:
The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational

Dvice:
Video of the Day: 'Invisible driver' startles fast food employees

January 11, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
Company test pilots slated for first commercial flights

Space.com:
Asteroid Apophis Gives Earth a Close Shave in 2029 (Infographic)

Space.com:
Whew! Huge Asteroid Apophis Won't Hit Earth in 2036

Space.com:
Finding Another Earth: How Will Scientists Confirm It Exists?

Universe Today:
Behold: The Largest Known Spiral Galaxy

Gizmag:
NASA releases GRAIL video

January 10, 2013

Discovery News:
Asteroid Apophis Just Got Supersized

Gizmodo:
Apophis May Destroy Some Earth's Satellites In 2029

Scientific American:
Asteroids: Close and Closer, but Not Too Close for Comfort

Stuff NZ:
Earth microbes might survive on Mars, study

Daily Mail:
Vega: The bright star that could have a family of planets (and even its own Earth twin)

Discovery News:
Massive Asteroid Belts Discovered Around Vega

Daily Mail:
The six 'missing link' comets astronomers say could reveal unknown planets

Astrobiology Magazine:
Exocomets May Be as Common as Exoplanets

Space.com:
Most Earth-Like Alien Planet Possibly Found

Space.com:
Most Earth-like Exoplanet Discovery Explained (Infographic)

Daily Mail:
Robonauts are go! R2 the robot astronaut begins work on the International Space Station

Daily Mail:
Germans unveil 'star wars' laser than can shoot a drone out of the sky from TWO MILES away and cut through a steel girder at 700 yards

Daily Mail:
You've got a sick U-2 there: How Cold War spy pilots learned to fly with the aid of cartoons

Daily Mail:
The kamikaze doodlebug: Secret variant of Hitler's V1 was designed to let pilot fly it to British targets (but surprisingly not enough volunteered)

Urgan Ghosts:
Top Secret Tombs: The Classified Stealth Aircraft Burial Grounds of Area 51

January 9, 2013

Discovery News:
Curiosity Scrubs a Mars Rock Clean

Daily Mail:
Watch out for Apophis: Asteroid named after an Egyptian demon set to pass by Earth tomorrow

Space.com:
Potentially Dangerous Asteroid Apophis Spotted - Video

New Scientist:
Mock Mars mission reveals salty surprise

Daily Mail:
The icebergs of Titan: Astronomers say hydrocarbon blocks could contain 'exotic form of life'

Live Science:
Ancient Maya Predicted 1991 Solar Eclipse

Space.com:
Nixon's Space Legacy Unveiled at National Archives

Jalopnik:
How To Fly A U-2 Spy Plane

January 8, 2013

The Guardian:
Apophis - a 'potentially hazardous' asteroid - flies by Earth on Wednesday

Astrobiology Magazine:
Sutter's Mill Meteorite Triggered a Scientific Gold Rush

Emirates 24/7:
'Meteor' found by Saudi man near his house

Daily Mail:
The lunar 'three amigos': Mystery of the triple impact craters spotted on the surface of the moon

New Scientist:
Mars Mission Could Turn Astronauts Into Couch Potatoes

NASA News:
NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers 461 New Planet Candidates

Discovery News:
Earth-Sized Alien Worlds Orbit One in Six Stars

Space.com:
17 Billion Earth-Size Alien Planets Inhabit Milky Way

Space.com:
17 Billion Earths of the Milky Way Explained (Infographic)

New Scientist:
Only the toughest would survive on Tatooine worlds

Space.com:
'Exocomets' Common Across Milky Way Galaxy

Daily Mail:
Thunderbird 2 flies again: The astonishing airship set to revolutionise haulage, tourism... and warfare

Cape Cod Times:
January UFO sightings in the early seventies

January 7, 2013

Space.com:
Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Martian 'Flower' and Snake-Like Rock

Discovery News:
Curiosity Spots Mystery Mars 'Flower'

Spaceflight Now:
Scientists losing hope of reviving French telescope

Spaceflight Now:
Vietnamese satellite booked for second Vega launch

Cosmos:
Celestial flybys set to thrill in 2013

New Scientist:
Titan holds clue to faint young sun paradox

io9:
Why you really don't want to live in a wide binary solar system

Space Daily:
NASA Kepler hints at over 250 new potentially habitable worlds

Dvice:
Billions of planets in every galaxy the norm, says new study

Space.com:
Double-Star Systems Can Be Dangerous for Exoplanets

Daily Mail:
Astronaut's view of a sleeping giant: Incredible image from International Space Station shows Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples

Dvice:
Want to see all passenger airplanes flying right now?

Daily Mail:
Nazis secretly developed plot to drop radioactive bomb on New York from supersonic space rocket

Smithsonian Magazine:
Hugh L. Dryden and the American Space Program

Space.com:
Neil Armstrong Didn't Lie About 'One Small Step' Moon Speech, Historian Says

WEEKEND EDITION: January 5 through 6, 2013

NY Times:
The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities

The Guardian:
Higgs boson was just a start for Cern's atom smasher - other mysteries await

The Guardian:
The Earth is nearly flat, and other scientific truths

Space.com:
Atoms Reach Record Temperature, Colder than Absolute Zero

New Scientist:
Cloud of atoms goes beyond absolute zero

Popular Science:
Favorite Science Infographics of 2012

The Economist:
Babbage Awards - Wackier than thou

Popular Science:
The Most Mind-Blowing 3-D Printed Objects Of 2012

The Economist:
Machine Translation: Conquering Babel

Live Science:
How Early Earth Kept Warm Despite Faint Sun

Daily Mail:
The world's oldest fossils: Researchers claim bacteria existed on Earth before OXYGEN

Live Science:
Volcano's 30-Year Eruption Bursting with Discoveries

io9:
Megapiranha was real and it could bite harder than a T. rex

Daily Mail:
Did Lucy walk or climb? How honey hunters in Uganda could help researchers shed new light on one of our most famous ancestors

Daily Mail:
'Peking Man' wore animal hides as clothes and was an expert fire builder: New excavation of Chinese caves discovers fascinating new details about early humans

Science Daily:
'Peking Man' Was a Fashion Plate

Daily Mail:
The first carpenters? 7,000 year old German water wells found to be earliest use of wood for construction

Live Science:
Ancient Carving Shows Stylishly Plump African Princess

Smithsonian Magazine:
Antigua's Disputed Slave Conspiracy of 1736

io9:
The Truth About the Culper Ring, the First U.S. Spy Family - and the Real Agent 355

The Atlantic:
Going to the Gym Today? Thank This 19th-Century Orthopedist

Daily Mail:
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines: Black and white photos show plane acrobats in the 1920s risking their lives in a quest for thrills

Dvice:
WWII-era military files reveal testing of a tsunami bomb

Daily Mail:
Death of the Desert Fox: Rommel's son's account of his father's last moments after Hitler ordered him to take a cyanide pill or be arrested

Live Science:
Scientologists' Alleged Apocalypse Bunker Found

Danger Room:
Military Must Prep Now for 'Mutant' Future, Researchers Warn

io9:
77 Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies to Watch Out For in 2013

The Economist:
Triumph of the nerds

Smithsonian Magazine:
The Tolkien Nerd's Guide to The Hobbit

Smithsonian Magazine:
George Jetson Gets A Check-Up

January 4, 2013

Spaceflight Now:
Stacking of Atlas 5 rocket begins for NASA launch

Nature:
Meteorite carries ancient water from Mars

Universe Today:
Meteorite From Mars is Water-Rich

New Scientist:
Unique meteorite hints Mars stayed moist for longer

Space.com:
Meet the Spacecraft Exploring the Solar System

The Atlantic:
Those Other Martian Rovers Celebrate 9 Years on the Red Planet

MIT Technology Review:
Robot Hedgehogs on a Martian Moon

Science Daily:
Carbon in Vesta's Craters: Asteroid Impacts May Have Transferred Carbonaceous Material to Protoplanet and Inner Solar System

Los Angeles Times:
Dwarf galaxies around Andromeda pose questions for astronomers

Physics World:
Thorium could help alien life emerge

io9:
What happens if you get hit by a meteorite?

The Aviationist:
How many F-16 fighter jets can you spot in this impressive Elephant Walk photo?

Air & Space Magazine:
Rotary Rescue

Gizmodo:
Not a Blimp, Not a Plane: The Gigantic Aeroscraft Is Ready, and It's Awesome

io9:
The Woodward Effect allows for endless supplies of starship fuel

January 3, 2013

New Scientist:
NASA mulls plan to drag asteroid into moon's orbit

Discovery News:
Blue, Not Red: Did Ancient Mars Look Like This?

Discovery News:
Mission to Mars Could Mess With Your Brain

Space.com:
100 Billion Alien Planets Fill Our Milky Way Galaxy: Study

Daily Mail:
Astronomical growing pains: Researchers observe two baby planets guzzling gas from a 'parent' star for first time

New Scientist:
Simulators prepare newbie pilots for flying car era

Air & Space Magazine:
The Luna 1 Hoax Hoax

January 2, 2013

Space.com:
Space Radiation May Accelerate Alzheimer's in Astronauts

Universe Today:
New Study Shows Cosmic Rays Could Cause Alzheimer's

Daily Mail:
Australian scientists unveil Wallaby and Dingo, the radio telescope network in the outback they hope could discover 700,000 new galaxies in 2013

IEEE Spectrum:
Gaia Telescope Will Map the Milky Way

Space.com:
13 New Space Missions to Watch In 2013

IEEE Spectrum:
Virgin Galactic Space Planes Should Launch This Year

Smithsonian Magazine:
Do We Really Need to Take Vacations to Space?

Popular Science:
Next-Gen Space Rovers Do Acrobatics, Look Like Medieval Weapons

Space.com:
Look Up! 13 Must-See Stargazing Events in 2013

Space.com:
First Meteor Shower of 2013 Peaks This Week

Air & Space Magazine:
How Are Places On The Moon Named?

Universe Today:
How Long is a Day on Mercury?

Space Daily:
A stray planet

The Atlantic:
Astronomers Read the Shadows of the Universe's Earliest Stars

National Geographic:
Crazy Far

Space.com:
Jesco von Puttkamer, Von Braun Rocket Team Member, Dies at 79

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

Northern Star Australia:
Strange UFO encounters

Gizmodo:
How America's First Delta Wing Fighter Prevented WWIII

Daily Mail:
Did Neil Armstrong lie about the origins of his 'one small step' speech? And did he still fluff his lines?

IEEE Spectrum:
Japanese Security Firm to Start Renting Surveillance Drones

Gizmodo:
This Tiny Hover-Disc Can Be Driven Around with Nothing but Lasers

Gizmag:
Surveillance quadrotor lets you keep tabs on your secret lair

Gizmodo:
Cockpit camera view from inside a Russian Air Force +20-ship formation

io9:
Must-Watch Video of the Day: Life-Size Superman Flies Over the Beach

io9:
A fun animated short about a guy with the most boring job in the Alien universe

Daily Mail:
Not sure how to get rid of your Christmas Tree? Inventors reveal how to turn it into a ROCKET

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