news archive 2014
December 31, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
2014's top stories in spaceflight
Space.com:
The Biggest Alien Planet Discoveries of 2014
Daily Mail:
US Army's controversial 'all seeing' surveillance blimps lift off above Maryland - and can spot objects as small as a person 340 MILES away
Daily Mail:
Now THAT'S a remote control helicopter: Watch the US Navy's full size drone copter land on a battleship - without a pilot in sight
Daily Mail:
Robo-hawks could be heading for the front line: US military is developing drones that navigate at high speeds like birds of prey
Gizmodo:
Watch a military jump from the point of view of a US Army paratrooper
Daily Mail:
The passenger spacecraft where you can sit in the cockpit for $95,000: New pictures reveal the XCOR Lynx space plane is getting close to completion
Gizmodo:
Outstanding photos of the X-15, the fastest manned aircraft ever made
io9:
How Humanity Will Conquer Space Without Rockets
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
One-Man Space Station (1960)
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Centaurs, Soviets, and Seltzer Seas: Mariner 2's Venusian Adventure (1962)
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Bridging a Gap: Bellcomm's 1968 Lunar Exploration Program
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Dreaming a Different Apollo
io9:
The Most Amazing Meteorological And Space Observatories Ever Built
December 30, 2014
The Local ES:
Christmas fireball lights up Spanish skies
Spaceflight Insider:
Five days - four launches: Busy week for Russian-made boosters closes with Proton-M / SES Astra 2G
Air & Space Magazine:
The Mystery of Lunar Layers
Space Daily:
Innovative use of Pressurant Extends Messenger's Mission
Scientific American:
Did Venus Have Carbon Dioxide Oceans?
Daily Mail:
Did Venus once harbour life? Simulations suggest organisms could have thrived in oceans that once covered the planet
Air & Space Magazine:
Follow the Methane!
Daily Mail:
A mysterious galaxy far, far away: Hubble spots stunning 'armless' galaxy 60 million light years from Earth
Space.com:
15 Amazing Space Missions to Watch in 2015
Space.com:
The Biggest Alien Planet Discoveries of 2014
GoLocalProv:
Meteor Shower Prospects for 2015 and Other Astronomical Highlights
National Geographic:
4 Sky Events This Week: Jovian Eclipses, First Meteor Shower of the Year, and More
Scientific American:
Planet Hunters Plot Course for Inhabited Worlds
December 29, 2014
Spaceflight Insider:
Russian Angara 5 heavy-lift rocket successfully launches on first test flight
Spaceflight Now:
Photos and video: Angara 5's thunderous liftoff
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese military spy satellite deployed in orbit
New Scientist:
Galaxy-mapping megacamera falls victim to loose fibres
Smithsonian Magazine:
Mercury Was Once Bigger, Then It Shrank
Space.com:
Venus Gets Weirder: CO2 Oceans May Have Covered Surface
Universe Today:
Making the Trip to Mars Cheaper and Easier: The Case for Ballistic Capture
Discovery News:
The Frosted Slopes of Mars
Gizmodo:
Impressive new image of Saturn from above the ecliptic plane
Spaceflight Now:
Scientific riches await Philae comet lander, if it wakes up
New Scientist:
The search for ET: how close are we?
CHRISTMAS WEEKEND EDITION: December 25 through December 28, 2014
Science 2.0:
Wave-Particle Duality And Quantum Uncertainty - Two Sides Of The Same Mystery?
Gizmodo:
Who Decided a Hexapod With Robot Snakes For Legs Was a Good Idea?
IEEE Spectrum:
Japanese Company Creating Robotic Action Figures
Daily Mail:
Putting the FIN in finger: Scientists discover genes that may have caused ancient fish to grow complex limbs and crawl on land
Daily Mail:
Animals saw in colour 300 MILLION years ago: Fossilised fish retina reveals first record of rods and cones
Heritage Daily:
African diamond mine reveals dinosaur and large mammal tracks
Heritage Daily:
Tooth loss in birds occurred about 116 million years ago
Heritage Daily:
Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs may have nearly knocked off mammals, too
Stuff NZ:
Million-year-old clam found in Arctic
Heritage Daily:
Ancient relative of the elephant 'holidayed in warm Arctic 125,000 years ago'
Royal Holloway:
Scientists discover oldest stone tool ever found in Turkey
Archaeology Magazine:
Top 10 Discoveries of 2014
Heritage Daily:
Top 10 Archaeological Discoveries of 2014
Ancient Origins:
The Glozel Controversy - Amazing Historical Discovery or Elaborate Hoax?
Heritage Daily:
MAI dig suggests human presence at Old Vero Man site
Ancient Origins:
Exploration into why a rich Temple-building civilization died out on Malta
Malta Today:
The death of the temple people
Heritage Daily:
6,000-year-old encampment discovered next to Stonehenge
Live Science:
Mystery of Ancient Chinese Civilization's Disappearance Explained
Daily Mail:
The first map of the sky: Mysterious 3600 year old 'Sky Calender' that let ancient farmers track the seasons
Heritage Daily:
Discovery of clay seals offer evidence for the existence of biblical kings David and Solomon
Heritage Daily:
An Impressive 2,800 Year Old Farm House discovered in Rosh Ha-'Ayin
Ancient Origins:
Cicero and the Forgotten Tomb of Archimedes
Heritage Daily:
Archaeologists unearth royal entry complex at Herodian Hilltop Palace
Heritage Daily:
Washed up Viking anchors leads to project digging up the 'Spanish Vikings'
Heritage Daily:
Gothic cathedrals blend iron and stone
Ancient Origins:
Enigmatic symbols and carvings in man-made cave in England confound experts
The History Blog:
17th c. mourning ring declared treasure
The History Blog:
Victorian public urinal listed as historic building
Daily Mail:
Letter reveals how cross-dressing German troops put on panto for British soldiers during First World War truce... in WOMEN'S clothing looted from French farmhouse
Daily Mail:
Today I had a cigar with Fritz's best sniper. I hope we see him off tomorrow: We know about the 1914 Christmas truce. But these extraordinary letters from men on both sides cast a new light on this iconic episode
Daily Mail:
Victims of the Christmas truce - story of two Tommies gunned down by German snipers on Dec 25, 1914 told for the first time
Heritage Daily:
10 World War I sites to remember
Heritage Daily:
10 bizarre war machines from World War Two
Gizmodo:
How the U.S. Military Turned Santa Claus Into a Cold War Icon
Gizmodo:
Armored Bridgelayers: 'Hey That's Not A Tank, It's A Transformer!'
io9:
Russian Underground Stations Look Even More Stunning In Black and White
December 24, 2014
Space.com:
The First Christmas in Space: An Apollo 8 Holiday History
Gizmodo:
Spread Holiday Cheer Even Farther With This Flying RC Christmas Tree
Daily Mail:
What happens when you tie 90 helium balloons to a lawn chair? BASE jumper takes flight in homemade contraption before skydiving back down
Gizmodo:
Video: Incredible view of a hawk flying through a forest of trees
Daily Mail:
Want to land a plane? There's an app for that! New iPad accessory designed to help with a safe descent if an aircraft engine fails (even to the nearest farmer's field)
Gizmodo:
The C-130 Hercules can land and take off anywhere - including this beach
The Aviationist:
Video shows A-10 Thunderbolts and C-17 Globemasters in action over Nevada Test and Training Range
The Aviationist:
New Photos of Russian Planes intercepted by Norwegian Fighter Jets
Gizmodo:
Watch Airbus' mad stunt with $1.5 billion worth of airplanes
Gizmodo:
Happy Birthday Ames! Awesome Photos From 75 Years of Aerospace Research
News.com Australia:
Secrets of the world's fastest plane
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Most Beautiful Drone Travel Videos of 2014
December 23, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Russia set for debut launch of Angara 5 rocket
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Navy satellite shrouded for launch
Globe and Mail:
Instead of waiting for wrench, astronaut on ISS prints one
Daily Mail:
First zero-gravity 3-D printer manufactures wrench in outer space in less than a week
Discovery News:
Kepler Makes First Exoplanet Discovery After Mission Reboot
Universe Today:
Exploring Venus By Airship: Cool Concept, But Certainly Not New
Scientific American:
A New Way to Reach Mars Safely, Anytime and on the Cheap
Universe Today:
Meteoric Evidence Suggests Mars May Have a Subsurface Reservoir
Discovery News:
DNews: Reasons for Methane on Mars that Aren't Biological
Discovery News:
Dust Devils' Powerful Updrafts Could Drive Mars Climate
Space Daily:
Flying over Becquerel
Gizmodo:
Curiosity rover snaps cool Mars shot through damaged wheel
Daily Mail:
Rosetta to swoop down on comet 67P: Daring manoeuvre will take probe just 4 miles above its surface - and provide even higher-res images
Universe Today:
Look Out Below! Rosetta Will Give Its Comet A Close Buzz In February
Space.com:
Could the Dwarf Planet Ceres Support Life?
Daily Mail:
Here comes the sun(spot) Nasa telescope captures best ever image of x-ray emissions on the solar surface
New Scientist:
Star's flying visit could fling comets at Earth
December 22, 2014
The Independent:
Winter Solstice 2014: What is it - and why will mornings carry on getting darker?
Calgary Herald:
Calgary photographer captures apparent fireball over Mount Rundle
Space.com:
Active Sun Unleashes Massive Solar Flare
Daily Mail:
India launches its biggest ever rocket: Capsule onboard the mighty GSLV Mk-III could one day carry astronauts into space
Air & Space Magazine:
India Tests Prototype Astronaut Capsule
Universe Today:
Rocket Issues force SpaceX and NASA to Postpone Falcon 9 Rocket Launch to January 2015
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 completes full-duration static fire
Spaceflight Now:
Russian-built spy satellite rockets out of underground silo
Spaceflight Now:
Planet-hunting telescope to launch on Falcon 9 rocket
Spaceflight Now:
Orion is back home
Popular Science:
Commercial Space Habitats Will Go For Launch In 2015
The Guardian:
Methane on Mars: does it mean the Curiosity rover has found life?
The Guardian:
Why methane on Mars has reignited our quest for life on other planets
New Scientist:
#RosettaWatch: Comet lander could wake up next year
Universe Today:
Kepler 'K2' Finds First Exoplanet, A 'Super-Earth', While Surfing Sun's Pressure Wave For Control
New Scientist:
Europa's geysers disappear in a cloud of mystery
Daily Mail:
Is Venus humanity's next home? NASA envisions a city of solar-powered helium airships above Earth's searing hot twin
IEEE Spectrum:
NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Exploration
WEEKEND EDITION: December 20 through December 21, 2014
Smithsonian Magazine:
Is String Theory About to Unravel?
Space.com:
Time Travel and Wormholes: Physicist Kip Thorne's Wildest Theories
Gizmag:
Hector the stick insect-inspired robot takes its first steps
io9:
These Multidirectional, Cable-Free Elevators Could Be Ready By 2016
Daily Mail:
Will this bullet make US snipers invincible? Top-secret guided slug changes direction in MID-AIR. See it in action
Science Magazine:
Reader slideshow: Your most electrifying lightning photos
Daily Mail:
Was Earth formed with giant 'oceans' INSIDE? New theory claims massive internal water stores in rock could solve the mystery of how water arrived on the planet
Smithsonian Magazine:
When Texas Was at the Bottom of the Sea
Daily Mail:
Earth's oldest body of water found beneath Canada contains more than all of the world's rivers, swamps and lakes put together
Smithsonian Magazine:
Want to Excite Your Inner Dinosaur Fan? Pack Your Bags for Alberta
ABC Australia:
Prehistoric platypus-like reptile uncovered
The Guardian:
Snailfish sets depth record at more than 8,000 metres below surface of Pacific
The Guardian:
Birds detect approaching storm from 900km away
io9:
The Reindeer Would Never Actually Work for Santa
Live Science:
8,000-Year-Old Olive Oil Found in Ancient Clay Pots
Daily Mail:
Racton Man was a warrior chief: Experts unravel the mystery of a 4,000-year-old skeleton buried with UK's earliest bronze dagger
The Guardian:
Story of man and dagger found in UK field is finally told - 4,200 years on
The History Blog:
Racton Man: warrior chief, early bronze adopter
io9:
For The First Time In 3,200 Years, This Colossal Statue Stands Again
Live Science:
Ancient Farmhouse Found in Israel Reveals Agricultural Secrets
Daily Mail:
Entrance to King Herod the Great's palace unearthed: Complex set of corridors leads to elaborate hall of ruler
Live Science:
Million-Mummy Cemetery Unearthed in Egypt
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why the Pantheon Hasn't Crumbled
Daily Mail:
The mystery of the magical 'Ulfberht' Viking sword - Researchers close in on the German 'supermonks' believed to have forged the superstrong weapons
Live Science:
Flying Machines? 5 Da Vinci Designs That Were Ahead of Their Time
io9:
These Ornate Ancient Locks Are Perfect For Guarding Your Treasure Room
The History Blog:
Rijksmuseum acquires Adriaen de Vries bronze
io9:
The "Madness" Of King George III Shines Through In This Crazy Plan
Smithsonian Magazine:
There Are 120 Years of Lakota History on This Calendar
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Australia Put Evolution on Darwin's Mind
io9:
The Most Miserable Princess Ever: Sisi, Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Smithsonian Magazine:
Did Civil War Soldiers Have PTSD?
The History Blog:
Vast archive of kimono stencils found in Dresden museum
Daily Mail:
Van Gogh's blue irises were once purple: Pigments in masterpieces found to be fading under bright lights
Smithsonian Magazine:
Monopoly Was Designed to Teach the 99% About Income Inequality
Daily Mail:
Scarborough, then and now: How seaside town has been rebuilt in the century since German bombardment that left 18 dead
Gizmodo:
Rare World War I Propaganda Shows the Biomech Soldier of 100 Years Ago
The History Blog:
Lost 1927 Disney short found in Norway
Smithsonian Magazine:
Tickling the Dragon's Tail: The Story of the "Demon Core"
Nerdist:
Rare Photos From 1966 Show the NYC Subway in Full Color
Daily Mail:
How to escape from Alcatraz: Researchers reveal how notorious 1962 escapees presumed dead COULD have paddled to freedom
Gizmodo:
Rare Photos From 1966 Show the NYC Subway in Full Color
Gizmodo:
The giant tubes that launch missiles in strategic nuclear submarines
The Atlantic:
The Story Behind AOL's Iconic Yellow Running Man
Gizmag:
The world's most valuable barn find ever: 60 rare cars untouched for 50 years
Daily Mail:
Around the world in 70 rooms! Incredible miniature models offer a glimpse into extravagant period homes from 13th Century Europe to 20th Century America
December 19, 2014
Air & Space Magazine:
Einstein's Thoughts on SETI
The Telegraph:
Astronomer Royal: Life on Mars would change everything we know
Daily Mail:
The plane that could fly ANYWHERE in four hours gets a step closer to blast off: European Space Agency backs plans for air breathing experimental rocket
Gizmodo:
Close encounters with Russian warplanes as tension increases in Europe
The Aviationist:
Finnish Air Force Hornet jets have taken some cool snapshots of Russian bombers skirting Finland's airspace
The Aviationist:
Close up view on a Python-4 air-to-air missile just fired by an F-5EM
The Aviationist:
U.S. Air Force has approved mass production of the stealthy JASSM air-launched cruise missiles
Gizmodo:
Lethal F-35 shows all its weapons in impressive detail
Popular Science:
Secretive D.O.D. Drone Dodges Defenses At Hypersonic Speed
Popular Science:
What's So Scary About A Nuclear-Armed Drone?
The Aviationist:
Maverick and Goose would not have had to bail out from their jet if they had flown a F110-powered F-14 Tomcat
Gizmodo:
Rare photos of the SR-71 Blackbird show its amazing history
Space.com:
Project Orion Nuclear Propulsion - 1950s Tests - Unclassified Video
Space.com:
How a Rocket Sled Launched 'The Fastest Man Alive'
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Creepy, Kitschy and Geeky Patches of US Spy Satellite Launches
Spaceflight Insiders:
Venera 7's descent into hell
Universe Today:
How NASA Filmed Humans Last Leaving The Moon, 42 Years Ago
io9:
The Real Story Of Apollo 17... And Why We Never Went Back To The Moon
The Aviationist:
Strike Fighter Ball 2014: the new, stunning, East Coast naval F/A-18 Hornet squadrons video!
Dayton Daily News:
Apollo 13 mission director, 3 others to enter Aviation Hall of fame
December 18, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX expected to set new Falcon 9 launch date
Spaceflight Insider:
Report: Launch of SpaceX SpX-5 will likely slip to early January
Spaceflight Now:
Powerful new Indian rocket poised for suborbital test launch
Daily Mail:
Stunning GIF reveals the fiery view seen by astronauts as they re-enter Earth's atmosphere at 25 times the speed of sound
IEEE Spectrum:
NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Exploration
Daily Mail:
Out in a blaze of glory: Esa's historic Venus Express mission around the solar system's hottest planet ends as spacecraft runs out of fuel
Universe Today:
Morning Star, We Hardly Knew Ya: Venus Express' Best Discoveries In 8 Years
Science Magazine:
Comet-Landing Spacecraft's Exact Location Still Eludes Scientists
Science Magazine:
Spacecraft spots probable waves on Titan's seas
Space.com:
Voyager 1 Rides 'Tsunami Wave' in Interstellar Space
Daily Mail:
The sound of insterstellar space: Nasa's Voyager 1 probe reveals deep space sounds a lot like bells ringing as it rides massive 'tsumani wave'
New Scientist:
Star's flying visit could fling comets at Earth
Scientific American:
Fact or Fiction?: The Explosive Death of Eta Carinae Will Cause a Mass Extinction
History Channel:
U.S. Air Force Closes the Book on UFOs, 45 Years Ago
December 17, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Mars rover detects methane spike, organic molecules
Discovery News:
Wait, There's More: Curiosity Confirms Organics on Mars
Universe Today:
Could Mercury Get A Meteor Shower From Comet Encke?
Gizmag:
MESSENGER finds signs of Mercury meteor showers
Discovery News:
Venus Express to Flame Out in Blaze of Glory
Universe Today:
Venus Express Out Of Gas; Mission Concludes, Spacecraft On Death Watch
Space Daily:
MAVEN Identifies Links in Chain Leading to Mars Atmospheric Loss
Universe Today:
A Stunning Look at the Cliffs of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Universe Today:
What is the Average Surface Temperature of the Planets in our Solar System?
Gizmodo:
This Is Where NASA's Super Guppy Gets Some Rest
Stuff NZ:
How Nasa spent $450m to build a engine-test tower it never used
December 16, 2014
Universe Today:
NASA and SpaceX targeting Dec. 19 for next Space Station Launch
Spaceflight Now:
Milestone Proton launch opens queue of grounded commercial missions
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Proton rocket blasts off with Yamal 401 satellite
Space Daily:
Opportunity Flash-Memory Resets Continue
Discovery News:
Behold! See Rosetta's Comet in True Color
Space Daily:
Swarms of Pluto-Size Objects Kick Up Dust around Adolescent Sun-Like Star
Daily Mail:
The funeral that's out of this world! Camera films the moment a loved-one's ashes are scattered at the edge of space
The Atlantic:
The Evolving Search for Life on Mars
December 15, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Record-setting Atlas launches with new Centaur engine
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Atlas launch seen from pad cameras
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Atlas launch seen from press site
Spaceflight Now:
Trio of ocean surveillance satellites launched by China
Spaceflight Insider:
Launch of SpaceX's CRS-5 mission to ISS slips to no-earlier-than Dec. 19
Universe Today:
Amazing Up Close Videos Capture Orion's Final Descent, Splashdown and Ocean Recovery
Gizmag:
Lockheed Martin engineers get first look at Orion post splashdown
Universe Today:
Opportunity Mars Rover Plagued By Flash Memory Problems, But Carries On
Daily Mail:
Dawn glimpses Ceres: Solar system's largest asteroid comes into view - and it could reveal the origins of life on Earth
New Scientist:
Soggy space rocks brought water to young moon
ABC Australia:
Moon's magnetic heart still a mystery
Spaceflight Now:
Are Habitable Binary Planets Possible?
Popular Science:
How Habitable Is That Exoplanet? [Flowchart]
Space Daily:
Observing Solar System Worlds as if They Were Distant Exoplanets
Space Daily:
How Did Life Become Complex, And Could It Happen Beyond Earth?
Daily Mirror:
Phoenix Lights UFO: Watch incredible classified footage of US fighter jets 'engaging unknown aircraft'
WEEKEND EDITION: December 13 through December 14, 2014
Universe Today:
A Universe of 10 Dimensions
Daily Mail:
Did the Big Bang create a 'mirror universe' where time moves BACKWARDS? New theory could explain our past - and our future
Scientific American:
2 Futures Can Explain Time's Mysterious Past
Discovery News:
DNews: Is There a Universe That Mirrors Our Own?
Universe Today:
The Science of Heat Transfer: What Is Conduction?
Smithsonian Magazine:
After 12/13/14, What Are the Next Fun Dates for Math Lovers?
IEEE Spectrum:
Play With a Swarm of Robots at NYC's Museum of Mathematics
Daily Mail:
US Navy reveals its latest recruit: 'Silent Nemo' robofish can swim into enemy territory undetected - and is designed to look exactly like a tuna
Daily Mail:
US Navy reveals boat mounted laser that can shoot down drones, boats and even doubles as a 'Hubble telescope on the water' laser surveillance system - and it is ALREADY in use
Daily Mail:
Watch the radical hybrid rocket that will power a CAR to 1,000mph fire for the first time: Bloodhound project moves closer to record breaking blast off in 2015
Daily Mail:
Jackson Pollock's art is like a Medieval masterpiece: Analysis of 8,800 paintings reveals the colour trends used by artists through the centuries
National Geographic:
Feathered Fossils Give Scaly Dinosaurs a Makeover
Live Science:
Oldest Horned Dinosaur in North America Was the Size of a Crow
Daily Mail:
Were dinosaurs killed off by a 'one-two punch'? Volcanic eruption AND a deadly asteroid strike may have wiped them out
Daily Mail:
Mammoth skeleton hauled from the North Sea's depths: Bones shed light on how beasts roamed icy tundra between Britain and mainland Europe 40,000 years ago
Daily Mail:
Moths evolve to jam sonar to escape bats: Hawkmoths emit sonic pulses with their genitals to confuse predators
Daily Mail:
Crocodiles are 'stuck in the past': Genetic study shows reptiles are closely related to birds but their evolution is 'unusually slow'
Live Science:
Birds Evolved in 'Big Bang,' New Family Tree Reveals
Live Science:
Why Birds Don't Have Teeth
Science Magazine:
Slideshow: Untangling the bird family tree
Daily Mail:
More than just milk thieves: Great tits pass traditions down through generations - and adapt their behaviour to fit in with the locals
Smithsonian Magazine:
Nearly Two Million Years of Innovation, As Told Through Tools
Daily Mail:
Did humans first master fire in Israel 350,000 years ago? Burnt flints found in cave show earliest evidence of our ancestors regularly using fire
Heritage Daily:
Underwater excavation reveals lost Levantine village
The History Blog:
Egyptian glass beads found in Bronze Age Danish burials
Science Nordic:
Danish Bronze Age glass beads traced to Egypt
Daily Mail:
How the Red Sea really parted? Moses used knowledge of tides to ensure a safe crossing for the Israelites - instead of waiting for a miracle, expert claims
Daily Mail:
Does this coffin show Ancient Egypt's decline? Poor quality 2,400-year-old casket has strange and amateurish decorations
The History Blog:
Shackled remains found in Gallo-Roman necropolis
Daily Mail:
Hundreds of ancient artifacts found buried in garden of Rome's British embassy: Building once used by Gestapo to open museum of antiquities after amazing find
Live Science:
Drugs in Early Americas Included 'Magic' Mushrooms and Toad Skins
The Asahi Shimbun:
Discovery in Nara Prefecture suggests building linked to imperial family 13 centuries ago
Sci-News:
Viking Feasting Hall Discovered in Sweden
io9:
What Was in "Cantarella," The Borgia's Famous Poison?
The History Blog:
Wolsey's Angels need rescuing and fast
io9:
The Bitterest Scientific Duel in History Was Over "Geoheliocentrism"
Seattle Times:
Quileute Tribe celebrates discovery of historic rock carving
Daily Mail:
America's oldest time capsule unearthed at Boston statehouse after being buried in 1795 by Sam Adams and Paul Revere
Smithsonian Magazine:
Queen Victoria Dreamed Up the White Wedding Dress in 1840
The History Blog:
1927 washroom from Orient Express for sale
Smithsonian Magazine:
Up-Close and Personal With Chicago's Most Infamous Criminals
io9:
Check Out The Crucial Changes FDR Made To His "Day Of Infamy" Speech
Gizmodo:
11 Secret Weapons Developed By Japan During World War 2
Stuff NZ:
Flashback: Code cracker, but not a spy
University of Hawaii:
Research team discovers intact 'ghost ship' off the coast of Oahu
Gizmodo:
That Time the Canadian Navy Accidentally Bombed an American Town
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Not-So-Simple Simon Proved the Young Were Swifter Than the Old
Daily Mail:
The science of SANTA: Father Christmas will have to deal with vapourising reindeer and a sleigh as heavy as the Empire State Building when he comes to town
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Evolving Face of Santa, As Seen in the Smithsonian's Vast Collections
io9:
The Wonderful Geometry Of Budapest's Spiral Staircases
io9:
The Strangest And Most Beautiful Calculators Humanity Has Ever Created
December 12, 2014
Twin Falls Times-News:
Curious Mind: The Calm Before the Sonic Boom
NECN:
Source of "Sonic Boom" a Mystery to Police
Gizmodo:
Neat time-lapse of the assembly of the International Space Station
Wired - Danger Room:
America's Toughest, Ugliest Warplane Is Going Back Into Battle
Gizmodo:
The U.S. Spent $7 Billion Developing This Helicopter It Never Built
Space War:
Chinese Hypersonic Strike Vehicle May Overcome US Missile Defense: Expert
Gizmodo:
Fascinating video shows fighter jet nuclear missile strike mission
Gizmodo:
These are NASA's coolest and strangest airplanes of the future
Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: Apollo 17 - NASA's last manned mission to the Moon - 42 years later
Universe Today:
Humans Last Landed On The Moon 42 Years Ago Today
Gizmodo:
That Time Congress Considered Building Cities In Space
Gizmodo:
Here Is Your Ridiculously Spectacular Orion Wallpaper
Gizmodo:
The Most Heartwrenching Photo of the Orion Launch
December 11, 2014
Space.com
NASA's New Space Launch System Mega Rocket Won't Fly Until 2018
Space War:
Russian space-based ABM system on-track for 2020 launch
Scientific American:
Europe Proposes Joint Moon Trips with Russia
Space Daily:
UK Plans to Drill Into Moon, Explore Feasibility of Manned Base
Daily Mail:
How your phone is more powerful than ORION: Computer in Nasa's Mars spacecraft only has same processor as 2003 Apple iBook G3
Universe Today
Why NASA's Orion Spacecraft Flew Old, Slow Computers Into Orbit
Discovery News:
SpaceX Will Try to Land Rocket on Floating Ocean Platform
Universe Today
How Strong is the Gravity on Mars?
Daily Mail:
Phew! Mountain sized asteroid heading for Earth spotted by Russian scientists poses no threat, Nasa says (for 150 years, at least)
Universe Today
Fear Not: Quarter-Mile Asteroid Is No Threat To Earth, NASA Says
Universe Today
Swirly Southern Picture Of Jupiter Makes Us Want To Visit Right Now
Daily Mail:
Saturn and its moons as you've never seen them before: Amazing enhanced images from Nasa's Cassini reveal stunning details
Discovery News:
Earth's Water Didn't Come from Comets Like Rosetta's
New Scientist:
#RosettaWatch: Comet water is not like Earth's
Space.com:
Most of Earth's Water Came from Asteroids, Not Comets
Scientific American:
Rosetta Pours Cold Water on Cometary Origins of Earth's Oceans
Space.com:
Space Diamonds in Gold Country: California Meteorite's Secrets Revealed
Daily Mail:
The year from above: Stunning series of satellite images from around the world make shortlist for best aerial shots of 2014
Business Insider:
There's A Mysterious Meteor Shower Happening This Weekend
December 10, 2014
Space Daily:
China develops new rocket for manned moon mission: media
Spaceflight Now:
Weather not looking promising for Atlas 5 launch
Daily Mail:
Antares explosion caused $20 million worth of damage but the rocket could launch again in 2016 ...without Russian engines
Universe Today:
Did Philae Land In That Comet Crater? One Month Later, The Search Continues
Science Magazine:
Titan's dunes took tens of thousands of years to form
Popular Science:
Coming In 2015: The First Spacecraft Encounter With Pluto
Universe Today:
Spectroscopy: The Key to Humanity's Future in Space
December 9, 2014
Daily Mail:
How to recover a Mars spacecraft: Amazing images show the moment Orion was safely retrieved from the Pacific Ocean and taken aboard USS Anchorage after its groundbreaking mission
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Orion capsule plucked from the Pacific
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Payload stacked for Thursday's Atlas 5
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the moon's magnetic core: Researchers find new evidence lunar centre once had a 'dynamo' at its heart
Daily Mail:
Curiosity finds crater and mountain it is exploring was once a giant lake - and experts now believe Mars was once warm and wet across the entire PLANET
Stuff NZ:
Mars rover finds evidence of ancient lake on Mars
Universe Today:
Opportunity Mars Rover Treks Past 41 Kilometers Towards 'Marathon Valley'
Spaceflight Now:
New Horizons awake for Pluto encounter
Daily Mail:
Groundbreaking experiment recreates the moment speeding asteroid impact brought 'spark of life' to Earth for first time
Space.com:
Did Deadly Gamma-Ray Burst Cause a Mass Extinction on Earth?
Daily Mail:
Comet dust found on Earth's surface for first time: Microscopic particles discovered 58 feet under ancient Antarctic ice
December 8, 2014
Washington Post:
Bright, exploding fireball streaks across the sky over Northeast U.S.
Discovery News:
Orion Spaceship Aces Debut Test Flight
Discovery News:
Orion's Journey High Above Earth: Photos
Space.com:
What's Next for NASA's Orion Spaceship After Historic 1st Flight?
Universe Today:
Watch Formation-Flying Chinese 'Yaogan' Satellites Slip Silently Through the Stars
Universe Today:
Venus Express May Be Out Of Fuel After Death-Duelling Maneuvers
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's Dawn spacecraft captures first images of Ceres
Spaceflight Insider:
New Horizons awakens from final hibernation
Universe Today:
Pluto Spacecraft Wakes Up For An Exciting Close Encounter Next Year
Universe Today:
Titan's Atmosphere Still Baffles Us A Decade After Huygens Landing
Daily Mail:
Drone in near miss scare at 700ft with Heathrow airliner
Popular Science:
Is NASA Going To Let The Hubble Telescope Burn Up?
Tri-Cities Herald:
'Field Full of Secrets' is a light-hearted but credulous documentary look at crop circles
Cape Cod Times:
A reader recalls a 1960s UFO sighting
Shields Gazette:
Dad had a close encounter with a UFO
WEEKEND EDITION: December 6 through December 7, 2014
Daily Mail:
Is space-time shaped like a SPIRAL? Universe has a 'golden ratio' that keeps everything in order, researchers claim
Daily Mail:
Can anything travel faster than the speed of light? 'Lightning' seen sparking from a supermassive black hole appears to break the laws of physics
Gizmodo:
10 Reasons Our Universe Might Actually Be Virtual Reality
Smithsonian Magazine:
Five Practical Uses for "Spooky" Quantum Mechanics
Space.com:
Ripples in Space-Time Could Reveal 'Strange Stars'
Discovery News:
Time Always Marches Forward -- Why?
Universe Today:
John Dalton's Atomic Model
CBS News:
MIT cheetah robot is "a Ferrari in the robotics world"
The Economist:
How to judge a 'bot
Science Magazine:
Respect long overdue: Earth's most abundant mineral finally gets an official name
ABC Australia:
The secret world of fungi revealed
The Guardian:
The fungus among us: Kew Gardens' Fungarium
io9:
It's 2.4 Miles Across, 8,650 Years Old, and It Lives in Oregon
The Guardian:
Fungi time: your photos
Daily Mail:
Meet Sophie, the most complete stegosaurus skeleton ever found: Scientists hope to reveal its weight, eating habits and weaponry using X-rays and models
Daily Mail:
The stick insect so big that it looks like a branch: Species almost two FEET long is discovered in Vietnam
Smithsonian Magazine:
Humpback Whales in the Arabian Sea Have Been Isolated for 70,000 Years
Live Science:
We've been drinking alcohol for TEN MILLION years: Gene mutation reveals our primate ancestors enjoyed fermented fruit
Nature:
Homo erectus made world's oldest doodle 500,000 years ago
Science Magazine:
Dwindling African tribe may have been most populous group on planet
The History Blog:
23,000-year-old limestone Venus found in France
Daily Mail:
Cereal was a staple diet in Sudan 7,000 years ago: Neolithic teeth reveal traces of grains centuries earlier than first thought
The History Blog:
Flint axe with wood handle found at Lolland dig
Daily Mail:
Legend of the Golden Fleece was REAL: Greek myth originated near the Black Sea where miners used sheepskin to filter gold from mountain streams, geologists claim
ANSA:
Largest ancient Roman water basin uncovered
BBC News:
Old Sarum archaeologists reveal plan of medieval city
io9:
Archaeologists Discover The World's Largest Ancient Stone Block
The History Blog:
Iron Age tunic found in Norway glacier recreated
The History Blog:
Northernmost hacksilver hoard found in Aberdeenshire
The Guardian:
The medieval bishop who helped to unweave the rainbow
The History Blog:
View restoration of della Francesca's Resurrection by app
The History Blog:
Turner's Mount Aventine sells for $47.5 million
Smithsonian Magazine:
Found in "Penny Papers" from the 1800s, A Lost Walt Whitman Poem
io9:
What Happened Aboard History's Most Baffling Ghost Ship?
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Racist History of Peter Pan's Indian Tribe
The History Blog:
Lost avant-garde painting found in Stuart Little's living room
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Photographer Who Ansel Adams Called the Anti-Christ
The Guardian:
The Imitation Game: how Alan Turing played dumb to fool US intelligence
The Atlantic:
The Sound Recorder That Changed Film
io9:
10 Monarchs Whose Madness Changed History
Space.com:
Space Gifts for Kids: Fun and Educational Ideas for the Holidays
Space.com:
Want a Telescope for Christmas? Here's What You Need to Know
Gizmodo:
12 Classic Toys That Are a Bargain All Year Round
Smithsonian Magazine:
Christmas Markets Might Be the Best Reason to Spend the Holidays in Europe
December 5, 2014
Daily Mail:
Nasa's historic Orion craft gets green light for Friday morning blast off: Space agency 'very confident' it has fixed valve flaw that scuppered first attempt at launch
Space.com:
NASA's 1st Orion Deep-Space Capsule Launch Delayed by Rocket Glitch
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Gantry rolled back to reveal Orion
Universe Today:
Orion's 'Glass Cockpit' Will Steer Astronauts Through The Solar System
Universe Today:
NASA Airship Could Watch The Stars Without The Need Of a Rocket
Daily Mail:
GoPro to GoDRONE: Firm rumoured to be working on range of flying action cameras
Gizmag:
Carbon Flyer could be your own li'l stealth fighter
Gizmag:
AirStrato drones give military performance at "affordable" prices
The Aviationist:
Video shows Russian nuclear submarine test-fire intercontinental ballistic missile
Daily Mail:
Race to be the new Concorde! Supersonic jets battle to become first aircraft to cut flight times in HALF... reaching speeds of 1,200mph
Daily Mail:
So secret, its existence is not even acknowledged: Futuristic 'Aurora' spy plane that travels at SIX TIMES the speed of sound is blamed for mysterious booms heard at the weekend
Passion of Former Days:
Flying, 1920s Style
Smithsonian Magazine:
How NASA Censored Dirty-Mouthed Astronauts
Popular Science:
Iconic Cold War Spyplane May Get A Drone Makeover
Air & Space Magazine:
Blackbird Diaries
December 4, 2014
Scientific American:
Crew Capsule Set to Launch to Apollo-Era Distances for First Time in 42 Years
Spaceflight Now:
Preview: Orion spacecraft poised for critical test flight
Spaceflight Now:
Orion Exploration Flight Test No. 1 timeline
Space.com:
Final Countdown! NASA's Orion Spacecraft by the Numbers
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA hopes to have Orion back at KSC before Christmas
Spaceflight Now:
Hayabusa 2 launches on audacious asteroid adventure
Gizmag:
Hayabusa 2 launches on asteroid bombing mission
Spaceflight Now:
Philae's "little cousin" heading for asteroid touchdown
Discovery News:
Philae May Have Grazed a Crater and Tumbled Over Comet
Scientific American:
The Wondrous Lives of Galaxies [Slide Show]
Daily Mail:
Is this Moroccan meteorite proof of life on Mars? Rock ejected from the red planet has carbon of biological origin, study claims
Space.com:
Experts Cast Doubt on Meteorite Study's Claims of Martian Life
KSTP:
Reports of Fireball Monday Might Have Been Meteor
Wilmington News Journal:
Meteor surprises many in Delaware
Coventry Telegraph:
Spectacular annual Geminids meteor shower starts next weekend
io9:
The Most Astonishing Crop Circle Artworks of 2014
December 3, 2014
Air & Space Magazine:
The Flight of Orion
Discovery News:
NASA's Next-Generation Spaceship Set for Test Flight
Space.com:
How NASA's Landmark Orion Spacecraft Test Flight Will Work
Spaceflight Insider:
Ganbatte! Japan set to launch Hayabusa 2 on Dec 3
Spaceflight Insider:
Airbus to Build Service Module for NASA's Orion Spacecraft
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX hopes to recover rocket intact after next launch
Space Daily:
Carnegie Mellon Unveils Lunar Rover "Andy"
Discovery News:
Robotic Rock Climbers Could Aid Hunt for Mars Life
Daily Mail:
Esa's mission to Jupiter is GO! 'Juice' spacecraft will launch in 2022 to explore the gas giant for signs of alien life
New Scientist:
Invisible hissing doughnut is Earth's radiation shield
Space Daily:
Young Volcanoes on the Moon
Space Daily:
Frost-covered chaos on Mars
Universe Today:
'Meteoric Smoke': Comet Siding Spring Could Alter Mars Chemistry Permanently
Daily Mail:
Is Rosetta's comet really red? First true-color shot of 67P
Daily Mail:
Saturn in spectacular detail: Nasa's Cassini spacecraft pictures the planet as it continues its mission around the gas giant
Daily Mail:
Europa as it would look to the naked eye: Nasa remasters 90s image of Jupiter's icy moon to reveal it in unprecedented detail
Spaceflight Insider:
American flag carried into lunar orbit aboard Apollo 10 sold for $54k
io9:
Everyday Things You Didn't Know Were Invented By NASA
Spaceflight Insider:
KSC's Countdown Clock: A new look - for a new era
Popular Science:
The View from Surveyor 3 [Gallery]
December 2, 2014
Space.com:
NASA's 1st Deep-Space Capsule in 40 Years Ready for Launch Debut
Spaceflight Now:
Isolated showers, gusty winds expected for Thursday's Delta 4 launch
io9:
Everything You Need To Know About NASA's Next Deep Space Mission
Spaceflight Insider:
Orion test flight a critical step on NASA's journey to Mars
Spaceflight Insider:
Orion, EFT-1 and the future of U.S. human spaceflight
Universe Today:
Cool NASA Animation Beautifully Details Every Step of Orion's First Launch!
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Delta 4-Heavy ready for Orion flight test
Spaceflight Now:
Orion Exploration Flight Test No. 1 timeline
Spaceflight Now:
Previous flights of the Delta 4-Heavy
Spaceflight Insider:
U.S.S. Anchorage poised to collect NASA's Orion spacecraft after historic mission
Stuff NZ:
New Horizons mission nearing Pluto after nine years in space
Spaceflight Now:
Ground team ready to rouse Pluto probe for historic flyby
Universe Today:
Delaying Death: Mercury Spacecraft Firing Engines To Stay Up Until 2015
Universe Today:
Venus Express Spacecraft, Low On Fuel, Does Delicate Dance Above Doom Below
Universe Today:
Mercury Spacecraft Moves To Testing Ahead Of 2016 Launch To Sun's Closest Planet
The Guardian:
Starwatch: The December night sky
Space Daily:
Rapidly Freezing Saltwater Could Provide Spark of Life on Icy Worlds
Daily Mail:
DNA survives rocket trip into space: So did life even start on Earth at all?
Scientific American:
DNA Can Survive Reentry from Space
Science Magazine:
A castaway from ancient Mars
Smithsonian Magazine:
Speaking With Extraterrestrials
Universe Today:
Communicating Across the Cosmos 4: The Quest for a Rosetta Stone
December 1, 2014
Universe Today:
Rocket Remains? Video Shows 'Pieces Of Whatever' Flaming High Above Belgrade
Space Daily:
Japan asteroid probe to lift off Monday after delay
Spaceflight Insider:
Hayabusa 2 launch postponed until Dec 3 due to weather
Discovery News:
Japanese Asteroid Probe to Fish for Ingredients of Life
Spaceflight Now:
Proton liftoff delayed by upper stage problem
New Scientist:
#Rosettawatch: homing in on Philae's resting spot
Daily Mail:
Philae could come back from the brink in MARCH: Rosetta engineers will revive the probe as comet 67P hurtles near the sun
WJZ-TV Baltimore:
Mysterious Tremors In Ocean City Caused By Sonic Boom, Not Earthquake [Repost from 2-6-14]
WBOC Delaware:
Navy Officials Clear up Sonic Boom Concerns [Repost from 3-3-14]
Wales Online:
Huge bang believed to be sonic boom heard in skies over Aberystwyth [Repost from 3-10-14]
Daily Mail:
US fighter jet pilot in hot water over supersonic flight above Welsh town at 800mph that smashed windows and left locals terrified [Repost from 3-13-14]
KNBC Los Angeles:
Navy Exercise Likely Source of Sonic Boom [Repost from 4-10-14]
KNSD San Diego:
2012 Mystery Rumblings Caused by Sonic Boom: Navy [Repost from 4-11-14]
WMUR New Hampshire:
Mass. National Guard: Jets didn't cause sonic boom [Repost from 4-16-14]
WMUR New Hampshire:
Keene-area residents say loud noise sounded like sonic boom [Repost from 4-17-14]
The Weather Network:
Possible meteor brings sonic boom over southern, eastern Ontario [Repost from 5-4-14]
Hunts Post:
Loud explosion noise over Huntingdonshire was 'sonic boom' [Repost from 6-5-14]
BBC News:
Sonic boom 'tied up' Cambridgeshire 999 resources, police say [Repost from 6-6-14]
Ledger-Enquirer:
UPDATE: F-15 fighter caused sonic boom [Repost from 9-17-14]
Travelers Today:
Louisiana Loud Boom: Mysterious 'Sonic Boom' In The Sky Rattles Residents, 'Debris Field' Spotted, What Is The ArkLaTex 'Boom'? [Repost from 9-17-14]
WLUK Wisconsin:
Possible explanation for Thursday night 'boom' [Repost from 11-7-14]
WKRG Alabama:
"Boom" Felt Across Viewing Area [Repost from 11-14-14]
Shropshire Star:
Eurofighter theory after 'sonic boom' over Shropshire [Repost from 11-17-14]
Dayton Daily News:
Mysterious booms unexplained [Repost from 11-17-14]
Delaware Newzap:
Big sonic booms batter Bethany Beach residents [Repost from 11-19-14]
Delmarva Daily Times:
Cause of loud boom still unclear [Repost from 11-20-14]
KTVX Utah:
Residents concerned about the 'booms' in southern Utah [Repost from 11-21-14]
Southern Utah Independent:
Mystery booms: Look, I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's totally aliens [Repost from 11-23-14]
The Guardian:
Sonic boom sounds over Kent after RAF intercept Latvian cargo plane
The Argus:
Mysterious explosions heard across Sussex
Gloucestershire Echo:
The Big Bang Theory: Was it UFOs, fireworks or a sonic boom that caused loud noises in skies above Cheltenham, Tewkesbury and the UK on Saturday?
Aberdeen Evening Express:
Mystery as loud bangs heard in Aberdeen
Daily Mirror:
Mystery as 'explosions' and 'loud bangs' are heard across UK from London to Glasgow
Cape May Shore News:
UPDATED: Earthquake or sonic boom; residents report a rumble
Cape May County Herald:
Residents Report Earthquake-Like or Sonic Boom Vibrations
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the loud boom that shook homes over upstate New York AND the UK at exactly the same time despite being 3,000 miles apart
Daily Mail:
Were mysterious bangs heard all over Britain and in New York caused by U.S. stealth jet? Expert claims noises mimicked 'pulse detonation engine' - which could power rumoured 'Aurora project'
Aviation Week:
Mystery Aircraft Over Texas [Repost from 3-28-14]
The Aviationist:
Is this the shape of the new mysterious stealth jet spotted over Texas? [Repost from 3-30-14]
The Aviationist:
B-2 Spirit or new Mysterious Stealth Plane? New image of triangular shaped plane emerges [Repost from 4-17-14]
The Aviationist:
Not one but two different triangular mystery jets are being secretely flown across the US [Repost from 4-23-14]
Aberdeen Press and Journal:
Foreign country invests in islands rocket range
THANKSGIVING WEEKEND EDITION: November 27 through November 30, 2014
Gizmodo:
Why We Should Keep Trying to Time Travel
The Guardian:
Sizing up a new particle accelerator, and the 'cosmic stupid' limit
Live Science:
8 Ways You Can See Einstein's Theory of Relativity in Real Life
io9:
Computers Wrote the Caption for This Photograph, and Changed Everything
io9:
This 2000-Year-Old Pigment Can Eliminate The Third Dimension
io9:
The Most Uncanny Robotic Animals That Humankind Has Ever Invented
Popular Science:
The Science And Engineering Of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Balloons
Gizmodo:
The coldest ground-level temp ever recorded on Earth was -128.6 degrees
Popular Science:
Next Spring, You Can Walk Under A Glacier In Iceland
Live Science:
World's Newest Lava Lake Appears in Africa
Daily Mail:
Like no place on Earth! Otherworldly images capture a 190 million-year-old sand formation called The Wave whose rhythmic texture resembles the surface of Mars
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why is Turquoise Becoming Rarer and More Valuable Than Diamonds?
Daily Mail:
Was the 'explosion in life' on Earth caused by North America breaking away from Antarctica? Researchers say huge tectonic event could have triggered surge in animals that has baffled experts
The Guardian:
New evidence that dinosaurs formed groups throughout their lives
Daily Mail:
Fossils reveal TWO new species of dinosaurs that roamed North America 75 million years ago
Daily Mail:
Sold! Nearly complete skeleton of Monty the Ice Age woolly mammoth is bought at auction for £150,000
io9:
The Complete Crocodilian Primer
Smithsonian Magazine:
Chinese Chickens May Have Been Domesticated 10,000 Years Ago
io9:
Here's What It Really Looks Like When Birds Attack
Smithsonian Magazine:
One Hummingbird's Unusual Flight: From Minnesota to Texas, on a Plane
Daily Mail:
White magic: First-ever photos of newborn white lions in the wild - so rare there are only 13 left
The History Blog:
Unique remains of Ice Age infants found in Alaska
Daily Mail:
Stone Age axe discovered complete with its WOODEN handle: 5,500-year-old tool may have been left as a ritual offering
The History Blog:
Norfolk museum acquires Bronze Age dirk used as doorstop
The History Blog:
Pharaonic temple found under house in Egypt
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Controversial Afterlife of King Tut
io9:
This Is The Actual Seal That Secured King Tutankhamun's Tomb
The History Blog:
Human remains found in Amphipolis tomb
National Geographic:
Behind Tomb Connected to Alexander the Great, Intrigue Worthy of "Game of Thrones"
National Geographic:
Ears of Ancient Chinese Terra-Cotta Warriors Offer Clues to Their Creation
Smithsonian Magazine:
Mysterious Antikythera Mechanism Is Even Older Than We Thought
The History Blog:
Relief of unknown god found in Turkey
The History Blog:
2,200-year-old altar found on Italo-Greek shipwreck
The History Blog:
Restoration on unique Medusa mosaic almost finished
Daily Mail:
Ancient Egyptian spells deciphered for first time: 1,300-year-old codex was used to secure love, success and power
The History Blog:
Hospital scan reveals contents of Carolingian pot
The History Blog:
Last chance to see Royal Armoury arms in America
The History Blog:
13-angled stone found in Inca hydraulic system
Archaeology Magazine:
The Sultan's African Palace
The History Blog:
St. Francis manuscripts leave Italy for the first time
The History Blog:
Recreating Tullio Lombardo's Adam after the fall
Daily Mail:
Is this Ivan the Terrible's 'Excalibur'? Medieval sword found buried under a birch tree in Siberia belonged to ruthless 14th century tsar, says leading archaeologist
Archaeology Magazine:
Polish 'vampires' were killed by CHOLERA: Tests reveal suspected bloodsuckers were actually early victims of the epidemic
Archaeology Magazine:
The Buffalo Chasers
Smithsonian Magazine:
John Smith Coined the Term New England on This 1616 Map
Fort Hays University Leader:
Beyond the Turkey, the history of Thanksgiving
Boston Globe:
Changing Thanksgiving's history
Daily Texan:
Real history of Thanksgiving
Smithsonian Magazine:
The 17th-Century English Who Settled in the Southern U.S. Had Very Little to be Thankful For
Boston Globe:
First Thanksgiving dinner didn't resemble ours today
Daily Mail:
Shakespeare's First Folio found in France: Bard's 400-year-old book was overlooked on library shelf - and it's worth £3.5 million
Popular Science:
Benjamin Franklin Once Electrocuted Some Turkeys For Science ...and for dinner
The History Blog:
Madison's Montpelier gets $10 million donation
The History Blog:
HMS Erebus ship's bell recovered
io9:
Over 16,000 of Darwin's Papers On Evolution Are Now Available Online
Gizmodo:
The Surpisingly Old Origins of the Fax Machine
The Atlantic:
The Very First Forecast
The History Blog:
Medal of Honor awarded to Gettysburg hero 151 years later
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Horrific Sand Creek Massacre Will Be Forgotten No More
Smithsonian Magazine:
Decoding the Lost Diary of David Livingstone
San Luis Obispo Tribune:
Thanksgiving had spotty start in California during the Gold Rush
The History Blog:
Howard Carter the artist
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Roosevelt Family Built a New York Coffee Chain 50 Years Before Starbucks
Daily Mail:
Berlin was a liberal hotbed of homosexuality and a mecca for cross dressers and transsexuals where the first male-to-female surgery was performed - until the Nazis came to power, new book reveals
The History Blog:
Thomas Hart Benton's epic America Today murals at the Met
Smithsonian Magazine:
It Could Have Been Reginald the Red-Nosed Reindeer
The Guardian:
Saviour of France's art: how the Mona Lisa was spirited away from the Nazis
Wired:
How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap
Smithsonian Magazine:
Sixty Years Ago, the Regency TR-1 Transistor Radio Was the New "It" Gift For the Holiday Season
The History Blog:
Earliest officially licensed Batmobile for sale
The Atlantic:
The Secret Life of String Cheese
Gizmag:
Former missile silos turned into luxury disaster survival condos
Popular Science:
America's Laser Gun Goes To War
Gizmodo:
The World's Longest Zip Line Roller Coaster Looks Terrifyingly Awesome
Gizmag:
In Pictures: Cars of the 2014 LA Auto Show
Popular Science:
Best of What's New: Innovations That Will Shape the Future
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Architecture of the Hunger Games' Horns of Plenty
Smithsonian Magazine:
Where to See the Oldest Artifacts in the World
November 26, 2014
Space.com:
Monster Sunspot May Unleash Powerful Solar Flares (Video)
Daily Mail:
Holidaymaker's time-lapse video captures incredible moment meteor hits Earth's atmosphere and explodes into a ring of dust
Space.com:
Space Station's 3D Printer Makes 1st Part
Space.com:
Welcoming the Era of In-Space Manufacturing
io9:
The Latest Morpheus Test Flight Cuts Out Before It Even Begins
Air & Space Magazine:
Orbital Inspectors
Gizmag:
Elon Musk reveals SpaceX drone ships will retrieve reusable rockets
Stuff NZ:
Space balloon for broadband?
Air & Space Magazine:
How to Survive A Helicopter Crash
Air & Space Magazine:
The Pioneering Age of Ultralights
Jalopnik:
This Is The Army's New Pocket Drone
Science Magazine:
Warming world could make it harder for planes to take off
Gizmodo:
Watch a 55-Day Overhaul of the Largest Passenger Plane in Two Minutes
Daily Mail:
Inside the revolutionary £1.9 billion Airbus A350 jet, complete with quiet Rolls Royce engines and the widest seats on the market
Jalopnik:
Rocket Through The Majestic Cascade Mountains In An F-15E Strike Eagle
The Aviationist:
In photos, U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers blast through Green Flag-West
Jalopnik:
Taking Off In A MiG-29K From A Carrier At Night Is A Fiery Thrill
Gizmodo:
This may be the coolest, most futuristic combat jet ever built
Daily Mail:
Does China have a SUPERSONIC drone? Claims secret 'Dark Sword' project may already have flown
Gizmodo:
Spectacular video of a missile blowing up a Norwegian Navy frigate
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why the SR-71 Blackbird is the Epitome of Cold War Spycraft
Air & Space Magazine:
What a Blackbird Drinks
Air & Space Magazine:
Picture-Perfect SR-71
Air & Space Magazine:
Eye to Eye with a Bear
Air & Space Magazine:
America's First Combat Pilots
Air & Space Magazine:
For France and Civilization
io9:
This Weird Vintage Airplane Flies With Cylinders Instead Of Wings
Air & Space Magazine:
The Cub's Badass Big Brother
Popular Science:
Apollo 12's Tuna Problem
Air & Space Magazine:
Searching for Moon Rocks in Iowa
Daily Mail:
The forgotten space race: Haunting images of Nasa's abandoned launch sites reveal ambition that once captivated the world
Spaceflight Insider:
Countdown Clock retired, poised for move to Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
Popular Science:
The History Of The Drone In 9 Minutes [Video]
November 25, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Three-person crew docks with space station
Universe Today:
Watch Three Humans Take A Flawless Ride To Space Yesterday
The Guardian:
Bacteria on Russian 'sex satellite' survive reentry
Gizmag:
Marshall Space Flight Center: A tour through NASA's hidden gem
New Scientist:
Galaxies in filaments spaced like pearls on a necklace
Gizmodo:
The most accurate, highest resolution video of Earth ever made
The Atlantic:
The Original Galaxy Quest
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
NASA's cool view of fireball skipping off Earth's atmosphere
Science Magazine:
Space rock impacts not random
St. Cloud Times:
An asteroid, not a comet, is behind this meteor shower
Universe Today:
Earth's Orbit Around The Sun
Air & Space Magazine:
Incredible Image Shows Never-Before-Seen Detail in a Solar System Being Born
Science Magazine:
Complex life may be possible in only 10% of all galaxies
Universe Today:
Communicating Across the Cosmos, Part 1: Shouting into the Darkness
Universe Today:
Communicating Across the Cosmos, Part 2: Petabytes from the Stars?
Universe Today:
Communicating Across the Cosmos, Part 3: Bridging the Vast Gulf
November 24, 2014
Daily Mail:
We have lift off! Russian rocket launches to deliver three new crew members to International Space Station - 260 miles above Earth
Spaceflight Now:
Three-person crew blasts off from Baikonur
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz TMA-15M Spacecraft Launches Expedition 42/43 Crew To Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
China launches for the second time in 24 hours
Spaceflight Now:
Spy satellite launched to serve Chinese government
KTVX:
Residents concerned about the 'booms' in southern Utah
KTVX:
Residents concerned about the 'booms' in southern Utah
Universe Today:
Orion Passes Key NASA Flight Review - "GO" for Maiden Test Flight on Dec. 4
Daily Mail:
The mysterious pink cliff of Mars: Nasa sends Curiosity rover to investigate strange rocky ledge that has baffled researchers
Spaceflight Insider:
Curiosity takes a second look at rocks near Mount Sharp
Daily Mail:
We've nearly found Philae! Scientists home in on the probe's elusive landing site using a 3D model of the comet
Universe Today:
With Philae Delivered, Rosetta Will Play 'Comet Escort' Through 2015
New Scientist:
Saturn's calming nature keeps Earth friendly to life
Discovery News:
DNews: Is Another Planet Lurking Beyond Neptune?
Air & Space Magazine:
A New Way to Search for Martian Life
Air & Space Magazine:
Plant Life May Thrive in Alien Atmospheres
Inside Science:
Can We Eavesdrop On E.T.?
Daily Mirror:
Real alien autopsy photos: 'Roswell' image of extra-terrestrial body dated to 1947
Daily Mail:
Ancient Martian civilisation was wiped out by nuclear bomb-wielding aliens - and they could attack Earth next, claims physicist
Motherboard:
Were Ancient Martians Murdered by Nuclear Bomb-Dropping Aliens? An Investigation
Southern Utah Independent:
Mystery booms: Look, I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's totally aliens
WEEKEND EDITION: November 22 through November 23, 2014
Daily Mail:
Did gravity save the universe after the Big Bang? Force may have prevented it from collapsing 13.8bn years ago
Daily Mail:
Galaxies that 'suddenly appeared' 700 million years after the Big Bang baffle astronomers
Popular Science:
Ask Anything: What's The Hottest Temperature Possible?
io9:
How The Enigma Machine Worked, In One Infographic
Popular Science:
China's New Exoskeletons: Not just for Call of Duty or Tom Cruise Anymore
Daily Mail:
Robo-cops go on patrol! Silicon Valley gets five foot tall robot security guards
Gizmodo:
Robots Pretending to Be Humans Lived in These Houses for Six Years
Daily Mail:
Navy's first ever LASER gun that sets fire to enemy aircraft and ships is deployed to the Gulf
Daily Mail:
The robo karate kid! Terrifying two legged giant robot being developed by Google learns to stand on one leg - and recreates scene from cult film
Gizmodo:
The Inside Story of How Stuxnet Was Discovered
The Atlantic:
The Secrets of Color
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Colors You See in an Art Museum Can't Be Replicated Today
Live Science:
Rare Stegosaurus Skeleton to Debut at London Museum
Daily Mail:
The missing link of the horse world: Fossil find reveals ancient relative of horses and rhinos lived 54.5 million years ago in India
Daily Mail:
Monty, the woolly mammoth, is up for sale: Almost complete 18ft skeleton of Ice Age beast could be yours for £250,000
Daily Mail:
What's that, Flipper? Researchers find bottlenose dolphins have whistles for names so they can be identified easily
Daily Mail:
That's barking mad! Bizarre pet laws reveal it's illegal to mimic an animal in Miami - and French pigs can't be called Napoleon
Daily Mail:
Neanderthals were NOT a sub-species of modern man, scientists claim: Structure of nose hints they were a separate species
Gizmodo:
How Farming Almost Destroyed Ancient Human Civilization
Daily Mail:
Step back to the Stone Age: 5,000-year-old footprints made by fishermen trying to protect ancient river discovered in Denmark
Daily Mail:
Spicy pork, shellfish and a side dish of eggs: Diet of ancient Romans revealed after archaeologists rifle through Pompeii's toilets
io9:
This Stunning Mosaic Was Just Uncovered In Greece
Daily Mail:
Have ROYAL skeletons been found in Suffolk? Bodies buried with vast amounts of jewellery 1400 years ago may be linked to King Anna of East Anglia
Daily Mail:
A peek inside a Viking piggybank: CT scans of treasure chest reveal hidden brooches, gold ingots and ivory beads
The History Blog:
Zealand ring fortress dates to 10th century
The History Blog:
Vivid murals found in 1000-year-old Chinese tomb
Gizmodo:
Did Ben Franklin want the turkey to be our national symbol?
The Atlantic:
How Elephant Teeth Taught Scientists Extinction Exists
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Real Johnny Appleseed Brought Apples - and Booze - to the American Frontier
New York Times:
In New Napoleonic Era, His Hats and Stockings Rise to Power
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Whiskey Wars That Left Brooklyn in Ruins
The History Blog:
Wreck of SS Ventnor, ship carrying 499 Chinese dead, found
Daily Mail:
Curse of the £15million watch: Haunting story of the most elaborate watch ever made - and the man who wished he had never owned it
Daily Mail:
Incredible tale of the British soldier who survived WWI, signed up aged 52 to fight the Nazis as an air gunner, was shot down and emerged unscathed from reprisals in aftermath of the Great Escape
io9:
Behind The Scenes With Ray Harryhausen And His Special Effects Models
Popular Science:
Operation Plumbbob and the Psychology of a Nuclear Blast
Gizmodo:
The Sad Fates of the World's Six Tallest Unfinished Buildings
Gizmodo:
Paris Is Still Winning Its Battle Against Skyscrapers
Gizmag:
The top 100 most expensive cars of all time
Popular Science:
An Extreme Gift Guide For Obscenely Wealthy Nerds
November 21, 2014
Universe Today:
This is How Orion's Dramatic Flight Test Will Look Next Month
Gizmodo:
7 Of Mankind's Biggest Screw-Ups In Space
Popular Science:
China's J-31 Stealth Fighter: Then and Now
Popular Science:
Not As Sexy As Stealth, But Maybe More Important: China Shows Off New Cargo Planes
The Aviationist:
Video shows Su-24 Fencer attack plane perform an insane low-level flyby at unknown airbase
The Aviationist:
Russian bombers to fly over the Gulf of Mexico. This is what happened last year in Central America.
The Aviationist:
Video of F-35C jet's first carrier-based night flight operations aboard aircraft carrier
Gizmodo:
Amazing ultra-high definition photo of the SR-71 Blackbird cockpit
Gizmodo:
This Plane That Carries Planes Costs a Quarter of a Billion Dollars
Daily Mail:
Airbus files patent for 'flying doughnut' plane design which would see passengers board by escalator through an access hatch
Gizmodo:
The Best Drone for Every Beginner
Daily Mail:
Will cops soon arrive by JETPACK? New Zealand firm reveals it is developing craft for Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense
Gizmag:
KLM turns jet into a two bedroom apartment
Gizmodo:
America's First Flying Aircraft Carriers Just Couldn't Stay in the Sky
Air & Space Magazine:
Raiders of the Lost Ark's Fake Flying Wing
Air & Space Magazine:
Return of the Parasites
Scientific American:
What Interstellar Gets Wrong about Interstellar Travel
IEEE Spectrum:
How I Stopped Cosmonauts From Carrying Guns
Daily Mail:
There's not enough space to park that here! NASA's 1960s Gemini capsule slapped with a ticket as it heads to auction
Popular Science:
Meet Joe Engle, A Pilot Who Flew A Rocket Plane Into Space
Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: Mariner 9, All dressed up with nothing to see
Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: Lunokhod 1 and the first tire tracks on another world
Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: Apollo 12 - Sailing The Ocean of Storms
Gizmodo:
The Hungarian-Born Painter Who Immortalized America's Space Program
November 20, 2014
Slate:
What Exploded Over Russia This Time?
Moscow Times:
Russian Officials Left Puzzled After Fireball Explodes Above Sverdlovsk (Video)
Belfast Telegraph:
'Fireball' spotted in skies above Northern Ireland could spark meteorite hunt
Delmarva Daily Times:
Cause of loud boom still unclear
Scientific American:
Never Mind Philae's Topsy-Turvy Touchdown, Its Brief Mission Advances Comet Science
Spaceflight Now:
Russia's new heavy-lifter rolled to launch pad
Discovery News:
Is Russian Mystery Object a Space Weapon?
Gizmodo:
Inside the Chamber Where NASA Recreates Space on Earth
Gizmodo:
The NASA Playground That Takes Virtual Reality To a Whole New Level
Gizmodo:
Inside "The Domes," Where NASA Drives the Spacecraft of the Future
io9:
The Space Station Has 15 Sunsets A Day, And All Are Beautiful
Spaceflight Now:
MAVEN begins science mission at Mars
Spaceflight Now:
New Mars lander takes shape
Discovery News:
Volcanoes May Have Warmed Mars Enough For Water
Space Daily:
Warmth and flowing water on early Mars were episodic
Space Daily:
Cassini probe measures sea depth on Saturn's moon Titan
Space Daily:
Clues Revealed About Hidden Interior of Uranus
Daily Mail:
Pluto, here we come! New Horizons probe is ready for wake-up call as it approaches planet for a historic encounter
Universe Today:
Wake Up, Pluto Spacecraft! New Horizons Emerges From Nap Next Month
Space Daily:
Pluto's Exotic Chemistry
Universe Today:
Amazingly Detailed New Maps of Asteroid Vesta
Astrobiology Magazine:
The Known and Unknown of Asteroid Bennu
Universe Today:
What is the Difference Between Asteroids and Comets?
Science Magazine:
Young suns took at least 900,000 years to arise
Science Magazine:
Mysterious Oort cloud objects shed light on early solar system
Universe Today:
The Origins of Life Could Indeed Be "Interstellar"
Inside Science:
Can We Eavesdrop On E.T.?
The Desert Sun:
Get alienated on Nevada's E.T. highway
November 19, 2014
Jalopnik:
Another Massive Fireball Was Just Caught On Russian Dashcam
RT:
Chelyabinsk meteor #2? Massive flash over Russia's Urals stuns locals and scientists
Daily Mail:
Has Russia launched a top secret satellite killer? Amateur observers speculate on mysterious 'Object 2014-28E' in orbit
New Scientist:
Is mystery Russian spacecraft a satellite-killer?
Financial Times:
Object 2014-28E - Space junk or Russian satellite killer?
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese military satellite launched by Long March rocket
Daily Mail:
Rosetta's comet reveals its first secrets: Carbon compound found on 67P could explain how life thrived on Earth 3.8 billion years ago
Universe Today:
Philae Lander Early Science Results: Ice, Organic Molecules and Half a Foot of Dust
Scientific American:
What Philae Did During Its 60 Hours on a Comet
New Scientist:
Philae lander sleeps but Rosetta mission lives on
Scientific American:
Meteorite Bears Evidence of Magnetic Fields in Early Solar System
Gizmodo:
Here Are All 556 Asteroids That Bombarded Earth in the Past 20 Years
Daily Mail:
The mystery of the Sudbury Basin solved: The second largest crater on Earth was caused by a massive COMET hitting the planet 1.8 billion years ago
Delaware Newzap:
Big sonic booms batter Bethany Beach residents
November 18, 2014
Daily Mail:
As hard as ice: Scientists reveal first details of the comet Philae landed on - and say they are 'very confident' the lander WILL come back to life in spring next year
Daily Mail:
Fascinating images that show how space probe Philae touched down on comet 67P's surface, bounced and then fell off a cliff
Daily Mail:
World awaits Rosetta probe's results: Esa to reveal what Philae discovered on its comet - and it may shed light on the origins of life
Space Daily:
After Mars, India space chief aims for the moon
Space Daily:
China publishes Earth, Moon photos taken by lunar orbiter
Gizmag:
MAVEN uses special radio to relay data from Curiosity Mars rover
New Scientist:
Red Planet racers: Next Mars rovers get a speed boost
Universe Today:
China Reveals Designs for Mars Rover Mission
Universe Today:
Weather Forecasting on Mars Likely to be Trickier Than on Earth
Space.com:
Could There Be Organic Matter on Mars?
Scientific American:
First View of Mars Was a Paint-by-Numbers
Gizmodo:
The definitive photo of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Daily Mail:
Sold! Unique Hasselblad camera used to capture first recognisable images of Earth fetches $275,000 at auction
Daily Mail:
For sale, a little piece of Mars: 'Black Beauty' meteorite found in 2011 expected to fetch £63,000
November 17, 2014
Stuff NZ:
Comet scientists take break after mission [11-17-14]
Spaceflight Insider:
Philae's farewell [11-16-14]
Spaceflight Now:
Rosetta imagery shows Philae at first landing site [11-16-14]
New Scientist:
Philae drills comet, but may not survive the night [11-16-14]
Scientific American:
Philae Comet Lander Falls Silent as Batteries Run Out [11-15-14]
Daily Mail:
'I'm feeling a bit tired, I might take a nap': Philae comet lander goes into hibernation mode after batteries fail - but controllers say mission was 'total success' and craft sent back all of its scientific data from surface [11-15-14]
Stuff NZ:
Low-battery probe uploads data from comet [11-15-14]
Spaceflight Now:
Loss of contact with Philae [11-15-14]
Universe Today:
Philae Idled, Batteries Drained; Needs Luck, Sunshine to Awake [11-15-14]
Spaceflight Insider:
Despite safe landing, Philae's future is uncertain [11-14-14]
Spaceflight Now:
Comet lander's batteries near exhaustion [11-14-14]
Spaceflight Now:
Lander manager says Philae is doing well but battery life is low [11-14-14]
New Scientist:
Race to get comet data before Philae dies [11-13-14]
Spaceflight Now:
Researchers race to collect comet data from Philae [11-13-14]
Scientific American:
Comet Lander Stuck against Bottom of Shady Cliff [11-13-14]
New Scientist:
Philae has landed - first image from the surface [11-13-14]
Scientific American:
Nail-Biting, Funny, Frenetic Account of Comet Landing from Inside Mission Control [11-12-14]
Stuff NZ:
Malfunctions made Philae bounce kilometre off comet [11-12-14]
Scientific American:
That Comet? That's You, 4.5 Billion Years Ago
Space.com:
How Harrowing Comet Landing by Philae Nearly Failed (Infographic)
Daily Mail:
And that's just the top! Last section of massive Orion rocket rolls onto the launch pad
Spaceflight Insider:
Exploration Flight Test 1 Orion moved to SLC-37 in preparation for launch
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Orion's rollout to the pad
Air & Space Magazine:
Time-Lapse of Orion's Trip to the Launch Pad
Daily Mail:
1960s Russian rocket WAS to blame for Antares explosion: Firm behind botched launch says it plans to abandon rockets and develop new version
Daily Mail:
Did a Chinese LENS CAP almost destroy the ISS? Station dodges space debris from spy satellite to avoid disaster
Universe Today:
Comet Landing: Side-By-Side Pics Of Alien Surfaces Humanity Explored
Space.com:
Alien Life Could Thrive on 'Supercritical' CO2 Instead of Water
Space.com:
Leonid Meteor Shower Forecast: What to Expect
Space.com:
Top 10 Leonid Meteor Shower Facts
Space.com:
Meteor Shower Quiz: How Well Do You Know 'Shooting Stars'?
Dayton Daily News:
Mysterious booms unexplained
Shropshire Star:
Eurofighter theory after 'sonic boom' over Shropshire
WEEKEND EDITION: November 15 through November 16, 2014
Live Science:
Why a Physics Revolution Might Be on Its Way
Discovery News:
DNews: Interstellar: How Many Dimensions Does The Universe Have?
The Guardian:
Gluhwein and gravitational waves
Daily Mail:
The robo karate kid! Terrifying two legged giant robot being developed by Google learns to stand on one leg - and recreates scene from cult film
Daily Mail:
9,300-year-old bison revealed: 'Autopsy' shows ancient mammal unearthed in Siberia still has a complete brain, heart and digestive system
Live Science:
Giant Armored Dinosaurs Breathed Through 'Krazy Straw' Airways
Science Magazine:
Stunning fossil shows pregnant mare and fetus
ABC Australia:
First Europeans survived the worst of the Ice Age
Daily Mail:
How to talk like a stone-age man: A fascinating new book reveals how our ancient ancestors spoke. And you'll be astonished by how familiar it all sounds
Daily Mail:
Childhood in ancient Rome: 2,000-year-old Papyri reveal 'scout clubs' and young slaves with the freedom to become apprentices
The Atlantic:
Aluminum Was Once One of the Most Expensive Metals in the World
Daily Mail:
Winston Churchill's 'bid to nuke Russia' to win Cold War - uncovered in secret FBI files
The Aviationist:
China's new Y-20 cargo plane (that looks like a C-17/A-400M hybrid) lands at Zhuhai, parks close to C-17
November 14, 2014
WKRC:
"Boom" Felt Across Viewing Area
Gizmag:
NASA tests aircraft with shape shifting wings
Space Daily:
Mars probe to debut at upcoming air show
Daily Mail:
French thrillseeker uses wing suit to perform death-defying 11,200ft leap off Mont Blanc's Needle of the Republique...and films it all on a GoPro camera
The Aviationist:
Russian spyplane violates Lithuania airspace, Canadian Hornets intercept it [11-9-14]
Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: Mars Global Surveyor's nine-year journey of discovery begins
Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: ATS-3 relays first color images of Earth
Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: Apollo 4's Historic Echoes
Smithsonian Magazine:
Would Astronauts Survive an Interstellar Trip Through a Wormhole?
November 13, 2014
Spaceflight Insider:
Rosetta's Philae lander makes historic comet landing
Discovery News:
Rosetta's Landing: When Philae Grabbed a Comet: Photos
Daily Mail:
Can Philae hold on? Fears for comet mission as controllers reveal harpoons that should have tethered lander failed to work - causing it to BOUNCE as it landed
Universe Today:
Philae's First Photos; Update on its Troubled Landing
Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: Venus Express begins a journey - to hell
Universe Today:
Canadian Micro-Rover and Lander "Northern Light" Aim for Launch to Mars in 2018
Daily Mail:
Nasa's next Mars rover could have a pal! Small robot could scout out rocky terrain ahead to prevent accidents
Discovery News:
DNews: Saturn and Jupiter Could Be Chock-Full of Diamonds
ABC Australia:
Two moons: shrouded Titan and snowball Rhea
Daily Mail:
The most detailed image of a planet's birth EVER taken: Alma snaps stunning 'baby picture' of disc 450 light-years away
Space.com:
Lost in Space: Half of All Stars Are Rogues Between Galaxies
Daily Mail:
Nasa spots mysterious light as bright as ALL known galaxies combined
The Atlantic:
Grammar In Space: Are Satellites 'In Orbit' or 'On Orbit'?
November 12, 2014
Daily Mail:
All systems go for Rosetta! Esa reveals craft is in 'perfect orbit' as final commands for historic landing are sent to probe
Wired:
Tomorrow, a Spacecraft Will Try to Land on a Comet for the First Time Ever
Discovery News:
Comet Sings a Mysterious Song to Rosetta
Spaceflight Now:
Comet lander powered up after electronics glitch
Spaceflight Now:
Unprecedented cosmic choreography essential to landing on comet
Discovery News:
First-Time Comet Landing No Sure Bet
Los Angeles Times:
For Rosetta mission's scientists, the thrill is in the comet chase
Quartz:
Here's why the Rosetta Mission has so many Egyptian names
New York Times:
Landing on a Comet, 317 Million Miles From Home
The Telegraph:
Will Rosetta find life on Churyumov-Gerasimenko 67P?
November 11, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
All is ready for historic comet landing
Daily Mail:
Countdown to Rosetta's landing: MailOnline takes an exclusive tour around mission control as final preparations begin for the 'sexiest ever mission' to land on comet 67P
Space.com:
Risky Comet Landing by European Probe Will Be '7 Hours of Terror'
The Guardian:
ESA releases animation of probe's landing on comet - video
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz lands in Kazakhstan with station crew
Daily Mail:
Astronauts land safely on Earth after spending more than 5 months in orbit: Nasa astronaut, Russian cosmonaut, and German engineer return from mission on the ISS
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Reid's "awesome" ride in Soyuz
Spaceflight Now:
Weather delays Orion move to pad
Gizmag:
First Hasselblad camera and Zeiss lens in space up for auction
November 10, 2014
WFAA:
Meteor? 'Green light' streaks across the sky
WLUK:
Possible explanation for Thursday night 'boom'
Daily Mail:
The 'mind blowing' firework display that nobody saw: Nasa reveals comet that grazed Mars caused thousands of shooting stars per second as entire sky turned yellow
Space Daily:
Comet flyby of Mars changed chemistry of atmosphere: NASA
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Pilot who survived Virgin spacecraft explosion tells how he regained consciousness on the way down to earth... and gave the thumbs up to a passing aeroplane to say: 'I'm OK!'
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's Orion spacecraft complete, ready for move to Space Launch Complex 37
Spaceflight Now:
Engineers recommend changes to Orion heat shield
Spaceflight Now:
Delta 4 passes countdown rehearsal before Orion launch
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Learn about the Orion flight test launching in December
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Orion EFT 1 animation
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Preview of Orion's recovery
Spaceflight Now:
Japanese satellites launched on Soviet-era missile
Spaceflight Now:
Delta Mariner drops anchor at Vandenberg to deliver rocket
Spaceflight Now:
Engine turbopump eyed in Antares launch failure
Universe Today:
Orbital Sciences Announces Way Forward Plan to Fulfill NASA Space Station Commitments
Popular Science:
How To Repurpose Your Old Radio To Listen To Meteor Showers
WEEKEND EDITION: November 8 through November 9, 2014
io9:
Yes, Time Travel Is Possible; Here's How
Universe Today:
The World is Not Enough: A New Theory of Parallel Universes is Proposed
New Scientist:
Ghost universes kill Schrodinger's quantum cat
Gizmag:
Dark matter "particles" could have the mass of a dwarf planet
io9:
You Know How This Experiment Ends, But You Should Watch It Anyway
Daily Mail:
Can YOU break the code? Academics create cryptic puzzle to tie in with opening of Alan Turing biopic 'The Imitation Game'
Daily Mail:
Are Earth's tectonic plates BENDY? Scientists say they're more flexible than first thought - and this could explain why some earthquakes occur
Stuff NZ:
How quakes shook up the shore
Air & Space Magazine:
How Animals Came to Roam the Earth
Science Magazine:
How the ichthyosaur got its fins
Daily Mail:
Is this the missing link between land and sea creatures? 248 million-year-old fossil may have been first reptile to live in and out of water
Stuff NZ:
Camel-duck-ostrich dinosaur found
Stuff NZ:
Pterodactyls found take-offs tricky: Flying predators with 40ft wingspans struggled to get airborne
Science Magazine:
Meet Vintana, the second-largest mammal that lived with the dinosaurs
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Best Places Around the World to See Bats (by the Millions)
Science Magazine:
European genetic identity may stretch back 36,000 years
Daily Mail:
Archaeologists encounter extraordinary alfresco gallery of prehistoric art in the stunning Altai Mountains, one of the great undiscovered tourist destinations of Siberia
Daily Mail:
World's oldest geoglyph was made by CHILDREN: Enormous moose symbol visible from space was built 6,000 years ago using tiny tools
Daily Mail:
Ancient Egyptian temple discovered in a BACK GARDEN: Sacred stones engraved with hieroglyphs unearthed in Giza
Daily Mail:
No remains discovered within Alexander the Great-era tomb - but experts hope the burial room is hidden below ground
The History Blog:
2,200-year-old altar found on Italo-Greek shipwreck
Daily Mail:
England's oldest laws DIGITISED: Medieval manuscript predating the Magna Carta is now available online
The Guardian:
Magna Carta 800 years on: recognition at last for 'England's greatest export'
Smithsonian Magazine:
Ancient Easter Islanders Likely Sailed Back And Forth to South America
Smithsonian Magazine:
Guy Fawkes May Be the Root of the Word "Guys"
Daily Mail:
Witchmarks to protect King James I discovered in historic house: Carvings were intended to save monarch from evil spirits and demons following the Gunpowder Plot
Daily Mail:
Perched on top of a volcano and guarded by monkeys: The incredible Myanmar monastery reached only by climbing 777 steps
Daily Mail:
The real Turner prize: Britain's largest stately home - where Mike Leigh's biopic of artist was filmed and Jane Austen was inspired to write Pride and Prejudice - on sale for £7million
BBC News:
Rewriting history: 400-year-old battle in County Fermanagh
Irish Times:
Hoard of 17th century artefacts found at Rathfarnham Castle
The Guardian:
Uncovering the secrets of John Franklin's doomed voyage
Daily Mail:
A tour through Hannibal, Missouri: Mark Twain's boyhood home where you can still see Tom Sawyer's fence and Mississippi steamboats that inspired Huckleberry Finn
Daily Mail:
Union artillery officer to get Medal of Honor today - 151 years after he refused to leave his post at Gettysburg and held off Confederate assault
Smithsonian Magazine:
The True Story of the Little Ballerina Who Influenced Degas' Little Dancer
Daily Mail:
Sold! Famed painting by Manet sells for a record $65 million at auction in New York
Daily Mail:
Top of the dogs... HMV's Nipper gets blue plaque: His Master's Voice hound tribute to be unveiled next month
Gizmodo:
This Giant Searchlight Once Scanned L.A. From the Mountains Above
The Atlantic:
The First Bra Was Made of Handkerchiefs
Daily Mail:
On the counter attack: How British soldiers dribbled this football across No Man's Land so they could shock the Germans as they advanced during First World War battle
Gizmodo:
The Secrets Behind Harry Houdini's Ten Greatest Illusions
Daily Mail:
Was this THE greatest escape of WW2? How dozens of Allied PoWs scaled wire at Nazi camp using four huge ladders they had made and disguised as bookshelves
Archaeology Magazine:
Dawn of a Thousand Suns
Popular Science:
Operation Cue, A.K.A. Nuking Houses for Emergency Preparedness
io9:
How One Soviet Submarine Commander Averted World War III
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Story of the Most Successful Tunnel Escape in the History of the Berlin Wall
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Forgotten History of Mace, Designed by a 29-Year-Old and Reinvented as a Police Weapon
Smithsonian Magazine:
Amazing, Rare Photographs of the Berlin Wall Coming Down
Daily Mail:
Death of the nuclear submarine? Huge diesel-electric vessel could replace other subs thanks to its stealth and efficiency
Daily Mail:
They've been living under a rock! The stunning medieval Portugal village built in and around gigantic 200-tonne BOULDERS
Smithsonian Magazine:
"I've Lived the Life of 500 People": The Photography of Art Wolfe
Gizmodo:
Of Course Hammacher Will Sell You an Amazing Full-Size T-Rex Skeleton
November 7, 2014
Air & Space Magazine:
China is Now Positioned to Dominate the Moon
Smithsonian Magazine:
The International Space Station Just Avoided a Collision With Space Junk
The Atlantic:
A Little Ship Just Saved the International Space Station
Daily Mail:
First photo of new SpaceShipTwo under construction released less than a week after tragic Virgin crash as company says they will resume tests in 2015
Gizmodo:
NASA's High Altitude Glider Can Fire Rockets Into Space from the Air
Space Daily:
Supersonic Laser-Propelled Rockets
Space Daily:
Singapore to deploy massive surveillance balloon
Daily Mail:
The bionic bird you can control from your phone: $100 flapping drone can fly up to 100 metres away and is controlled with a flick of the wrist
Gizmodo:
Mystery Drones Have Been Flying Over France's Nuclear Power Plants
The Aviationist:
NATO worried by an "unusual level of Russian air activity over European airspace": 19 warplanes intercepted today [10-29-14]
Daily Mail:
RAF jets intercept bombers sent by Moscow for the second time in three days as rise in numbers of spying incidents raises fears of a return to Soviet-era espionage [11-01-14]
The Aviationist:
[Audio] I'm instructed by Her Majesty's government of the United Kingdom to warn you if you do not respond you will be shot down
Space Daily:
Back to Cold War as Russia probes NATO defences [10-31-14]
The Aviationist:
Here are the photos of the Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers intercepted by RAF Typhoon jets
The Aviationist:
Even the Portuguese Air Force has intercepted and photographed Russian bombers wandering across Europe [11-02-14]
The Aviationist:
Why are two Russian Il-78 Midas tankers deployed to Egypt? Are Moscow's bombers heading to the Mediterranean Sea? [11-03-14]
Space War:
Russia Test-Fires Topol-M Intercontinental Ballistic Missile [11-05-14]
Space War:
Russia test-fires submarine-based ICBM [11-06-14]
The Aviationist:
Video of China's Stealthy J-31 aircraft's (quite smoky) flight display practice at Zhuhai airshow
The Aviationist:
[Video] F-35C successfully completes first arrested landing on aircraft carrier
The Atlantic:
The Plane Crash That Gave Americans GPS
The Aviationist:
Bulgarian Mig-29s, Mig-21s, Su-25s (and many more venerable types) at the Sofia Air Show
The Aviationist:
Surreal aerial footage of old Soviet warbirds in the east of Germany (filmed by drone)
The Aviationist:
How to survive in a dogfight, alone against six MiGs: the lesson learned from Richard Schaffert dogfight
Top Secret Writers:
The Umbrella Plane: World's First Disc Shaped Craft?
Daily Mail:
The opening hit of the Second World War: Evocative photograph shows the first Luftwaffe plane shot down over Britain 75 years ago
The Aviationist:
This photo shows how Polish used Mig-15 combat planes to de-ice railroad tracks in the 1960s
Scientific American:
Half-Century Anniversary of a Mars Mishap
November 6, 2014
Space.com:
Dazzling Fireball Over Japan Is Latest Magnificent Meteor (Video)
Space.com:
Fireball Over West Virginia Snapped By Police Dashcam - Video
Space Daily:
China gears up for lunar mission after round-trip success
Space.com:
China's 1st Round-Trip Moon Shot Sets Stage for Bigger Lunar Feats
Universe Today:
Satellite Debris Forces Space Station To Evade Threat Hours Before Collision Risk
Spaceflight Now:
NTSB provides timeline of SpaceShipTwo mishap
IEEE Spectrum:
SpaceShipTwo Crash: Mach 1 Is Still the Worst Place to Be
Spaceflight Now:
Engine turbopump eyed in Antares launch failure
Daily Mail:
1960s Russian rocket WAS to blame for Antares explosion: Firm behind botched launch says it plans to abandon rockets and develop new version
Spaceflight Insider:
BREAKING: Orbital ends use of AJ 26, plans Cygnus flights on different rocket
IEEE Spectrum:
Wax Fuel Gives Hybrid Rockets More Oomph
io9:
Curiosity Has Stumbled Upon A Unique Mineral Patch
Discovery News:
Rosetta: Days from the toughest space landing ever
Scientific American:
The Surreal Task of Landing on a Comet
Astrobiology Magazine:
Cubesats for Europa
Space Daily:
Life Can Survive on Much Less Water Than You Might Think
November 5, 2014
BBC News:
Why the French state has a team of UFO hunters
Space.com:
Three Fireballs Lit Up US Skies Monday, But One Might Be Fake
Space.com:
Taurid Meteor Shower Peaks Soon, But Moon Will Dampen Display
Gizmodo:
The Space Station Had to Change Its Orbit to Avoid Space Junk
Daily Mail:
His spaceship broke up at 50,000 feet, he had no oxygen, and he was traveling at the speed of sound: How did the pilot survive the Virgin Galactic crash with nothing more than an injured shoulder?
New Scientist:
SpaceShipTwo crash: Wings were unlocked too soon
Scientific American:
Crash Analysis: How SpaceShipTwo's Feathered Tails Work
Scientific American:
Timeline of Antares Rocket Explosion Is Pieced Together
Discovery News:
Rosetta's Philae Comet Landing Site Named 'Agilkia'
Universe Today:
How an Ancient Angled Impact Created Vesta's Groovy Belt
Science Magazine:
Satellites spot hidden villages in Amazon
November 4, 2014
Daily Mail:
'Pilot error' may have caused Virgin Galactic crash after spaceship's 'descend device' was deployed prematurely, investigators reveal
Spaceflight Now:
Military communications satellite launched from Russia
Gizmag:
Final assembly of Orion spacecraft completed
Spaceflight Now:
Rocket cameras dazzle on 50th Atlas 5 rocket launch
Daily Mail:
RIP moustronauts: ISS crew dissects last of the space rodents that could help unravel the secrets of ageing
Gizmag:
ESA postpones experimental spaceplane launch
Science Magazine:
China pulls plug on solar observatory
Astrobiology Magazine:
ChemCam Sheds new Light on Yellowknife Bay
The Guardian:
After 10 years, Rosetta and Philae are ready to rob a comet of its secrets
Daily Mail:
Rosetta's comet in detail: Esa releases new images of cliffs, dust dunes and boulders on the space rock's surface
Gizmodo:
Look at the size of Rosetta's comet compared to a 747!
Daily Mail:
Titan's seas in the sun: Stunning image shows light glinting off Saturn moon's biggest polar ocean
Discovery News:
DNews: What We Can Learn from the Newly Found 'Exo-Uranus'
Gizmag:
Yale astronomers find exoplanet that simply can't keep time
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Newly Forming Planet Will Have Three Suns
Discovery News:
NASA's Asteroid Mission a Dead-End Route to Mars
Popular Science:
What NASA Should Do Instead Of An Asteroid Retrieval Mission
IEEE Spectrum:
The Spaceport Boom
The Guardian:
Starwatch: The November night sky
November 3, 2014
Space Daily:
China completes first mission to moon and back
Space Daily:
China's First Lunar Return Mission A Stunning Success
Universe Today:
Chinese Unmanned Lunar Orbiter Returns Home Safely, Paves Path for Ambitious Lunar Sample Return
Daily Mail:
Moment Virgin Galactic spaceship exploded at 45,000ft: One pilot dead and another critical as Richard Branson's $500m space tourism plane blows up testing new fuel over California desert
Daily Mail:
Pilot who parachuted out of exploding Virgin Galactic spaceship is conscious in hospital with shoulder injury and 'talking with doctors and family'
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: 'I have lost the love of my life': Widow of father-of-two pilot killed in Virgin Galactic test flight left devastated as Branson defends project and vows to 'finish what he started'
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Co-pilot killed in crashed Virgin Galactic spaceship was a skilled test pilot, family man
The Guardian:
Co-pilot who died in Virgin Galactic crash hailed as 'renaissance man'
NBC News:
SpaceShipTwo 'Feather' Tail System Deployed Prematurely: NTSB
The Guardian:
Branson's ambitious space-travel project plagued by problems and delays
Daily Mail:
Virgin Galactic crash was inevitable as the rocket was 'crude and unreliable', claims Richard Branson's biographer
The Independent:
Virgin Galactic crash: Spaceflight company was warned of safety issues, expert claims
Space Daily:
Virgin crash sets back space tourism by years: experts
Daily Beast:
Virgin Galactic's Flight Path to Disaster: A Clash of High Risk and Hyperbole
National Geographic:
Why NASA Blew Up a Rocket Just After Launch
Spaceflight Now:
An eyewitness account: Wallops Island is burning
Spaceflight Now:
Initial damage assessment shows Antares pad intact
The Guardian:
Russian rocket manufacturer insists it is not to blame for failed Antares launch
Spaceflight Now:
First stage propulsion system is early focus of Antares investigation
IEEE Spectrum:
Orbital's Rocket Disaster Narrows Space Station Resupply Options
Space Daily:
Antares Rocket Crash in Virginia Investigation to Take up to Year
Scientific American:
Rocket Explosion Prompts Doubts about Commercial Spaceflight
Space Daily:
ISS Crew Has Enough Supplies Until March 2015
Popular Science:
The Top 10 Failed NASA Missions
WEEKEND EDITION: November 1 through November 2, 2014
Daily Mail:
'Parallel universes DO exist': Multiple versions of us are living in alternate worlds that interact with each other, theory claims
Science Magazine:
'Dance Your Ph.D.' finalists announced
The Atlantic:
The Elusive 'Bilingual' Molecule
The Guardian:
Solutions to Martin Gardner's best mathematical puzzles
Gizmag:
UK's new £97 million weather supercomputer will give street-by-street forecasts
Gizmag:
From aerobatics to F1 cars: Inside Red Bull's Hangar-7 museum
Gizmodo:
Extracting giant marble blocks from a quarry is amazing and beautiful
Daily Mail:
Oceans are as old as the Earth: New study finds meteorites brought water as our planet was forming - and raises prospect life may have formed earlier that we thought
Daily Mail:
The air we breathe was created by volcanoes: Nitrogen escaped from Earth's crust to create life-giving conditions
Inside Science:
Black Swans And The Death Of Empires
Science Magazine:
Virus resurrected from 700-year-old caribou dung
Live Science:
The 9 Deadliest Viruses on Earth
Popular Science:
Smallpox Samples Slated For Immediate Destruction Are Still Intact, Pending Red Tape
Popular Science:
How Sneeze Particles Travel Inside An Airplane
ABC Australia:
Oxygen levels key to animal evolution
Daily Mail:
The deepest-ever sign of life on Earth? Evidence of organisms that lived 12 MILES under the crust 100 million years ago discovered
Scientific American:
Mammals Might Have Slept Through Dino Destroyer
Inside Science:
How To Win Friends And Influence Ducklings
Daily Mail:
Their friendship is purr-fect! Heartwarming photographs show how animals in the wild can become the most unlikely pals
Smithsonian Magazine:
Chimps Caught in First Known Nighttime Crop Raids
Daily Mail:
Meet the half-blind sanctuary owner who hand feeds his 14 big cats - including a 700lb Siberian tiger - and lets them cuddle in his bed
Smithsonian Magazine:
Ten Years On, the Flores "Hobbit" Remains an Evolutionary Puzzle
Archaelogy Magazine:
The Neolithic Toolkit
Daily Mail:
6,000-year-old 'cathedral' unearthed: Enormous two-storey temple with red walls, sacrificial altars and burnt lamb bones discovered
Daily Mail:
Mystery of Jordan's Big Circles: Ancient stone rings in the desert have left archaeologists baffled
Daily Mail:
Have archaeologists come to a dead end? No remains discovered within Alexander the Great-era tomb - but experts hope the burial room is hidden below ground
The History Blog:
Restoration on unique Medusa mosaic almost finished
Daily Mail:
Roman 'Fertility Genius' figurine among 'once in a lifetime' haul of discoveries in Cumbria
The History Blog:
13-angled stone found in Inca hydraulic system
The Guardian:
The real-life Indiana Jones on the hunt for lost ancient Mayan cities in Mexico
Daily Mail:
50,000 sacred objects from stone sculptures to shells found in ancient Mexican tunnel - and archaeologists say they could lead to royal tombs
ABC Australia:
Early Easter Islanders had contact with Americas
BBC News:
The Leonardo hidden from Hitler in case it gave him magic powers
Daily Mail:
Art collector sues Sotheby's because its experts 'didn't spot that his painting was a £10MILLION Caravaggio when they sold it for just £42,000'
The History Blog:
Lost Louvre portrait of Henry III found at auction
The History Blog:
Replica of Vasa bronze cannon shot
The History Blog:
La Belle exhibit opens at Austin's Bullock Museum
Live Science:
Ancient City Ruled by Genghis Khan's Heirs Revealed
Smithsonian Magazine:
What "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Tells Us About Contagion, Fear and Epidemics
Daily Mail:
Revealed: Shipping record that shows Herman Melville joining whaling crew for Pacific voyage that would inspire Moby Dick
Daily Mail:
Mormon church admits founder Joseph Smith was a ploygamist who married a 14-year-old - but says many of his marriages 'may not have involved sex'
Daily Mail:
The Victorian GHOSTBUSTERS: Historic records reveal pioneering scientists who investigated reports of ghouls and spirits
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Eastland Disaster Killed More Passengers Than the Titanic and the Lusitania. Why Has It Been Forgotten?
Smithsonian Magazine:
Coming to Terms With One of America's Greatest Natural Disasters
Gizmodo:
The Story Behind the Brooklyn Bridge's Most Famous Photo
Daily Mail:
Revealed, the English plot to kidnap Nessie: Papers from 1933 show how Scots feared monster would be taken to London and its carcass put on display
Gizmodo:
The Early Warning Radar Systems That Defended WWII Britain
Smithsonian Magazine:
The History of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, 50 Years After Its Construction
Gizmodo:
Sweden Has A Sub That's So Deadly The US Navy Hired It To Play Bad Guy
Gizmodo:
The Russian Military Despises This Strange Wedge Shaped Spy Ship
Gizmag:
Concept One: Floating the idea of a semi-amphibious vehicle
Daily Mail:
From car to boat in 15 seconds! $155,000 Panther car can hit the waves at 45mph... but there's an 18-month waiting list to buy one
Daily Mail:
The UNDERWATER sports car: £1.2 million submarine inspired by James Bond's Lotus glides along the seabed at 75mph
Gizmag:
Sandia drops nuclear warhead ... in the name of safety
Gizmodo:
These Secret Cold War Radio Stations Are Still Broadcasting
Daily Mail:
Magic mushrooms create a 'hyperconnected brain': Scans reveal how chemical triggers a spiritual experience by rearranging the mind
ALL HALLOWS EVE EDITION: October 31, 2014
io9:
The First Jack-O-Lanterns Were Monstrosities Carved From Turnips
Daily Mail:
Spooky mystery solved at last: Linguists reveal the word 'boo' comes from Scotland where it was first used to scare children in the 18th century
Metro UK:
Photographs of 1930s 'ghost woman in ectoplasm' at seance released in new archive documents
Daily Mail:
Teenage 'witch' found buried FACE DOWN: Middle Ages ritual was carried out to prevent an 'impure soul leaving the body,' archaeologists claim
Daily Mail:
The vampire graves: Archaeologists uncover medieval corpses buried with an iron stake to stop them joining the undead
Daily Mail:
Is this eerie figure snapped on a medieval prison site the ghost of a condemned criminal wearing a hangman's hood?
Daily Mail:
Chilling image of 'Grey Lady ghost' captured in archway by couple visiting courtyard at castle claimed to be most haunted in England
The Scotsman:
'Ghost' caught on camera at Drum Castle
Vancouver Sun:
My brush with a ghost
Melbourne Herald Sun:
Melbourne's creepiest ghost stories and spookiest locations revealed
Daily Mirror:
Watch spine-chilling footage of 'ghost' caught on camera at spooky abandoned psychiatric hospital
Daily Mail:
Why I believe in ghosts: As the 'Grey Lady' of Dudley Castle is caught on camera, a respected (and very level-headed) literary critic gives his view
Prague Post:
Top 10 ghosts in Prague
Raleigh News & Observer:
Past Times: Was former governor's ghost on the prowl?
Columbus Business First:
Columbus' haunted houses
WECT:
Haunted Cape Fear: The ghost of Henry Wentzel frequents Front Street Brewery
Honolulu Magazine:
Friday Frights: Ghost Stories from Hawai'i's "Haunted" Plantation Village
WKYC:
The ghost of the Terminal Tower is around to stay
Berkshire Eagle:
Manchester storytellers share tales of Northshire vampires and ghosts
Daily Mail:
Scaredy cops: New Mexico police officers capture freaky 'ghost creature' on their station CCTV camera
Live Science:
Eerie! 6 Haunting Tales of Ghost Ships
Missouri S&T:
How engineering could help you survive a zombie apocalypse
Gizmodo:
A $146,000 Anti-Zombie Cabin Is Your Best Bet To Stay Safe on Halloween
io9:
The Main Types Of Ghost Story, And How To Recognize Them
Philadelphia Inquirer:
Rabbi Uram: Jewish ghost stories and the walking dead
Boston Globe:
What the Salem witch trials taught us about language
Smithsonian Magazine:
Women of the Early 1900s Rallied Behind Beautiful, Wartless Witches
Biography.com:
Bewitched: 5 Real Witches in History
Smithsonian Magazine:
Five "Real" Sea Monsters Brought to Life by Early Naturalists
Air & Space Magazine:
Haunted Airfields
Zanesville Times Recorder:
Author investigates 200-year-old UFO sighting
Mail and Guardian SA:
Remembering Zimbabwe's great alien invasion
Metro UK:
Area 51 scientist makes amazing deathbed confession about aliens
October 30, 2014
Daily Mail:
Did Antares rocket explode because it was using 40-year-old Russian engines? NASA launches investigation after $200m of equipment is destroyed
Spaceflight Insider:
Stunning new video of catastrophic loss of Antares and Cygnus
New Scientist:
Cargo rocket explosion is a blow for commercial space
Discovery News:
Russia's ISS Cargo Vehicle Launches, Docks Without Hitch
Space Daily:
Novel Rocket Design Flight Tested
Gizmag:
SpaceX's next booster stage will attempt to propulsively land on a floating platform
Scientific American:
Cosmic-Ray Telescope Flies High
Gizmag:
Krossblade's SkyCruiser merges airplane, quadcopter and car
Popular Science:
Interstellar Travel Won't Look Anything Like The Movie
Smithsonian Magazine:
First Responders
The Aviationist:
World's Last A-7 Corsair II attack aircraft retired from active service in Greece
The Aviationist:
Russia to base Mig-31 Foxhound fighters at Arctic airbase in renewed sign of pivot to the North Pole
Gizmodo:
You Can Buy an Ejector Seat From an F-4 Phantom for Quick Escapes
The Aviationist:
Hornet Ball 2014: the best naval aviation video of the year
Air & Space Magazine:
Watch Video of a NASA Rocket Sled Pulling a Giant Parachute
The Atlantic:
The Granddaddy of Today's Drones
Popular Science:
Rocking a Rocket: The Saturn 500F Shake Test
Live Science:
Astronomical Find: Ancient Greek Wine Cup May Show Constellations
October 29, 2014
Daily Mail:
NASA cargo rocket EXPLODES on delayed launch to ISS in $1.9billion Antares project
Daily Mail:
Asteroid mining equipment, satellites and ISS supplies: Companies reveal losses after Nasa's unmanned vehicle and its $200 million cargo blew up just six seconds after taking off
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Antares Rocket Explosion Wasn't Orbital Sciences' First Big Malfunction
Space.com:
Private Antares Rocket and Cygnus Spacecraft Explained (Infographic)
Air & Space Magazine:
What Was the Deal With That Boat Scuttling Last Night's Rocket Launch?
Spaceflight Now:
China launches third space mission in a week
Space Daily:
Wenchang to launch China's next space station
Spaceflight Now:
Russian supply ship poised for launch Wednesday
Universe Today:
China's Lunar Test Spacecraft Takes Incredible Picture of Earth and Moon Together
Discovery News:
Moon Orbiter Spies NASA Spacecraft Impact Crater
Spaceflight Now:
Commercial Proton launches to resume next month
Space.com:
Mock Satellite Destroyed to Study Space Junk Collisions
Daily Mail:
Is there love on Mars? Even if we colonise Red Planet one day, gravity and radiation could affect reproduction, warn scientists
Science Magazine:
Avalanche on an asteroid, due to close pass with Earth
The Daily Galaxy:
Strange Triple Asteroid System Observed
Gizmodo:
All the planets in the Solar System fit between the Earth and the Moon
IEEE Spectrum:
Super-Black Nanotube Coating Could Reveal Space Obscured by the Sun's Glare
Slash Gear:
Ardbeg space-aged whiskey returns to Earth
Albany Democrat-Herald:
FROM THE ARCHIVES (1954): Albany ground observers see flaming green meteor
October 28, 2014
Space.com:
Giant Sunspot Keeps Firing Off Huge Solar Flares
Daily Mail:
What is happening to the sun? Giant sunspot on the solar surface spews out SIXTH massive flare in a week
Space Daily:
China's lunar orbiter modifies orbit
Daily Mail:
'One of the largest cosmic catastrophes in the solar system's history' occurred in SWEDEN: Craters reveal twin asteroids slammed into country 458 million years ago
Astrobiology Magazine:
The Abundance of Water in Asteroid Fragments
Universe Today:
Could 'Heavy Metal' Frost Lurk Beneath Venus' Hothouse Clouds?
Discovery News:
Ferroelectric Flurries: Dark Clues to Metal Snow on Venus
Universe Today:
Mysterious Titan has a Ghostly Glow From Dawn to Dusk
Daily Mail:
The mysterious methane ice cloud high in Titan's atmosphere: Researchers baffled by find on Saturn's moon
Daily Mail:
Uranus 2.0: Strange blue world is discovered 25,000 light-years away - and it could explain how 'ice giants' form
New Scientist:
Chaotic cosmic wombs may birth backwards planets
Discovery News:
Two Exocomet Families Found Around Baby Star System
Scientific American:
Hundreds of Comets Seen Orbiting Distant Solar System
Daily Mail:
Violent pulses are rocking the Milky Way: Astronomers spot massive 'stellar quakes' ripping stars apart 15,000 light years away
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Milky Way is Stealing Other Galaxies' Gases
Popular Science:
Seeking The Black Hole At The Center Of Our Galaxy
Scientific American:
How Do Astronomers Find Exoplanets?
Gizmag:
Astronomers use astro-comb to seek Earth-like exoplanets
Scientific American:
Did Jesus Save the Klingons?
Popular Science:
Earth 2.0: Where Are The Habitable Worlds Of 'Interstellar'?
Discovery News:
Interstellar Earth: The Future We See In Our Stars
October 27, 2014
BBC News:
The day UFOs stopped play
Marysville Journal-Tribue:
Recalling Union County's UFO
[Special Note: Majority of story behind Pay Wall -- a July 22, 1958 article on the incident may be seen at Project 1947.]
Christian County Headliner:
Driver describes Large UFO sighting over Highway 13
Daily Mail:
Look out! House-sized asteroid set to pass within 160,000km of Earth TODAY
Daily Mail:
China's eight-day mission to fly around the moon and back to Earth blasts off
Spaceflight Now:
First commercial moon mission launched by China
Space Daily:
China launches first mission to moon and back
Universe Today:
China Launches Moon Mission to Test Key Lunar Sample Return Technologies
Daily Mail:
Google boss breaks Felix Baumgartner's parachute record in secret 135,000 foot jump from the edge of space
Popular Science:
A 57-Year-Old Computer Scientist Just Dove 135,000 Feet From The Stratosphere
Spaceflight Now:
Antares rocket moved to launch pad in Virginia
Space.com:
See the Antares Rocket's 1st Night Launch from East Coast (Visibility Maps)
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX's Dragon supply ship returns to Earth
Discovery News:
SpaceX Capsule Returns to Earth Loaded with Lab Results
Spaceflight Insider:
Judge allows NASA to move forward on production of Commercial Crew spacecraft
Gizmodo:
How NASA Deals With Odor Inside the International Space Station
Spaceflight Insider:
Italy's first female astronaut prepares for launch to ISS
Universe Today:
Assembly Complete for NASA's Maiden Orion Spacecraft Launching in December 2014
Space Daily:
ESA spaceplane progressing towards Vega launch
Gizmag:
Terrestrial Return Vehicle to provide parcel post for the ISS
Daily Mail:
Six bedrooms, a kitchen, bathroom, dining room and a pantry: Welcome to the home for astronauts on MARS
Universe Today:
Hubble Composite Picture Shows How Close Siding Spring Comet Was To Mars
Discovery News:
Rosetta's Comet Springs Spectacular Leaks As It Gets Closer To The Sun
Stuff NZ:
Nasa captures the sound of space
WEEKEND EDITION: October 25 through October 26, 2014
Scientific American:
Surfer-Physicist Offers Alternative to String Theory, Academia
Popular Science:
Will Wormhole Travel Ever Be Possible?
Inside Science:
Early Universe's Room Temperature Could Have Supported Life
io9:
The Coldest Object In The Universe Has Been Created In An Italian Lab
Universe Today:
Mr. Fusion? Compact Fusion Reactor Will be Available in 5 Years Says Lockheed-Martin
The Atlantic:
Searching for Superconductivity
Gizmag:
Reversible tractor beam can repel and attract objects
The Atlantic:
What Happens When Chemists Don't Wash Their Hands
io9:
This Science Was Invented by a Man Who Believed That Plants Have Minds
The Guardian:
Can you solve Martin Gardner's best mathematical puzzles?
The Guardian:
Information Age: The cable that changed our world
The Guardian:
Information Age: the radio transmitter that changed our world
The Guardian:
Information Age: the (cake) computer that changed our world
The Guardian:
Information Age: Paul Robeson, McCarthy and the submarine repeater
The Guardian:
Information Age: All you need is love (and three satellites)
Daily Mail:
Ascent of Asimo: From a clunky pair of legs to a soccer playing, disco dancing robot friend who can even pour you a drink
Smithsonian Magazine:
Is This the Future of Robotic Legs?
The Atlantic:
The Secret History of the Robot Car
Live Science:
Marijuana's History: How One Plant Spread Through the World
Smithsonian Magazine:
A History of Life In 10 Fossils
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Best Places in America to See Fossils
Daily Mail:
Meet your bizarre-looking ancestors: Fossilised animals that swam the seas 500 million years ago found to have a backbone
Daily Mail:
This really is the first time for me, darling: Scientists discover the very earliest creatures to have sex - 430 million-year-old fish who lived in modern Australia
Daily Mail:
Have we missed a mass extinction? Extra catastrophic event may have occurred 8 million years before the 'Great Dying', claim experts
Daily Mail:
The ancient crocodile that was as large as a DOUBLE-DECKER BUS: Giant predator ripped prey to shreds 160 million years ago
Nature World News:
Stegosaurs Dole Out Lethal Strikes When Necessary
The Guardian:
Bizarre dinosaur reconstructed after 50 years of wild speculation
ABC Australia:
Mystery of the 'horrible hand' dino solved
Universe Today:
Questioning the Impact Theory: What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?
Live Science:
Goliath Encounter: Puppy-Sized Spider Surprises Scientist in Rainforest
io9:
Bees Wage Wars Against Other Hives That Last For Months
Stuff NZ:
Moa extinction rapid - study
The Guardian:
Caw vs. Kraa: meaning in the calls of crows and ravens
Smithsonian Magazine:
These Extreme Desert Nomads Set Records for Migrating Birds
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Best Places in America to See Fall Bird Migrations
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why the Alpaca Has No Humps
Daily Mail:
Cheeky chimps! Wild primates are filmed raiding farms in Uganda to steal crops
Daily Mail:
Oldest complete human genome sequenced: DNA of 45,000-year-old man who roamed Siberia unravelled - and it sheds light on when we stopped interbreeding with Neanderthals
Science Magazine:
Oldest human genome reveals when our ancestors had sex with Neandertals
ABC Australia:
45,000-year-old man was human-Neanderthal mix
Smithsonian Magazine:
Prehistoric Rock Art to Visit Around the World
Science Magazine:
Humans were living at extreme altitudes 1000 years earlier than thought
Daily Mail:
What is the world's oldest wooden statue trying to tell us? Etchings on haunting seven-faced Shigir Idol 'could hold a message to modern man'
Live Science:
6,000-Year-Old Temple with Possible Sacrificial Altars Discovered
Live Science:
The 'first CD-ROM': 4,000-year-old Phaistos Disk 'stores' a spiral-shaped prayer to a mother, expert claims
Science Magazine:
Arthritis rediagnosis in Egyptian pharaohs
Daily Mail:
Revealed: King Tut had girlish hips, a club foot and buck teeth according to a 'virtual autopsy'
Daily Mail:
3,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian sarcophagus that once held a mummy discovered in a UK living room
Live Science:
Illuminating! Ancient Slab May Be Sundial-Moondial
Daily Mail:
Sphinx's missing head found deep within Alexander the Great-era tomb: Female face adds weight to archaeologists' hopes it could hold the ancient ruler's mother
Daily Mail:
Roman gladiators ate a vegetarian diet - and washed it down with a 'sports drink' of plant ashes and vinegar
The History Blog:
Staffordshire Hoard reveals Anglo-Saxon technique to make impure gold look pure
Thor News:
Found 1300-Year-Old Ski and 6000-Year-Old Arrows in Reinheimen
Daily Mail:
Medieval SHOPPING LIST found in Russia: 14th century document among dozens of birch bark scrolls discovered in ancient city
Science Magazine:
Epic pre-Columbian voyage suggested by genes
Smithsonian Magazine:
The London Graveyard That's Become a Memorial for the City's Seedier Past
The Atlantic:
The Flood of Beer That Brought Out the Best (and Worst) in Humanity
Daily Mail:
Vampire slaying kit from 1800s complete with wooden stakes, crucifixes and vials of holy water goes up for sale in New Jersey
Daily Mail:
Claim that Jack the Ripper has been unmasked by DNA evidence as a Polish immigrant barber is WRONG, say experts
The Atlantic:
American Apartments Came From Paris
The Atlantic:
The British Monarchy's First Vacuum Cleaner
Daily Mail:
Rare 109-year-old French steam-powered car once bought by a farmer for £450 to go on sale for £350,000
Daily Mail:
Notebook lost for more than a 100 years is discovered in Antarctic snow: Photographer's journal dates back to Captain Scott's ill-fated expedition
The Atlantic:
The Peril of Being a Black Inventor in the Old South
io9:
Unseen Photos Of The Titanic's Launch Will Give You Chills
Live Science:
Giant Sphinx from 'Ten Commandments' Film Unearthed 91 Years Later
The History Blog:
Remains of 1923 DeMille sphinx recovered from dunes
Daily Mail:
Huge sphynx unearthed in the CALIFORNIA desert: Colossus sphinx from 1923 film The Ten Commandments found after decades
Smithsonian Magazine:
Unearthing America's Lawrence of Arabia, Wendell Phillips
Smithsonian Magazine:
10 Architectural Schemes That Could Help Us Adapt To Rising Seas
io9:
10 Murderers Who Changed How We Investigate Murder
The Atlantic:
Carrot: A Pitch-Perfect Satire of the Tech Industry
Daily Mail:
Would YOU watch it? Virgin America unveils SIX-HOUR video of worst flight imaginable including awful passengers and cabin crew
Smithsonian Magazine:
Richard Estes' Incredibly Realistic Paintings Require a Double Take
Smithsonian Magazine:
A World Of His Own: The Art of James Castle
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Amazing Results When You Give a Prison Inmate a Liberal Arts Education
October 24, 2014
Discovery News:
Flare Alert: Monster Sunspot Turns Toward Earth
Universe Today:
Asteroid 2014 SC324 Zips By Earth Friday Afternoon - Tips on How to See it
Space Daily:
China launches test return orbiter for lunar mission
Science Magazine:
China's dash to moon a dress rehearsal for sample return
Gizmag:
zero2infinity mixes balloons and rockets to launch nanosats
Gizmag:
Speedy Citation X+ continues record-setting ways
Gizmodo:
"Flying Car" Crash in Florida Leaves Two Injured
Daily Mail:
Marty McFly-style hoverboard finally becomes a reality: £6,000 gadget uses electromagnetic fields to glide along mid-air
Smithsonian Magazine:
What the Heck is a Robobird?
The Atlantic:
Dudes With Drones
Tech Crunch:
Watch These Tiny Robots As They Fly Well With Others
Daily Mail:
Footage captures ultimate bird's-eye view of Paris... as camera is strapped to back of an EAGLE soaring over city at 111mph
Gizmodo:
Amazingly thrilling video of F-18 fighters with ambient sound
The Aviationist:
U.S. Air Force pilot reaches 9,000 flying hours on the B-52 Stratofortress bomber
Gizmodo:
How One Photographer Took Incredible Close-Ups of Space Shuttle Launches
Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: International Incident averted - interplanetary success achieved - the flight of STS-34
io9:
Why Did NASA Kill the One-Person Spacecraft?
io9:
How WWI Shaped Air Combat - And Still Influences Modern Missions
Air & Space Magazine:
Did a B-24 Really Shoot Down a V-2 Rocket in 1944?
Popular Science:
Dr. Strughold's Flight with a Numbed Bum
Albuquerque Journal:
The 1950s-era spy plane has been slated for - and escaped - retirement many times
io9:
This Is How We Imagined Aerial Warfare 120 Years Ago
Gizmodo:
Kraft Foods Gave Away a Real Spaceship Simulator in 1959
October 23, 2014
Space Daily:
China's Secret Moon Mission
Spaceflight Now:
Russian cosmonauts wrap up successful spacewalk
Spaceflight Insider:
Is it or isn't it? Confusion surrounds possibility Proton placed Ekspress AM-6 into wrong orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Return of SpaceX's Dragon cargo craft delayed
Daily Mail:
How will we land astronauts on Mars? Thermal footage of Space X Falcon 9 rocket could help Nasa find out
Universe Today:
How NASA and SpaceX are Working Together to Land on Mars
Spaceflight Insider:
Aerojet Rocketdyne selected to provide power system and thrusters for 2020 Mars rover
Smithsonian Magazine:
An Insider's Biography of a Celebrity Mars Rover
Daily Mail:
More Siding Spring images revealed: Stunning views of comet shooting past the red planet captured by Mars orbiter
Universe Today:
Martian Permafrost And Dust-Sculpted Surface Captured By NASA Spacecraft
Universe Today:
Stunning View of Solar System's Largest Volcano and Valles Marineris Revealed by India's Mars Orbiter Mission
Stuff NZ:
The first Mars mission should be manned by women
New Scientist:
Sleepy sun could make Mars trips deadly
io9:
The Languages and Architecture of Mars (circa 1899)
October 22, 2014
Buffalo News:
Oct. 21, 1974: Cops chase UFO in Geneseo
Springfield News Leader:
This Week in Ozarks History: UFO sightings made in 1968
Get Hampshire:
Are we alone? Nine UFO sightings in 10 years in North Hampshire
ABC News:
Moment Mystery Light Streaked Across Night Sky Captured on Video
Space.com:
Partial Solar Eclipse to Darken US Skies This Week
Popular Science:
This Thursday, See A Partial Solar Eclipse At Sunset
Universe Today:
How to Safely Enjoy the October 23 Partial Solar Eclipse
New Scientist:
China set to launch probe on round trip to the moon
Air & Space Magazine:
First Privately Funded Moon Mission to Ride on a Chinese Rocket
Spaceflight Insider:
Busy week on station: cosmonauts prepare for spacewalk and Dragon is set for departure
Space Daily:
Work completed on satellite launch center in Hainan
Space Daily:
Russia to Orbit 9 MilCom Satellites by 2020
Air & Space Magazine:
Lunar Volcanism: How Recent is Recent?
io9:
The Seven Wonders of the Moon
Universe Today:
How Rosetta Will Send Philae Lander To Comet's Surface (Plus, Landing Site Contest!)
Universe Today:
Zap! Saturn Moon's Electron Beam Beaned Cassini Spacecraft From Charged Surface
Universe Today:
Titan's Majestic Mirror-Like Lakes Will Come Under Cassini's Scrutiny This Week
Space Daily:
Hubble Telescope Finds Potential Kuiper Belt Targets for New Horizons Pluto Mission
Scientific American:
Kuiper Belt Missions Could Reveal the Solar System's Origins
Daily Mail:
Now YOU can be a space explorer: Stunning HD space simulator lets you navigate every known planet, star and galaxy in the cosmos
io9:
The Greatest Representations of Comets in the History of Art
October 21, 2014
Daily Mail:
Comet Siding Spring zooms past Mars: Space probes survive once-in-a-million-year flyby - and rover snaps it from the surface
Discovery News:
Comet Siding Spring Whizzes Past Mars
Discovery News:
Mars Missions Report in After Comet Close Encounter
New Scientist:
Comet immortalised before close call with spacecraft
Universe Today:
NASA Investigating Deep-Space Hibernation Technology
Popular Science:
Suspended Animation In Space Travel: What Scientists Still Need To Learn
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA eyes SpaceX soft-landing technology for future Mars missions
Spaceflight Insider:
First female ISS Cosmonaut adjusts to life in space
Discovery News:
Hurricane Delays Launch of Space Station Cargo Ship
io9:
One Image That Reveals the Full Wonder of Martian Geology
Gizmodo:
A French Inventor Once Proposed a Giant Mirror to Burn a Message on Mars
October 20, 2014
Gizmag:
Top secret X-37B spaceplane breaks orbital endurance record
Daily Mail:
The X-37B has landed! Top-secret space plane lands on California coast after almost TWO YEARS in orbit - and the government still refuses to reveal what it was doing
Spaceflight Now:
U.S. military's X-37B space plane lands in California
Spaceflight Insider:
USAF's X-37B closes out OTV-3 mission with successful Vandenberg landing
Universe Today:
Mysterious Military X-37B Space plane Lands after Nearly Two Years in Orbit - Video
Live Science:
X-37B Space Plane Returns: 5 Theories About Its Secret Mission
Spaceflight Now:
Comet's flyby of Mars a boon for scientists
Space.com:
Comet Buzzes Mars in Once-in-a-Lifetime Flyby
Universe Today:
Astrophotographers Capture Dramatic Photos of Comet Siding Spring Approaching Mars
Space.com:
Comet's Close Encounter with Mars Explained (Infographic)
IEEE Spectrum:
Mars Comet Shames Earth Dithering
Spaceflight Insider:
Rosetta's Philae lander given "green light" for upcoming landing
New Scientist:
Spacecraft seek geysers without human help
Discovery News:
Cassini Shocked by Saturn's Spongy Moon
Discovery News:
Saturn's 'Death Star' Moon May Hide Subsurface Ocean
New Scientist:
Saturn's moon Mimas might have its own subsurface sea
Universe Today:
'Death Star' Ocean? Seven Moons That Could Host Huge Hidden Liquid Reservoirs
New York Daily News:
VIDEO: Meteor lights up night sky above the Brazilian city of Recife
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Persistence Pays Off: The Smoking Trail of a Shooting Star
IT Wire:
Orionid meteor shower to peak in 2014 on October 20-21
WEEKEND EDITION: October 18 through October 19, 2014
Daily Mail:
Are we closer to solving the meaning of LIFE? World's longest neutrino beam seeks to find out why our universe exists
New York Times:
So You're Not a Physicist...
GMA News:
Quantum Physics made simple by a Pinay physicist
Universe Today:
Distant Galaxies Reveal 3D Cosmic Web for the First Time
Universe Today:
Hawking Radiation Replicated in a Laboratory?
Scientific American:
Scientists Close In on Creating Black Hole in Lab
Daily Mail:
Will we be using nuclear fusion power by 2025? Lockheed Martin announces major breakthrough 'that could solve world's energy crisis'
Science Magazine:
Are old secrets behind Lockheed's new fusion machine?
Popular Science:
Lockheed's Fusion Promise: What We Know So Far
The Atlantic:
Lone Geniuses Are Overrated
Wired:
Next Big Trend: Robots That Follow You Around
Wall Street Journal:
Humanoid Robot Robi to Launch in Hong Kong
BBC News:
Are we ready for the rise of social robots?
Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle:
MARIO robot set to raise the blade at upcoming competition
South Africa Times:
Giant robot spider battles dragon-horse in Beijing
RT.com:
Giant French robots fight in Beijing, no kidding (PHOTOS)
Gizmodo:
Seeing the world's most complicated watch get built is pretty incredible
Gizmag:
Earth's magnetic field could reverse in just one lifetime
Daily Mail:
The world's deadliest outbreaks: Interactive map shows the human cost of flu, bubonic plague and Ebola globally since 541
Daily Mail:
Look out! U.S. study finds tornadoes increasingly arrive in swarms
San Francisco Chronicle:
25 years ago: 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
Daily Mail:
Meet your bizarre-looking ancestors: Fossilised animals that swam the seas 500 million years ago found to have a backbone
Daily Mail:
Dinosaurs breathed through their noses to cool their BRAINS - and assessed their surroundings using their heavy, moist sniffs
Daily Mail:
The ancient crocodile that was as large as a DOUBLE-DECKER BUS: Giant predator ripped prey to shreds 160 million years ago
Daily Mail:
Less skippy, more ploddy! Kangaroo's ancient ancestor couldn't hop and instead lumbered along on two legs
The Guardian:
New species of snail named in celebration of same-sex marriage
Popular Science:
Elephants Able To Detect Rainstorms 150 Miles Away
Daily Mail:
Chimpanzees have favourite tools for hunting ants: Creatures use a shrub to 'dig and dip' for aggressive prey
Daily Mail:
Did Neanderthals use sophisticated spears? Unusual ridge on 200,000-year-old arm bone suggests Neanderthals threw weapons
Live Science:
Storm God Worship: Ancient Cult Complex Discovered in Israel
Discovery News:
Remains of Alexander the Great's Father Confirmed Found
Daily Mail:
Alexander the Great's FATHER found: Ancient Greek tomb discovered in 1977 confirmed to contain King Philip II
The Guardian:
Mosaic uncovered in northern Greece could mark royal Macedonian tomb
Daily Mail:
Does this enormous mosaic confirm that Alexander the Great's mother lies inside Greece's mystery tomb? Stunning floor hints that royal is buried in the next chamber
Daily Mail:
Alexander the Great-era tomb's chariot to HELL: Latest images of mystery mosaic shows Persephone being driven to the underworld
Daily Mail:
'Remarkable and rare' 2,200-year-old chariot unearthed in Melton Mowbray: Iron Age religous offering may have been buried to 'ride' into a new season
Daily Mail:
Metal detectorist finds Britain's biggest ever haul of Viking treasure - with hundreds of artefacts including an ancient silver cross
Daily Mail:
Was King Harold really killed by an arrow in the eye? Archaeologists to examine theory that he SURVIVED the Battle of Hastings and died as an 80-year-old hermit
The Guardian:
Rembrandt: The Late Works review - triumph in master's tragedy
Popular Science:
The Life And Times Of Ada Lovelace, The First Computer Programmer
Gizmodo:
Chicago was raised over 4 feet in the 19th century to build its sewer
io9:
The Indelible Feud Over Who Invented Fingerprinting
Daily Mail:
Sitting (Bull) for the camera: Fascinating pictures of Native Americans capture an ancient culture on the edge of a new world
io9:
This Propaganda Poster Showed Martian Technology Winning World War I
Daily Mail:
The French soldier's bedroom that has lain untouched for almost a century: Officer's room was preserved in his memory after his death in 1918
The Guardian:
Egon Schiele: a graphic virtuoso rescued from the wilderness
Gizmodo:
Four Famed American Structures That Almost Looked Radically Different
Daily Mail:
'They are brutal but make excellent sausages': Official WW2 manual for British soldiers on Nazis becomes surprise bestseller in GERMANY
The Atlantic:
The Woman Who Invented Disposable Diapers
Gizmodo:
Beautiful vintage pictures of Picasso drawing with light
The Atlantic:
35 Years Ago Today, Spreadsheets Were Invented
Gizmodo:
The destructive low-cost precision of the Excalibur artillery shell
Gizmodo:
A Brief History of Buildings That Spin
Gizmodo:
What Would Happen If the 20 Biggest US Cities Were Wiped Out With Nukes
Gizmag:
The top 10 movie and TV cars ever sold at auction
Smithsonian Magazine:
America's Best Fall Color Drives
Smithsonian Magazine:
Need Some Alone Time? Check Out America's Coolest Ghost Towns
Gizmodo:
This short film would be fun if it weren't so close to real life
October 17, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Inching slowly into the future
Universe Today:
Moons of Confusion: Why Finding Extraterrestrial Life may be Harder than we Thought
Aviation Week:
Why NASA Rejected Sierra Nevada's Commercial Crew Vehicle
Gizmodo:
New Gulfstream jets' flight deck looks like sci-fi spaceship cockpit
Smithsonian Magazine:
New Mexico's Skies Burst With Color During World's Largest Hot Air Balloon Festival
io9:
The Hindenburg Wasn't The First Experimental Airship To Explode
Gizmodo:
New Navy drone short film is so immersive you will feel you are there
Daily Mail:
Drone hawk down! Amazing footage shows quadcopter being attacked by bird of prey as owner flies it in a Cambridge park
Gizmag:
Drone pilots battle it out in Star Wars-inspired race through French forest
Daily Mail:
Google's latest wheeze... the flying wind turbine: Internet giant plans machines that would fly in the air like kites
Gizmodo:
These giant RC airplanes are so huge that you can fly a kid inside
Daily Mail:
Behind the curtain of North Korea's official domestic airline: Soviet-era planes and censored in-flight entertainment on the world's only 'one-star' carrier
Gizmodo:
This fighter jet film is so amazingly perfect you'd think it is 3D
Gizmodo:
How Fighter Jets Lock On (and How the Targets Know)
Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: GOES 1
Popular Science:
Eisenhower's Meeting with a Missile Nose Cone
Gizmodo:
Raymond Loewy's NASA Designs Are The Space Future That Never Was
Gizmodo:
Buzz Aldrin's amazing view while riding Gemini XII with the hatch open
October 16, 2014
Space.com:
China Readies Moon Mission for Launch Next Week
Space Daily:
Russia to take Moon exploration as core of space program
Space Daily:
Russian Luna-25 Mission to Cost Billions
Space Daily:
New Batch of Lunar Soil to be Delivered to Earth in 2023-2025
Universe Today:
Bigelow Inflatable Module to be Added to Space Station in 2015
Spaceflight Now:
Spacewalk achieves all major objectives
Spaceflight Insider:
Launch Of Spacex Crs-5 Slips To No-Earlier-Than Dec. 5
Space.com:
First Photos of Water Ice on Mercury Captured by NASA Spacecraft
Discovery News:
Mars' Atmosphere is Leaching Out Into Space
Universe Today:
Comet A1 Siding Spring vs Mars: Views in Space and Time
Space.com:
Comet Will Buzz Mars Sunday: How to See It in Telescopes
Universe Today:
Landing on a Comet: The Trailer
Discovery News:
Rosetta Stalks Dark Comet in Stunning New Space Selfie
Universe Today:
Here's a High-Res Look at Philae's Landing Spot
Daily Mail:
All systems GO for Rosetta's touchdown! Esa gives the green light for humanity's first ever comet landing on 12 November
Space.com:
Hubble Telescope Spots Post-Pluto Targets for New Horizons Probe
Space Daily:
It's Just a Phase: Changes on Pluto's Surface
Tucson News Now:
Meteor shower, partial solar eclipse next week
Santa Fe New Mexican:
Meteor Crater, a great big hole in the ground, is well worth the trip
October 15, 2014
Business Week:
Secret U.S. Space Plane To Land After 22 Months In Orbit
Spaceflight Now:
X-37B space plane scheduled to return to Earth soon
The Interpreter:
X-37B: America's spaceplane keeps its secrets
The Atlantic:
The U.S. Won't Say What Its Secret Space Drone Did for Two Years
Defense Systems:
Air Force's secretive unmanned shuttle to use NASA's hangers
Travelers Today:
Louisiana Loud Boom: Mysterious 'Sonic Boom' In The Sky Rattles Residents, 'Debris Field' Spotted, What Is The ArkLaTex 'Boom'? [REPORT + VIDEO]
Universe Today:
NASA Orders Restart to Commercial Space Taxi Work
Daily Mail:
It's (nearly) all systems go! Video reveals stages of Nasa's daring Orion test flight as the craft prepares to launch in December
Universe Today:
Video: Test Flight For NASA's Orion Will be a 'Trial By Fire'
Spaceflight Now:
Galileo launch failure blamed on frozen Fregat fuel line
IEEE Spectrum:
A Simple Plumbing Problem Sent Galileo Satellites Into Wrong Orbits
Spaceflight Insider:
Arianespace review board determines cause of Galileo launch anomaly
Discovery News:
Spacecraft Watched the Lunar Eclipse from Mercury
Daily Mail:
Did volcanoes on the moon erupt when dinosaurs still roamed Earth? Marks on lunar surface are younger than first thought
Popular Science:
Volcanoes Erupted On The Moon Within The Past 100 Million Years
New Scientist:
Lunar volcanoes suggest the moon may still be warm
Universe Today:
Get Ready for the Fireballs of October
New Scientist:
Explosive meteors may have seasonal peaks
New Scientist:
Nowhere to hide: the danger of satellite spies
October 14, 2014
Daily Mail:
Top secret X-37B USAF military spacecraft set to land in California after nearly two years in orbit on mystery mission
Daily Beast:
The Pentagon's Secret Space Drone Is Finally Coming Home
Universe Today:
Comet Siding Spring: Close Call for Mars, Wake Up Call for Earth?
Daily Mail:
Duck and cover! Martian craft to hide from close encounter with huge comet as it passes just 87,000 miles from the red planet
Scientific American:
Red Planet Spacecraft Prepare For Rare Comet Encounter
Spaceflight Now:
Fleet of Mars probes set to observe comet flyby
Discovery News:
NASA Mars Missions Prepare For Historic Comet Flyby
Spaceflight Insider:
Nasa's Fleet Of Spacecraft Readied To Capture Comet Siding Spring's Martian Pass
Discovery News:
Curiosity Surveys Wind-Rippled Sandy 'Sea' on Mars
Daily Mail:
Moon with a view! Mars photobombs Earth despite being 70 MILLION miles away
Universe Today:
Check Out This Huge Rock On The Surface Of Rosetta's Comet!
Daily Mail:
The 'extreme' exoplanet where winds howl at the speed of sound on days hot enough to melt steel - while temperatures plummet to below 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit at night
Science Magazine:
Why are these massive planets so close to their suns?
Daily Mail:
The hungry, hungry black hole: Astronomers reveal newly found phenomenon that is eating its surroundings ten times faster than they expected
Scientific American:
Star-Forming Clouds May Spit Out Life's Building Blocks
The Atlantic:
Expected Fatality Rate for That Mars Reality Show: 100 Percent
Gizmodo:
Fake documentary shows terrifying war against the Martians in 1913
COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND EDITION: October 11 through October 13, 2014
io9:
What are Gravitons and Why Can't We See Them?
Scientific American:
Nobel Crystal Ball: Predictions for the 2014 Prize in Physics
Popular Science:
Why A Blue LED Is Worth A Nobel Prize
Daily Mail:
Blue LEDs win $1.1m Nobel Prize for Physics - but its Japanese inventor was given just $200 for the idea in 1993
Geek:
Blue light Nobel Prize has LED inventor seeing red
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Potential Dark Side of Nobel-Winning LEDs: Pest Problems
Washington Post:
The Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to three men who revolutionized microscopy
Slate:
Beaming With Pride
Gizmodo:
Stunningly beautiful chemical reactions captured on video
Gizmodo:
Scientists Who Discovered the Brain's Natural GPS Won the Nobel Prize
National Geographic:
Why Didn't They Win? 10 Huge Discoveries Without a Nobel Prize
Vox:
How the Nobel Prize became the most controversial award on Earth
Forbes:
Can An Infographic Show You How To Win A Nobel Prize?
Business Insider:
Here's A Beautiful Visualization Of Nobel Prizes By Country Since 1901
Scientific American:
What It's Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize through Airport Security
Popular Science:
Rethinking The Turing Test
Gizmodo:
You must watch this fantastic explanation of how computers draw curves
Gizmodo:
One Surprising Reason Computer Screens Aren't Green-On-Black Anymore
Gizmodo:
7 Experimental Interfaces That Show the Future of UI Design
Daily Mail:
The groundbreaking mind-controlled BIONIC ARM that plugs into the body and has given wearers back their sense of touch
Science Magazine:
Sidewinder robots slither like snakes
IEEE Spectrum:
Sidewinding Snakebots Sinuously Summit Steep Sandy Slopes
The Atlantic:
Brewing Bad: The All-Natural Origins of Meth
Gizmodo:
Watching this guy making lids for pots is so satisfying I get goosebumps
Daily Mail:
Students smash land speed record TWICE: Teenagers create a rocket-powered model car that can travel at more than 500mph
Daily Mail:
Print your own car in less than TWO DAYS: World's first-3D printed 'Strati' vehicle costs £11,000 and is made using just 49 parts
The Atlantic:
Why Do Erasers Suck at Erasing?
Smithsonian Magazine:
What Actually Happens to People Who Are Hit by Lightning?
Space Daily:
Scientists Resurrect Ancient Proteins to Learn about Primordial Life on Earth
Daily Mail:
Is this our earliest ancestor? Bizarre round 600-million-year-old fossils may be the remains of the world's oldest creatures
Daily Mail:
How dinosaurs divided up their meals at the Jurassic dinner table: Sauropod skulls reveal differences in diet between species
Science Magazine:
New meat-eating dinosaur lived in the wake of a mass extinction
Daily Mail:
Fossils reveal new branch of mammals: Experts identify a descendant of the horse that roamed India 48 million years ago
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Only Primate With a Toxic Bite Might Have Evolved to Mimic Cobras
Smithsonian Magazine:
Cheetahs Spend 90 Percent of Their Days Sitting Around
Daily Mail:
Killer whales can 'talk' like dolphins when the two species spend time together: Orcas imitate sounds to help them communicate
Daily Mail:
Natural born killers: Chimpanzees are inherently violent and wage war like their human 'cousins', study claims
Daily Mail:
Indonesian cave art 'raises questions about early mankind': 40,000-year-old paintings are the oldest ever found in Asia
The Guardian:
Cave paintings in Indonesia suggest art came out of Africa
Smithsonian Magazine:
Rock (Art) of Ages: Indonesian Cave Paintings Are 40,000 Years Old
The History Blog:
Met saves Treasure of Harageh from auction sale
io9:
Holy Serpent Gods, This Is An Egyptian Coffin Made For A Snake
Daily Mail:
Search for Antikythera's hidden treasures begins: Archaeologists wear Exosuit to rummage through 2,200-year-old shipwreck
Live Science:
Buried Treasures Pulled from 'Titanic of Ancient World'
Daily Mail:
'Stunning' Roman cockerel goes on display: Extremely rare bronze figure was found in the ancient grave of a two-year-old girl
Daily Mail:
Face of a Roman goddess unearthed for the first time in 1,800 years: Finely carved stone head depicts ancient idol Brigantia
The History Blog:
Spain's earliest image of Jesus found on glass plate
The History Blog:
Viking blacksmith's grave found in Norway garden
io9:
What Vikings Knew About The Sky That You Don't
Daily Mail:
Magna Carta manuscript reveals its secrets: Scans uncover lost text hidden on a damaged section of 800-year-old parchment
Daily Mail:
Shipwreck found off Haiti was NOT the Santa Maria, the ship Columbus used to discover the Americas
The History Blog:
Wedgwood Collection saved!
Daily Mail:
Mystery of 100-year-old skull and Australia's first serial killer and onetime Jack the Ripper suspect, Frederick Deeming who entombed his victims in concrete
The History Blog:
Franklin expedition shipreck is HMS Erebus
Smithsonian Magazine:
The (Still) Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Washington Post:
Rare photo shows Robert E. Lee's slave, Selina Gray - the hero of Arlington House
Daily Mail:
The headhunters of Coney Island: Book reveals untold story of the 'savage' tribe locked in a human zoo in 1905
io9:
Hand-Colored Photos Turn Early 20th Century Japan Into A Dream World
Popular Science:
Popular Science's Strange Reporting Of The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
Daily Mail:
Pea soup, grilled mutton chops and cheese to follow (but the Welsh rarebit was off): Lunch menu from the Titanic just two days before disaster set to sell for $110,000
Daily Mail:
Shot at dawn... by his best friend: He fought with awesome courage at Gallipoli and the Somme - then could take no more. But the final haunting tragedy came when 'deserter' Jimmy Smith faced the firing squad
The Atlantic:
New York Literally Invented Nightlife
Smithsonian Magazine:
See Depression-Era Photos from Your Hometown
Gizmodo:
What Lies Beneath: Inside London's Secret Subterranean Spaces
io9:
Whoa, Driving Around In Nazi Germany Was Super Intense
Daily Mail:
Inside America's atomic bomb programme: Never-before-seen photos reveal preparations for attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Daily Mail:
Cold War era transcripts reveal 'unfair' treatment of 'the father of the atomic bomb' after he helped win World War Two
The Atlantic:
How the Plastic Bag Became So Popular
The Guardian:
The Imitation Game: the queerest thing to hit multiplexes for years?
The Guardian:
Satanic panic: how British agents stoked supernatural fears in Troubles
The Atlantic:
What It Felt Like to Test the First Submarine Nuclear Reactor
Gizmodo:
How the Taser Was Invented
Gizmodo:
A Farewell to Epcot's Norway Ride: How Fake Experiences Shaped My Life
Gizmag:
Innovation shines at 2014 World Architecture Festival Awards
Gizmag:
Levitating building melts minds in London's Covent Garden
Popular Science:
Navy Demonstrates Swarm Of Armed Robot Boats
The Atlantic:
The Navy's Future Fleet of Swarming Boat-Drones
Popular Science:
Chinese Autonomous Tanks: Driving Themselves to a Battlefield Near You?
Gizmag:
HMS Artful completes maiden dive
Gizmag:
Two days in Paris: Photos from the 2014 Paris Motor Show
Gizmag:
Home field advantage: French automakers awe in Paris
The Guardian:
Scots: do you know your teuchters from your sassenachs?
The Atlantic:
Nobody Knows What Running Looks Like
Gizmodo:
Woman sings two notes simultaneously in amazing display of voice talent
The Guardian:
Creative writing courses are killing western literature, claims Nobel judge
Stuff NZ:
Scientists study awareness after death
io9:
9 Real People Who May Have Inspired Fairy Tales
io9:
The Incredibly Bizarre World Of Animated Soviet Propaganda Films
Pop Matters:
Of Mermaids Falling from the Moon: Ancient Comicbooks from Before the Flood
October 10, 2014
Time:
Why 'Aliens' 'Landed' in Russia 25 Years Ago
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
A near-miss stalemate
Liverpool Echo:
Details of 30 UFO sightings above Merseyside revealed
North Wales Daily Post:
UFO sightings across North Wales revealed
Gizmodo:
The Quest to Build an Elevator to Space
Popular Science:
New Military Helicopter Can Cruise At 253 MPH
Popular Science:
This Gun Makes And Fires Paper Airplanes
Daily Mail:
Finally! The flying car that really could be coming to a road (and sky) near you
Gizmodo:
Hot air balloon flies underground into Earth for the first time ever
Wired - Danger Room:
WWI Zeppelins: Not Too Deadly, But Scary as Hell
Air & Space Magazine:
The First Aerial Combat Victory
Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: remembering STS-41G
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Wernher von Braun's Fantastic Vision: Ferry Rocket
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
One-Man Space Station (1960)
Popular Science:
Our First Look at the Moon's Far Side
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Assuming Everything Goes Perfectly Well: NASA's 26 January 1967 AAP Press Conference
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
High Noon on the Moon
Popular Science:
The Greatest Space Hack Ever
Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: Sputnik 1 lauches the space age
Gizmodo:
Salyut 7: The Last and Longest-Running Soviet Space Station (Until Mir)
Smithsonian Magazine:
10 Weird Things Humans Have Sent Into the Stratosphere
October 9, 2014
The Atlantic:
The Quiet Rise of the Satellite Spy Agency
Universe Today:
Touchdown! Virgin Spacecraft Prototype Soars Over Mojave, Testing Re-Entry System
Air & Space Magazine:
Europe's Proto-Spaceplane Gets Ready To Fly
Space Daily:
NASA's Space Power Facility Getting Ready to Shake Orion Up
Discovery News:
NASA's New Spacecraft to Endure Extreme Orbital Test
Universe Today:
Launch Abort System Installed on NASA's Pathfinding Orion capsule for First Flight in 2 Months
The Atlantic:
NASA Should Have Put a Ring on Orbit
New Scientist:
World's first space detective agency launched
Smithsonian Magazine:
To Find Meteorites, Listen to the Legends of Australian Aborigines
October 8, 2014
Arizona Republic:
Video: Daylight meteor over Flagstaff
Spaceflight Now:
Station crew completes maintenance spacewalk
Space.com:
Private Inflatable Room Launching to Space Station Next Year
Discovery News:
Most Moon Surface Water Comes From the Sun, Not Comets
New Scientist:
Moon water blew in on solar wind
Universe Today:
Memory Problems Plague Martian Rover Opportunity As It Prepares To Watch A Comet Pass By
Spaceflight Now:
Candidate landing sites selected for ESA Mars rover
Air & Space Magazine:
A Road Trip on the Moon
October 7, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
UrtheCast says it will be largest commercial ISS user
Daily Mail:
Met Office to open a space weather centre to measure solar climate as earth becomes even more dependent on technology
Daily Mail:
Meet the megaflare: Nasa spots record flare 10,000 times more powerful than the largest solar blast ever recorded from our sun
Spaceflight Insider:
Japan to launch Hayabusa 2 asteroid-hunting probe November 30
Spaceflight Now:
Aerojet Rocketdyne touts AR1 engine for Atlas 5
Daily Mail:
Rosetta's comet keeps on spouting jets of water: Images reveal more mysterious vapour plumes
Discovery News:
Titan's Freezing Polar Vortex is Packed with Toxic Cyanide
Universe Today:
Our Complete Guide to the October 8th "Hunter's Moon" Total Lunar Eclipse
Space.com:
Total Lunar Eclipse on Wednesday: The Complete Skywatcher's Guide
Discovery News:
Rare 'Selenelion' Possible on Wednesday's Lunar Eclipse
October 6, 2014
Discovery News:
Aliens May be Out There, but Too Distant for Contact
Universe Today:
How Do Aliens Think? We Need To Learn About Their Biology First, Analyst Argues
Spaceflight Now:
Orion's Delta 4-Heavy rocket moved to launch pad
Spaceflight Insider:
Orion's Delta IV Heavy prepares for December launch
Universe Today:
ULA Delta IV Heavy Rocket Rolled to Cape Launch Pad and Raised for Orion's First Flight
Universe Today:
Gallery: 5 Exotic Places NASA's Next-Generation Rocket Could Help Explore
Spaceflight Insider:
Expedition 41 crew prepares for spacewalk
Spaceflight Now:
Boeing, SpaceX told to stop work under crew contracts
Discovery News:
NASA Eyes Crew Deep Sleep Option for Mars Mission
Spaceflight Insider:
Four candidate landing sites considered for 2018 ExoMars mission
Daily Mail:
Was Mars' 'Grand Canyon' created by a glacier? Mineral deposits suggest enormous ice flow carved out the red planet
Universe Today:
Making the Case for a Mission to the Martian Moon Phobos
Space.com:
How SpaceShipOne and X Prize Launched Commercial Spaceflight 10 Years Ago
Popular Science:
From The Archives: How The $10 Million Ansari X Prize Was Won
WEEKEND EDITION: October 4 through October 5, 2014
Universe Today:
Time Dilation Confirmed in the Lab
Discovery News:
Majorana Discovery: After 80 Year Search, Weird Particle Found
Daily Mail:
The death of the first star in the Universe: Incredible image could shed new light on how solar systems formed
Popular Science:
Scientists plan on turning the Moon into a giant particle detector
The Atlantic:
Peering Ever Deeper Into Matter
Daily Mail:
Swedish scientists reveal 17 year competition to slip Bob Dylan quotes into research papers
Gizmodo:
Inside the Forensic Lab That Fights Crime and Counterfeits With DNA
Daily Mail:
Bloodhound gets a supersonic boost: Engineers fit a jet engine to the £10million car designed to reach speeds of more than 1,000mph
Gizmodo:
Yahoo Very Quietly Kills Off Yahoo
Popular Science:
Weird Crystal Can Absorb All The Oxygen In A Room -- And Then Release It Later
Gizmodo:
The 9 Deadliest Minerals We've Ever Mined
Daily Mail:
Watch one of the world's biggest seas disappear: Nasa releases series of Aral Sea satellite images showing it drying up
Smithsoinian Magazine:
From the Biggest to the Longest, Five Amazing Caves To Visit
Stuff NZ:
NZ volcanoes a threat
Popular Science:
Dramatic Ice Loss Is Messing With Antarctica's Gravity
io9:
Listen to the Strange Phenomenon of "Singing Stones"
Gizmodo:
You Can Spot a Fake Stradivarius By the Tree Rings in the Wood
Daily Mail:
Clash of the prehistoric titans: 220-million-year-old sea creature tooth found embedded in the thigh bone of an ancient land lizard
Science Magazine:
Photo gallery: The oldest known insect parasite
Smithsoinian Magazine:
Lonesome George, the Last Tortoise of His Kind, Is on Posthumous Display in NYC
Smithsoinian Magazine:
Cheetahs Spend 90 Percent of Their Days Sitting Around
io9:
Scientists Watch How New Technologies Spread Among Wild Chimps
Daily Mail:
Watch the moment that scientists capture wild chimpanzees teaching each other for the first time - and they say it shows how culture spread in early humans
ABC Australia:
Innovative stone tools sprung up multiple times
Daily Mail:
Out of Africa theory for tools is WRONG: Prehistoric hunters learned to make stone weapons in independent groups across Eurasia
Daily Mail:
Have they found Alexander the Great's tomb? Or maybe his mother's: Greek archaeologists increasingly convinced mystery tomb hides a sensational secret
Smithsonian Magazine:
One Very Old Canoe Could Help Explain How Polynesian Sailors Colonized New Zealand
The History Blog:
Charles Calvert signet ring maybe found in Maryland
io9:
The Epic Story Of Johann Bernoulli, The Meanest Man In Math
io9:
Newly-Declassified CIA Document Says Ben Franklin Was A Security Risk
Smithsonian Magazine:
Even in 1784 America, It Was Impossible to Make a Map Without Infuriating Someone
Daily Mail:
Great Arctic explorer to be finally honoured after having career discredited for telling truth about British voyagers' cannibalism
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Was Robert Webster, a Slave, Wearing What Looks Like a Confederate Uniform?
The Guardian:
HIV pandemic originated in Kinshasa in the 1920s, say scientists
The History Blog:
Cartier brooch in $60 box of costume jewelry sells for $17,550
Smithsonian Magazine:
Revisiting the Timeless Tracks of the Spanish Civil War
Smithsonian Magazine:
Rudolf Hess' Tale of Poison, Paranoia and Tragedy
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Private Tour of the CIA's Incredible Museum
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Real Story of the "Football" That Follows the President Everywhere
Gizmodo:
Snakes in Shangri-La: The Man Who Fought The Synanon Cult and Won
io9:
We Still Don't Know If This Tribe Discovered In The '70s Was Real
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Remote Cold War Radar System Has New Use in a Warming World
Daily Mail:
Inside the CIA's Starbucks: Coffee shop known as Store Number 1 bans names on cups and runs background checks on baristas
Daily Mail:
Rare sculpture that captured the essence of postwar world expected to fetch $100m at auction in New York as art houses predict another blockbuster season
io9:
10 Geeky Debates That Had To Be Settled By Federal Courts
Daily Mail:
Horrifying hags, terrifying cannibals and sorceresses galore: Inside the British Museum's magical new witchcraft exhibition
io9:
The Real-Life Letter Of Apology Written By The Salem Witch Trial Jury
Gizmodo:
This is probably the most fun you can have jumping on a seesaw
October 3, 2014
Popular Science:
CHEOS -- China's New Eye in Space
Discovery News:
Dream Chaser Space Plane to Launch From the Stratosphere
Popular Science:
A Spacecraft That Packs The Punch Of A Warhead
Popular Science:
Governor Brown Vetoes Drone Privacy Bill
Popular Science:
Man Shoots Down Drone, Lawyers Scratch Their Heads
Gizmodo:
Formation Of C-17s Light Up The Night Sky Like You've Never Seen
Air & Space Magazine:
How Did This Mean-Looking Jet Get Permission to Land In Washington D.C.?
Popular Science:
J-10B "Vigorous Dragon" Fighter Jets are a Full Set, Soon to be a Regiment
Gizmodo:
The 270 MPH Sikorsky S-97 Raider Is The Batmobile Of The Skies
Gizmodo:
The Stealthy Chopper That Sneaks Special Forces Behind Enemy Lines
Gizmodo:
Why the Human Body Can't Handle Heavy Acceleration
The Atlantic:
From Ballooners to Bombers: A History of the Backpack Parachute
Gizmodo:
A Specimen Box Full of Tiny Paper Airplanes Instead of Bugs
Gizmodo:
A Real Space Battle Wouldn't Look Anything Like The Movies
Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: STS-86
Popular Science:
John Paul Stapp, A Real Life Rocket (Sled) Man
Air & Space Magazine:
AeroMarti Signs Off
Air & Space Magazine:
Last of the Vegas
Air & Space Magazine:
Shooting Star
Air & Space Magazine:
Untethered
Gizmodo:
Stunning Depictions of Ancient Comets That Scared the Hell Out of Humans
io9:
Vintage Cigarette Boxes Feature Designs From The Soviet Space Program
October 2, 2014
Air & Space Magazine:
Bigger Than Saturn, Bound for Deep Space
Space Daily:
Space debris expert warns of increasing CubeSat collision risk
Spaceflight Now:
India, NASA plot science campaign for Mars orbiters
Stuff NZ:
Mars storm photo: 'something's brewing here'
New Scientist:
Look inside a giant supernova that seeded the universe
The Guardian:
Rift valleys rewrite moon's fiery history
Discovery News:
'Man in the Moon' Created by Mega Volcano
The Atlantic:
The U.S. Is Saving Nukes So It Can Blow Up Asteroids
Air & Space Magazine:
Area 51's Black Jets
October 1, 2014
New York Post:
What is the Pentagon's secret space drone doing?
Space Daily:
China's first space lab in operation for over 1000 days
Discovery News:
Cubesats: A Space Junk Hazard?
New Scientist:
Earth gets a new companion for trip around sun
Universe Today:
India's MOM Snaps Spectacular Portrait of New Home - the Red Planet
Air & Space Magazine:
The Mars Dilemma
Air & Space Magazine:
The Day They Shut Down Meigs Field
Air & Space Magazine:
Can This Airport Be Saved?
September 30, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese military payload launched on Long March 2C
Discovery News:
Dusty Days: India Mission Photographs Stormy Mars Globe
Space Daily:
Opportunity's Heading to a Small Crater Called 'Ulysses'
Universe Today:
ESA's Rosetta Mission sets November 12th as the Landing Date for Philae
Daily Mail:
Countdown to Mars: Nasa starts final assembly of huge rockets to test spacecraft it hopes will take man to the red planet
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Is How the Milky Way Will End
io9:
The Timing Of Meteor Strikes May Not Be Random
Discovery News:
The Stars of Autumn's Night Sky: What to Look For
September 29, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
A rhetorical concession, now go away
Daily Mail:
Four rare 'fireballs' flying across the East Coast sky spotted by more than 400 witnesses
Universe Today:
Busy Spaceport: There are Now Five Spaceships Parked at the Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
Despite solar array glitch, Soyuz crew arrives at station
Discovery News:
Space Station Crew Arrives Safely Despite Soyuz Glitch
Spaceflight Now:
Proton rocket lifts off on return-to-flight mission
Spaceflight Insider:
China launches clandestine Shijian satellite
Spaceflight Insider:
ATK suggests solid rocket alternative to Russian-made RD-180
Spaceflight Insider:
Roscosmos boss talks new super-heavy booster rocket, Vostochny Cosmodrome, cooperation with U.S.
New Scientist:
India's Mars triumph signals a rising space power
Discovery News:
Indian Mars Mission Beams Back First Photographs
Discovery News:
Mars Rover Curiosity Drills Into Mount Sharp
Daily Mail:
Water found on planet 729 TRILLION MILES away: Discovery could pave the way for finding life on smaller planets
Daily Mail:
Water on Earth is OLDER than the sun: Similarity between oceans and icy comets increases our chance of finding alien life
New Scientist:
Up to half of Earth's water is older than the sun
Universe Today:
Some Of Earth's Water Could Be A Million Years Older Than The Solar System
Air & Space Magazine:
Some Aircraft Get All the Luck (and Money)
Air & Space Magazine:
When Airliners Vanish
WEEKEND EDITION: September 27 through September 28, 2014
Daily Mail:
Black holes do NOT exist and the Big Bang Theory is wrong, claims scientist - and she has the maths to prove it
Universe Today:
There Are No Such Things As Black Holes
Daily Mail:
Was the 'Big Bang signal' just DUST? Scientists observed 'polluted' skies and not the beginning of the universe, data reveals
Scientific American:
Big Bang Gravitational Waves: True or Not? [Video]
Universe Today:
New Results from Planck: It Doesn't Look Good For BICEP2
ABC Australia:
It's okay: electromagnetic force hasn't changed in 10 billion years
Universe Today:
A Fun Way of Understanding E=mc2
Daily Mail:
Rise of the Terminator: Scientists create shape-shifting liquid metal - and it could be used to heal the human body
Gizmodo:
A Robotic Octopus Would Surely Be Captain Nemo's Worst Nightmare
The Atlantic:
How Two Men Unlocked Modern Encryption
Gizmag:
Students rethink Californian "Parkitecture"
Gizmodo:
Google Street View Is Blurring the Faces of Ancient Gods
The Atlantic:
Northern Hemisphere or Southern, the Toilets Drain the Same
Daily Mail:
What lies beneath: Incredible photos inside lava caves hundreds of feet underground
Daily Mail:
Hidden world of canyons and mountains beneath the ice caps revealed: New atlas contains the most detailed polar maps EVER of the landscapes that could be exposed by global warning
The Guardian:
Mind-altering plants, from peyote to coffee at Kew Gardens - in pictures
Smithsonian Magazine:
Step Inside the World's Most Dangerous Garden (If You Dare)
Live Science:
Bizarre Sphere Fossils Could Be Among World's Earliest Animals
Science Magazine:
Ability to regenerate limbs traces back at least 300 million years
Daily Mail:
There is NO missing link between birds and dinosaurs: Avian species developed in an 'evolutionary explosion' 150 million years ago
Daily Mail:
For sale: One woolly mammoth: Skeleton of Ice Age beast goes up for auction - and it could fetch £250,000
Gizmodo:
Watching a falcon hunt down a crow in the air is pretty terrifying
Daily Mail:
Meet Rica, Edinburgh Zoo's first ever armadillo pup: Adorable month-old creature comes out of her shell for public debut
Science Magazine:
Narwhal's tusk may be its status symbol
Daily Mail:
Just hitching a ride! Secret camera snaps wild cat-like creature relaxing on a moving rhino... and later a buffalo
io9:
Man Trying To Rescue A Baby Swan Gets Smacked By Its Angry Swan Dad
Science Magazine:
Ancient campfires led to the rise of storytelling
ABC Australia:
Pacific settlers developed gardens to survive
Daily Mail:
Could another ancient computer lie beneath the sea? Archaeologists return to shipwreck where mysterious 2,200-year-old Antikythera mechanism was found
Daily Mail:
'Pompeii of the North' is saved: Roman fort will remain intact after being bought by a charitable trust
The Guardian:
London archaeologists seek public's help to restore Temple of Mithras
The History Blog:
Do you recall the 1954 London Mithraeum dig?
Daily Mail:
The incredible map that shows Marco Polo may have discovered America in the the 13th century - 200 years before Christopher Columbus
The History Blog:
Napoleon and Josephine had a prenup
The History Blog:
MoMA finds lost 1913 film with all-black cast
io9:
Trench Warfare in World War I Was a Smarter Strategy Than You Realize
Wired - Danger Room:
How WWI's U-Boats Launched the Age of Unrestricted Warfare
Gizmodo:
Winnie the Pooh was based on a real bear that participated in WWI
The Atlantic:
The Creation Myth of Chocolate-Chip Cookies
Daily Mail:
Found: The REAL Hitler diaries which astonishingly reveal how the Fuhrer's British-born nephew William Hitler went to Berlin to cash in on his connections - only to end up fighting the Nazis
Daily Mail:
Special agent seductress: Her hush-hush wartime mission was to bewitch our trainee spies into spilling national secrets. Now, 70 years on, she tells her gripping story
Gizmodo:
You Can Buy This Window From the Manhattan Project for a Small Fortune
Smithsonian Magazine:
Paris Match Opens its Archives and Shares a Trove of Images of Artists in Their Studios
io9:
In Collier's Magazine, World War III Already Happened...In 1952
Gizmodo:
The U.S. once considered using 23 nuclear bombs to blast out a highway
Popular Science:
The Devils And The Deep Blue Sky
Popular Science:
Are Weaponized 'Crab Walker' Robots The Future Of Chinese Land Wars?
io9:
Some Of The Brilliant Art You Could Own From Ray Bradbury's Collection
September 26, 2014
Space Daily:
Crew including first woman cosmonaut in 17 years blasts off for ISS
RiaNovosti:
One of Soyuz TMA-14M's Solar Panels Fails to Unfold After Rocket Blasts Off for ISS
RT.com:
Soyuz brings new crew to ISS
RiaNovosti:
Manned Soyuz Spacecraft Docks With ISS Despite Solar Battery Failure
The Guardian:
Female cosmonaut bats back questions about hair and parenting
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's Countdown Clock eyed for retirement
Space.com:
Space Elevator Advocates Take Lofty Look at Innovative Concepts
Gizmag:
SkyOrbiter UAVs will fly for years at a time and provide global internet access
Gizmodo:
Watch a Mammoth Airbus A380 Go From the Assembly Line to the Runway
Gizmodo:
Watching a Boeing 787 Dreamliner Come Together Never Gets Old
Daily Mail:
There's no escape! The pocket-sized spy drone with a 360 degree camera that can fly through windows and navigate tunnels
Gizmag:
Cirque du Soleil and ETH Zurich collaborate on human/drone performance
Gizmag:
US team breaks Guinness World Record for highest paper airplane flight
Daily Mail:
I won't be late, darling... I'm literally FLYING home! £12k wonder that beats the rush hour (but don't forget the petrol)
The Guardian:
Jetpacks: here's why you don't have one
Daily Mail:
Pictured: Moment British Typhoon fighter jets scrambled to intercept two Russian 'Bears' flying in international airspace
The Aviationist:
The most interesting aircraft displayed at the Belgian Air Force Days
Daily Mail:
Inside the massive abandoned wind tunnel that helped build generations of British planes - from WWI biplanes, to the Hurricane and Concorde
Popular Science:
Want to Watch Fuel Slosh Around Inside a Saturn Rocket?
Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: Surveyor 2
Popular Science:
Apollo Rocketed Through the Van Allen Belts
Air & Space Magazine:
How Bird Migrations Show Up Beautifully on Doppler Radar
Gizmodo:
Mysterious Radar Cloud Over the Midwest Was Actually... Butterflies
Live Science:
Nazca Lines of Kazakhstan: More Than 50 Geoglyphs Discovered
September 25, 2014
Stuff NZ:
Triumph for India as Mars orbiter enters orbit
Universe Today:
History Created as India Dares Unknown and Achieves Near Impossible - MOM Successfully Arrives in Mars Orbit
Spaceflight Now:
India puts interplanetary probe in orbit at Mars
Spaceflight Insider:
India's MOM satellite is the newest member in Mars orbiter club
Spaceflight Insider:
MAVEN returns first observation of Martian upper atmosphere
Discovery News:
Curiosity Finds a Weird 'Ball' on Mars
Universe Today:
Mars Rover Battles 'Amnesia' In Middle Of Red Planet Road Trip
Spaceflight Insider:
Expedition 41 set to launch from Kazakhstan
Spaceflight Now:
Supplies delivered to space station by Dragon spaceship
Spaceflight Insider:
ISS captures a Dragon
The Guardian:
Water discovered in a small, warm planet's atmosphere for first time
The Guardian:
Nasa's plans to use game controllers to take you into space
Gizmodo:
10 Strange Projects In Development At NASA
Space.com:
Soviet-era Cosmonaut Anatoly Berezovoy, Salyut Space Station Commander, Dies at 72
Washington Post:
NASA cameras catch meteor blazing across Tennessee sky
September 24, 2014
io9:
Is There Any Plausible Reason Why Aliens Would Evolve To Look Like Us?
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Any takers?
Daily Star:
EXCLUSIVE: British government to make 18 more UFO files available
Daily Mail:
Moustronauts have lift-off! GM rodents will live on the International Space Station to help reveal the secrets of aging
Spaceflight Insider:
MAVEN enters Martian orbit
Air & Space Magazine:
Fitness Testing for Mars
Universe Today:
2 Days Out from the Red Planet, India's MOM Probe Test Fires Main Engine for Mars Orbit Insertion
Stuff NZ:
Indian spacecraft set to arrive at Mars
Space Daily:
Why India went to Mars
Space.com:
India's First Mars Probe - Orbit Insertion Animation
Astrobiology Magazine:
Living on the Edge: Rosetta's Lander Philae Is Set to Take the Plunge
ABC Australia:
The lonely landscape of Rosetta's comet
Universe Today:
Rosetta's Philae Lander: A Swiss Army Knife of Scientific Instruments
Spaceflight Insider:
New Horizons captures early image of Hydra
Space.com:
Is Pluto a Planet? Popular (But Unofficial) Vote Says Yes
Universe Today:
Seeking Apollo Pictures? Here's How To Find Obscure Shots From The Moon-Landing Program
September 23, 2014
Daily Mail:
Nasa's Maven explorer arrives at Mars after year-long, 442 million-mile journey
Spaceflight Now:
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft enters orbit around Mars
Scientific American:
Spacecraft Investigates What Happened to Mars' Atmosphere
The Guardian:
Nasa's Maven spacecraft could solve mystery of Mars's missing water
Popular Science:
Mousetronauts To Live In Space For the Longest Stretch Yet
Air & Space Magazine:
Half of All First-Time Cubesat Projects End in Failure
Universe Today:
MESSENGER Completes Second Burn to Maintain Mercury Orbit
The Atlantic:
Humanity's Most Famous Mixtape Is Now 11 Billion Miles From Earth
News.com Australia:
Temple Balsall crop circle is second to appear in tiny hamlet founded by Knights Templar
Daily Mirror:
Flying robots move in perfect formation to create 3D shapes in the sky
September 22, 2014
Space.com:
Fall Begins Monday: Equinox Myth Debunked
Spaceflight Insider:
Spacex Successfully Launches Its Fourth Commercial Resupply Mission Atop A Falcon 9
Spaceflight Now:
ULA taps Blue Origin for powerful new rocket engine
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX could be certified with the U.S. Air Force by Dec. 1
Daily Mail:
Radical figure hugging spacesuit shrinks itself to allow the first men on Mars to roam the surface easily
io9:
Here's Everything We Know About The Chelyabinsk Meteor
Space Daily:
Lunar explorers will walk at higher speeds than thought
Gizmodo:
Nobody Knows How These Strange Ridges Appeared on Mars
Gizmodo:
The four more likely places to host alien life in the Solar System
Gizmodo:
Boeing's New Space Taxi Has the Cleanest Cabin on Earth
Daily Mail:
Huge Navy drone that is bigger than a 737 takes to the skies for first flight across America
Gizmodo:
The Navy's New Triton Drone Just Flew Clear Across America
Space Daily:
Spaceship designer who helped send Gagarin into orbit dies at 92
BBC News:
Rendlesham UFO incident: Sculpture to be installed at forest site
WEEKEND EDITION: September 20 through September 21, 2014
Smithsonian Magazine:
What Is the Universe? Real Physics Has Some Mind-Bending Answers
The Atlantic:
It Wasn't Relativity That Won Einstein His Nobel Prize
The Guardian:
Five sigma and all that
The Week:
How our botched understanding of 'science' ruins everything
Time Magazine:
Quiz: Can You Answer 5th Grade Science Questions?
The Guardian:
Ig Nobels: British researchers take coveted science humour prize
Science News:
Banana peel slipperiness wins IgNobel prize in physics
Daily Mail:
Watch the leaping robo-cheetah that could one day outsprint Usain Bolt - and can even jump hurdles
IEEE Spectrum:
Tiny Humanoid Robot Learning to Fly Real Airplanes
Daily Mail:
Who goes there? Samsung unveils robot sentry keeping an eye on North Korea that detects targets two miles away and kills them using machine gun or grenade
The Atlantic:
Cement Makes the Modern World Possible
Popular Science:
Who Is Running Phony Cell Phone Towers Around The United States?
Popular Science:
Washington D.C. Is Littered With Phony Cell Towers
Daily Mail:
Was early Earth more like Eden than Hell? Planet was cooler and more hospitable than first thought 4 billion years ago
Science Magazined:
Modern forests hold signs of prehistoric apocalypse
Daily Mail:
Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs also 'reset plant species': Impact caused fast-growing trees to flourish on Earth
Daily Mail:
Is the Sahara desert TWICE as old as we thought? Climate simulations suggest it may have formed 7 million years ago
Washington Post:
After a summer of record-breaking dinosaurs, here's one with a huge nose
National Geographic:
New Dinosaur Rhinorex Raises Cretaceous Quandary
People's Daily:
Dinosaur footprints from 100 million years ago found in SW China
Discovery News:
Giant Dinosaur Could Fill Fossil 'Black Hole'
Daily Mail:
Just hitching a ride! Secret camera snaps wild cat-like creature relaxing on a moving rhino... and later a buffalo
Daily Mail:
Supermouse! Rodents given gene scientists believe gave humans power of speech half a million years ago - and it made them faster at finding their way out of mazes
Daily Mail:
Natural born killers: Chimpanzees are inherently violent and wage war like their human 'cousins', study claims
Daily Mail:
Europe's family tree has a THIRD branch: Link found in genetic connection between Modern Europeans and Native Americans
The History Blog:
Neolithic necropolis with 20 monumental tombs found in France
Live Science:
Ancient Egyptian Woman with 70 Hair Extensions Discovered
Daily Mail:
The 2,300-year-old brain surgeons: Drill holes on ancient skulls reveal how gruesome procedure was performed on men from Siberian tribe
Daily Mail:
What lies beyond the third chamber? Archaeologists move further inside Alexander the Great tomb - but will it collapse?
The History Blog:
Archaeology students find Roman fort on the Rhine
Live Science:
King Richard III's Final Moments Were Quick & Brutal
Daily Mail:
Decoding Columbus' map: Scans could reveal hidden text on Martellus Atlas and shed light on 15th century civilizations
The Atlantic:
Before Computers, People Programmed Looms
Smithsonian Magazine:
Industrial Espionage and Cutthroat Competition Fueled the Rise of the Humble Harmonica
Gizmodo:
The World's First Powered Submarine Arrived 60 Years Before Its Time
Archaelogy Magazine:
Castaways
The Atlantic:
When Phone Operators Were Unruly Teenage Boys
Daily Mail:
Playing for time: The death-row inmates who received stays of execution for every baseball game they won
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Pay Phone's Journey From Patent to Urban Relic
The Atlantic:
Martha, the Very Last Passenger Pigeon
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Surprising Origin Story of Wonder Woman
io9:
Is This WWII-Era Cipher The Most Unbreakable Code Ever Written?
Daily Mail:
A moment in time: Solid gold Rolex given to Eisenhower for helping save Europe from the Nazis to become world's most expensive timepiece as it emerges for sale
The Atlantic:
Helen Keller and the Glove That Couldn't Hear
Gizmodo:
In the 1960s California had a serious plan to take water from Alaska
Daily Mail:
Did you know Goldfinger was a (nice) Nazi? Fifty years on, fabulous facts about the best Bond film ever
io9:
More Weird Facts You Probably Didn't Know About The Original Star Trek
Smithsonian Magazine:
Maine's Most Interesting Lighthouses
Gizmodo:
Man runs out of subway car and races it to get back in at next station
Gizmodo:
The Evolution of Flying Ships
The Atlantic:
Everything: You're Doing It Wrong
Gizmodo:
The Online Legacy of a Suicide Cult and the Webmasters Who Stayed Behind
Gizmodo:
The biggest comparison of sci-fi spaceships ever is complete at last
Gizmodo:
Short film: A lonely robot looking for friends is not what it seems
September 19, 2014
Space.com:
NASA's Newest Mars Orbiter Set for Red Planet Arrival on Sunday
Popular Science:
America's Drone Brain Makers Want To Create The DOS Of Flying Robots
Wired - Danger Room:
A Military-Grade Drone That Can Be Printed Anywhere
Daily Mail:
Birthday bumps for the Beluga! World's 'strangest-looking plane' celebrates 20 years since taking to the skies
Gizmodo:
Goodbye space shuttle carrier - and thank you for being awesome
Gizmodo:
Lockheed's New Laser Super Turret Could Change Air Combat Forever
Gizmodo:
America's Real WWII Flying Fortress Was The Massive Douglas XB-19
The Aviationist:
The famous episode when an Israeli Air Force F-15 was able to land with one wing.
The Aviationist:
Danish F-16 fighter pilot grows a mustache to honor a legendary U.S. Air Force ace pilot and becomes his look-alike
Spaceflight Insider:
Our Spaceflight Heritage: Vanguard 3
The Aviationist:
The First Arctic Flight - in 1914
September 18, 2014
CBC News:
Fireball over Rockies was Russian spy satellite, experts say
Spaceflight Now:
Mystery satellite blasts off from Florida on Atlas 5 rocket
Space Daily:
Astronauts eye China's future space station
Daily Mail:
Get ready for Mars! The capsule that will sit on top of the world's biggest rocket and one day take man to the red planet heads for the launchpad
Universe Today:
Repaired Opportunity Rover Readies For 'Marathon Valley' As It Transmits Martian Images
The Guardian:
India scents victory in Asian space race to Mars
Space Daily:
MAVEN on course for Mars Arrival Sept 21
Spaceflight Insider:
MAVEN preps for orbital insertion
Daily Mail:
Why is Rosetta's comet spewing jets of water? Mysterious plumes of vapour are spotted on 67P
Popular Science:
Where Is This Comet's Tail?
Gizmag:
NASA's Dawn spacecraft recovers after two malfunctions
Universe Today:
Radiation Blast Delays NASA Spacecraft's Arrival At Dwarf Planet Ceres
Space Daily:
Chandra Finds Planet That Makes Star Act Deceptively Old
Daily Mail:
The Milky Way's 219 MILLION stars mapped: Scientists spend 10 years creating world's most detailed chart of our galaxy
Discovery News:
Weird Little Galaxy Hides a Giant Black Hole
Daily Mail:
A star INSIDE a star: Scientists discover neutron star within a supergiant 200,000 light-years from Earth
September 17, 2014
The Weather Network:
Meteor spotted in the skies from Ohio to New Hampshire
Ledger-Enquirer:
UPDATE: F-15 fighter caused sonic boom
Space Daily:
China completes construction of advanced space launch facility
Spaceflight Insider:
ULA set to launch mysterious CLIO satellite Sept. 16
Gizmag:
NASA selects Boeing and SpaceX to ferry astronauts to space station
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA selects commercial space companies to provide suborbital flight services
Spaceflight Insider:
Commercial Crew Program: and the winner(s) are...
Spaceflight Insider:
Proton rocket can compete with Falcon 9, says Russian space corporation
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX ditches landing legs on next Falcon 9 flight
Spaceflight Now:
Measat, Optus get a boost from 75th Ariane 5 launch
Universe Today:
New Horizons Sights Tiny Pluto Moon As Spacecraft Races Toward Dwarf Planet
New Scientist:
New Horizons Spies Pluto's Tiny Moon Hydra
Discovery News:
DARPA Wants Orbital Satellite-Repairing Robots
io9:
The First Space Vessel Designed Entirely for Tourists
New Scientist:
Planets with Oddball Orbits Like Mercury Could Host Life
Space Daily:
Martian meteorite yields more evidence of the possibility of life on Mars
Daily Mail:
'Life could exist on Mars': Analysis of 1.3 billion-year-old meteorite suggests that the red planet is STILL habitable
September 16, 2014
Daily Mail:
Rosetta's daring landing site announced: Philae probe will touchdown next to huge boulders on 'head' of comet 67P
Discovery News:
Rosetta Lander to Touch Down on Comet's Small Lobe
New Scientist:
Rosetta: landing site chosen for first comet mission
Universe Today:
Comet's Head Selected as Landing Site for Rosetta's Historic Philae Lander
Universe Today:
Martian Ctl-Alt-Del: NASA Resets Opportunity Rover's Memory, Stopping The Science Hiatus
Gizmag:
ESA's bug-eyed "fly-eye" telescope watch for Earth-threatening asteroids
Daily Mail:
Do tiny diamonds prove that the 'Big Freeze' was caused by a cosmic impact? Nanocrystals hint that asteroid hit Earth 12,800 years ago
September 15, 2014
Daily Mail:
Meteor or a missile launch? Mystery as strange shining object streaks across the San Francisco night sky
Digital Journal:
Mysterious lights in West Coast sky likely from meteor
CTV News:
Social media lights up after meteor dazzles above B.C.
Huffington Post Canada:
Meteor Streaks Across Vancouver Skies And Beyond (PHOTO)
KING5:
Hundreds of reports of meteor but no confirmation
Spaceflight Now:
Solar storm's impacts to spacecraft should be limited
Daily Mail:
Curiosity's FINAL destination: Mars rover finally reaches target Mount Sharp two years after landing
Discovery News:
Curiosity Reaches Mount Sharp to Look for Life's Niches
New Scientist:
Curiosity reaching science peak after years of driving
Space.com:
NASA's Curiosity Rover on Mars Arrives at Mountain Destination
Universe Today:
An Incredible Journey, Mars Curiosity Rover Reaches the Base of Mount Sharp
Daily Mail:
Deep space here we come! Orion shuttle designed to fly astronauts to Mars is prepped for test flight
Spaceflight Insider:
Orion moves to PHSF in preparation for first flight
Universe Today:
NASA's First Completed Orion Takes First Step on Journey to the Launch Pad
Universe Today:
Astronaut Snaps Amazing Picture Of His Crewmates Returning To Earth
Astrobiology Magazine:
Mars' Black Beauty
Space Daily:
First evidence for water ice clouds found outside solar system
Space.com:
Mystery of 'Hot Jupiter' Planets' Crazy Orbits May Be Solved
Astrobiology Magazine:
In the Zone. The Venus Zone: Seeking the Twin of our Twin Among the Stars
Universe Today:
'Venus Zone': The Anti-Habitable Area Around A Star That Can Breed Hell
Space.com:
20-Year Mystery of the Universe's Brightest Objects Solved
Universe Today:
Elemental Mystery: Lithium Is Also Rare Outside Of The Milky Way
Daily Mail:
Are aliens hiding on MOONS? Hunting for ET on planets' satellites may be our best chance at first contact, claims expert
WEEKEND EDITION: September 13 through September 14, 2014
Daily Mail:
Maybe we shouldn't be looking quite so hard for the God particle - it could destroy the universe, warns Stephen Hawking
Popular Science:
Quantum Mechanics Saves Grandfathers From Time Travelers
Gizmodo:
How precise is one degree of longitude or latitude?
Gizmodo:
Watch the clouds run away from this volcano eruption
Popular Science:
'Primordial Soup' Computer Model Tracks The Beginning Of Life At The Atomic Level
Daily Mail:
Life began on Earth 60 MILLION years earlier than first thought, soil analysis reveals
Daily Mail:
The cat and dog-sized creatures which gave birth to dinosaurs: Fossil finds reveal dinosaurs evolved from small reptiles much earlier than thought
io9:
Dreadnoughtus, A Newly Discovered Supermassive Dinosaur, By The Numbers
io9:
These Newly-Discovered Titans Once Stomped Around Africa
Daily Mail:
Terrifying 'swimming dinosaur' unearthed: Fossils of 97-million-year-old Spinosaurus reveal giant predator ate sharks whole
Stuff NZ:
Spinosaurus a very weird killer, bigger than T Rex
Stuff NZ:
Ancient flying reptile named after Avatar
Daily Mail:
Fossils of Jurassic 'squirrels' suggest mammals roamed the Earth 40 MILLION YEARS earlier than first thought
Science Magazine:
Clues to animal extinctions found on the walls of Egyptian tombs
Smithsonian Magazine:
Egypt's Mammal Extinctions Tracked Through 6,000 Years of Art
Science Magazine:
'Third eye' helps sea turtles sense changes in seasons
Daily Mail:
Are fish as intelligent as CHIMPS? Trout team up and communicate with eels to help them hunt prey
Daily Mail:
Unearthed in 'perfect condition' after 4,000 years: Russian knight's suit of armour made of BONE
Gizmag:
Digital mapping uncovers 'super henge' that dwarfed Stonehenge
Daily Mail:
The hidden empire below Stonehenge: Radar scanners find 17 more sites near ancient stones
Gizmag:
Hidden archeology of Stonehenge revealed in new geophysical map
New York Times:
Among the Ancient Stones, Magic as Potent as Ever
Live Science:
3,000-Year-Old Golden Bowl Hides a Grisly Archaeological Tale
Daily Mail:
Does the Alexander the Great-era tomb contain treasure after all? Figurines offer hope that plundered site still holds secrets
Daily Mail:
Was Robin Hood from YORKSHIRE? Outlaw has more ties to the county than Nottinghamshire, claims expert
Gizmodo:
Archaeologists Just Discovered a 1,000-Year-Old Viking Fortress
Daily Mail:
Viking 'ring fortress' discovered in Denmark may have been used to launch invasion of England in 1013
Daily Mail:
London as you've never seen it mapped before: Evolution of the capital revealed from Shakespeare's time to the hidden world of today's underground city
Daily Mail:
Queen Elizabeth I's secret outfit: X-ray of famous Tudor portrait reveals wing-like veil hidden by 18th century 'airbrush'
Daily Mail:
Minted! Dug up in an English field, a $1.6 MILLION 'perfect' US threepenny bit from the time of the Pilgrim Fathers
Daily Mail:
One battle Napoleon could never win: How little emperor's wife Josephine insisted on pre-nup to keep his hands off her assets
Daily Mail:
The £20 million replica of the ship which helped create the American revolution: French General Layfette's frigate which took him to America to fight the British in 1780 is reborn and will set sail for US next year
Daily Mail:
Definitive painting of George Washington painting to be restored in 18-month project to start a 'refresh' of presidential portraits
The History Blog:
1833 Meteor Storm Started Citizen Science
Daily Mail:
Canada finds one of two missing British explorer ships that became trapped in the Arctic ice more than 160 years ago - forcing the 129 men on board 'to turn to cannibalism before they perished'
io9:
For Centuries, This Mystical Jewish Sect Lived Hidden In Plain Sight
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Legend of What Actually Lived in the "No Man's Land" Between World War I's Trenches
The History Blog:
Roam 1930s and 40s America in 170,000 pictures
Los Angeles Times:
Coordinating Los Angeles air defenses in 1941
Daily Mail:
The car that almost bankrupted Daimler: Limousine was designed by chairman's wife to revive company ? but instead crocodile skin trim, electronic windows and silk upholstery were nearly its ruin
io9:
Declassified Documents Reveal US Plan for Alaska in a Russian Invasion
Gizmodo:
One of the most amazing nuclear explosions ever recorded on film
Daily Mail:
Navy's mysterious 'elephant cage' in San Diego will be demolished as secrecy still surrounds what giant antennae discovered in Cold War
The Atlantic:
The First 'Picturephone' for Video Chatting Was a Colossal Failure
Gizmodo:
Neither rain, nor fog, nor wind stops Boeing's laser weapon destroying targets
The Atlantic:
Twisted: The Battle to Be the World's Largest Ball of Twine
September 12, 2014
Discovery News:
Incoming! Sun Launches Two CMEs at Earth
Popular Science:
What You Need To Know About The Solar Storm Headed For Earth
Space.com:
Photos of Sun's Major X1.6 Solar Flare (Sept. 10, 2014)
Space.com:
Back-to-Back Sun Storms May Supercharge Earth's Northern Lights
Spaceflight Now:
International Space Station crew back on Earth
Air & Space Magazine:
Star Trek's U.S.S. Enterprise to Boldly Go Back to the Workshop
Popular Science:
The New Inflatable Chinese Drone: Battlefield Balloons?
Gizmodo:
Iris+ is the first consumer drone to be able to follow its user
Gizmodo:
Why The USAF's Massive $10 Billion Global Hawk UAV Is Worth The Money
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Three Pathways to the 1980s
Danger Room:
How the Red Baron's Knockoff Aircraft Became the First Great Warplane
Daily Mail:
Yours for £2.5m - last of The Few who defied Hitler's Luftwaffe...but sole surviving Hurricane from the Battle of Britain may end up in America
Daily Mail:
Death from above without warning: 70 years after the first one fell, interactive map reveals just where Hitler's V2 rockets killed thousands of British civilians in final months of WW2
Popular Science:
The Lunar Rover: Designing and Unpacking a Car on the Moon
Daily Mail:
One last blast: Bottle of Cognac downed by Russian cosmonauts shortly before their deaths goes up for auction
September 11, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Space station crew set for return to Earth Wednesday
Discovery News:
Space Station to Host First Ever Female Cosmonaut
Space Daily:
MAVEN Spacecraft Makes Final Preparations For Mars
Spaceflight Now:
Orion spacecraft ready for launch preparations
Popular Science:
Crops Grow On Fake Moon And Mars Soil
Daily Mail:
Rosetta maps comet's 'continents': From sheer cliffs to deep craters, colourful graphic reveals different terrains of 67P
New Scientist:
No easy parking spot for first-ever comet landing
Discovery News:
Rosetta's Lander Philae Snaps Mind-Blowing Comet Selfie
Space Daily:
Bright Clumps in Saturn Ring Now Mysteriously Scarce
Space.com:
Moon Offers Dress Rehearsal for October Total Lunar Eclipse
Gizmodo:
How Long Humans Can Live in Space - and What Happens if We Stay Too Long
September 10, 2014
Discovery News:
Nicaragua 'Meteorite' Probably Wasn't a Meteorite
The Guardian:
Nasa questions whether crater in Nicaragua caused by meteorite
KRQE:
Video: Meteor seen flashing through ABQ sky
Spaceflight Insider:
Different vehicles - different purposes: Orion and the Commercial Crew contenders
Space Daily:
How NASA's New Carbon Observatory Will Help Us Understand Alien Worlds
Space Daily:
Robots do battle over Mars exploration
Space.com:
Mars Probes from US and India Arrive at Red Planet This Month
Universe Today:
Very Large Telescope Zooms-in on Rosetta's Comet
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Discovery News:
Gliese 15Ab: The Closest Known Super-Earth?
Daily Mail:
How would YOU be affected if Earth was hit by an asteroid? Interactive map reveals devastating damage a space rock would inflict if it hit cities around the world
September 9, 2014
Daily Mail:
Was 39ft-wide crater made by 'pitbull' asteroid that buzzed past Earth last night? Explosion in Nicaraguan capital may have been caused by rogue shard
Discovery News:
Meteorite Smashes into Nicaraguan Capital
RT.com:
Great balls of fire: Meteor illuminates Spanish skyline (VIDEO)
Spaceflight Now:
Clandestine spy satellite launched by China
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's first Orion crew capsule ready for flight
Universe Today:
China's Yutu Rover Is Still Alive, Reports Say, As Lunar Panorama Released
Daily Mail:
Rosetta's comet has no ice and is 'darker than charcoal': 'Surprising' discovery made after probe sends back its first report
Discovery News:
Weird Comet Is Darker Than Charcoal
Scientific American:
Jupiter's Moon Europa Has Plate Tectonics Like Earth's
New Scientist:
Europa's icy plate tectonics may support life
Astrobiology Magazine:
Solar System Simulation Reveals Planetary Mystery
Scientific American:
SpaceX Rocket Base to Be Built Near Endangered Sea Turtle Nesting Beach
September 8, 2014
Johannesburg Mail & Guardian:
Remembering Zimbabwe's great alien invasion
Air & Space Magazine:
Undocumented Alien
Gizmodo:
Space Station Defies Humans, Launches Satellites Without Permission
Discovery News:
Space Station's Cubesat Launcher has Mind of its Own
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX achieves back-to-back successes for AsiaSat
Spaceflight Now:
AsiaSat CEO says Cape Canaveral has drawbacks
Spaceflight Now:
Two satellites placed in orbit by Chinese rocket
Air & Space Magazine:
New ISS Experiment Tests Organisms' Survival Skills in Space
Discovery News:
Station's Robot Gets Its Space Legs
New Scientist:
'Soccer-ball' robots to patrol space for deadly junk
Universe Today:
NASA Curiosity Rover Missing 'Scientific Focus And Detail' In Mars Mission: Review
Discovery News:
Curiosity Watches the Martian Clouds Drift By
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the missing Europa geysers: Disappearance of water vapour jets from Jupiter's moon leaves scientists baffled
Universe Today:
The Rains Of Titan Change When They Hit Underground Reservoirs: Study
Universe Today:
How Do You Land on a Comet? Very Carefully.
Space.com:
Whoops! So-Called 'Asteroid' Is Actually a Comet
Universe Today:
One Planet, Two Stars: A System More Common Than Previously Thought
Daily Mail:
Now that's an AIRplane! Homemade inflatable drone reaches speeds of 120mph
WEEKEND EDITION: September 6 through September 7, 2014
Daily Galaxy:
The Black Hole at the Beginning of Time --"We may have Emerged from a Black Hole in a Higher-Dimensional Universe"
Forbes:
What If The Big Bang Was A 4D Black Hole Instead?
Extreme Tech:
Pixels of the universe: Experiment begins to see if the universe is a 2D hologram
The Atlantic:
A Fascinating Short Film About the Multiverse
Wired:
Radical New Theory Could Kill the Multiverse Hypothesis
Popular Science:
"Da Gou", China's Own Big Dog Robot
IEEE Spectrum:
Will Superintelligent AIs Be Our Doom?
io9:
The Spellbinding Mathematical GIFs Of Dave Whyte
Gizmag:
Robotic raptors look and fly like the real thing
Gizmodo:
How the Enormous Mirrors on the World's Largest Telescope Are Made
Gizmodo:
The Secret Tech Behind Disney's Haunted Mansion Illusions
Wired - Danger Room:
Army's New Laser Cannon Blasts Drones Out of the Sky, Even in Fog
Astrobiology Magazine:
DNA May Have Had Humble Beginnings As Nutrient Carrier
Daily Mail:
The dinosaur heavier than a BOEING 737: New species discovered that weighed a staggering 65 tons
Daily Mail:
How our earliest relatives only went out at night: Researchers find first relatives of mammals were nocturnal creatures
io9:
Did The Giant Sloth Die Out Less Than 150 Years Ago?
The Telegraph:
Radioactive wild boar roaming the forests of Germany
Daily Mail:
Monkey see, monkey do! Marmosets learn trick to opening a treat-filled box by watching HOW-TO VIDEOS in the wild
Daily Mail:
Were Neanderthals ARTISTS? Rock engraving is proof that our ancient cousins were intelligent and creative, experts claim
The Guardian:
Neanderthal abstract art found in Gibraltar cave
Smithsonian Magazine:
What the Scottish Independence Referendum Could Mean for Orkney
Daily Mail:
Stonehenge WAS completely round: 5,000 year mystery solved by groundsman who couldn't water part of the circle because his hosepipe was too short
Smithsonian Magazine:
What Lies Beneath Stonehenge?
The History Blog:
Conserving St. Ambrose's 4th-century silk tunics
Daily Mail:
Grave of fearsome 11th c. warrior found in Siberia
The History Blog:
'Extremely rare' early Christian charm discovered: 1,500-year-old 'magical' papyrus is first to refer to Last Supper
io9:
The Lost Dinosaurs of New York's Central Park
Smithsonian Magazine:
College Students Studied These Mail-Order Sea Creatures in the Late 1800s
io9:
Photos from the Days When Thousands of Cables Crowded the Skies
Gizmodo:
Uber Is Currently Fighting the Battle That Jitneys Lost 100 Years Ago
The Guardian:
The big Australian science picnic of 1914
Popular Science:
What My Mother Learned from Einstein
Popular Science:
The Rise Of The Tank Before World War II
Gizmodo:
Inside the Fantastic World of Disney's Most Famous Art Director
Smithsonian Magazine:
How the Voyage of the Kon-Tiki Misled the World About Navigating the Pacific
Daily Mail:
The citizen agents of 'Project Washtub': Declassified Cold War-era documents reveal FBI program that trained Alaskan residents as operatives against a Russian invasion
The Guardian:
A brief history of psychedelic psychiatry
Gizmodo:
The Jetsons Amusement Park Ride That Never Was
io9:
That Time Lloyds of London Insured The Loch Ness Monster
io9:
These Beautiful Giant Sculptures Support Power Lines With Style
September 5, 2014
Discovery News:
'House-Sized' Asteroid to Buzz Earth on Sunday
Stuff NZ:
New-found asteroid to fly over New Zealand
io9:
Have Scientists Solved The Mystery Behind The Sun's 11-Year Cycle?
io9:
A Chart Of Every Mission Traveling In Our Solar System Right Now
Daily Mail:
Back on the bombing run: One of the last two flying Lancasters pays tribute to the 55,000 Bomber Boys who never returned with flight on the route thousands of sorties took to target the Nazis
Daily Mail:
Flying low! Algae-covered WWII warplane sunk off the coast of Turkey is an underwater playground for divers
The Aviationist:
[Video] Flying at treetop altitude with a Russian Mach 3 Mig-25 Foxbat interceptor
io9:
The Moon Landing Went Far Better Than the Practice Landing
Daily Mail:
'Houston - we've had a problem': Transcript of Apollo 13's chilling SOS to mission control moments after explosion ripped through spacecraft is up for sale
Discovery News:
Why Did Apollo Astronauts Keep Wiping Out on the Moon?
BBC News:
SR-71 Blackbird: The Cold War's ultimate spy plane
Gizmodo:
Watch a Pilot Snag Cold War Spy Satellite Footage as It Falls From Orbit
Air & Space Magazine:
The Truth About the MiG-29
The Guardian:
Soviet space dogs - in pictures
September 4, 2014
Science Magazine:
NASA extends seven planetary missions
Spaceflight Now:
NASA orders extra checks on SMAP's deployable antenna
Space.com:
China to Launch Recoverable Moon Orbiter Prototype This Year
Spaceflight Now:
Japan nears launch of probe to retrieve asteroid samples
Spaceflight Now:
Air Force mission to continue monitoring GEO
Discovery News:
DNews: Mars to Barely Dodge a Massive Cometary Bullet
Astrobiology Magazine:
Modeling Sulfur in the Archean Atmosphere
Daily Mail:
Welcome to Laniakea, your home: Stunning new 3D map reveals gigantic super-cluster of galaxies that contains our own Milky Way
Popular Science:
Pentagon Wants Artificial Intelligence In Future Fighters
The DEW Line:
Draken's New Model Air Force
io9:
What If We Tried to Fly On Alien Worlds?
September 3, 2014
Universe Today:
Heat Protecting Back Shell Tiles Installed on NASA's Orion EFT-1 Spacecraft Set for Dec. 2014 Launch
Space War:
US Space Debris Tracking Site To Be Built In Western Australia
Popular Science:
This Weird Tumbleweed Robot Might Change Planetary Exploration
Space.com:
Cosmic Quest: Who Really Discovered Neptune?
New Scientist:
Voyager 2's view of solar system's edge will be unique
Air & Space Magazine:
Alien Life May Thrive on an Exotic Kind of Carbon Dioxide
Space.com:
Masten Space Systems Aims High on XS-1 Military Space Plane Project
Space.com:
US Air Force Museum to Restore Retired Titan Rocket
September 2, 2014
The Staten Island Advocate:
Wagner Planetarium director Dennis Anderson ponders UFOs and the enigma of the 'Arthur Kill Lights'
Asbury Park Press:
Weird NJ: The Double Trouble mystery spot
Space.com:
US Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Passes 600 Days in Orbit
Space.com:
Secretive Space Plane Passes Moon and Rigel in Night Sky - Video
Spaceflight Insider:
Russian Foton-M4 capsule lands with dead "sex geckos"
Spaceflight Now:
Russian spacecraft back on Earth after six-week mission
The Guardian:
Russia confirms death of five geckos on space sex mission
IEEE Spectrum:
Two Galileo Satellites Are Parked In the Wrong Spots
Spaceflight Now:
Solar arrays deployed on stranded Galileo satellites
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX blames rocket explosion on bad sensor
Spaceflight Insider:
Scrub Of Asiasat 6 Could Impact Launch Of Spacex's Crs-4 Mission
Universe Today:
25 Days from Mars - India's MOM is in Good Health!
Discovery News:
Mars Rover Opportunity To Have Memory Wiped
Universe Today:
Rosetta Now Up Close to Comet 67P - Snapping Mapping Mosaics for Momentous Philae Landing
Spaceflight Now:
Follow-up destinations considered for New Horizons
Daily Mail:
Crash, bang, wallop - what a planet! Nasa spots huge asteroid collision that could result in new Earth-like body
The Guardian:
Ardbeg distillery anticipates zero gravity single malt's return to Earth
Space.com:
What to Wear in Space: Spacesuit Chic with Final Frontier Design
New Scientist:
Soviet dog spacesuit for pooches with the right stuff
Gizmodo:
US Video: Unmanned F-16 jet dodges a live missile for the first time
Gizmodo:
New Panoramic Images Show Area 51's New Mystery Hangar Is Gigantic
LABOR DAY WEEKEND EDITION: August 30 through September 1, 2014
Gizmodo:
Physicists Want To Know If We're All Actually Living in a Hologram
Universe Today:
What Time is It in the Universe?
Space.com:
Proton Fusion, the Sun's Power Source, Explained (Infographic)
Popular Science:
The Weird Ways Of Superfluid Helium
BBC News:
Robotics: How machines see the world
Business Week:
Robots That Show Their Softer Side
Gizmag:
DeepFlight Dragon set to usher in the era of the personal submarine
Gizmodo:
Watch This Cloud Of Rusty Balls Shape-Shift Into an Airborne Labyrinth
Daily Mail:
Watch the incredible walking fish that reveals how our ancestors left the water to take their first steps on land
Daily Mail:
Get down to the dinosaur disco: Prehistoric 'social area' in Utah packed with over 200 prehistoric tracks from ten different animals set to open to the public
Daily Mail:
Did this dinosaur nest have a 'babysitter'? 120 million-year-old fossils reveal older sibling looked after its brothers and sisters
Daily Mail:
Farmers unearth 60,000-year-old MAMMOTH in family gravel pit: Rare skeleton of giant Ice Age creature is 90% complete
Stuff NZ:
Toad personalities key to territorial takeover
The Guardian:
From the archive, 29 August 1961: Why chimps are no chumps
Daily Mail:
No ordinary toddler: Researchers find the young brains of our ancestors did not experience 'growth spurt' - making them less human than we thought
Daily Mail:
Stone Age spears were as lethal as BULLETS: Stone-tipped weapons made large wounds to bring down big game
The Atlantic:
The Other Neanderthal
Live Science:
Ancient Arabian Stones Hint at How Humans Migrated Out of Africa
Daily Mail:
The hard life of Kennewick Man - the first American - is revealed: Mysterious 9,000-year-old nomad had cracked ribs, a spear in his hip and a wrecked shoulder
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Kennewick Man Finally Freed to Share His Secrets
Science Magazine:
The strange history of the North American Arctic
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the ESSEX sarcophagus: Auctioneer discovers 3,000-year-old cobweb-covered coffin lid inside a wall
Daily Mail:
Could Greece's mystery tomb lie intact? Well-preserved headless sphinxes hint that grave dating back to Alexander the Great may be untouched
Daily Mail:
Game over for Greece's mystery grave: Tomb raiders plundered site in antiquity - dashing hopes of finding artefacts dating back to Alexander the Great's reign
Smithsonian Magazine:
New Analysis Suggests Utah's Famous Rock Art Is Surprisingly Recent
Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah's famous Canyonlands rock art unexpectedly recent
Daily Mail:
Grave of 'giant' warlord horseman revealed: Elaborate 11th century burial shows warrior lost left arm in his final battle
Smithsonian Magazine:
Gift from Charles Darwin found in Danish museum
Daily Mail:
Archaeologists uncover two ancient Mayan cities dating back to 600-1000AD that were hidden in the Mexican jungle
The History Blog:
Two Mayan cities found in Yucatan jungle
Smithsonian Magazine:
Your Guide to the Three Weeks of 1814 That We Today Call the War of 1812
Gizmodo:
The Overgrown, Disused Railway That Still Runs Around Paris
io9:
A Historic Experiment Shows Why We Might Not Want to Debate Fanatics
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Blockbuster World War I Film that Brought Home the Traumatic Impact of War
Air & Space Magazine:
Diary of a World War I Ace
io9:
The Secret German Scheme To Invade America Before The First World War
The History Blog:
Action Comics #1 shatters record at auction
io9:
Secrets of the Manhattan Project Leaked 1500 Times During World War II
Live Science:
Photos of 'Yeti Footprints' Hit the Auction Block
Air & Space Magazine:
The Great Big, Beautiful Tomorrow
Inside Science:
Half The World's Languages May Be Endangered
Gizmag:
In Photos: Highlights from the Quail and Rolex Monterey Motorsports events
Smithsonian Magazine:
10 Historic Canal Towns to Visit That Aren't Venice
IEEE Spectrum:
Electromagnetic Warfare Is Here
August 29, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
NASA commits to developing new heavy-lift rocket
Space.com:
Space Launch System: NASA's Giant Rocket Explained (Infographic)
Space.com:
Photos: NASA's Space Launch System for Deep Space Flights
Space.com:
Space Launch System Launch | Animated Simulation
Air & Space Magazine:
The Rockets That Inspired Francis Scott Key
Jalopnik:
This Rare Photo Shows The Most Sensitive Part Of A Combat Aircraft
Gizmodo:
Pilot takes off from car road in the Alps to do some crazy acrobatics
io9:
The Strangest Hot-Air Balloons To Ever Grace The Skies
Air & Space Magazine:
Where NASA Learned to Spacewalk
Air & Space Magazine:
When Sputnik Crashed in Wisconsin
Air & Space Magazine:
Cancelled: The Gregor FDB-1
Gizmodo:
Of Course the First Object Ever Recovered From Orbit Was for Spying
io9:
This 1965 Soviet Documentary About Lunar Colonization Is Astounding
August 28, 2014
Daily Mail:
Blast Off! Nasa says agency is 'firmly committed' to building world's biggest rocket - but admits it might not make its first test flight until 2018
Spaceflight Now:
NASA commits to developing new heavy-lift rocket
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX calls off launch to 'triple-check' rocket
Universe Today:
Rosetta's Comet Looms In The Dark In Close-Up Spacecraft Shot
Daily Mail:
Could airships replace satellites? Nasa planning $4m contest to create giant blimps that could float at 65,000 feet and house surveillance equipment and space telescopes
Daily Mail:
Disney wants to patent puppets controlled by DRONES: Terrifying marionettes could soar through the skies, application reveals
August 27, 2014
Universe Today:
Rocket 'Anomaly' Blamed For Putting European Navigation Satellites Into Wrong Orbits
NASA-Spaceflight.com:
SpaceX makes late call to delay ASIASAT-6 launch
Daily Mail:
Could a robot army help us find alien life? Nasa's ant-like 'swarmies' will scour hostile planets for water and rocket fuel
Discovery News:
Weird Microscopic Structure Found In Mars Meteorite
Daily Mail:
Water clouds discovered beyond the solar system for the FIRST time
Science Magazine:
Water clouds tentatively detected just 7 light-years from Earth
Gizmag:
Northrop Grumman gives early look at its XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane design
Gizmag:
Goodyear's new Wingfoot One airship officially goes into service
Gizmag:
New control method enables drones to land autonomously on moving vehicles
Popular Science:
Watch A Robot Ride A Hovercycle
Gizmag:
Scientists developing remote-control cyborg moths
Air & Space Magazine:
How the 737 Got Its Hamster Mouth
August 26, 2014
The Space Review:
Orbital manoeuvres in the dark: Apollo 11's UFO
Daily Mail:
Pentagon's top-secret hypersonic weapon explodes in mystery Alaska fireball: Flaming missile that can hit anywhere on Earth in an hour lights up the sky for hundreds of miles around
Daily Mail:
Where will the Rosetta mission land? Esa shortlists five possible sites for the first-ever landing on a comet
Universe Today:
5 Landing Site Candidates Selected for Rosetta's Historic Philae Comet Lander
Spaceflight Now:
Board to report on Galileo launch mishap in two weeks
Universe Today:
Curiosity Skips Drilling, Resumes Mount Sharp Trek after Pounding Slippery Rock at Martian Valley of Slippery Sands
Universe Today:
India's Maiden Mars Mission One Month out from Red Planet Arrival
Spaceflight Now:
New Horizons, on course for Pluto, crosses Neptune orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Concept for XS-1 Military Space Plane Unveiled
August 25, 2014
Scientific American:
Neptune Visit Hits 25th Anniversary
Daily Mail:
Take a scenic tour of Neptune's moon: 'Best-ever' global colour map of Triton created from restored 1989 film
Daily Mail:
Is this America's new 'space taxi'? Boeing blasts into the lead in race to replace the shuttle
Gizmodo:
Northrop Grumman Shows Off Its Experimental Spaceplane Concept
Daily Mail:
Elon, we have a problem! SpaceX rocket EXPLODES during Central Texas test flight in major failure for inventor and Tesla chief Musk's space transport company
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX test mishap prompts delay of Falcon 9 launch
Daily Mail:
The £4.4 billion Brussels space fiasco: Now European Union's bid to create publicly-funded rival to GPS goes wrong as satellites are blasted into the wrong orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Inquiry into Galileo launch anomaly to focus on Fregat
Space Daily:
Electric Sparks May Alter Evolution of Lunar Soil
Air & Space Magazine:
Cubesats to the Moon (Mars and Saturn, Too)
Universe Today:
Surf Saturn's Rings In Amazing Raw Cassini Images From This Week
Daily Mail:
Saturn's rings formed 4.4 billion years ago: New evidence suggests they are '10 times' older than previously thought
Gizmodo:
Why NASA Launched One of the Blackest Materials Ever Made Into Space
Gizmodo:
Beautiful Images of Astronauts Releasing Nanosatellites Into Space
io9:
The Destruction Of A Spacecraft In A High-Definition Timelapse
Gizmag:
New control method enables drones to land autonomously on moving vehicles
Gizmag:
Scientists developing remote-control cyborg moths
Gizmodo:
How an alien race may transform barren worlds into living paradises
WEEKEND EDITION: August 23 through August 24, 2014
Daily Mail:
Quantum Gravity Expert Says "Philosophical Superficiality" Has Harmed Physics
Wired:
This Guy Just Built a Mind-Controlled Robot
Daily Mail:
Hitchbot has made it! Welly-wearing robot completes his journey across Canada - and no one tried to steal him
Gizmag:
World's fastest camera captures 4.4 trillion frames per second
The Atlantic:
A Secret Code in Google Translate?
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Weird, 500 Million-Year-Old Spiky Worm With Legs Actually Has a Descendant
Live Science:
Ancient Toothless Pterosaurs Once Dominated the World's Skies
Smithsonian Magazine:
100 Years After Her Death, Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon, Still Resonates
Science Magazine:
First-ever illustrated global bird classification reveals 400 new species
Science Magazine:
Mysterious penguin disease spreads to Antarctica
Daily Mail:
Abandoned baby dolphin is adopted by a female from a completely different species
Science Magazine:
Pygmies' small stature evolved many times
Daily Mail:
Neanderthals were expert butchers: Ancient hunters only took the choicest cuts from mammoths, bones reveal
Daily Mail:
Neanderthals and modern humans 'overlapped' in Europe for up to 5,400 years - and DID interbreed
Archaelogy Magazine:
America, in the Beginning
Archaelogy Magazine:
Erbil Revealed
Daily Mail:
Why was Stonehenge built? 'Groundbreaking' discovery of 15 new monuments suggests the answer could lie BENEATH the ground
The History Blog:
Wealth of pottery found in Corinth tomb
The History Blog:
Guercino masterpiece stolen from Modena church
Daily Mail:
The real-life Uncle Sam: How an Upstate New York slaughterhouse owner came to symbolize a nation
The History Blog:
Victorian railway flying arches saved and reinstalled
Gizmodo:
Zipping from San Francisco to Oakland in 5 Minutes
Air & Space Magazine:
Artifacts of the Great War
Wired:
The WWI Battleships That Saved (And Doomed) the British Empire
Popular Science:
How The Panama Canal Changed The Shape Of War
Smithsonian Magazine:
How an American Missionary Helped Capture the First Panda Given to the U.S.
Gizmodo:
Less than two percent of the Hiroshima bomb's uranium actually detonated
Gizmodo:
Russia's Giant Soviet Era Lightning Machine Is Terrifying
Gizmag:
Largest ship ever built for the Royal Australian Navy begins final sea trials
Gizmag:
In Photos: Highlights from Pebble Beach's concept lawn and Concours d'Elegance
Gizmag:
Best from the block: Highlights from the Pebble Beach collectible car auctions
Gizmodo:
These guys are so strong that they can walk invisible walls in the air
Gizmodo:
A Guide To Surviving Your First Burning Man
August 22, 2014
Space.com:
European Probe Survives Daring Dive Through Venus Atmosphere
Popular Science:
This is What Curiosity Looks Like After Two Years On Mars
Popular Science:
When NASA Launched Stardust, They Had No Way To Retrieve Its Samples
Popular Science:
A Volcanic Asteroid Roamed Our Solar System Billions Of Years Ago
Science Magazine:
The star that exploded at the dawn of time
Daily Mail:
Nasa megarocket that could take man to Mars is so loud it could damage nearby buildings when it blasts off
Air & Space Magazine:
Aviation's Sexiest Racer
August 21, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Russian RD-180 rocket engines delivered to ULA
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese, Polish satellites launched by Long March
Space Daily:
Life on Mars? Implications of a newly discovered mineral-rich structure
Scientific American:
Sierra Nevada's Space Plane in the Chase with SpaceX and Boeing to Win NASA Nod
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
This Was Your Daddy's (Or Possibly Grand-Daddy's) Space Station
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
A 1996 Plan to Use NASA's Oldest Orbiter to Make Money on the Moon
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Pluto: Doorway to the Stars (1962)
Gizmag:
VV-Plane concept designed to do some heavy lifting and revolutionize cargo transport
Wired:
The Humble WWI Biplane That Helped Launch Commercial Flight
Daily Mail:
Back, in the USSR: Inside Russia's retro 'Star City' where cosmonauts have trained for 50 years
August 20, 2014
The Huntsville Times:
Fyffe commemorates 1989 UFO sightings with annual festival Saturday
Daily Mail:
PLANKTON found in space: Sea creatures are discovered living on the exterior of the ISS
Discovery News:
Space Plane Tech Could Power Aircraft For US Military
Discovery News:
Curiosity Scrubs Mars Rock, Possible Drilling Target
ABC Australia:
Rare meteorite points to volcanism in early solar system
io9:
Now You Can Truly Appreciate the Size of Comet Churymov-Gerasimenko
New Scientist:
Just how rare is intelligent life in the universe?
Gizmag:
Robotic vehicles team up on first fully autonomous mission demonstration
Popular Science:
Autonomous X-47B Flies In Formation With Fighter Aircraft
Gizmag:
A closer look at the Malloy Aeronautics Hoverbike
Popular Science:
NASA's Greased Lightning Tests Vertical Takeoff
August 19, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Spacewalkers deploy satellite, tend to experiments
Universe Today:
One That Fell to Earth: Researchers Reveal 2012 Novoto Meteorite Took a Beating
Space.com:
Curiosity Rover on Mars Stalled by 'Hidden Valley' Sand Trap
New Scientist:
NASA's Next Mars Lander Will Peer Deep into Planet's History
Daily Mail:
Could these 'missiles' find life on Mars? Probes could be fired off to red planet to look for alien life, scientists claim
Gizmag:
A new technique may allow for the detection of moons orbiting distant exoplanets
io9:
Scientific Error Delayed the Search for Alien Life
Space.com:
Space Plane Tech Could Power Hypersonic Aircraft? for US Military
Gizmag:
VertiKUL drone "delivers" on both hovering and forward flight
Gizmodo:
How One New Drone Tech Finally Allows All-Seeing Surveillance
Gizmodo:
Unmanned Drones Landing Autonomously Next to F-18s Is a Very Big Deal
The Aviationist:
Pilots explain how the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger intercepted Soviet bombers in the 1950s
August 18, 2014
Daily Mail:
Human life could be wiped out on March 16, 2880 because a huge asteroid is hurtling towards Earth - and experts don't know how to stop it
Scientific American:
Near-Earth Asteroid Held Together by Unknown Force
Discovery News:
Interstellar Dust Discovered Inside NASA Spacecraft
Spaceflight Now:
Cygnus cargo craft flies away from space station
Universe Today:
Cygnus Commercial Cargo Ship 'Janice Voss' Finishes Resupply Mission and Departs Space Station
Universe Today:
Cygnus Cargo Carrier Concludes with Fiery Reentry Aug. 17 - Amazing Astronaut Photos
Spaceflight Now:
Rainfall research satellite begins descent from orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 booster's 'soft landing' seen in new video
Discovery News:
Mars Rolling Rock Ends Up As Standing Stone
Universe Today:
Curiosity Reverses Back from Martian Valley of Slippery Sand and Finds Fourth Rock Drilling Candidate at 'Bonanza King'
New Scientist:
Earth's early life endured long asteroid bombardment
New Scientist:
Space is the place to solve the riddle of life, maybe
Jalopnik:
The One USAF Thunderbird Demo Plane That Suited Up For Combat
Jalopnik:
The Prettiest B-17 Flying Fortress Was The XB-38
Gizmodo:
The Secret US Drone Program that Killed JFK's Eldest Brother
WEEKEND EDITION: August 16 through August 17, 2014
Universe Today:
Parallel Universes and the Many-Worlds Theory
Gizmodo:
A Forgotten Einstein Model of the Universe Describes the Big Crunch
IEEE Spectrum:
A Thousand Kilobots Self-Assemble Into Complex Shapes
Daily Mail:
Explore Tate Britain after dark: Scheme lets art lovers remotely drive robots around the museum once everyone has gone home
Live Science:
Fire Stone: First Fire-Scorched Petrified Wood Found
Live Science:
Gone! Why Ancient Fractal Creatures Vanished
Smithsonian Magazine:
New Desert-Dwelling Pterosaur Unearthed in Brazil
Science Magazine:
The real mountain lions of LA County
io9:
Evidence Challenges the "Out of Africa" Timeline of Human Evolution
Daily Mail:
Mastodon tusks and primitive tool discovered by fishermen suggest humans from Europe settled North America THOUSANDS of years before previously thought
Daily Mail:
Ancient tomb reveals that Egyptians were mummifying their dead 1,500 years earlier than previously thought
Live Science:
Origins of Hierarchy: How Egyptian Pharaohs Rose to Power
Daily Mail:
Kent's 'Stonehenge' discovered: 'Sacred' path that leads to a Neolithic circular ditch discovered in Sittingbourne
Daily Mail:
'Extremely important' ancient tomb discovered in Greece: Ornate burial chamber may contain remains of a senior official from the time of Alexander the Great
The History Blog:
Entrance to "extremely important" Amphipolis tomb found
Live Science:
'Evil Eye' Box and Other Ancient Treasures Found in Nile River Cemetery
The History Blog:
Ancient instrument found in 7th c. Kazakhstan burial
Daily Mail:
Blast from the past! Civil War-era cannonballs detonated in New York quarry terrifying locals
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Riveting Art From the Frontlines of World War I Has Gone Largely Unseen for Decades
Gizmodo:
Making the poster of The Shining was as intense as the movie itself
Gizmodo:
The Rise and Fall of the Fireman's Pole
Gizmodo:
New York City's Futuristic Skybridges Are a Thing of the Past
Gizmodo:
How to Hide a Nuclear Missile
Daily Mail:
Meet Simon, the world's first smartphone that could fax, draw and even had 'apps': IBM's mobile celebrates its 20th birthday
Gizmodo:
The Rise and Fall of America's Greatest Convicted Counterfeiter
Gizmodo:
18 High-Tech Warships From the Future That Rule the Seas Today
August 15, 2014
The Guardian:
The real Men in Black, Hollywood and the great UFO cover-up
Universe Today:
Cygnus Commercial Cargo Ship 'Janice Voss' Finishes Resupply Mission and Departs Space Station
New Scientist:
Earth's early life endured long asteroid bombardment
The Aviationist:
Russian Su-34 attack planes "conquered" the North Pole.
August 14, 2014
Popular Science:
NASA's Super-Black Material Arrives In Space
Spaceflight Now:
New commercial eye in the sky launched from California
New Scientist:
Small, sticky asteroids could be extra dangerous
Daily Mail:
Pluto and its moon seen like never before: Footage of Charon captured as probe hurtles towards the dwarf planet
Discovery News:
Could We Detect An Alien Civilization's Waste Heat?
Popular Science:
Vertical Takeoff Plane Design Flies Three Times Faster Than Helicopters
August 13, 2014
Daily Mail:
WATCH: Amazing footage lets you ride Nasa's 'space saucer' as it zooms 180,000ft above Earth at FOUR times the speed of sound
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese surveillance satellites launched into orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Europe's automated cargo craft makes final service call
Universe Today:
Pictures: Punishing Mars Plateau For Curiosity Rover And Damaged Wheels
Discovery News:
Cassini Watches Clouds Blow Over Titan's Sea
New York Times:
Oversize Expectations for the Airbus A380
CNN:
One of the coolest airline museums you've never heard of
August 12, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Fleeing the dead
Melbourne Herald Sun:
Farmer may hold UFO clue to 36-year Valentich plane mystery
Scranton Times-Tribune:
UFO lore still hovers over Carbondale
Daily Mail:
Blackouts, electrical failure and travel chaos: Electromagnetic pulses could cost trillions and affect millions, scientist warns
Gizmag:
ISEE-3 makes lunar flyby, heads back into deep space
Gizmag:
ISEE-3 makes lunar flyby, heads back into deep space
Spaceflight Now:
NASA's Pluto-bound probe sees its distant target
Discovery News:
US And Indian Spacecraft Rapidly Approach Mars
IEEE Spectrum:
Fully Autonomous Telescope Captures Clear Images of Exoplanets from Earth
Space Daily:
More Tasks for China's Moon Mission
Astrobiology Magazine:
Red Dwarf Stars Might Be Best Places to Discover Alien Life
The DEW Line:
A very rare pair
Air & Space Magazine:
Mountain Training for Helicopter Pilots
The Aviationist:
Pilots explain how Navy's F-4 Phantoms intercepted Soviet Bombers near U.S. aircraft carriers
August 11, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
New commercial eye in the sky launching Wednesday
Spaceflight Now:
Rosetta's decade of exploration
Daily Mail:
Is the moon's core MOLTEN? Centre of satellite is wrapped in a layer of soft rock, claim scientists
Discovery News:
DNews: A Look At The Top Theories For Terraforming Mars
Discovery News:
Can We Call Pluto And Charon A 'Binary Planet' Yet?
Gizmodo:
Awesome windowless jet makes its fuselage transparent using displays
The Aviationist:
This photo shows how F-22s get rid of external fuel tanks to achieve full stealthiness
Gizmag:
In pictures: Oshkosh EAA Airventure 2014
Daily Mail:
Side by side, the last two flying Lancasters: Bomber Command veterans turn out to salute Canadian plane visiting UK and remember their friends who didn't make it
Gizmodo:
Why Is AREA 51 Building A Mysterious New Hangar And What Will It Hide?
WEEKEND EDITION: August 9 through August 10, 2014
The Guardian:
The bosons that demanded a Higgs
Scientific American:
Fact or Fiction?: Energy Can Neither Be Created Nor Destroyed
Financial Times:
Quantum physics: the curious case of a neutron and its spin
Ars Technica:
The never-ending conundrums of classical physics
IEEE Spectrum:
Self-Folding Origami Robot Goes From Flat to Walking in Four Minutes
Washington Post:
Hitchhiking robot has survived one third of journey across Canada
Daily Mail:
Now that's an extra pair of hands! Shoulder-mounted system gives wearers an added pair of limbs to carry out difficult tasks
Science Magazine:
Ancient worms may have saved Earth
Tech Times:
Venezuela finds its first dinosaur: Fox-sized fossil is 200 million years old
Tech Times:
Dinosaur the size of a dog in Venezuela took advantage of extinction
Discovery News:
First Venezuelan Dino Was a Social Creature
Dallas Morning News:
Dallas scientist, colleagues treasure dinosaur prints in Alaska
Houston Chronicle:
Texas scientist makes 'exquisite' dinosaur find
Global Post:
Site in Spain hailed as "mega-trove" of dinosaur footprints
National Geographic:
Dinosaur Footprints on the Roof? Of the World!
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Ten Biggest Dinosaur Mysteries We Have Yet to Solve
Daily Mail:
The mega penguin that was taller than a MAN: 40-million-year-old 'colossus' was more than SIX FEET long
Stuff NZ:
A library of the Ice Age
Gizmodo:
Lemmings don't commit mass suicide, Disney pushed them off a cliff
Haaretz:
Archaeologists find grim proof of man's earliest war
Live Science:
6,500-Year-Old 'Noah' Skeleton Discovered in Museum Basement
The History Blog:
Four schoolboys find 4,300-year-old gold ornament
The History Blog:
Carving defaced by Akhenaten found in tomb
Daily Mail:
Ancient coins from 500 B.C. will be returned to Greece after being found during New York auction
Science Daily:
Excavation of ancient well yields insight into Etruscan, Roman and medieval times
Daily Mail:
Chinese king's mausoleum unearthed: 2,100-year-old tomb found filled with 10,000 treasures - including rare coins, chariots and even a jade coffin
The History Blog:
Plough turns up rare Pictish symbol stone
Stuff NZ:
Wealth of discoveries at Taputapuatea stream
The History Blog:
James IV and Margaret Tudor wedding chest found
Gizmodo:
This Giant Searchlight Once Scanned L.A. From the Mountains Above
Wired - Danger Room:
Nobody Walks in L.A.: The Rise of Cars and the Monorails That Never Were
The History Blog:
WWI flamethrower excavation and reconstruction
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Collection of Rare Color Photographs Depicts MLK Leading the Chicago Freedom Movement
Gizmodo:
The Enormous Mission to Rescue the World's Largest Tunneling Machine
Gizmodo:
Johnny Appleseed was real, and he got frontiersmen hammered
Gizmodo:
The Strange, Sad Story of the Army's New Billion-Dollar Camo Pattern
Gizmodo:
The Power Went Out At This Antarctic Research Station While It Was -67F
The Atlantic:
The Quarantine Next Door
BBC News:
Anthropology: The sad truth about uncontacted tribes
National Geographic:
Anthropology Beyond the Human: An Amazon Tribe's Deep Connection With the Rain Forest
August 8, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Actually testing the theory?
Melbourne Herald Sun:
Westall 'UFO' incident was actually government radiation testing, reports reveal
IEEE Spectrum:
NASA's Abandoned ISEE-3 Spacecraft To Fly Past Moon
Space Daily:
US EVAa Delayed; Crew Preps For Russian EVA, Robonaut Upgrades
Space.com:
The U.S. Navy Just Fished NASA's Orion Spaceship Out of the Pacific (Photos)
Popular Science:
Everyone Hates NASA's Asteroid Capture Program
Popular Science:
China's Next Generation Jetliner Takes Next Big Step
io9:
Did Astronauts Returning From the Moon Really Pass Through Customs?
The Aviationist:
"I was sitting on top of a flying A-6" The story of a lucky Intruder crew member who survived a partial ejection from a KA-6D
The Aviationist:
The story of the pilot who flew the North American X-15 experimental rocket aircraft at the edge of outer space
August 7, 2014
New Scientist:
Cool your jets: NASA's quantum spaceship is doubtful
Daily Mail:
Rosetta has arrived! Probe successfully goes into orbit around comet after a series of nail-biting maneuvers
Discovery News:
Rosetta Probe Makes Historic Comet Rendezvous
Universe Today:
Rosetta Arrives at 'Scientific Disneyland' for Ambitious Study of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after 10 Year Voyage
Wired U.K.:
How Rosetta caught up with a comet in a high-speed space chase
Discovery News:
Meet Rosetta's Beautiful Lumpy Comet: Photos
Space Daily:
Dawn navigates mini-asteroid belt
New Scientist:
Saturn moon may host its own Dead Sea
Universe Today:
Where Exactly Is Pluto? Pinpoint Precision Needed For New Horizons Mission
Stuff NZ:
Blind Kiwi off to US Space Camp
Scientific American:
The Copernicus Complex: A Primer
August 6, 2014
Discovery News:
After 2 Years On Mars, Curiosity Rover Aims For Huge Mountain
Discovery News:
7 Intimate Close Encounters With Comets: Photos
Wired - Danger Room:
The Marines' Self-Flying Chopper Survives a Three-Year Tour
Gizmag:
Big air: Highlights from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014
Popular Science:
When NASA Repurposed The Vehicle Assembly Building For Parachute Tests
August 5, 2014
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the Nazca Lines deepens: Gales and sandstorms reveal geoglyphs of a 'snake and llama' in the Peruvian desert
Spaceflight Now:
Space shuttle relics ready to roar again in Mississippi
Stuff NZ:
Australian woman leads NASA's search for life on Mars
Astrobiology Magazine:
Robotic Rock Climbers Could Uncover Clues to Mars' Past
Daily Mail:
Rosetta's best view yet: Esa releases incredible images of comet from just 620 miles away as the spacecraft closes in
Discovery News:
Jupiter Moon Io Unleashes Cataclysmic Eruptions
Universe Today:
New Image Captures one of the Brightest Volcanoes Ever Seen in the Solar System
Scientific American:
Is Earth's Life Unique in the Universe?
Popular Science:
6 Weird Ways To Hunt For Aliens
August 4, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Religion's new frontier
Daily Mail:
Nasa confirms 'impossible' fuel-free thrusters DO work - and they could halve the size and weight of satellites
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 rocket deploys new GPS navigation satellite
Space Daily:
China's Circumlunar Spacecraft Unmasked
Spaceflight Now:
Sample cache, oxygen generator to fly to Mars
New Scientist:
Next rover will pull oxygen from Martian air
Spaceflight Now:
Rosetta's camera seeing more of cometary destination
Spaceflight Now:
Rosetta's target comet too warm to be an icy world
Daily Mail:
Two's company! Researchers say 'companion' planets could be key to finding extraterrestrial life
Universe Today:
Companion Planet Could Keep Alien Earths Warm In Old Age: Study
Gizmag:
Perlan ll project aims to fly a glider to the edge of space
Daily Mail:
Aviation? It's plane sailing! New futuristic seaplane that can hit 120mph will go on sale for £110,000
Seattle Post Intelligencer:
First Boeing 747 finally returning to glory
Smithsonian Magazine:
Unmanned Drones Have Been Around Since World War I
Wales Online:
A "hellish noise": Fighter jets causing sonic booms in the skies above Wales
WEEKEND EDITION: August 2 through August 3, 2014
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the 'Cheshire Cat' of quantum physics solved: Scientists manage to separate a particle from its spin
Daily Mail:
Watch Schrödinger's cat die (or survive): Physicists capture quantum particles' bizarre wanderings for the first time
IEEE Spectrum:
Soccer Robots Score on Humans at RoboCup: GOOOOOOAL!
Daily Mail:
The beauty of fossilised insects: Book showcases the ancient bugs that have been overlooked in favour of dinosaurs
Daily Mail:
How dinosaurs shrank over 50 million years: Family tree maps the transformation of giant beasts into agile birds
The Guardian:
Dinosaurs shrank into birds over 50m years
Popular Science:
Octopus Broods Its Eggs For 4.5 Years, Longest For Any Animal
Daily Mail:
The secret language of PENGUINS decoded: African birds make six distinct sounds when hungry, happy and looking for a mate
Live Science:
Science Confirms: Giant Anteaters Can Kill People
Daily Mail:
Archaeologists reunite Ice Age lion figurine with its head: Missing fragment joined with model 40,000 years after it was first carved
Live Science:
In 1858, People Said the Telegraph Was 'Too Fast for the Truth'
Smithsonian Magazine:
The True Story of Lawrence of Arabia
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Origin of the Tale that Gavrilo Princip Was Eating a Sandwich When He Assassinated Franz Ferdinand
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Fleet of Taxis Did Not Really Save Paris From the Germans During World War I
Smithsonian Magazine:
Closing the Pigeon Gap
Smithsonian Magazine:
Document Deep Dive: What Did the Zimmermann Telegram Say?
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Posters That Sold World War I to the American Public
Smithsonian Magazine:
Before Rosie the Riveter, Farmerettes Went to Work
Smithsonian Magazine:
8 Famous People Who Missed the Lusitania
Smithsonian Magazine:
Faces of War
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Shock of War
IEEE Spectrum:
World War I: The War of the Inventors
Gizmodo:
It's a Miracle WWI US Naval Destroyers Managed to Hit Anything at All
The Guardian:
Influenza: How the Great War helped create the greatest pandemic ever known
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Story of the WWI Christmas Truce
Gizmodo:
Watch the 1969 Pitch That Convinced AT&T To Adopt Its Iconic Logo
Daily Mail:
The apocalyptic 'train graveyard' unveiled: Photographer captures images of more than 70 abandoned trains in North Carolina forest
io9:
Play Spacewar!, The Pentagon-Funded Video Game From 1962
August 1, 2014
Daily Mail:
From blackouts to transport chaos: Solar superstorms pose a 'catastrophic' threat to life on Earth, warns scientist
Daily Mail:
Nasa's 2020 Mars Rover mission revealed: A device that produces OXYGEN and an alien-hunting scanner among the instruments making their way to the red planet
Discovery News:
Rebooted Spacecraft To Tackle Interplanetary Science
Discovery News:
Here's What NASA's Next Generation Mars Rover Will Do
New Scientist:
Next rover will pull oxygen from Martian air
Astrobiology Magazine:
Mysteries of a Magnetic Mercury
Universe Today:
New Image of Rosetta's Comet Reveals So Much More
Popular Science:
China Is Building The World's Largest Sea Plane
Air & Space Magazine:
The Accidental Record Setter
IEEE Spectrum:
Frank Malina: America's Forgotten Rocketeer
July 31, 2014
Air & Space Magazine:
America's Next Spaceship
Discovery News:
SpaceShipTwo Resumes Test Flights
Scientific American:
NASA May Put a Greenhouse on the Red Planet
New Scientist:
Leaving Earth made the moon lemon-shaped
Daily Mail:
How the Earth got a facelift: Incredible animations reveal how our planet was pounded by asteroids and comets when it was young
ABC Australia:
Early Earth could have been habitable
Air & Space Magazine:
The First Close-Up Photos of the Moon
July 30, 2014
The Local.de:
Huge Bavarian crop circle puzzles crowds
New Scientist:
Europe makes final delivery run to space station
Space.com:
How Europe's ATV Space Cargo Ship Works (Infographic)
Space.com:
Europe to Launch Robotic Space Plane Prototype in November
Universe Today:
Venus Express Survives Close Encounter With Hellish Atmosphere
Space Daily:
NASA's Mars Spacecraft Maneuvers to Prepare for Close Comet Flyby
Universe Today:
Scientists Discover 101 Geysers Erupting at Saturn's Intriguing Icy Moon Enceladus
Popular Science:
Where Do Geysers On Enceladus Erupt From? Probably A Buried Ocean
Space Daily:
Titan Offers Clues to Atmospheres of Hazy Planets
Daily Mail:
Could humans colonise an alien planet? You'd need to send 40,000 people on a huge starship to ensure genetic diversity, claims expert
Slate:
Boom and Bust
July 29, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Space surveillance craft launched by Delta 4 rocket
Stuff NZ:
US 'neighbourhood watch' satellites take off
Spaceflight Now:
Ground teams restore contact with orbiting geckos
Universe Today:
NASA Spacecraft Is Now Buzzing Mercury 62 Miles Above The Surface
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/#ixzz38pbGDcv5
Discovery News:
Solar System Record: Mars Rover Drives 25 Miles
Daily Mail:
Will a comet wipe out Nasa's Mars probes? Debris from close flyby could cause 'significant damage' to spacecraft
Daily Mail:
Alright, geyser! Nasa spots 101 euptions on the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus
Popular Science:
The Moon Could Be Littered With Fossils From Earth
National Public Radio:
Close Encounters Of The Radio Kind? Mystery Bursts Baffle Astronomers
July 28, 2014
Gizmag:
NASA seeks commercial satellites to talk to Mars
Daily Mail:
Atlast (literally)! Nasa to build the world's most powerful telescope - and it could be our key to finding alien life
Discovery News:
Mars Missions Preparing for Thrilling Comet Close Shave
Space.com:
Rough Road Ahead: Rocky Mars Terrain Challenges Curiosity Rover
Air & Space Magazine:
Where to Buy a WWI Aeroplane
Air & Space Magazine:
The Thrill of Flying the World's Smallest Jet
Air & Space Magazine:
When Slower Was Faster
Air & Space Magazine:
Secrets of the Skunk Works
io9:
That Time The CIA Kidnapped A Soviet Spacecraft
Air & Space Magazine:
Corsair vs. Kamikaze in 1945
Gizmodo:
NASA's Moon-Bound Geology Lab that Never Quite Got Off the Ground
Gizmodo:
Declassified: The Government's Secret Plan For a Military Moon Base
WEEKEND EDITION: July 26 through July 27, 2014
Scientific American:
A Bold Critic of the Big Bang's "Smoking Gun"
Discovery News:
Will Science Burst The Multiverse's Bubble?
Nature:
Plasma physics: The fusion upstarts
Gizmodo:
A Brief History of Pi
Daily Mail:
Was the Bahamas created by the Sahara? Iron-rich dust swept across ocean to produce islands' carbonate-rich foundations
Daily Mail:
Primordial soup that spawned life 4 billion years ago is STILL in our cells, scientists claim
Daily Mail:
First ever reptile skull mapped: 300 million-year-old creature could reveal the origin of lizards, birds and mammals
Science Magazine:
Earliest dinosaurs may have sported feathers
Daily Mail:
Buy your own Jurassic Park: 150-million-year-old 'Bird Robber' dinosaur skeleton to be auctioned
Daily Mail:
Don't mess with the T-Rex: Researchers find tyrannosaurs hunted in gangs known as a 'terror'
Archaeology Magazine:
Thousands of Earlier Stone Age Artifacts Found in South Africa
Daily Mail:
Footprints of a 36,000-year-old family discovered: Romanian cave found to hold some of Europe's oldest ever human tracks
Daily Mail:
Life in the Old Kingdom revealed: 4,300-year-old painting depicting everyday scenes found in tomb near Great Pyramid of Giza
Daily Mail:
Discovering Tutankhamun: Original diary entries and ancient sculptures dedicated to the young Egyptian pharaoh go on display
Archaeology Magazine:
The Tomb of the Silver Hands
The History Blog:
13th c. frescoes in Rome monastery opened to public
Archaeology Magazine:
Under Mexico City
Popular Science:
The Forgotten Woman Who Made Microbiology Possible
Daily Mail:
Did the USSR plant a nuclear weapon in New York City in 1950? New FBI files reveal frantic search for bomb...but was it all a ruse by the Russians?
Gizmodo:
Pong Was Never Intended For Public Release
Wired:
The Fasinatng ? Frustrating ? Fascinating History of Autocorrect
io9:
The All-American Expo That Invaded Cold War Russia
io9:
Plastic Homes from the Days When Plastic Was the Future
Daily Mail:
Life after a nuclear war revealed: Computer models reveal Earth would suffer a 20-year-long winter and worldwide famine
July 25, 2014
Daily Mail:
Phew! Scientists reveal double solar superstorm that narrowly missed Earth in 2012 could have 'changed life as we know it'
Spaceflight Now:
Officials unable to contact animal-carrying spaceship
Science Magazine:
Comet fireworks on Mars?
Astrobiology Magazine:
Voyager spacecraft might not have reached interstellar space
Universe Today:
Hubble Finds 3 (Relatively) Dry Exoplanets, Raising Questions About Water Outside The Solar System
Popular Science:
Why DARPA Wants An Experimental Spaceplane
Space.com:
Apollo 11's Vintage Tech: The Most Amazing Moon Landing Innovations
io9:
"I disappear behind the moon, I am alone now, truly alone"
July 24, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Careful what you ask for
Spaceflight Now:
Russian cargo carrier begins journey to space station
Daily Mail:
Start your engines! Nasa set to fire rocket that will take man to Mars
Popular Science:
Big Pic: A Six-Foot-Long Iron Meteorite On Mars
Daily Mail:
'Earth-like' soil spotted on Mars - and experts hail 'real possibility' there is STILL microbial life on the red planet
Popular Science:
The Air Force Is Working On A New Bomber
Gizmag:
Taranis drone demonstrates stealth in latest test
Gizmodo:
The Fighter Jet We Could Have Built Instead of the F-35
Gizmodo:
These Massive Hangars in Orange County Once Housed WWII Airships
Gizmag:
For sale: The fastest machine ever flown within the Earth's atmosphere
Gizmodo:
Buzz Aldrin: Second Man on the Moon, But First to Take a Space Selfie
July 23, 2014
Universe Today:
Watch the Falcon 9 Rocket Booster Descend into the Ocean for its "Soft" Landing
New Scientist:
Galaxy mapper's first discovery: surprise space debris
Daily Mail:
Fly me across the moon! Nasa craft captures stunning new 3D view of Apollo 11 landing site on the lunar surface
Discovery News:
Why Has The Sun Gone So Quiet?
Daily Mail:
Exoplanet with the longest year discovered: Kepler-421b orbits its star every 704 days - and this changes what we know about gas giants
Daily Mail:
To boldly GROW where no plant has gone before: Japanese artist sends bonsai and flower arrangement to the edge of space
July 22, 2014
Space Daily:
'Doomsday sputnik': Russia said to launch new missile-attack warning satellite
Spaceflight Now:
Payload set for launch aboard next Atlas 5 rocket
Discovery News:
Oceans Make Exoplanets Stable For Alien Life
Daily Mail:
The birth of rocketry: Fascinating patents reveal the forgotten genius who paved the way for the Space Age 100 years ago
Discovery News:
Return to Earth: Rarely Seen Photos Inside Apollo 11
July 21, 2014
Huntsville Times:
What was the UFO the Apollo 11 astronauts spotted en route to the moon?
Spaceflight Now:
Live animals launched on two-month space mission
Spaceflight Now:
European mission to space station postponed
Daily Mail:
Could the man in the moon give humans a lunar base? Nasa studies huge lunar pits that make up 'face' - and says we could one day live in them
Discovery News:
DNews: Voyager 1 Not Even CLOSE To Leaving Solar System
Daily Mail:
Flying cars, unmanned jets, flexible fuel tanks and Boeing stunts among the highlights of the Farnborough Air Show
Universe Today:
What Does The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Site Look Like Today?
Discovery News:
Moon Landing: Rarely Seen Photos Inside Apollo 11
WEEKEND EDITION: July 19 through July 20, 2014
Daily Mail:
Semper Fi, boy: Google's robot dog 'Cujo' goes on patrol with the Marines as it carries up to 400lbs of their kit and weapons
Popular Science:
Is IBM Making Plans For The End Of Silicon?
Stuff NZ:
The four-winged dinosaur ... that looked like a weird turkey
Astrobiology Magazine:
Discovery of Neandertal trait in ancient skull raises new questions about human evolution
Daily Mail:
The car boot bargain that turned out to be TREASURE: £3 tool revealed as 4,500-year-old ancient Egyptian hammer - and it could fetch up to £4,000
io9:
The Confederacy Almost Had a Helicopter During the Civil War
io9:
The Remarkable Predictions And Inventions Of Sir Winston Churchill
Gizmodo:
U-Boats, Spies, and White Magic: The Invention of Wireless Cryptography
Daily Mail:
Now that's a cat fight! Archaeologists believe these sharpened claws were part of ancient costume used in ritual combat... and the loser was sacrificed to the gods
Daily Mail:
Letters from hell soaked in blood and tears: At the outbreak of war, the Daily Mail invited readers to send in letters for publication, the response was overwhelming
Daily Mail:
Life in the Killing Fields revealed: How soldiers survived in the trenches and spent their time concocting their own slang
Daily Mail:
Revealed: The unsung heroics of the New Yorker who helped bring down one of the BIGGEST spy rings in American history and helped defeat the Nazis in WWII
July 18, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Orbital Sciences cargo craft arrives at space station
Universe Today:
Cargo Ship's Fiery Demise Could Help Predict What Happens When The Space Station Burns Up
Spaceflight Now:
Rosetta sees surprising shape to spinning comet
Daily Mail:
Could the man in the moon give humans a lunar base? Nasa studies huge lunar pits that make up 'face' - and says humans could one day live in them
Daily Mail:
We come in peace! Watch the Curiosity rover blasting rocks on the red planet with nuclear powered lasers
The Aviationist:
[Video] U-2 spyplane landing as seen from chase car
Universe Today:
'Moonwalk One' Makes Us Excited About Apollo 11 All Over Again
July 17, 2014
CBS News:
45 years ago, Apollo 11 blasted off into history
NBC News:
Memories of Apollo 11's Launch Still Burn Brightly, 45 Years Later
Digital Journal:
'Good luck and Godspeed' - 45 years after the Apollo 11 launch
NBC News:
Apollo 11 Plus 45: How Neil Armstrong Got Ready for the Moon
Universe Today:
45 Years Ago Today: Relive the Historic Apollo 11 Launch
International Business Times:
Apollo 11 Launch Anniversary: History and Bizarre Facts About Moon Mission
Daily News:
The 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch
Discovery News:
Trans-Lunar: Rarely Seen Photos Inside Apollo 11
Discovery News:
Moonwalkers: Stunning Photos From Apollo 11
International Business Times:
Apollo 11 Launch Anniversary: The Space Race in Pictures
Gizmodo:
Read the Apollo 11 Flight Plan in Its 353-Page Entirety
Motherboard:
Faking the Moon Landing: The Strange History of NASA's First Lunar Simulators
July 16, 2014
Daily Mail:
First crop circle of the year appears overnight in Dorset wheat field sparking new interest in who or what has made it
Daily Mail:
Britain takes on SPACE: Potential sites for UK's first spaceport officially announced - and tourists could blast off as early as 2018
Daily Mail:
Has the Midlands Meteorite been found in Coventry? Local claims to have discovered fragment after 'fireball' blazed across sky
Dallas Morning News:
NASA: That meteor that broke up over North Texas Saturday night was actually an 'Earth-grazing fireball'
Universe Today:
DARPA's Experimental Space Plane XS-1 Starts Development
Space.com:
The XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane in Pictures (Gallery)
Discovery News:
Curiosity Finds Large Iron Meteorite On Mars
Daily Mail:
Mars revealed in unprecedented detail: Amazing map lets you tour the dramatic canyons, volcanoes and craters of the red planet
Discovery News:
DNews: If Aliens Didn't Make Saturn's Hexagon, What Did?
Discovery News:
This Time Next Year We'll Meet Mysterious Pluto
Discovery News:
Want To Find Aliens? Launch A Monster Space Telescope
Space.com:
Amazing World View Balloon Flight Video Reveals Stunning Look at Earth (Exclusive)
July 15, 2014
Daily Mail:
Hovering spheres, tumbling 'hedgehogs' and gecko-inspired glue: Nasa selects 13 systems to test for deep space missions
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX launch delivers Orbcomm satellites to orbit
Universe Today:
SpaceX Launches Six Commercial Satellites on Falcon 9; Landing Test Ends in "Kaboom"
Discovery News:
Venus Express Survives Daring Atmospheric Dive
Astrobiology Magazine:
Deciphering the Atmospheric Waves of Venus
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA Mission To Reap Bonanza of Earth-sized Planets
Astrobiology Magazine:
Discovery Expands Search for Earthlike Planets
July 14, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Space station-bound supply ship launched from Virginia
Universe Today:
Commercial Antares Resupply Freighter Thunders Aloft to Space Station from Virginia Packed with Science
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX targets Falcon 9 launch on Monday
Spaceflight Now:
Four satellites launched to beam Internet down to Earth
Scientific American:
Vintage NASA Spacecraft May Be Out of Gas, Private Team Says
io9:
The Curiosity Rover Has Now Ventured Beyond NASA's 'Safety Zone'
The Guardian:
Spacewatch: New Horizons one year from Pluto
Daily Mail:
We have lift-off! Britain to blast off into space: UK to have only spaceport outside America as we reveal proposed sites... and six out of eight are in Scotland (is there a vote coming?)
The Aviationist:
Here's a photo of the four F-35B jets set to take part to UK airshows stuck on the ground at Pax River
Jalopnik:
The First Clear Pictures Of Japan's Stealth Fighter Emerge
Daily Mail:
That motorbike was FLYING: Gyrocopter that can hit 112mph on land and in the air goes on sale
WEEKEND EDITION: July 12 through July 13, 2014
Daily Mail:
Was the Big Bang really the Big BOUNCE? Loop quantum gravity could provide new explanation for origins of the universe
Daily Mail:
Who turned the lights off? Astronomers baffled by find that 80 per cent of the light in the universe is missing
Chicago Now:
Happy Birthday to Nicola Tesla the Real Wizard of Oz
Live Science:
Nikola Tesla vs. Thomas Edison: Who Was the Better Inventor?
Live Science:
Nikola Tesla's Once-Neglected NY Lab Gets a New Life
Daily Mail:
At a touch, gadget can read to the blind: Ring-like device says words aloud as it is scanned over a block of text
Daily Mail:
The top 10 volcanic explosions in history: Sulfate deposits reveal the most destructive eruptions of the last 2,000 years
Daily Mail:
Amazonian rain forest was created just 2,000 years old by climate change which wiped out ancient farmers
Daily Mail:
Birds DIDN'T evolve from ground-dwelling dinosaurs: Fossils reveal flying skills developed from tree-nesting archosaurs
ABC Australia:
Original 'early bird' really could fly
Astrobiology Magazine:
A new specimen of Archaeopteryx
Science Magazine:
Alaskan tracks belong to herd of duck-billed dinosaurs
Daily Mail:
The tiny tapir and the half-pint hedgehog: Canadian fossils reveal the mini-mammals that roamed the Earth 52 million years ago
Daily Mail:
The world's largest ever bird revealed: 'Condor' with a 24-FOOT wingspan soared across the skies 28 million years ago
Smithsonian Magazine:
14 Fun Facts About Piranhas
Daily Mail:
Translating the 'sign language' of CHIMPS: Experts discover meaning of 66 gestures used to ask for sex, offer help and discipline
Daily Mail:
100,000-year-old human skull found in China with 'unique' ear provides further evidence that interbreeding wiped out Neanderthals
The Guardian:
Prehistoric circle dated to same summer as Seahenge neighbour
Live Science:
Remains of Long-Lost Temple Discovered in Iraq
The Guardian:
World's earliest erotic graffiti found in unlikely setting on Aegean island
Smithsonian Magazine:
Wrestling Was Fixed, Even in Ancient Rome
Daily Mail:
Google CAESAR View: Map of ancient Roman roads and sea routes reveal how long it took - and cost - to travel across the empire
Gizmodo:
How Scotch Was Invented
The History Blog:
Rare 7th c. silver bowl found in western Netherlands
The History Blog:
Rediscovered Artemisia Gentileschi Magdalene breaks record
The History Blog:
Medici princess freed from bad Victorian Photoshop
Smithsonian Magazine:
The British View the War of 1812 Quite Differently Than Americans Do
Smithsonian Magazine:
America's Most Endangered Historic Places
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Amazing (If True) Story of the Submarine Mechanic Who Blew Himself Up Then Surfaced as a Secret Agent for Queen Victoria
Smithsonian Magazine:
The True Story of Lawrence of Arabia
Daily Mail:
The last victim of the First World War: Soldier who fought on the Western Front died from bullet wound 47 years after his brother was killed in the conflict
The History Blog:
Stolen Matisse returns to Venezuela
The History Blog:
Committee recommends British Library return 15th c. Sienese panel
Gizmodo:
The Secret History of Emergency Exits
The Atlantic:
The Last, Great, Gasp of the American Station Wagon
Gizmodo:
How 911 Became the Emergency Call Number
Gizmodo:
The Tragic Tale of Atomic Man: Life as a Radioactive Human
io9:
Journey into the Dystopian World of Abandoned Soviet Submarine Bases
Air & Space Magazine:
The Notorious Flight of Mathias Rust
Gizmodo:
Nowhere Under the Sea Is Safe from Britain's Newest Nuclear Submarine
Stuff NZ:
Killer virus smallpox found in box
Popular Science:
Five Questions About The Smallpox Vials Found In Maryland
Popular Science:
Magic Mushrooms Expand Your Mind And Amplify Your Brain's Dreaming Areas. Here's How
The Guardian:
The CIA style guide goes online: now you can learn to write like a spy
Gizmodo:
When a Russian Tank Company Builds a Streetcar It Comes Out Badass
July 11, 2014
Open Minds:
Revealed: The UFO files of the German Secret Service
Western Daily Press:
Air ambulance crew snap crop circle in Wiltshire
New Scientist:
Jellyfish in the sky was a high-flying rocket plume
Universe Today:
Flaming Space Junk Makes Jaws Drop in Australia
Daily Mail:
Banished back to the space graveyard: 36-year-old 'zombie' spacecraft rescued from the abyss runs out of fuel
IEEE Spectrum:
Fresh Hope for an Abandoned NASA Spacecraft
Universe Today:
Black Sky: Virgin's Spaceship Carrier Takes To Air For 150th Time
Stuff NZ:
Nasa's Wanaka flight
Spaceflight Now:
2014: A mid-year look at Atlas and Delta performance
Daily Mail:
The mystery signal from a galaxy far, far away: Brief pulse from deep in outer space baffles astronomers
The Aviationist:
While the F-35s remain grounded, the Scorpion low-cost multi-mission jet has arrived in the UK
Gizmodo:
This Meteor Missile Can Fly Farther Than the Eye Can See
Gizmodo:
Stealth bomber concept splits in three, reassembles like Voltron
Air & Space Magazine:
Airships at Sea
Gizmodo:
NASA shake test for the Saturn V rocket looked ridiculous but it worked
Gizmodo:
A Rare Tour of the Long-Secret Russian Town Where Cosmonauts Are Born
Air & Space Magazine:
The First Photographer in Space
Scientific America:
The Moment Neil Armstrong Is Assigned to Land on the Moon [Excerpt]
July 10, 2014
IEEE Spectrum:
Boeing Gets $2.8 Billion to Help Build World's Most Powerful Rocket
The Atlantic:
NASA's Zombie Spacecraft Learns to Fire Its Engines
Spaceflight Now:
First Angara rocket launched on suborbital test flight
Space.com:
How Wheel Damage Affects Mars Rover Curiosity's Mission
Daily Mail:
Talisman made from a 9,000 year-old METEORITE found inside a prehistoric shaman's hut
Scientific America:
Impact Craters May Have Cradled Life on Earth
Scientific America:
Earth's Magnetic Field Flip Could Happen Sooner Than Expected
Gizmodo:
Taking Photos From Inside Fighter Jets Is the Coolest Job Ever
July 9, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Stigmatized labeling, cont'd.
Business Insider:
Buzz Aldrin Describes His 'UFO' Encounter During Apollo 11
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz rocket sends up Russian weather satellite
Space Daily:
Orbital Targets July 11 For ISS Commercial Resupply Mission
Discovery News:
Interstellar Song: Solar Tsunami Washes Over Voyager 1
Daily Mail:
Frozen 'Earth' discovered: Real-life Hoth planet 3,000 light years away could increase our chances of finding alien life
Daily Mail:
Scientists have NO idea how planets form: Discovery of hundreds of new worlds has left experts baffled
The Aviationist:
[Video] One day in the life of an F-16 pilot: low flying, live firing, anti-ship training
July 8, 2014
This Week UK:
Roswell UFO crash: what really happened 67 years ago?
Spaceflight Now:
Enthusiasm wanes for fast start to U.S. engine program
Space Daily:
Russia to make fresh attempt to launch new rocket
Universe Today:
New Horizons Enters 'Pluto-Space!' To Celebrate, Here Are Pictures Of The Dwarf Planet
Spaceflight Now:
Rosetta mission one month from historic comet arrival
Discovery News:
Cassini Grand Finale: NASA Saturn Mission's Daring End
Gizmag:
Dropship quadcopter concept may offer precise, safe landings for Mars rovers
Daily Mail:
Did a collision with Earth make Mercury the 'iron planet'? Researchers say giant interplanetary 'hit and run' led to massive metal core
Gizmodo:
All US and UK F-35s Are Being Grounded (Again) Because of Engine Fires
Daily Mail:
Is this the US Army's next generation 'superchopper'? Radical design has dual tilting blades and can travel at over 270mph
Daily Mail:
Fighter planes which split in two like 'Transformers' and self-healing aircraft are set to revolutionise air warfare by 2040
Popular Science:
NASA's VAB: A Garage For The Saturn V
New Scientist:
How the moon lost its magic even before Apollo 11
Discovery News:
DNews: Are The Moon's American Flags Still In Good Shape?
Gizmodo:
You Can Explore This WWII-Era Wind Tunnel For the First Time Ever
Gizmodo:
Two of the most beautiful fighters ever race in one gorgeous film
July 7, 2014
Daily Mail:
CIA's Twitter comedians at it again with tweet: 'Remember those UFO sightings in in the 1950s? That was us testing planes'
Wiltshire Gazette and Herald:
Wiltshire's crop circles not just work of mankind, Devizes exhibition claims
Wales Online:
Ewe.F.O? Sheep's alien abduction among UFO incidents reported to Welsh police
Wall Street Journal:
Alien Abductees Over the Moon To Find a Close-Encounter Group
Daily Mail:
The biggest rocket ever made is GO! Nasa and Boeing sign $2.8bn deal to build giant 384 foot tall rocket to take man to Mars
Daily Mail:
The race to the red planet: China reveals plan to send version of its glitch-hit Jade Rabbit moon rover to Mars
New Scientist:
Magnetic bubble may give space probes a soft landing
Spaceflight Now:
The joys of launch
Spaceflight Now:
Russian communications satellites rocket into orbit
Space.com:
Success! Private Team Fires 36-Year-Old NASA Probe's Engines
Space.com:
Did Huge Impact Shape Planet Mercury?
Gizmag:
Cassini set to begin its grand finale
Daily Mail:
Say 'freeze'! Rosetta snaps images of its icy target as it prepares to become the first spacecraft to orbit a comet
Astrobiology Magazine:
Rosetta's Comet Target 'Releases' Plentiful Water
Discovery News:
Hubble Survey Spots Two New Objects Beyond Pluto
Daily Mail:
One of the most Earth-like planets found may NOT exist: Gliese 581g was simply a cosmic illusion, claim astronomers
Universe Today:
A Brief History Of Gliese 581d and 581g, The Planets That May Not Be
New Scientist:
Cool planet hints at potential for life in double stars
The Guardian:
Terrawatch: The crash that splintered Earth's crust
Daily Mail:
Does this meteorite explain the origins of life on Earth? 'Missing link' fossil could reveal how it flourished 470 million years ago
Daily Mail:
On the brink of finding ET? Seti reveals new alien hunting methods that will bring us closer than ever to making first contact
INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND EDITION: July 4 through July 6, 2014
Daily Mail:
Was Einstein wrong all along? Controversial theory suggests the speed of light is SLOWER than we think
Astrobiology Magazine:
Stanley Miller's Forgotten Experiments, Analyzed
Daily Mail:
The 70ft robot that juggles CARS: Towering droid uses giant arms to hurl three vehicles into the air at once
Astrobiology Magazine:
New theory explains ice age of 2.6 million years ago
Astrobiology Magazine:
Bizarre parasite from the Jurassic
Daily Mail:
How it took Triceratops a million years to get its horn: Researchers revealed unprecedented insight into dinosaur evolution
Daily Mail:
The dinosaur with 'feather trousers': Small crow-like creature was completely covered in plumes to absorb shocks when landing
The Guardian:
Prehistoric bones found in Spain are ancestors of Neanderthals
Daily Mail:
How the Tibetans got the 'super athlete' gene that lets them live at high altitude: Researchers say ancestors mated with a now extinct species of human
Daily Mail:
Stonehenge's underwater sister: Second timber circle uncovered off Norwich coast may have been a burial mound for Bronze Age leaders
Daily Mail:
Living the afterlife in comfort! Bronze Age burial found complete with skeletons, chariots, gold and even an ARMCHAIR
Daily Mail:
Hoard of Incan 'calculators' unearthed: 25 'quipus' reveal record-keeping of culture that had no written language
Daily Mail:
Taj Mahal reveals its secrets: Remains of emperor Shah Jahan's summer palace found opposite 350-year-old wonder
Daily Mail:
Happy birthday to yew! Yosemite National Park celebrates its 150th birthday (even though some of its trees are 1,800-years-old)
The Atlantic:
How the Bicycle Paved the Way for Women's Rights
io9:
How Each Of The Great Powers Helped Start the First World War
Daily Mail:
Transportation museum builds Frank Lloyd Wright's 1927 vision of a luxury gas station equipped with two fireplaces, an observation deck, and Wright's own convertible parked outside
Daily Mail:
A blotted piece of Royal history: Document confirming King Edward VIII's abdication signed by his three brothers to be auctioned at Sothebys
Daily Mail:
Hitler's amazing map that turned America against the Nazis: A leading novelist's brilliant account of how British spies in the US staged a coup that helped drag Roosevelt to war
io9:
These Soviet Concept Vehicles Are Clearly From An Alternate Universe
Gizmodo:
7 Humanoid Toy Robots from the Original Space Age
Popular Science:
Associated Press Will Use Robots To Write Articles
Daily Mail:
Wallace and Gromit had it right: The 'wrong trousers' really would let someone walk on the ceiling (but the batteries would only last for 20 minutes)
Daily Mail:
Hover cars have arrived! Self-driving sky pods set to soar above traffic on high-speed magnetic tracks
Daily Mail:
The world in 2025? We'll all own a pilot licence, teleportation will take off and food shortages will disappear, experts predict
July 3, 2014
WIBW:
We Now Know What Caused Most UFO Sightings
Daily Mail:
Great ball of fire! WATCH the moment a police car dashcam captured the Midlands 'missile' meteor burning up in the sky
Spaceflight Now:
Workhorse Delta 2 returns to launch NASA observatory
Universe Today:
Ancient Asteroid Impacts Left Serpentine Traces On Vesta: Study
Daily Mail:
Titan's salty secret revealed: Underground ocean has more brine that Earth's Dead Sea
Dvice:
When pigeons were missile guidance systems
Gizmodo:
There's No Threat This Foxhound Can't Intercept--Not Even the SR-71
Dvice:
The one man lunar flying vehicle
Gizmodo:
This is the actual hack that saved the astronauts of the Apollo XIII
Gizmodo:
A Short History of Every Man Who's Ever Walked on the Moon
Gizmodo:
The Typo That Destroyed a NASA Rocket
July 2, 2014
The Independent:
Biggest meteor recorded in the UK lights up skies above Devon
Discovery News:
'Unique' Meteorite Likely Came From Long-Dead Asteroid
Universe Today:
Eureka! Kola Fireball Meteorites Found in Russia
Discovery News:
DNews: Can A Moon Be Older Than Its Planet?
IEEE Spectrum:
That Toy Is Now a Drone, Says the FAA
Gizmodo:
An Up-Close Tour of the C-17 Globemaster, the Giant That Flies
July 1, 2014
Business Insider:
TUNGUSKA: 106 Years Ago, A Mysterious Explosion 1000x More Powerful Than The Hiroshima Bomb Rocked Siberia
Daily Mail:
WATCH: Giant 'missile' meteor spotted streaking over UK skies and exploding as it plunges to Earth
New Scientist:
Swedish space rock may be piece of early life puzzle
Space Daily:
Russia loses its last early warning satellite
Spaceflight Now:
French satellite in orbit after launch from India
Daily Mail:
A decade of discovery: Nasa celebrates 10 years of the Cassini probe exploring Saturn
Universe Today:
Saturn's Sailor: 20 Cassini Pictures Marking A Decade At The Ringed Planet
Discovery News:
Gliese 832c: Life-Roasting 'Super-Venus' Discovered
Astrobiology Magazine:
Would Earth Look Like A Habitable Planet From Afar?
Space Daily:
Ancient Worlds Could Be Kept 'Alive' by Gravitational Nudges
Daily Mail:
Hidden amid the foliage and scrap metal, abandoned fleet of WWII fighter planes lie rotting in the backwoods of Ohio
June 30, 2014
Time Magazine:
Why Russia Won't Catch Up in the Space Race
Space Daily:
Russia abruptly aborts launch of new-generation rocket
Universe Today:
NASA's Orion Deep Space Capsule Completes Most Complex Parachute Test Ahead of Maiden Launch
Discovery News:
NASA's Orion Successfully Completes Extreme Drop Test
Spaceflight Now:
NASA: Mars entry test a success despite chute snag
Spaceflight Now:
'Flying saucer' test vehicle, parachute recovered
Spaceflight Now:
Return of the workhorse
Space Daily:
Large-class, second-stage rocket motor passes tests
Discovery News:
Mars Arctic Block Falls Reveal Dynamic World
Universe Today:
Zoom Around Curiosity's View on Mars with a New Interactive Panorama
Astrobiology Magazine:
New NASA Model Gives Glimpse into the Invisible World of Electric Asteroids
Air & Space Magazine:
Will the Stratosphere Be 2020's Hot Tourist Destination?
WEEKEND EDITION: June 28 through June 29, 2014
Scientific American:
Philosophy begins where physics ends, and physics begins where philosophy ends
Discovery News:
The Higgs Boson Should Have Crushed the Universe
Daily Mail:
Big Bang controversy grows: Study claims universe would have collapsed 'a second after it formed' if Bicep2 results were true
Daily Mail:
From Big Bang breakthrough to a damp squib: Researchers admit 'less confidence' in results of experiment to look at the birth of the universe
Universe Today:
Has the Cosmology Standard Model become a Rube Goldberg Device?
New Scientist:
Better to see the beautiful, ugly truth of the cosmos
Daily Mail:
Could time travel soon become a reality? Physicists simulate sending quantum light particles to the past for the first time
Smithsonian Magazine:
Since 1900, There Have Been Six Earthquakes Greater Than Magnitude 8 in Alaska
Stuff NZ:
10 animals you didn't know existed
Daily Mail:
Surf's up! Drone captures more than 100 dolphins riding the crest of a wave together
Smithsonian Magazine:
Ten Amazing Small Wild Cats
Daily Mail:
The proof that Stone Age man made great art: Cave paintings of mammoths, bison, rhinos and bears from 36,000 years ago are preserved for posterity
io9:
How Did This Ancient Civilization Avoid War for 2,000 Years?
Daily Mail:
Was the missing Persian army killed in an AMBUSH? Hieroglyphs may finally solve the 5th century disappearance of 50,000 men
Daily Mail:
From FaceTime (sort of) to smart cookers: Postcards reveal how 19th century artists accurately predicted the 21st Century (if not the changes in fashion)
Daily Mail:
Once upon a time in America: First color postcards of the 'New World' showcase life in the U.S. more than 120 years ago
The History Blog:
Who is hidden under Picasso's Blue Room?
Smithsonian Magazine:
With a New Name and New Look, the Cooper Hewitt is Primed for a Grand Reopening
Live Science:
Strange Stone Spheres Top List of New World Heritage Spots
io9:
The Most Fun Zombie Movie We've Seen In Ages Was Made By High Schoolers
June 27, 2014
Discovery News:
NASA's Orion Successfully Completes Extreme Drop Test
Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity rover meets mission success milestone
Space Daily:
Bringing back our spaceplane
Air & Space Magazine:
Fifty Shades of Darkness
Gizmodo:
These are the coolest amateur rockets I've ever seen
Gizmodo:
This Is How NASA Could Have Rescued Astronauts Stranded In Space
Popular Science:
Riding Rocket to the Battlefield
Gizmodo:
What Happened to the Flags on the Moon?
June 26, 2014
Discovery News:
World View Prototype Balloon Reaches For Edge Of Space
Daily Mail:
The sun really does have a lot of atmosphere: Nasa reveals vast corona stretches 5 MILLION miles from the solar surface
Astrobiology Magazine:
Buried Treasure: Digging into Pluto's Past and Future from Three Billion Miles Away
Space Daily:
What If Voyager Had Explored Pluto?
Daily Mail:
Is this the most Earth-like planet ever found? Alien exoplanet just a 'stone's throw' from Earth and even has similar seasons
Daily Mail:
US Army's controversial 'all seeing' surveillance blimps get go-ahead to guard against cruise missiles - and can spot objects as small as a person 340 MILES away
June 25, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Engine inspections on tap for next Antares rocket
Spaceflight Now:
French exoplanet mission ends after seven years
Discovery News:
Celeb rover marks one Martian year on Mars with selfie
Daily Mail:
Is Titan older than Saturn? Gases in its atmosphere suggest the moon formed BEFORE its parent planet
Daily Mail:
Branson's got competition: Massive balloons will take you to the edge of space for a THIRD of the price
Daily Mail:
Supersonic air travel gets set for a comeback: Nasa tests pave the way for the next generation of high-speed planes
June 24, 2014
io9:
Rare 1980s UFO Abductee Interview Is a Slice of Fringe Science History
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX delays Falcon 9 launch to early July
Universe Today:
Driving, Driving, Driving - Curiosity's Top Priority on the Road to Mysterious Mount Sharp
Discovery News:
Weird Kind of Dust Found in Mars' Atmosphere
Astrobiology Magazine:
Bouncing off of Titan's Lakes
Discovery News:
Titan's 'Magic Island' Appeared Mysteriously From the Depths
Universe Today:
Rosetta Detects Water on its Target Comet
Daily Mail:
Is Earth's magnetic field getting weaker? Dramatic dips spotted across the Western Hemisphere could damage satellites
June 23, 2014
Daily Mail:
Mystery lights spotted by residents across hundreds of miles of southern California leave officials baffled
This Is Wiltshire:
Wiltshire's circles crop up at museum
Universe Today:
India's 1st Mars Mission Celebrates 100 Days and 100 Million Kilometers from Mars Orbit Insertion Firing - Cruising Right behind NASA's MAVEN
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX delays Falcon 9 launch to Tuesday
Gizmag:
NASA scientists look ahead to Orion's maiden flight
Dvice:
Video of the Day: NASA's model rockets
Daily Mail:
The universe as you've never seen it before: Incredible 360 degree panoramic timelapses show stunning star trails and ALL the night sky
Scientific American:
Quasicrystal Meteorite Exposes Novel Processes in Early Solar System
Gizmodo:
NASA wants to send a quadcopter drone to Titan
Popular Science:
Lockheed's Vision: Autonomous Drones With Lasers
Daily Mail:
Forget the self-driving car, how about a self-flying helicopter? MyCopter project aims to build commuter mini-copter that is as easy to control as a car
Gizmodo:
This Absurd Tilt-Wing Whirly Bird Actually Flew
Gizmodo:
Spies in the Skies: How Aerial Surveillance Tipped the Balance of WWII
Popular Science:
The Alberts, Spaceflight's Unsung Heroes
Gizmodo:
27 high tension photos of NATO jets intercepting Russian warplanes
Gizmodo:
NASA unearths fascinating film of early experimental planes
WEEKEND EDITION: June 21 through June 22, 2014
Scientific American:
If Spacetime Were a Superfluid, Would It Unify Physics - or Is the Theory All Wet?
Discovery News:
BICEP2 Big Bang 'Discovery' Team Urge Caution
New Scientist:
Doubts about big bang breakthrough won't kill inflation
Science Magazine:
Win at cards using quantum physics
Dvice:
Study: D-Wave is world's first quantum computer, not simulation
Science Magazine:
Quantum or not, controversial computer runs no faster than a normal one
IEEE Spectrum:
Humanoid Robot ASRA C1 Unveiled by SoftBank, Designed to Interact Safely With People
Daily Mail:
Are ROBOTS England's best chance of winning in Brazil? Mechanical football players gear up for the droid World Cup
Smithsonian Magazine:
RoboCup: Building a Team of Robots That Will Beat The World Cup Champions
Astrobiology Magazine:
Earth's Breathable Atmosphere Tied to Plate Tectonics?
Stuff NZ:
Earthquake storm puzzles scientists
Daily Mail:
Human ancestors caught herpes from CHIMPS: Virus strains spread across species up to 6 million years ago
Daily Mail:
Treasure trove of skulls reveal missing link in human evolution: Facial bones suggest early Neanderthals used their teeth as a 'third hand'
Daily Mail:
Bronze Age bling! Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old necklace was made from dog whelk and tusk shells
Daily Mail:
Cyprian Plague victims unearthed in Egypt: Burnt corpses reveal a 3rd century burial plot built to 'prevent the apocalypse'
Daily Mail:
Lives of the 'painted people' unearthed: Archaeologists want your help to dig up Scotland's ancient Pictish kingdom
Archaeology Magazine:
History's 10 Greatest Wrecks
Archaeology Magazine:
Under Mexico City
io9:
If Only Modern Infographs Were As Stunning As These 19th-Century Ones
Gizmodo:
How Two Women Made Your Watch Glow in the Dark
The History Blog:
Picasso curtain will move to NY Historical Society
Gizmodo:
The Nearly Mile-Wide Diamond Mine That Helped Build the Soviet Union
Gizmodo:
How Bell Labs Almost Put a Videophone in Every Home
Gizmag:
One of the world's first integrated circuits goes up for auction
Gizmodo:
Behind the Scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Popular Science:
Russia Just Finished A Submarine It Has Spent 20 Years Building
June 20, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Record cluster of satellites launched by Dnepr rocket
Spaceflight Now:
Two Russians complete successful spacewalk
io9:
Watch The Latest Falcon 9R Test Flight... From the Rocket's Perspective
io9:
Happy 5th Anniversary, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter!
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
North American Aviation's 1965 Mars/Venus Piloted Flyby Study: the Flyby CSM
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
A Relocated, Relocatable Main Engine Cluster for the Space Shuttle (1975)
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Pluto: Doorway to the Stars (1962)
io9:
The First American Rocket Pilot
Air & Space Magazine:
Neil Armstrong, College Professor
June 19, 2014
Space Daily:
US not able yet to remove dependency on Russian rocket motors
Spaceflight Now:
ULA details engine initiative, ratchets up SpaceX response
Spaceflight Now:
Europe's rocket builders announce consolidation plan
Daily Mail:
The first boot on Mars: Nasa reveals 'Tron spacesuit' set to be used on first manned mission to the red planet
Discovery News:
Astronauts Will Mine Moon Water at Night
Universe Today:
Mercury's Hot Flow Revealed by MESSENGER
New Scientist:
Saturn's largest moon was once a titanic snowball
Astrobiology Magazine:
Cosmic Impacts May Help Create Suitable Habitat for Life
Gizmodo:
Was This The First In-Flight Movie?
June 18, 2014
Epoch Times:
3 UFO Sightings Recorded in Declassified NSA Document
Daily Mail:
Venus Express gets ready for the plunge: Esa probe prepares for last-gasp descent into the solar system's hottest planet
Spaceflight Now:
ULA begins search for new American rocket engine
Dvice:
Airbus and Safran team up to compete with SpaceX
New Scientist:
Monster move completes Earth's biggest radio telescope
Universe Today:
Where To Go After Pluto? Hubble Seeks The Next Target For New Horizons
New Scientist:
Pluto-bound craft seeks Manhattan-sized lump of ice
Daily Mail:
To boldly GROW: Vegetables planted in meteorite soil could one day feed human colonies on alien planets
Daily Mail:
Here boy! the 'pet' drone that can follow its owner to record their every move - and could change extreme sports forever
Daily Mail:
Flight of the tiny robo-fly: World's smallest drone weighs less than a gram and navigates using light-sensitive 'eyes'
Dvice:
Google's Internet balloons not just pie in the sky
Gizmodo:
Fly Around The World With This Map of Drone-Recorded Videos
Popular Science:
When NASA Paid Researchers To Learn To Talk To Dolphins
Gizmodo:
Amazing close-up photos capture war planes and birds' majesty in motion
June 17, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Russia eyes Soyuz upgrades for mission around the moon
Universe Today:
New Horizons Wakes Up for the Summer
Discovery News:
Maria Mystery: Why Moon's Far Side Has No 'Face'
New Scientist:
Two giant planets may cruise unseen beyond Pluto
Air & Space Magazine:
The Kansas City B-25 Factory
June 16, 2014
The Atlantic:
The Man Who Introduced the World to Flying Saucers
Washington Post:
Book review: 'Encounter in Rendlesham Forest' a look at a UFO by Nick Pope
Daily Mail:
Investigation under way after 13 planes mysteriously vanish from radars in Europe for 25 MINUTES in 'unprecedented' incident
Universe Today:
NASA's Saucer-Shaped Mars Vehicle Idea Loses Flight Test 'Window' Due To Weather
Spaceflight Now:
Glonass navigation satellite launched by Soyuz rocket
Spaceflight Now:
Payload problem prompts SpaceX launch delay
Daily Mail:
That cuppa is out of this world! Space engineers gear up to send the first hot drinks machine to the ISS
Discovery News:
Why Extroverts Could Cause Problems on a Mission to Mars
Discovery News:
Radar Reveals Beautiful Face of an Asteroid 'Beast'
Universe Today:
An Ocean On Pluto's Moon? Hopeful Scientists Will Keep An Eye Out For Cracks
Daily Mail:
Could giant oceans under the surface of Pluto's moon harbour alien life? Giant cracks on Charon hint at once warm tidal seas
Daily Mail:
Are two giant planets lurking beyond Pluto? Unusual orbits spotted in the outer solar system hint at the presence of large worlds
Daily Mail:
Bid to talk to aliens could doom us all: How the quest to find ET could be 'insanely risky'
Popular Science:
How To Make A New Planet Home
WEEKEND EDITION: June 14 through June 15, 2014
The Wire:
For the First Time Ever, a Computer Passed Turing Test for Artificial Intelligence
The Guardian:
Scientists dispute whether computer 'Eugene Goostman' passed Turing test
The Guardian:
Turing test: this little Eugene Goostman was much brighter than I imagined
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Turing Test Measures Something, But It's Not "Intelligence"
The Guardian:
When PARRY Met ELIZA: A Ridiculous Chatbot Conversation From 1972
Gizmodo:
Watch a Mind-Controlled Cyborg Leg Make the World Cup's First Kick
The Atlantic:
Meet the Cute, Wellies-Wearing, Wikipedia-Reading Robot That's Going to Hitchhike Across Canada
Gizmodo:
A Perpetual Slinky Treadmill Might Be Humanity's Greatest Achievement
Science Magazine:
Could Pulses in Earth's Magnetic Field Forecast Earthquakes?
Daily Mail:
A blue planet through and through: Researchers find Earth's biggest water reservoir is trapped in rocks 400 miles BENEATH the United States
Live Science:
Tiny Fish May Be Ancestor of Nearly All Living Vertebrates
Daily Mail:
What a jaw-dropping discovery! Fossils of a 500-million-year-old fish may solve the evolutionary mystery of how the jawbone developed
Live Science:
Ancient Long-Necked 'Sea Monsters' Rowed Their Way to Prey
Smithsonian Magazine:
Found: 120-Million-Year-Old Colony of Fossilized Flying Reptiles, Plus Their Eggs
Daily Mail:
Scientists solve the mystery of whether dinosaurs were hot or cold blooded - and reveal they were somewhere in between
Daily Mail:
From early reptiles to total extinction: Dinosaur family tree reveals how lumbering creatures evolved into elegant flyers
Daily Mail:
Ferocious foxes prowled the Himalayas five million years ago: Fossils suggest Tibet was a 'training ground' for Ice Age adaptations
Daily Mail:
Rare European butterfly settles in Britain for the first time: Continental swallowtail has been spotted in Sussex
io9:
In Defense of Raccoons
Science Magazine:
Chimps Best Humans at Game Theory
Daily Mail:
Did we learn to speak by mimicking apes? Early language may have been formed by combining the noises of primates and birds
Daily Mail:
Discovered: The evidence that the A1 is TEN THOUSAND YEARS old
The History Blog:
Mausoleum of Romulus reopens after 20 years
The History Blog:
Swedish city returns ancient textiles to Peru
The History Blog:
Register of St. Osmund misplaced for 34 years
Live Science:
Ancient Mayan Altars, Sculpted Artwork Discovered in Guatemala
Daily Mail:
Was the ship Columbus discovered the New World in burnt as firewood? New theory challenges claim Santa Maria was shipwrecked
The History Blog:
Oldest handmade model skull attributed to Leonardo
Daily Mail:
Is this Dracula's final resting place? 16th century headstone unearthed in Naples could belong to Vlad the Impaler
The History Blog:
One of Vermeer's first paintings authenticated
The History Blog:
1733 portrait of freed slave acquired by Yorktown museum
Smithsonian Magazine:
Lewis and Clark Only Became Popular 50 Years Ago
Gizmodo:
Unlock the Past: How a 19th Century Lock Pick Changed Security Forever
Daily Mail:
Jack the Ripper 'lived on Flower and Dean Street, and may have died in a mental asylum': Expert uses algorithm to reveal details about London's notorious killer
io9:
The Only Footage We Have Of Arthur Conan Doyle Talking About Sherlock
io9:
Extraordinary Photos of Everyday Life in Oak Ridge, the Secret City
Gizmodo:
Why Was the Computer Never Patented?
Stuff NZ:
Multimillion-dollar revamp for Antarctic Base
Deadspin:
Nobody Wants To Host The 2022 Olympics
Science Magazine:
People from Mexico show stunning amount of genetic diversity
June 13, 2014
Daily Mail:
Could Friday the 13th wreak havoc on mobile phone signals? Impact of massive solar flare is expected to hit Earth tomorrow - and it could disrupt satellites
Spaceflight Now:
36-Year-Old 'Retired' NASA Spacecraft to be Jump-Started
Universe Today:
Boeing Unveils Commercial CST-100 'Space Taxi' to Launch US Astronauts to Space from US Soil
Space Daily:
Arrival and Departure at Phoebe
Air & Space Magazine:
Would Life Be More Advanced on a World Twice as Old as Earth?
Popular Science:
Dueling Amerika Bombers
Gizmodo:
Stabilized video of the accident that almost killed Neil Armstrong
June 12, 2014
Live Science:
Intense Solar Storm Could Hit Earth on Friday the 13th
Universe Today:
The Sun Fires Off a Third X-Class Flare
Spaceflight Now:
Crew safe after reporting smoke inside space station
The Atlantic:
NASA's Supersonic Parachute Is Running Out of Time
Daily Mail:
Engage warp drive! Nasa reveals latest designs for a Star Trek-style spacecraft that could make interstellar travel a reality
New Scientist:
Two giant planets may cruise unseen beyond Pluto
Gizmag:
FAA approves first commercial overland UAV flights
Gizmodo:
Flying this Nazi glider from 1938 seems incredibly fun
Popular Science:
Eugen Sanger: Germany's Other Rocket Genius
June 11, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
They're not all dingbats
Discovery News:
Sun Unleashes Two High-Powered X-Class Solar Flares
Universe Today:
The Sun Pops Off Two X-Class Solar Flares in One Day
Spaceflight Now:
New experiments to fly on Europe's last ATV cargo ship
Spaceflight Now:
Launch of next Antares rocket slips to July
Daily Mail:
The spacecraft that could take man to Mars: Countdown to first test of the Orion spacecraft begins at Kennedy Space Center
Daily Mail:
What caused the 'man on the moon'? Higher temperatures weakened the surface and made impacts more visible, study claims
Discovery News:
Violent Moon-Forming Impact Occurred 60 Million Years Earlier
New Scientist:
Part of infant Earth survived moon's shocking birth
Stuff NZ:
Earth's memories may predate moon
The Aviationist:
[Photos and Video] Two U.S. B-2 Stealth Bombers arrive at RAF Fairford, UK
June 10, 2014
Open Minds:
A UFO sighting in Arizona in 1968 revisited
Adelaide Advertiser:
South Australia's X Files: Part 1 - Family car attacked by UFO, baffling crop circles
Universe Today:
Moon-Forming Crash Left A 'Signal' In Planet Earth
Universe Today:
Space Seed: How To Spread Earth's Life Across The Universe
New Scientist:
Extreme checklist to look for odd life on other worlds
Gizmag:
HorseFly delivery drone would use a van as its base-on-the-go
Daily Mail:
From robotic milk maids to self-driving tractors and drones that monitor crops: Scientists reveal the future of farming
New York Times:
I Was Promised Flying Cars
The Atlantic:
How Jetpacks and Flying Cars Turned into Cliches About the Future
Wired - Danger Room:
It's Not Surprising Two Harrier Jets Have Crashed in a Month
June 9, 2014
Daily Mail:
Submarines on Titan and giant nets to capture asteroids: Nasa unveils futuristic designs that could help explore new worlds
Popular Science:
DIY Space Suit Chosen For Suborbital And Supersonic Flights
Gizmag:
NASA announces technology experiments to fly on SpaceShipTwo
Universe Today:
Enter the Dragon: First Look Inside SpaceX's New Crew Transporter to Orbit ? Photos
Discovery News:
SpaceX: Mars Mission 'Insurance' Against Disaster
Science Magazine:
How Did the Moon Really Form?
io9:
Venus Has Space Weather Explosions That Are Larger Than the Planet
Smithsonian Magazine:
What Would the Planet That Smashed Into the Moon Have Been Like?
Universe Today:
Curiosity Captures Stunning New Mount Sharp Panorama 'On The Go'
New Scientist:
Pluto and its moon snuggle under a shared atmosphere
io9:
Here's What Happens When A Pigeon Tries To Fly In Zero Gravity
GE Reports:
How the Amazing Copper Man and Electric Blankets Gave Birth to WWII High-Altitude Flying Suit
Air & Space Magazine:
The Pilot Who Led the D-Day Invasion
WEEKEND EDITION: June 7 through June 8, 2014
The Guardian:
Gravity versus the Standard Model
Daily Mail:
Has the Big Bang breakthrough been foiled by dust? Researchers claim discovery has major flaw
Inside Science:
Why Does Time Flow Forward?
Gizmag:
Robot Linda to meet the public at London's Natural History Museum
Popular Science:
Robots Are Evil: The Sci-Fi Myth of Killer Machines
Daily Mail:
An eggs-traordinary find! Ancient reptile fossils shed light on how mysterious Pterosaurs nested like modern-day birds
Stuff NZ:
Mosquito invasion for Australia
Daily Mail:
Stone Age 'camp' unearthed in London: Evidence of fires, animal bones and a rare flint tool dating back 700,000 years found
Daily Mail:
Are these the world's oldest trousers? 3,000-year-old clothing discovered in ancient Chinese tomb
io9:
The Forgotten History Of CGI
The History Blog:
Decoding Anglo-Saxon art
The History Blog:
Henry VII's tomb yields silk cloth 10 feet long
Daily Mail:
Can we save da Vinci's vanishing face? Technique to preserve centuries-old paper developed in bid to save artist's self-portrait
Daily Mail:
Spot the whale! Restoration of 17th-century Dutch painting reveals huge beached animal in the background that had been painted over
Gizmodo:
This toy from the 19th century seems to be working by magic
Smithsonian Magazine:
Grab a Drink, on the Sly, at One of D.C.'s Former Speakeasies
The Atlantic:
Guess What Year 'Computerized' Peaked
Washington Post:
How CBS scooped the world on the Tiananmen Square story
The Atlantic:
There Are 64 Tiananmen Terms Censored on China's Internet Today
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Unlikely History of the Origins of Modern Maps
io9:
Watch Hugh Jackman's Wolverine Audition For The Very First X-Men Movie
Gizmodo:
You really have to be crazy to get in and out of this lighthouse
Daily Mail:
'If they don't like it, they stop playing!' Meet the Damahur people who claim to have uncovered the secrets of plant music and say they can TIME TRAVEL
Popular Science:
Is DEET Safe To Use?
Popular Science:
The Real-Life Science Behind The Summer's Most Outrageous Sci-Fi Movies
The Boston Globe:
The Globe's front page on D-Day in 1944
The History Channel:
Landing at Normandy: The 5 Beaches of D-Day
Mashable:
D-Day Weather Map Is Most Important in History
Los Angeles Times:
Eisenhower had a second, secret D-day message
Washington Post:
Preparations and landing at Normandy
Kansas City Star:
Photo gallery: Allied operations on D-Day 70 years ago
Smithsonian Magazine:
Photos From the Hours After Americans Heard About the D-Day Invasion
FIve Thirty-Eight:
The Challenge of Counting D-Day's Dead
Time:
At D-Day Commemoration, Few Mourn the War's Losers
CBS News:
Bedford Boys' D-Day loss still casts shadow in Virginia town
Washington Post:
A U.S. soldier's last letter home before he died on D-Day
San Francisco Chronicle:
D-Day invasion's final active ship houses history in S.F.
June 6, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
A splash without ripples
National Geographic:
Watch as 'the Beast' Asteroid Sails Past Earth This Week
International Business Times:
Asteroid 2014 HQ124: All You Need to Know About 'The Beast' Set to Whizz Past Earth
Universe Today:
How Sentinel Will Hunt for Hidden Asteroids
Daily Mail:
How the moon was made: Researchers reveal new evidence Earth was hit by giant object as big as Mars 4.5 billion years ago
Discovery News:
Bits of Ancient Earth-Shattering Impactor Found on Moon
Space.com:
How the Moon Formed: Lunar Rocks Support Giant Impact Theory
Scientific American:
Lunar Rock Chemistry Argued to Reveal How the Moon Formed
Space.com:
How the Moon Was Made: Lunar Evolution Explained (Infographic)
Discovery News:
Kepler Returns! Exoplanet Mission Makes New Discoveries
New Scientist:
Venus death dive to unlock secrets of Earth's evil twin
Astrobiology Magazine:
Could Exomoons Give False Positives In Search For Life?
New Scientist:
Ancient exoplanet may have the right stuff for life
Daily Mail:
Huge 12 billion-year-old explosion in space has been spotted from Earth - and it could reveal secrets of the early universe
Space Daily:
Airbus's SpacePlane demonstrator tested in South China Sea
Daily Mail:
That's out of this world! Homemade helium space balloon captures breathtaking footage above the Scottish highlands
The Aviationist:
Typhoon with D-Day invasion stripes among Duxford D-Day Anniversary Airshow highlights
Hunts Post:
Loud explosion noise over Huntingdonshire was 'sonic boom'
BBC News:
Sonic boom 'tied up' Cambridgeshire 999 resources, police say
June 5, 2014
Space.com:
SpaceX's Huge Falcon Heavy Rocket: How It Works (Infographic)
Spaceflight Now:
Expert report casts doubt on NASA's pathway to Mars
Spaceflight Now:
Planet-hunting Kepler telescope back in action
Astrobiology Magazine:
Where Have All The Craters Gone?
Space Daily:
'Neapolitan' exoplanets come in three flavors
Astrobiology Magazine:
Introducing Earth's Bigger, Older Brother: Planet Kapteyn b
Discovery News:
Star Within a Star: Weird Stellar 'Hybrid' Discovered
Air & Space Magazine:
The Fighter Pilot's Survival Guide
io9:
How Jules Verne Helped Invent the Helicopter
June 4, 2014
Space.com:
Found! Oldest Known Alien Planet That Might Support Life
Space Daily:
Russia preparing to launch Okno space surveillance system at full capacity
The Atlantic:
NASA Is About to Test a Mega-Parachute at the Edge of Space
Universe Today:
Meet SpaceX's New Manned Dragon: Cool Animation Shows 'How It Works'
New Scientist:
Fireball meteors emit unique radio wave signals
Astrobiology Magazine:
Ice and Fire Forge A Reservoir for Life on Mars
Astrobiology Magazine:
To Catch a Comet by the Tail: Rosetta's historic meet and greet with Churyumov-Gerasimenko
The DEW Line:
Vision of the future
The Aviationist:
This is not a videogame but Rafale combat plane's cockpit at dusk
The Aviationist:
U.S. Global Hawk UAS flew from Italy to Norway during largest ever test of NATO's intelligence capabilities
io9:
Behold the Weird Glory of Airplanes Driving on Roads
Universe Today:
Relive The Joy Of Spacewalking During America's First EVA, 49 Years Ago Today
June 3, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Sympathy for the hounds
NT News Australia:
Possible UFO crop circles spotted at Muckaty Station, north of Tennant Creek
Universe Today:
Detailed Deconstruction of the "Face" and Pyramids on Mars Claims
Universe Today:
Surprise! Fireballs Light up the Radio Sky, Hinting at Unexplored Physics
Gizmodo:
This is the rocket that will make SpaceX's Dragon V2 land anywhere
The Aviationist:
Inside Look at SpaceX Dragon V2, the first private spaceship to take astronauts to space
Spaceflight Now:
Stakeholders rally behind new U.S. rocket engine
Spaceflight Now:
Lockheed Martin nears end of first Orion launch campaign
Discovery News:
DNews: NASA Pumps Up Prospects for Inflatable Spacecraft
The Guardian:
Monstrous rocky planet nicknamed 'Godzilla of Earths'
Daily Mail:
'The Godzilla of Earths' is found: Planet 17 times larger than our own suggests there may be more habitable worlds than first thought
Discovery News:
Strange New World Discovered: The 'Mega Earth'
New Scientist:
Impossibly heavy planet is the first 'mega-Earth'
Space.com:
Night Sky: Visible Planets, Moon Phases and Events, June 2014
Space.com:
Best Stargazing Events of June 2014: Night Sky Maps (Gallery)
June 2, 2014
Air & Space Magazine:
Infrared Dawn: The Next Space Telescope Will Be Hubble x 100
New Scientist:
SpaceX unveils sleek, reusable Dragon crew capsule
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX reveals new-look passenger spacecraft
Discovery News:
SpaceX Passenger Dragon Spaceship Debuts
Air & Space Magazine:
"That Is How a 21st Century Spaceship Should Land"
Daily Mail:
Virgin Galactic gets the green light: US aviation authorities approve Branson's space flights for launch later this year
Space.com:
UK Takes Aim at Commercial Spaceflight, Spaceport Possible by 2018
Gizmag:
Morpheus makes first night landing
Universe Today:
World Largest Heat Shield Attached to NASA's Orion Crew Capsule for Crucial Fall 2014 Test Flight
Gizmag:
High-altitude rocket looks for clues on emerging stars
IEEE Spectrum:
Robots Will Pave the Way to Mars
New Scientist:
Astrophile: The outermost ocean in the solar system
Universe Today:
Video: Beyond Neptune, It Sure Is Crowded With Icy Objects
New Scientist:
Ultimate solar system could contain 60 Earths
Dvice:
Astronomers eavesdropping on alien planets
Universe Today:
There Might Be 100 Million Planets In The Galaxy With Complex Life
Popular Science:
The Most Intriguing Stars In The Universe [Infographic]
Popular Science:
A New Idea For Colonizing Space: Send Our DNA, Assemble Ourselves Once We Get There
io9:
H.G. Wells' Remarkable Scientific Article About Evolution On Mars
WEEKEND EDITION: May 31 through June 1, 2014
Gizmodo:
Bizarre Soviet-Era Theory About New State of Matter Is Actually Right
IEEE Spectrum:
Researchers Build Fast Running Robot Inspired by Velociraptor
IEEE Spectrum:
So, Where Are My Robot Servants?
Daily Mail:
Jimmy, the 3D printed home robot that can walk, talk and tweet: Intel reveal $1600 robot will go on sale within months
Daily Mail:
The world through a deaf person's ears: Video reveals what it's like to listen to sound using a cochlear implant
Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Hawaii's Oahu Used to Be a Bigger Island
Science Magazine:
Trillions of Plastic Pieces May Be Trapped in Arctic Ice
Daily Mail:
Peat bog the size of England discovered in Congo swamp: Scientists combat crocodiles, gorillas and elephants to discover 80,000 square miles of uncharted territory
Daily Mail:
Mega-croc vs supersnake: Researchers reveal 16-foot, 900-pound ancient species of crocodile that battled with 58 foot Titanoboa snake 60 million years ago
Stuff NZ:
'Extinct' animal rediscovered in Picton
Science Magazine:
The Earliest Bird to Sip a Flower
Science Magazine:
Did Dogs Help Drive Mammoths to Their Graves?
Daily Mail:
The best of Nature's disssssguises you'll ever see: The caterpillar that looks and even acts like a snake to scare off predators
Stuff NZ:
Wave of black bears heads for US suburbs
Daily Mail:
Prehistoric tipples revealed: Ancient Eurasians drank wines brewed from pine resin and fruit beers 9,000 years ago
The History Blog:
Remains of massive 2nd c. building found in France
Science Magazine:
The Invisible Graffiti of Angkor Wat
Gizmodo:
How One Man's Love of Urine Led to the Discovery of Phosphorus
The History Blog:
The Morgan wants you to see Rembrandt's etchings
The History Blog:
When Argentinian women wore hair combs four feet wide
Live Science:
American's Visit to China's Forbidden City Revealed in Old Journal
Popular Science:
War, Pirates and the Story of the First D.C. Memorial
Gizmodo:
How a Slave Had to Build the Freedom Statue in Washington DC
The Guardian:
Battered pot found in Cornish garage unlocks Egypt excavation secrets
Smithsonian Magazine:
Pioneering Social Reformer Jacob Riis Revealed How "The Other Half" Lives
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Science of a Tourist Trap
Gizmodo:
WWII Germany Hunted Tanks with Explosive Goliath Beetles
Chicago Tribune:
70 years ago, D-Day transfixed the homefront
Daily Mail:
D-DAY MINUTE BY TERRIFYING MINUTE: Studded with extraordinary detail, it's the most joltingly vivid account ever written of the day the Allies gambled everything. On the eve of its 70th anniversary, a new book relives Operation Overlord
Daily Mail:
D-day revisited - virtually! French recreate Normandy landings from the original blueprints
NY Daily News:
D-Day remembered 70 years later with striking then and now photo series
Time Magazine:
Robert Capa's Iconic D-Day Photo of a Soldier in the Surf
The Boston Globe:
Seventy years later, a dwindling few recall the chaos of D-day
Madison Eagle:
D-Day and Dad - My memories
Thomson Reuters:
U.S. soldiers rest in peace in France before old comrades' last D-Day tribute
The Atlantic:
How Officials Tried to Censor One of the Biggest Stories in the World
Air & Space Magazine:
"The Roald Dahl Aviation Story that Disney Refused to Film
Gizmodo:
Learn How They Laid the Transatlantic Cable Back in 1959
The Atlantic:
1964: The World 50 Years Ago
Gizmodo:
Here's How a 1984 Macintosh Tutorial Taught People to Use a Mouse
Air & Space Magazine:
"Free Beer for the Americanos"
Gizmodo:
The very first E.T. designs would have scarred every kid's brain forever
Gizmodo:
That Time a Commercial Aircraft Ran Out of Fuel Mid-Flight
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Cartographer Who Mapped Out Gotham City
Gizmodo:
Sci-fi film shows the agony of a soldier's first mission in one close up
Popular Science:
The Five Biggest Threats To Human Existence
May 30, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
U.S.-German-Russian crew arrives at space station
Discovery News:
Elon Musk to Unveil SpaceX's New 'Astronaut Taxi'
Gizmodo:
SpaceX Dragon V2 is here and it's awesome - check out the first pictures!
Space.com:
SpaceX's Manned Dragon Space Capsule Explained (Infographic)
Space Daily:
Virgin space flights cleared for US take-off
Spaceflight Now:
Space station cargo delivery delayed after engine failure
Space Daily:
Proton Rocket Failure Probe Finds No Evidence of Deliberate Misconduct
Science Magazine:
Space Buffs Make Contact With Discarded NASA Probe
Space.com:
NASA's Voyager Probes Still Healthy After Nearly 4 Decades in Space
Gizmodo:
All the Saturn V rockets launching at the same time in a single video
Daily Mail:
From the reusable Dyna-Soar plane to the Mars-bound Nerva engine: Vintage space agency images reveal the rockets that NEVER took off
The Guardian:
Stars in their eyes: architects and scientists mull designs for ark in space
Air & Space Magazine:
747: The World's Airliner
io9:
How Jules Verne Invented Astronautics
May 29, 2014
The Atlantic:
The Number of Humans in Space Doubled Today
NASA Spaceflight.com:
International trio arrive at ISS following Soyuz TMA-13M trip
Universe Today:
Observing Alert - Space Station 'Marathon' Starts This Week
Popular Science:
The Many Lives of ISEE-3
Universe Today:
Did This Martian Volcano Once Host Life?
Scientific American:
Pluto Bids to Get Back Planetary Status
Discovery News:
Hunt Intensifies for Aliens on Kepler's Planets
Popular Science:
How We'll Talk To Aliens
io9:
These Meteorites Were Caught on Film as They Blazed to Earth
Gizmag:
Flying a plane with your mind comes closer to reality
Gizmodo:
How to Become an Astronaut
Popular Science:
Bogus User-Generated CNN Asteroid Apocalypse Article Goes Viral
May 28, 2014
Columbia Daily Tribune:
UFO accounts are journalists' stuff of dreams
Space Daily:
Russia puts satellite in orbit from sea platform after 2013 flop
Space Daily:
Three defense satellites launched from Plesetsk reached final orbit
Spaceflight Now:
NASA's latest Soyuz seat procurement may be its last
Dvice:
Robot does mechanical surgery to heal itself outside the ISS
Gizmag:
NASA unveils new home for space rats
Science Magazine:
The Moon - Wet and Dry
Gizmag:
Giant exoplanet imaged directly using infrared light
Discovery News:
How did Mars Moon Phobos Become so Groovy?
Wired - Danger Room:
B-52 Bomber Gets Its First New Communications System Since the 1960s
Popular Science:
New Chinese 5th Generation Fighter Jet J31 Performs More Flight Tests
Daily Mail:
Experience the sensation of WINGSUIT FLYING over NYC skyscrapers in this vertigo-inducing head-cam video
The Atlantic:
How Kids See Space
May 27, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Zapped by weapons-grade weather?
Syracuse New Times:
1965 UFO - The Flying Saucer Whisperer
ABC Australia:
Secrets of the universe could be contained in mystery fireball
Space Daily:
Russian Rocket Engine Replacement to Cost US $1.5Bln, Take 6 Years
Universe Today:
Atlas V Blasts Off with Clandestine US Spy Satellite Amidst Russian Engine Controversy
Spaceflight Now:
Three satellites rocket into orbit to link Russian forces
Spaceflight Now:
Antares rocket engine damaged in test mishap
Universe Today:
Opportunity Overlooks Ridge for Spectacular Vista of Vast Martian Crater and Habitable Zone Ahead
Daily Mail:
How craters are created: Researchers spot massive new impact on Mars
ABC Australia:
Mars' minerals could be microbe made
Stuff NZ:
Is Mars already a colony?
Nature:
Pluto-bound probe faces crisis
Daily Mail:
Strange flashing lights and spacecraft-killing radiation: The 'bermuda triangle of space' revealed in unprecedented detail
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND EDITION: May 24 through May 26, 2014
Gizmodo:
The Fermi Paradox: Where the Hell Are the Other Earths?
Daily Mail:
Have we really found the 'smoking gun' for Big Bang expansion? Scientists squabble over experiment that claimed to have glimpsed of the birth of the universe
Science Magazine:
Doubts Shroud Big Bang Discovery
New Scientist:
Skinny wormholes could send messages through time
Discovery News:
Experiment to Turn Light Into Matter
The Guardian:
Notation, notation, notation: a brief history of mathematical symbols
The Guardian:
Virus experiments risk unleashing global pandemic, study warns
Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: How Do Redwoods Grow So Tall?
Daily Mail:
Human heartbeats are a BILLION years old: People share pumping mechanism with ancient sea creatures
Smithsonian Magazine:
Did the Evolution of Animal Intelligence Begin With Tiktaalik?
Daily Mail:
Fossilized bones of huge 100 TON dinosaur found as scientists say the newly-discovered species was the LARGEST EVER to roam the Earth
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Story of One Whale Who Tried to Bridge the Linguistic Divide Between Animals and Humans
The Telegraph:
Spanish Conquest May Have Altered Peru's Shoreline
Science Magazine:
Buy a stake in Dracula's castle
The History Blog:
Continental Currency coin sold for $1,410,000
Smithsonian Magazine:
Getting to Know Whistler's Father
Gizmodo:
The Case for Robots, 1864 Edition
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Pocket Watch Was the World's First Wearable Tech Game Changer
Gizmodo:
On This Day in 1899, The First Speeding Arrest Happened - At 12 mph
Gizmodo:
Century-Old Time Capsule Mystery Finally Solved
Smithsonian Magazine:
Europe's Landscape Is Still Scarred by World War I
The Atlantic:
The Secret History of Hypertext
Gizmodo:
How Historians Recovered the Only Surviving Nazi "Flying Pencil"
Daily Mail:
Chilling unseen photograph emerges of Hiroshima mushroom cloud taken from US bomber just one minute after atomic bomb was dropped
io9:
The Ten Most Bizarre Ideas For Using Nuclear Weapons
Gizmodo:
The most spectacular and destructive atomic bombs in history
Gizmodo:
These Adorable "Robot Tortoises" Were the Roombas of 1949
Boing Boing:
Disneyland's original prospectus revealed!
Live Science:
Secret Weapon? Conspiracy Theories Abound as US Military Closes HAARP
The Guardian:
Just how new are the Merriam-Webster dictionary's new words?
Gizmodo:
How to Build a Moat to Keep Out the Mongol Horde (and Your Neighbors)
Popular Science:
Catching Your Past Life Murderer
Gizmodo:
The Best Fake Movies from Netflix's Summary Screw-Ups
Gizmodo:
You Can Now Download 400,000 of the Met's Artworks For Free
May 23, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 launches payload for intelligence community
Discovery News:
Russian Meteor: Chelyabinsk Asteroid Had Violent Past
Air & Space Magazine:
Searching for Secrets at Area 51
Air & Space Magazine:
How to Ship an $8.8 Billion Telescope
Air & Space Magazine:
Build Your Own Drone
Air & Space Magazine:
Felix Baumgartner's "Edge of Space" Capsule Goes on Display
Air & Space Magazine:
Thomas Baldwin's "Aerial Rowboat" Could Do About 4 MPH on a Calm Day
Air & Space Magazine:
Russia's Rocket Town
Air & Space Magazine:
The Spaceport in Siberia
Air & Space Magazine:
The Deadliest Night Fighter in Korea
Air & Space Magazine:
The 98-Pound Weakling of Research Airplanes
Air & Space Magazine:
If a Mercury Astronaut Came Down in a Communist Country, the U.S. Had a Plan
May 22, 2014
Universe Today:
Potential Weekend Meteor Shower Will Pelt the Moon Too!
Daily Mail:
Watch the 5,000 meteoroids that bombard Earth each day in REAL TIME: Map plots where comet debris is burning up above our heads
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 rocket set for launch amid cloud of controversy
Spaceflight Now:
Top general says reliability trumps rocket costs
Space.com:
Air Force Would Prefer New Rocket Engine Over US Version of Russian Design
Spaceflight Now:
Dragon cargo capsule encounters water seepage
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Dragon spaceship returns to port
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX investigating Falcon 9 first stage helium leak
Spaceflight Now:
ULA speeds up Delta 4 rocket production
Universe Today:
Curiosity says 'Goodbye Kimberley' after Parting Laser Blasts and Seeking New Adventures Ahead
Discovery News:
Mars Rover Surveys Ruddy Crater Rim: Big Pic
Discovery News:
Chilled Microbes Responsible for Mars Methane Mystery?
Daily Mail:
Is this proof that life once flourished on Mars? Clay-like mineral found on the red planet can be created by microbes
Air & Space Magazine:
Exploring Mars - With Arrows
Daily Mail:
Have aliens already visited Earth? Nasa book suggests that ancient rock art could have been created by extraterrestrials
New Scientist:
Earth's backup: Sending religious texts to the moon
May 21, 2014
Ipswich Star:
Rendlesham: Ministry of Defence officer reveals all about UFO claims
Motherboard:
This Is the Secret Google X Internet Balloon Everyone Thought Was a UFO
Dvice:
Image of the Day: A year of sun on Mars
Scientific American:
Saturn's Largest Moon Has Waves: Waves on Titan Indicate Methane Seas That May Be Home to Life
Daily Mail:
Travel like Iron man! Mini wingless jet-pack lets man zoom around at speeds of 77mph (but only for half a minute)
Popular Science:
At Drone Conference, Bots That Bop
Slate:
We May Get a Major Meteor Shower on Friday May 23-24
USA Today:
New meteor shower influenced by Jupiter's gravity
Space.com:
Meteor Storms: How Supersized Displays of 'Shooting Stars' Work (Infographics)
Daily Mail:
Our solar system's space traffic revealed: Infographic plots every active spacecraft between the sun and interstellar space
Universe Today:
Zoomable Poster Now Shows Off 54 Years Of Space Exploration
May 20, 2014
Popular Science:
Curiosity Took 65 Bacteria Species On Trip To Mars
Space Daily:
New ISS Expedition Unaffected by Proton Crash
Popular Science:
Russian Bluster Aside, What Will Become Of The ISS?
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 rocket set for launch amid cloud of controversy
Spaceflight Now:
Dragon mission ends with splashdown in Pacific Ocean
Space.com:
Private Team Hopes to Contact 36-Year-Old NASA Probe This Week
Space.com:
3 Private Moon Lander Concepts Make NASA's Short List
Discovery News:
Space Junk From Failed Russian Launch Found in China
Space Daily:
When fantasy becomes reality: first seeds to be planted soon on Mars
Space.com:
Will New Meteor Shower This Weekend Sizzle or Fizzle?
The Aviationist:
Army Air Force Video explains how to evade Flak (anti-aircraft fire) in WWII
May 19, 2014
Space.com:
Brilliant Fireball Streaks Over Southeastern US (Video, Photos)
Stuff NZ:
Ball of light crashes to earth in Queensland
Spaceflight Now:
Telecom satellite lost after Proton launch failure
Space Daily:
Russian rocket falls back to Earth with super satellite
Spaceflight Now:
How Russia's Proton Rocket Works (Infographic)
Scientific American:
Busted Exoplanet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope Gets a New Mission
Discovery News:
Venus Probe Will Dive to Its Death
Daily Mail:
Now THAT'S out of the park! Cricket ball sent to the 'edge of space' on a balloon
Gizmodo:
This Furious High-Flying Drone Can Spy Overhead For 15 Hours
Dvice:
Inching across the Moon in the Lunar Worm
WEEKEND EDITION: May 17 through May 18, 2014
Dvice:
Multiverse may not be as endless as we thought
The Guardian:
What is Newton's second law of motion?
The Planetary Society:
The Case of the 5-Millisecond Cosmic Radio Burst
Daily Mail:
Catch! Watch the incredible robot arm that never drops a thing - and is set to be blasted into orbit to grab space junk
Daily Mail:
Move over Road Runner! Sprinting robot tears up the race track by reaching speeds of up to 20mph using its six rotating legs
Daily Mail:
How the world looked during the ice age: The incredible map that reveals just how much our planet has changed in 14,000 years
Stuff NZ:
Extinct moa 'not always flightless'
Inside Science:
Zoo-Raised Gorillas Prefer Forest Sounds Over Chopin
Daily Mail:
War of the CHIMPS that lasted four years reveals how human societies splinter
Daily Mail:
Naia, the earliest American: 13,000 year old ice age teenage girl's skeleton oldest ever found in the Americas - and sheds new light on how man arrived in the New World
Daily Mail:
Has the ship Columbus sailed to discover the New World been found? Wreck found off the coast of Haiti believed to be 500 year old Santa Maria
The History Blog:
Who was Parmigianino's Turkish Slave?
The Guardian:
The triumph of melancholy: 500 years of Dürer's most enigmatic print
Archaeology Magazine:
Searching for the Comanche Empire
Smithsonian Magazine:
For the First Time in 93 Years, a 19th-Century Whaling Ship Sets Sail
Smithsonian Magazine:
These Maps Reveal How Slavery Expanded Across the United States
Smithsonian Magazine:
Letters from Mothers to President Lincoln
Smithsonian Magazine:
The History of the Humble Suitcase
Popular Science:
The Women Who Removed Birds From People's Hats
Smithsonian Magazine:
The 20 Can't-Miss Summer Festivals of 2014
May 16, 2014
Space.com:
Near Miss: Tiny Asteroid Gives Earth a Close Shave (Photos)
The DEW Line:
Space Hackers Prepare to Reboot 35-Year-Old Spacecraft
Discovery News:
Not-So-Great Red Spot: Jupiter's Epic Storm is Shrinking
io9:
The Space Gun Was Conceived 199 Years Ago
io9:
The Brookings Institution Gave NASA Advice About Extraterrestrial Life
io9:
This Doodle Is Actually Concept Art Of The World's First Space Station
io9:
The Astronomer Who Wanted to Rearrange the Solar System, Using Nukes
May 15, 2014
KLAS-TV:
I-Team: Man who exposed Area 51 defends UFO information
Huffington Post:
Ex-Air Force Law Enforcement Agent Says He Hoaxed Major UFO Mythologies
Discovery News:
Weird Loner Exoplanet Orbits Far From its Star
Daily Mail:
Diamonds are an exoplanet hunter's best friend: Astronomers finds carbon-rich planets could be far more common than previously thought
Dvice:
Your first hoverbike will go on sale in 2017
Daily Mail:
Stargazing in the 17th century: Dutch archaeologists discover the world's OLDEST working telescope
Popular Science:
Want to Relive the Excitement of Apollo 10?
Space.com:
Evolution of the Spacesuit in Pictures (Space Tech Gallery)
May 14, 2014
Universe Today:
Moscow Delivers Double Whammy to US Space Efforts - Bans Rockets Engines for Military Use, Won't Prolong ISS Work
Space Daily:
Russia to only use ISS until 2020: official
Spaceflight Now:
International space crew lands safely in Kazakhstan
Space.com:
Soyuz Landing Photos: Expedition 39 Crew Returns to Earth
Popular Science:
Will Russia Colonize The Moon?
May 13, 2014
Space.com:
New Meteor Shower from Comet Could Dazzle Stargazers Next Week
Daily Mail:
Is the moon lying on its SIDE? Giant impact might have knocked it off balance 4 billion years ago, claim experts
Universe Today:
Why Earth's Spores Could Survive A Trip to Mars
New Scientist:
A brief history of space flight - in numbers
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
North American Aviation's 1965 Mars/Venus Piloted Flyby Study, Part 1: the Flyby CSM
May 12, 2014
Daily Mail:
Could microbes be lying DORMANT on Mars? Icy regions may hide organisms that could be brought back to life, claims study
Space.com:
NASA's Futuristic Z-2 Spacesuit: How It Works (Infographic)
Air & Space Magazine:
When NASA Told Its Astronauts to Quit Smoking
WEEKEND EDITION: May 10 through May 11, 2014
io9:
8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve
Inside Science:
Spacetime May Be A Slippery Fluid
Universe Today:
Does Light Experience Time?
Popular Science:
IBM's Watson Can Now Argue For You
Popular Science:
New Chinese Supercomputer Goes Beta (Tianhe 2 Ahead Of Schedule And On Budget)
Astrobiology Magazine:
How Cosmic Crashes Could Have Kickstarted Plate Tectonics
Daily Mail:
Not so dino-sore! Carnivorous prehistoric creatures possessed amazing healing abilities, bones reveal
Daily Mail:
Meet 'Pinocchio rex'! Experts unearth long-snouted tyrannosaur that was faster and stealthier than a T.rex (and no, they're NOT lying)
Daily Mail:
Dinosaur claws were used for killing and DIGGING: Evolution caused the talons to adapt as creatures became herbivores
Daily Mail:
Archaeologists unearth 5,600-year-old tomb complete with mummy that PREDATES the First Dynasty of pharaohs
Daily Mail:
Has King David's citadel been found? Israeli archaeologist claims to have discovered site captured in the conquest of Jerusalem
The History Blog:
Unique early 5th c. hoard found in Limburg
Daily Mail:
Did the Vikings invade MADEIRA? Mouse bone DNA suggests invaders - and their rodents - arrived in the 11th century
The History Blog:
Madrid begins search for Cervantes' remains
The History Blog:
Louvre and Prado Mona Lisas as stereoscopic image
The History Blog:
Van Dyck self-portrait acquired by National Portrait Gallery
Gizmodo:
Who Painted This 300-Year-Old Guidebook to Every Imaginable Color?
Daily Mail:
Could a chemical bath solve the mystery of what sank a hand-cranked Confederate submarine that destroyed a battleship in 1864?
Smithsonian Magazine:
Meet Grandison Harris, the Grave Robber Enslaved (and then Employed) By the Georgia College of Medicine
Daily Mail:
From lunar bicycles to aftershave-fuelled cars: Exhibition showcases the marvellous mechanical visions of the future made by artist Rowland Emett 60 years ago
Gizmag:
Automotive exhibit showcases influential designs of the future ... from the past
Gizmodo:
Subscription Radio of the 1940s Was the Scrambled Porn of Its Day
Gizmodo:
The Great Polio Vaccine Feud
Gizmodo:
BASIC, the 50-Year-Old Computer Programming Language for Regular People
Daily Mail:
It may look like a toy track but this is the future of train travel, says China. SUPER-MAGLEV could one day go up to 1,800MPH)
io9:
The Future Of Transportation Used To Look So Much More Sensational
May 9, 2014
Daily Mail:
What is this mysterious aircraft filmed 'blitzing Taliban base in Afghanistan'? Footage shows 'UFO' blasting terrorists' encampment
The Aviationist:
(Fake) Video shows triangular shaped aircraft attack Taliban camp in Afghanistan
Universe Today:
The Hunt for KBOs for New Horizons' Post-Pluto Encounter Continues
Daily Mail:
Is that a PLANE in your driveway? The converted WWII Air Force village - equipped with 700 hangars and a 4,000ft runway - where planes completely replace cars
Space.com:
Is a Google jetpack coming? Firm admits it worked on design in secret lab - but says technology is not yet advanced enough
Space.com:
NASA Test Pilot Bill Dana, Flew X-15 Rocket Plane into Space, Dies at 83
Air & Space Magazine:
Test Pilot Bill Dana's Worst Fear: Embarrassing Himself in Front of his Peers
May 8, 2014
Air & Space Magazine:
Pilots -- Watch the Skies!
Spaceflight Now:
Russian spy satellite launched by Soyuz rocket
Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity rover drills into Martian sandstone
Discovery News:
Boldly Growing: Will NASA Send a Greenhouse to Mars?
Discovery News:
Fire missiles at Mars to find deeply buried life
Daily Mail:
Now YOU can enjoy an astronaut's view of Earth! Nasa launches a real-time video of our planet from the ISS that streams 24/7
Daily Mail:
Buy a piece of lunar history: Joystick used to land man on the MOON is up for auction - and it could be yours for £180,000
May 7, 2014
Universe Today:
Are we Ready for Contact?
Popular Science:
We Might Never Find Alien Life With Current Technology
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX supply ship unloaded by robots and astronauts
Spaceflight Now:
Time is running out for diminutive space mission
Discovery News:
Dud or Delight? 'New' Meteor Shower Could Hit Us May 24
Daily Mail:
Meteor shower later in May could turn out to be a STORM - with up to 1,000 shooting stars an HOUR
Popular Science:
How Mountains In Our Solar System Compare [Infographic]
Gizmodo:
First video of the US Army flying truck in action
Gizmag:
Video showing AT Black Knight Transformer's first flight released
The Aviationist:
Aerial combat, pattern activity, low level flying in Alaska and Middle East by U.S. Air Force F-15 pilots with GoPro cameras
New Scientist:
Peek inside a Russian cosmonaut's dressing room
Collect Space:
Used spacecraft for sale: Soviet-era space capsule up for auction in Belgium
May 6, 2014
Daily Press:
On this date in history: First American in space
Space.com:
Alan Shepard: First American in Space
io9:
Behind the Scenes of the First Crewed American Spaceflight
Life Magazine:
Alan Shepard: Classic Photos of the First American in Space
io9:
Alan Shepard: Astronaut, Pilot, Golfer
Space Fellowship:
Pioneering Mercury Astronauts Launched America's Future
Scientific American:
While NASA Idles, Commercial Space Revs Up
Daily Mail:
Boeing's vision of manned spaceflight revealed: Firm unveils concept for space transport set to launch in 2017
The Atlantic:
A Groundbreaking Mini-Satellite Project May Be Doomed
Discovery News:
DNews: Where Do Satellites Go When They Die?
Daily Mail:
Could Earth bugs hike a trip to MARS? Microbes could beat humans in race to colonise red planet, warns Nasa scientist
Discovery News:
The Amazing Morphing Dunes of Mars
Discovery News:
Could We Soon Detect Alien 'Plant' Life on Exoplanets?
Space.com:
New 'Meteor Storm' from Comet May Light Up Night Sky This Month
Universe Today:
Dashcams, Tweets Show Bright Daytime Fireball Over Ontario, Canada on May 4
Daily Mail:
The Avenger unmasked: Secretive 'Goldeneye' drone spotted over the Mojave desert
May 5, 2014
Discovery News:
Bus-Size Asteroid Buzzes Earth, Comes Closer Than the Moon
Space Daily:
New Craft Will Be America's First Space Lifeboat in 40 Years
Discovery News:
Two Suns Could Boost Odds of Habitable 'Exomoons'
Discovery News:
5 Brightest Planets in May's Night Sky
Space.com:
Meteor Shower Spawned by Halley's Comet Peaks This Week
The Weather Network:
Possible meteor brings sonic boom over southern, eastern Ontario
The Aviationist:
Did a U-2 Spyplane Trigger a Software Glitch that froze Los Angeles Air Traffic Control computers?
WEEKEND EDITION: May 3 through May 4, 2014
Daily Mail:
Are we living 'underwater'? Researchers believe the universe might be a 'liquid superfluid'
Space.com:
Universe Expanding Symmetrically, Real-Time Analysis Shows
Space.com:
How Albert Einstein Helped Blackmail President Roosevelt Over Manhattan Project Funding
Universe Today:
How Life Could Have Produced Most Minerals On Earth
National Geographic:
Meet Kryptodrakon: Oldest Known Pterodactyl Found in China
Daily Mail:
'Adam and Eve' sex genes formed 180 million years ago - and may have developed due to changes in global temperature
Stuff NZ:
Neanderthals were pretty smart
Daily Mail:
Neanderthals may have been wiped out due to INTERBREEDING and not because of a lack of intelligence
Daily Mail:
Has the mystery of how the Egyptians built the pyramids been solved? Researchers find wet sand was key to movement of huge stone blocks
Daily Mail:
A grave discovery: Mummified remains of ancient Egyptian royals found in burial site that was torched by tomb raiders
Daily Mail:
Egypt dig unearths 'early image of Jesus' in a mysterious underground tomb
Daily Mail:
Secret of what made 1918 Spanish flu epidemic that killed 50 MILLION the fastest in history
Daily Mail:
Who was King Erik IX? Swedish monarch's DNA to be tested after his 900-year-old remains are opened up to the public
The History Blog:
Madrid begins search for Cervantes' remains
Gizmodo:
The Fascinating Untold History of War and Prosthetics
The History Blog:
Wreck of City of Chester found in San Francisco Bay
The History Blog:
Picasso curtain at Four Seasons restaurant in danger
The Atlantic:
The Surprising Birthplace of the First Sperm Bank
Gizmodo:
The Davy Crockett Tac-Nuke: King of the Wild Cold War Frontier
Daily Mail:
America's feared nuclear missile facilities are still controlled by computers from the 1960s and FLOPPY DISKS
May 2, 2014
Discovery News:
New Era: SpaceX Releases Booster Soft Splashdown Video
Space.com:
Why Is Mars So Much Smaller Than Earth?
Space.com:
Jupiter Moon's 'Club Sandwich' Ocean Could Potentially Support Life
New Scientist:
Pluto may be wearing a dark belt of moon dust
Methow Valley News:
Naked eye: Something new to see in May's sky
International Business Times:
Eta Aquarids 2014: The Meteor Shower from Halley's Comet Set to Brighten Night Sky
Slate - Bad Astronomy:
Meteor Over ALMA
May 1, 2014
Daily Mail:
Is China's space programme a cover for anti-satellite technology? Expert claims we should be wary of 'missiles' being launched
Daily Mail:
Russia tells the US to take astronauts to the International Space Station 'with the help of a trampoline' in Ukraine sanctions row
Gizmag:
NASA opens up the ISS to private enterprise
Daily Mail:
Race to the red planet: Russia says YES to building super-rocket that will rival Nasa's designs in hopes of getting to Mars by 2030
Daily Mail:
How man will land on Mars: Nasa video reveals the steps needed to transport humans to the red planet by the 2030s
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX plans to recover stages when customers allow
Spaceflight Now:
Late-night Vega launch lofts Kazakh satellite into space
New Scientist:
Epic Mars flooding triggered by collapsed crater lake
Space.com:
NASA Unveils Futuristic Z-2 Spacesuit: Mars-Tough Duds that Glow (Photos)
Gizmag:
NASA Boeing reveals future CST-100 commercial spacecraft Interior
Daily Mail:
Back to Earth with a splash! Fisherman finds car-sized fragment of a SPACE ROCKET in a Brazilian river
Air & Space Magazine:
Tales of the Old, Bold Pilots
April 30, 2014
Universe Today:
May Meteor Storm Alert: All Eyes on the Sky!
Science Magazine:
False Signs of Life on Alien Worlds
io9:
New Evidence Reveals What a "Typical" Solar System Looks Like
Gizmag:
Arcturus gets the Jump on vertical takeoff and landing for fixed wing UAVs
Gizmag:
AW609 tiltRotor aircraft completes autorotation trials
Popular Science:
Invention Awards 2014: A Personal Electric Airplane That Won't Need A Runway
Popular Science:
Rocketing Through (Simulated) Space with Jet Shoes
Gizmodo:
Amazing Warbird Photos Look Like They Were Taken By A Time-Traveler
April 29, 2014
Stuff NZ:
Antarctica, Australia to see solar eclipse
Discovery News:
LADEE Probe Adds to Moon's Far-Side Graveyard
Dvice:
Can crowdfunding resurrect this 35-year-old space probe?
Spaceflight Now:
Proton rocket deploys satellite duo into orbit
Gizmag:
"Optionally piloted" Black Hawk takes to the air
Gizmodo:
Build Your Favorite Space Gadgets With LittleBits' Awesome NASA Kit
The DEW Line:
RAF Typhoons follow the Bear
Gizmodo:
Watch this helicopter pilot doing some really wild acrobatics
io9:
The Russian Soyuz Spacecraft from Launch to Landing
Popular Science:
To The Moon With C-1s Or Bust!
April 28, 2014
Hudson Valley Times Herald-Record:
Aliens the stars in Pine Bush UFO Fair
Jalopnik:
So What Were Those Secret Flying Wing Aircraft Spotted Over Texas?
Discovery News:
X-Rated: Sun Erupts With Massive Flare, Again
Daily Mail:
Watch out for the X-flare: Nasa reveals new images of massive solar storm that caused radio blackout on Earth
Daily Mail:
How Nasa plans to put a man on Mars in 20 years: Space bosses reveal the route to the red planet
Daily Mail:
Could we travel to Mars in 30 DAYS? Nasa believes nuclear-powered rockets could make trip faster and cheaper
Scientific American:
Warp Drive Research Key to Interstellar Travel
Gizmodo:
This Graceful Orion Test Flight Is Really Simulating a Launch Disaster
Discovery News:
SpaceX Falcon Rocket Flies Itself Back to Earth
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX files suit over U.S. Air Force launch contracts
Spaceflight Now:
Antares engine hinges on supply chain, performance
Daily Mail:
Could life on Mars have existed just 200,000 years ago? Young rock formations provide evidence of 'recent' water on the red planet
Daily Mail:
Asteroids don't spell armageddon: Huge impact craters can PRESERVE signs of life for millions of years
Discovery News:
DNews: Could Aliens Be Living on Exomoons?
Daily Mail:
Could our search for alien life trigger the end of humanity? 'Great Filter' theory suggests habitable exoplanets may spell our demise
Scientific American:
It's life, Charlie, but not as we know it - Charles Darwin and the search of early (Extraterrestrial) Life
WEEKEND EDITION: April 26 through April 27, 2014
Popular Science:
Left To Their Own Devices, Robots Evolve Into Diverse Populations
Gizmag:
Chinese company uses 3D printing to build 10 houses in a day
Daily Mail:
The oldest living things in the world revealed: Stunning new pictures of the 2,000 year old shrub, the 5,000 year old moss and the 9,550 year old spruce
Slate:
What Are Cats Thinking?
ABC Australia:
Ancestor of ancient flying reptiles found
The Guardian:
Here be dragons: the science of the flying fiery reptiles
The History Blog:
Celebrate St. George's Day with an orgy of dragons
Daily Mail:
Out of Africa earlier than expected: Modern man first arrived in Europe 130,000 years ago, researchers claim
Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Did Lead Poisoning Bring Down Ancient Rome?
Smithsonian Magazine:
Was Shakespeare Aware of the Scientific Discoveries of His Time?
Gizmodo:
L.A.'s First Public Transit Used Actual Horse Power
Popular Science:
The World's Most Dangerous Naval Weapon
Smithsonian Magazine:
"The Hatpin Peril" Terrorized Men Who Couldn't Handle the 20th-Century Woman
The History Blog:
Happy 100th birthday, Wrigley Field!
Gizmodo:
Sorry, Chicago -- Los Angeles Was Home to the First Wrigley Field
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the underwater time capsule is solved: Perfectly preserved Nazi plane is identified as troop carrier on its way to hell of the Eastern Front
io9:
New Images Show Wreckage Of U.S. Ships Sunk During D-Day Preparations
io9:
WWII Propaganda Billboards From The United States' Secret Atomic City
Gizmodo:
23 Amazing Soviet Visions For The Future of Transportation
The Atlantic:
The Site of a 1950s Plane Crash Just Became a National Landmark
Smithsonian Magazine:
James W. Rouse's Legacy of Better Living Through Design
The Atlantic:
The Utopian Origins of Restroom Symbols
Dvice:
Lost digital Warhols rediscovered on an old floppy disk from 1985
Gizmodo:
Celebration, Florida: The Utopian Town That America Just Couldn't Trust
Gizmag:
In pictures: 41st Tokyo Motorcycle Show 2014
Popular Science:
The Best Of The 2014 New York Auto Show
Gizmag:
In pictures: The best of the 2014 New York Auto Show
Gizmodo:
9 of the Coolest Prefab Houses in History
Business Insider India:
15 'Futuristic' Photos From The 1964 World's Fair
Gizmodo:
This Early Concept for the 1964 Ford Pavilion Was Googie-tastic
NBC News:
1964 New York World's Fair Flashback Tour
New York Times:
Recalling a Vision of the Future
April 25, 2014
io9:
Happy Birthday, Hubble!
Discovery News:
Top Secret Military Mini-Shuttle Marks 500 Days in Orbit
Universe Today:
LADEE Sees Zodiacal Light before Crashing into Moon, but Apollo Mystery Remains
Universe Today:
Curiosity Captures First Ever Asteroid Images from Mars Surface
Universe Today:
Take a Fly-by Of All the Known Exoplanets
io9:
Visit the Super-Earths We've Found, in These Gorgeous Artworks
Universe Today:
Asteroids VS. Your Hometown: Fun but Frightening Graphics Compare Asteroid Sizes to Places on Earth
Popular Science:
Remembering John Houbolt, NASA's Voice in the Wilderness
Daily Mail:
Nasa's Mad Men: How the agency sold the Apollo missions to the public and inspired a golden age of space exploration
April 24, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Spacewalkers swap out failed computer on space station
Discovery News:
Spacewalking Astronauts Replace Dead Computer on Space Station
Universe Today:
The Inner and Outer Planets in Our Solar System
Air & Space Magazine:
To Space (Okay, Near-Space) in a Balloon
The Aviationist:
Not one but two different triangular mystery jets are being secretely flown across the US
April 23, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
US Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Nears Day 500 in Orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Orbital Sciences resupply mission slips to June
Discovery News:
Asteroids Whack Earth More Often Than Thought
Gizmag:
Dassault achieves world's first formation flight of combat drone and manned aircraft
Gizmodo:
Man, look how crazy close Blue Angels fighter jets fly together
Gizmodo:
Where are all these awesome spaceliners of the future?
April 22, 2014
Discovery News:
Opportunity: The Amazing Self-Cleaning Mars Rover
Universe Today:
Our Guide to the Bizzare April 29th Solar Eclipse
Popular Science:
Meteors May Have Brought Vitamin B To Earth
Universe Today:
The Planets in Our Solar System in Order of Size
Universe Today:
How Far Are The Planets From The Sun?
The DEW Line:
Coming from America: F-35s to visit UK
Universe Today:
Stunning Original Drawing of the Latest SpaceX Launch
Gizmodo:
This Vertical Take-Off Drone System Is So Versatile It's Scary
Gizmodo:
Cool combat jet eye candy
Discovery News:
V-2: The Rocket Fueled by the Nazi War Machine
April 21, 2014
Daily Mail:
Why I believe aliens landed in a Suffolk forest: No, Nick Pope isn't a UFO fantasist, he's an ex-Ministry of Defence expert with a compelling dossier of evidence
Universe Today:
Echoes of Chelyabinsk: Another Fireball Explodes Over Russia
Spaceflight Now:
Dragon spaceship delivers science and supplies
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX achieves controlled landing of Falcon first stage
Spaceflight Now:
LADEE ends mission with planned impact on the moon
Gizmag:
LADEE probe hits the Moon at 3,600 mph
Daily Mail:
RIP Ladee: Nasa's robotic explorer crashes into the moon after its 128 day mission
Universe Today:
Ancient Martian Life May Be Preserved in Glass
Discovery News:
Bathing in the Sunset of an 'Earth-Like' Alien World
Daily Mail:
The 'drunken' planets that could hold alien life: Mysterious wobbling worlds may be more habitable than first thought
Space.com:
Boeing-Built Fighter Jets Could Launch US Military Satellites Into Space
Daily Mail:
NASA engineer known as 'Apollo's unsung hero' for developing the moon landing strategy in the 1960's dies aged 95
WEEKEND EDITION: April 19 through April 20, 2014
io9:
What's The Purpose Of The Universe? Here's One Possible Answer
New Scientist:
Star dust casts doubt on recent big bang wave result
io9:
How To Test Einstein's "Twin Paradox" Without Using A Spaceship
Popular Science:
Atlas Stumbled: Why Humanoid Robots Are Still A Brilliant, Bumbling Mess
io9:
Meet The Retro Robot Band From The Fabulous '50s
The Guardian:
Five wonder materials that could change the world
Daily Mail:
Was life on Earth kickstarted by electricity on the sea floor? First organisms thrived in 'charged ocean vents'
Smithsonian Magazine:
Five Things We Don't Know About Tyrannosaurus Rex
Live Science:
4 New 'Killer Sponges' Discovered in Pacific
Live Science:
Modern Sharks Aren't So Primitive, Ancient Fossil Suggests
Daily Mail:
Rome wasn't built in a day - in fact it took 200 YEARS longer than first thought! City may have been built in 9th century BC
The History Blog:
Mausoleum of Augustus restoration to begin this year
The History Blog:
Free online course on the archaeology of Portus
Live Science:
Body Slam This! Ancient Wrestling Match Was Fixed
The History Blog:
Iron Age mint found in Leicester
The History Blog:
National Museum's Viking Ireland video series
io9:
The Lost Empire that Ruled the Silk Road
Gizmodo:
The Most Haunted Place In The World Is For Sale
Daily Mail:
An American Odyssey: First colour postcards of the 'New World' showcase life in the US at the end of the 19th century
Gizmodo:
Did Construction Workers Just Unearth L.A.'s Original Aqueduct?
io9:
San Francisco, 1906, Just Before the Water Gave Out
The Bold Italic:
5 Times San Francisco Was Almost Destroyed
Gizmodo:
The Hollywood Bowl Started as a Natural Amphitheater Named Daisy Dell
The History Blog:
Norway gives lost Chinese 1927 silent film to China
io9:
Vintage Public Health Posters Show Just How Creepy The 20th Century Was
io9:
The Zeppelin Train, The Aerotrain And Other Classic Streamlined Trains
Gizmodo:
Broadacre City: Frank Lloyd Wright's Unbuilt Suburban Utopia
io9:
Watch Doctor Who's Jon Pertwee Explain The Wonder Of Vacuum Tubes
Daily Mail:
From the Ford Mustang to colonies on the moon: Predictions that the 1964 World's Fair got right... and what it got very wrong
io9:
The Abandoned Pyramid of North Dakota
Daily Mail:
The U.S. Navy's christens its huge $7bn stealth ship that looks like a fishing boat on radar
Daily Mail:
The 5,400mph superweapon: 'Star Wars' gun can fire shells at seven times speed of sound through concrete 100 miles away
Gizmodo:
Legendary British News Agency's 85,000-Video Archive Is Now on YouTube
April 18, 2014
Discovery News:
Most 'Earth-Like' Alien World Discovered
Spaceflight Now:
Earth's 'cousin' planet lies 500 light-years away
New Scientist:
Smallest life-friendly exoplanet may be lit by auroras
Discovery News:
Earth-Likenesses: Have We Discovered Earth 2.0?
Space.com:
New Earth-Size Planet and Siblings: Theoretical Animation
Space.com:
Exoplanet Kepler-186f: Earth-Size World Could Support Oceans and Life (Infographic)
Space.com:
5 Exoplanets Most Likely to Host Alien Life
Space.com:
Vesta and Ceres: How to Spot the Solar System's Biggest Asteroids
Popular Science:
Did Iapetus's Mountains Fall From Space?
Daily Mail:
Will we soon be riding JETPACKS to work? Breakthrough technology could see the creation of 'highways in the sky'
Popular Science:
The Digital Cameras NASA Sent Into Space In The 90s
Discovery News:
When Apollo 12 Encountered the Surveyor 3 Moon Lander
Gizmodo:
Northrop's Flying Ram Would Have Sliced Enemy Planes in Midair
The Aviationist:
B-2 Spirit or new Mysterious Stealth Plane? New image of triangular shaped plane emerges
April 17, 2014
io9:
Can This 1970s Spacecraft Explore Again?
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX presses ahead for Friday launch attempt
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX's mega-rocket to debut next year at pad 39A
Universe Today:
German Impact Crater Could Have Hosted Early Life On Earth
Space.com:
Explosive Surprise: Huge Volcanoes Shook Mercury for Billions of Years
Dvice:
Wibbly-wobbly tilting planets may be more habitable
Space Daily:
Continents May Be A Key Feature of Super-Earths
Daily Mail:
Designer paints concept airplanes inspired by dinosaurs, dolphins and even chickens, but could they ever really take to the sky?
io9:
Not Photoshopped -- These Two Planes Really Are Flying Like This
The Atlantic:
What Happened to Skywriting?
April 16, 2014
Space.com:
NASA Signs Over Historic Apollo-Era Launch Pad to SpaceX
Universe Today:
Why The Eclipse Forced A Shutdown Of Lunar Spacecraft's Instruments
Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity's priority switches from driving to science
Space Daily:
Meteorite studies suggest hidden water on Mars
Discovery News:
Fluid Mystery: How Did Mars Ever Have Liquid Water?
Scientific American:
Kepler Telescope Finds 700 New Exoplanets
WMUR New Hampshire:
Mass. National Guard: Jets didn't cause sonic boom
WMUR:
Keene-area residents say loud noise sounded like sonic boom
April 15, 2014
Gizmodo:
A weird black ring appeared in the sky in England and then disappeared
Space Daily:
Dragon Cargo Craft Launch Scrubbed; Station Crew Preps for Spacewalk
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX resupply launch scrubbed by helium leak
Spaceflight Now:
Recovery crews in place to retrieve Falcon 9 first stage
New Scientist:
SpaceX to test landing legs for future reusable rocket
Popular Science:
Cherry Trees That Flew To Space Bloom Six Years Early
Discovery News:
Saturn May Have Given Birth to a Baby Moon
Universe Today:
Is Saturn Making a New Moon?
Gizmodo:
This Could Be the Largest Flying X-Wing Model Yet
Dvice:
Hybrid electric flying car concept promises everything
Dvice:
DARPA is turning old drones from Iraq into flying Wi-Fi hotspots
Popular Science:
Transforming Helicopter-Truck Hybrid Makes First Flight
Jalopnik:
The Awesome R/C Plane Video That Pissed Off The FAA
Gizmodo:
This Amusement Park Ride Was So Safe It Disgusted Its Creator
April 14, 2014
Discovery News:
Pluto May Have Deep Seas and Ancient Tectonic Faults
Daily Mail:
Hubble just got 10 times better: Nasa telescope can now measure distance to stars an astonishing 10,000 light years away
Universe Today:
Backup Computer Glitches On Space Station But Crew Safe, NASA Says
Universe Today:
Contingency Spacewalk Planned Next Week, But Dragon Must Arrive At Space Station First
Spaceflight Now:
NASA clears SpaceX for Monday cargo launch
New Scientist:
NASA 'flying saucer' for Mars to land in Hawaii
Spaceflight Now:
Sentinel craft's first day in space was unusually tense
Spaceflight Now:
Solar array issue will have little impact on DMSP 19
Spaceflight Now:
All-weather surveillance satellite orbited by Israel
Spaceflight Now:
Crowd-funded stowaway to deploy 104 tiny satellites
Stuff NZ:
Lockheed to begin building asteroid sampler
Scientific American:
How to Build an Earth-Size Telescope
ABC Australia:
Ancient Martian air held no water
New Scientist:
Squirting moons face off in race to find alien life
Daily Mail:
Did JUPITER kickstart life on Earth? Gas giant may have altered climate billions of years ago
WEEKEND EDITION: April 12 through April 13, 2014
The Guardian:
E=mc2: Einstein's equation that gave birth to the atom bomb
Scientific American:
5 Things Dark Matter Could Be - The Countdown #45
Popular Science:
'Indisputable' Proof Of A New Four-Quark Particle
io9:
These Tests Can Prove Whether You Are in the Fourth Dimension
Daily Mail:
Watch out Rooney! 2014 Robocup for football-playing droids kicks off in Germany
IEEE Spectrum:
Festo's Newest Robot Is a Hopping Bionic Kangaroo
Popular Science:
'How It Works: The Inner Earth
Daily Mail:
Stepping back in time: Footprints of a 100-million-year-old dinosaur chase digitally reconstructed
ABC Australia:
Hummingbird family tree unveiled
The History Blog:
Anglo-Saxon ring engraved with Christian and pagan symbols
Daily Mail:
Ancient papyrus that suggested Jesus was married IS an ancient document and not a modern forgery, according to forensic tests
The History Blog:
Forster Flag, oldest known American flag, for sale
Archaeology Magazine:
America's Chinatowns
Gizmodo:
This May Be the First Photograph of Los Angeles
Gizmodo:
L.A. Once Had Cable Cars (Just Like San Francisco's)
Gizmodo:
When Watching Baseball on TV Was the Future
Smithsonian Magazine:
When Marian Anderson Sang at the Lincoln Memorial, Her Voice Stunned the Crowd, and Her Gold-Trimmed Jacket Dazzled
Smithsonian Magazine:
Four Years After Marian Anderson Sang at the Lincoln Memorial, D.A.R. Finally Invited Her to Perform at Constitution Hall
Gizmodo:
The Invention of the Slurpee
Dvice:
How George Lucas birthed the lightsaber for Star Wars
The History Blog:
New York Public Library puts 20,000 maps online
Daily Mail:
The 5,400mph superweapon: 'Star Wars' gun can fire shells at seven times speed of sound through concrete 100 miles away
ABC Australia:
Cereal boxes that stare increase sales
Gizmodo:
Cereal boxes that stare increase sales
April 11, 2014
Universe Today:
European Satellite Dodged Space Debris Hours After Reaching Orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Hush-hush payload rides Atlas 5 rocket into orbit
Universe Today:
Super Secret Spy Satellite Soars Spectacularly to Space aboard Atlas V booster from Cape Canaveral - Launch Gallery
Discovery News:
NASA's Crazy Awesome Rocket-Propelled Parachute Test
Discovery News:
Exomoon Possibly Detected Around Alien Planet
Dvice:
How many people do we need for a viable space colony?
Daily Mail:
Scientists reconstruct asteroid impact SIX TIMES bigger than the blast that wiped out the dinosaurs and say it boiled oceans, burned the sky, and shook the Earth for thirty minutes
Daily Mail:
Researchers show off 'bird' drones that can land on power lines to recharge themselves
KNSD:
2012 Mystery Rumblings Caused by Sonic Boom: Navy
April 10, 2014
Universe Today:
US Spy Sat and SpaceX Set for Double Barreled Blastoffs After Critical Cape Canaveral Radar Revitalized
KNBC:
Navy Exercise Likely Source of Sonic Boom
Daily Mail:
NASA 'on course' to land humans on Mars in 20 years as plan to use asteroid as a stepping stone to the red planet pass government hurdle
Space Daily:
India's mission to Mars crosses half-way mark
Universe Today:
Did A Lake Once Cover Spirit Rover's Landing Site On Mars?
Universe Today:
Mercury Had Quite The Explosive Past, Spacecraft Analysis Shows
Wired:
Ancient Asteroid Boiled Oceans, Burned the Sky, and Shook Earth for a Half-Hour
Aviation Week:
Stored Boeing 747-8s And Other Incredible Photos
Aviation Week:
From the Archives: Boeing 777 -- 20 years on -- a roll out to remember
April 9, 2014
Universe Today:
The USAF's Super-Secret X-37B Approaches a Milestone
Daily Mail:
Mysterious growth of the 'space cherry': Seed returned from the International Space Station stuns scientists by blooming years early
Spaceflight Now:
Fresh cargo ship set for launch to space station
Spaceflight Now:
NASA eyes June launch for next Cygnus cargo mission
Spaceflight Now:
Sporty sendoff planned for NASA's LADEE moon mission
New Scientist:
Squirting moons face off in race to find alien life
Chronicle of Higher Education:
Alone in the Cosmos
April 8, 2014
Daily Mail:
ISS narrowly avoids Gravity-style collision: Space station forced to change position after deadly debris field comes within just 1,000 ft
Daily Beast:
Will The Pentagon's Secret Space Plane Ever Return to Earth?
Spaceflight Now:
Teams study solar array snag on Air Force weather satellite
New Scientist:
Volcanic blasts hint that Mercury is a migrant planet
Popular Science:
When Bacon Flew to the Moon; or, #spacebacon
io9:
How Soviet Artists Imagined Communist Life in Space
April 7, 2014
Melbourne Herald-Sun:
UFO suspicions still cloud disappearance of Frederick Valentich
Gizmodo:
Astronomers Publish Study On Extraterrestrial Zombies
Spaceflight Now:
ULA, SpaceX reschedule launches after radar outage
Popular Science:
Video: Watch A Privately-Funded Moon Lander's Fiery Test
Discovery News:
Kamikaze Moon Probe to Carry out 'High-Risk' Maneuver
New Scientist:
The LADEE killers: NASA ready to crash probe into moon
Universe Today:
Curiosity rover maneuvers around 'Kimberley' seeking potential Red Planet Drill Sites
Popular Science:
Saturn's Moon Enceladus Is Now A Top Candidate For Life
io9:
Astronomers Discover Two More Dwarf Planets In Our Outer Solar System
Space.com:
Huge 'El Gordo' Galaxy Cluster Packs Mass of 3 Quadrillion Suns (Photos)
Stuff NZ:
Stunning solar flare images
io9:
Your Guide to Witnessing the Biggest, Brightest Mars in Over Six Years
Gizmodo:
The A-10 Warthog looks especially cool in this photo
Gizmodo:
These aborted landings and violent take-offs will make anyone pale
Gizmodo:
This Russian Doomsday Plane Is President Putin's Personal Escape Pod
Discovery News:
DNews: Can We Genetically Engineer Humans for Space?
WEEKEND EDITION: April 5 through April 6, 2014
Discovery News:
Gravitational Wave Discovery Might Not Have Inflation Origin
Daily Mail:
Forget asteroids - methane-producing microbes were responsible for the worst mass extinction in history
Daily Mail:
I just wanna be like you-oo-oo! Remarkable images show monkeys building a fire, lighting it with match before toasting marshmallows
Science Magazine:
Did Europeans Get Fat From Neandertals?
Daily Mail:
Is this the first weather report? 3,500 year old inscription revealing a 'tempest of rain' could rewrite Egyptian history
Daily Mail:
Archaeologists race to secure ancient burial site of three Egyptian kings that will make the treasure of Tutankhamun's tomb look like a 'display in Woolworths'
Stuff NZ:
Egypt's animal mummies
Daily Mail:
Skeletons give up the secrets of Black Death: Humans, not rats, spread the plague
Gizmodo:
This 1947 Train of Tomorrow Puts Today's Trains to Shame
April 4, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Ain't we got fun?
Spaceflight Now:
NASA space assets detect ocean inside Saturn moon
Discovery News:
Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has Underground Ocean
Discovery News:
Enceladus: Saturn's Snowball Ocean Moon: Photos
Universe Today:
Norwegian Skydiver Almost Gets Hit by Falling Meteor - and Captures it on Film
io9:
Early Design Specs Show The Space Shuttle Could Have Been Much Cooler
io9:
The Insane History of Rockets at Jet Propulsion Laboratories
April 3, 2014
Universe Today:
The Moon Is Just 95 Million Years Younger Than The Solar System: Study
Discovery News:
Cataclysmic Moon Formation Happened Later Than Thought
Space.com:
Moon's Age Revealed, and a Lunar Mystery May Be Solved
Space.com:
How the Moon Was Made: Lunar Evolution Explained (Infographic)
Space.com:
How the Moon Evolved: A Photo Timeline
Space.com:
How the Moon Formed: 5 Wild Lunar Theories
Space.com:
How the Moon Evolved: A Photo Timeline
Universe Today:
Get Ready for the April 15, 2014 Total Lunar Eclipse: Our Complete Guide
Gizmag:
Computer simulation casts new light on the ancient Roman Campus Martius mystery
Daily Mail:
Petra's ancient monastery was a CALENDAR: Shadows cast by carved building reveal secrets of Jordan's 'lost city'
April 2, 2014
Space.com:
Chinese Long March Rocket Boosts Experimental Satellite Into Orbit
Space.com:
China's New Spaceport to Launch Country's Largest Rocket Yet
Universe Today:
SpaceX's Next-Generation Reusable Rocket Roars In Tie-Down Test
Space Daily:
Health risks of Mars mission would exceed NASA limits
Daily Mail:
The jumbo JUMBO jet: Nasa's super-sized plane can carry 26 tonnes of spaceship parts and still travel at 290mph
Dvice:
Image of the Day: Fighter-launched nanosatellites
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the Pentagon's space plane: X-37B breaks record after circling Earth for 470 days - but won't reveal what mission was for
April 1, 2014
Discovery News:
Powerful Solar Flare Causes Radio Blackout
Space.com:
It's T-365 Until Astronaut and Cosmonaut Spend One Year on Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
A blast from the past: Military weather satellite finally set to launch
Spaceflight Now:
Long March rocket boosts Chinese satellite to orbit
Space.com:
Night Sky: Visible Planets, Moon Phases & Events, April 2014
Space.com:
Must-See Spring Stargazing Guide: Eclipses, Meteor Showers and More
Space.com:
Spring Constellations: See a Night Sky Snake, Crow and Goblet
Discovery News:
Mars: The Muddy Red Planet?
The Aviationist:
Video shows what is it like being on the receiving end of a Mig-29 Fulcrum's gun
The Aviationist:
Is this the shape of the new mysterious stealth jet spotted over Texas?
March 31, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz docks with International Space Station
Space Daily:
Testing Begins on Third AEHF Satellite
Universe Today:
Crucial Radar Outage Scrubs US National Security and SpaceX Launches for Several Weeks from Cape Canaveral
Discovery News:
DNews: Did a Meteorite Finally Reveal Life on Mars?
Discovery News:
Could 'Planet X' Still be Lurking Out There?
Daily Mail:
Cheap 3D printed drones are coming! Researchers successfully build and fly a low-cost DISPOSABLE aircraft
WBOC:
Navy Officials Clear up Sonic Boom Concerns
Aviation Week:
Mystery Aircraft Over Texas
WEEKEND EDITION: March 29 through March 30, 2014
Universe Today:
Cosmologists Cast Doubt on Inflation Evidence
io9:
Why "Critical Density" Could Determine the Fate of the Universe
Popular Science:
Elephant Trunk Robot Learns Like A Child
Popular Science:
Giant Robot Crab Walks, Is Probably Coming Right For You
Daily Mail:
Meet Crabster, the robotic CRAB that could revolutionise underwater exploration and reveal an almost entirely unknown world
Daily Mail:
Is the Yellowstone supervolcano DYING? Researchers say dormant volcano may never erupt again
Daily Mail:
Dolphin whistle translated by computer for the first time - and it said SEAWEED
The History Blog:
Pharaoh Claudius erects pole for fertility god
Gizmodo:
All About the Military Dolphins of the US (And Now Russia)
Gizmodo:
The Unlikely Fate of NYC's Last Floating Church
Gizmodo:
13 Stunning Shopping Malls From the Dawn of Consumerism
Smithsonian Magazine:
Color Photographs of Imperial Russia Reveal a World Lost to History
The History Blog:
1940s Chicago in living color
Gizmodo:
The Largest Earthquake In U.S. History Happened 50 Years Ago Today
Daily Mail:
Is this the most terrifying robot ever? Animatronic dancer stares at you as 'she' gyrates to Blurred Lines
Gizmodo:
The Untold History of Ugliness
io9:
Centuries Ago, Legendary Painters Made These Revealing Selfies
io9:
Which Real-Life Victorian Sub Inspired Jules Verne's Nautilus?
io9:
These Weapons Are the Largest Ever Made
Gizmodo:
Clever bus stop ad makes people believe meteors are striking the street
March 28, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
New discovery may redefine solar system's outer frontier
Spaceflight Now:
Radar outage prompts delay of Falcon 9 launch
Spaceflight Now:
Germany calls for redesign of next-generation Ariane
Gizmodo:
Video: How NASA will assemble and launch its new manned space fleet
Discovery News:
Hubble Zooms-in on Mars-Buzzing Comet Siding Spring
Space Daily:
Don't forget F-type stars in search for life
The Aviationist:
Russia's new unmanned aerial vehicle "Altius" unveiled
Air & Space Magazine:
The Puzzle of Vertical Takeoff
Air & Space Magazine:
"I Wasn't Controlling the Aircraft. The Storm Was."
Air & Space Magazine:
Where Amelia Earhart Tried, Geraldine Mock Succeeded
Air & Space Magazine:
Tales of the Old, Bold Pilots
March 27, 2014
Daily Mail:
Does our solar system have a SUPER EARTH? Cluster of rock at its edge hints at existence of an enormous planet
New Scientist:
New dwarf planet hints at giant world far beyond Pluto
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz on trajectory to reach space station Thursday
New Scientist:
Asteroid surprises with set of shiny Saturn-like rings
CBC News:
Why 'fireball season' is so spectacular this year
Gizmag:
Triton UAV completes initial flight testing
Air & Space Magazine:
Q: What Fighter Pilot Used Gum on His Windscreen as a Gunsight?
Air & Space Magazine:
The Ramjet and the Rocket
March 26, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Reinvigorated by the 'Wow!'
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz rendezvous aborted after successful launch
Space.com:
US Launch of Secret Spy Satellite Delayed
Air & Space Magazine:
To Space (Okay, Near-Space) in a Balloon
Air & Space Magazine:
Luck and Death: WWI Pilots and their Superstitions
Air & Space Magazine:
The Most Talented Aviation Pioneer You've Never Heard of
March 25, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Hush-hush payload to ride Atlas 5 rocket into orbit
Space.com:
US to Launch Secret Spy Satellite Tuesday
Daily Mail:
Could flower power spot alien life? Nasa reveals giant space sunflower that could allow exoplanets to be photographed
Gizmodo:
Why Did Lockheed Blow Up Its Own Prototype UAV Bomber?
Gizmag:
Goodyear's new state-of-the-art airship makes its first flight
Gizmodo:
These High-Flying Drones Almost Hit Satellite Status
Gizmodo:
There Is A Giant Space Gun Rusting Away In Barbados
March 24, 2014
New Scientist:
Europe's home-grown space shuttle gears up for launch
Universe Today:
NASA Unveils Orion's Powerful Delta IV Heavy Rocket Boosters for Dec. 2014 Blastoff
Space.com:
Private Space Taxis on Track for 2017 Launch, NASA Says
Discovery News:
The Moon has a Dusty Atmosphere
Universe Today:
Space Geek Heaven: Man's 'Museum' Contains Thousands Of Collectables
WEEKEND EDITION: March 22 through March 23, 2014
New Scientist:
Multiverse gets real with glimpse of big bang ripples
Space.com:
Our Universe May Exist in a Multiverse, Cosmic Inflation Discovery Suggests
Space.com:
Freaky Physics: Why the Discovery of Gravitational Waves Should Blow Your Mind
Smithsonian Magazine:
Scientists Discover a Large and Feathered Dinosaur that Once Roamed North America
Stuff NZ:
Why Did New Zealand's Moas Go Extinct?
Daily Mail:
Ladybirds can fly 74 miles in one go: Research shows insects can also travel as fast as racehorse and fly at height of 3,600ft
Daily Mail:
Sun-worshipping baboons rise early to catch the African sunrise - and race each other to the top for the best spots
Archaelogoy Magazine:
Animal Mummy Coffins of Ancient Egypt
io9:
How Elephant Armies Built the Ancient World
io9:
How Europeans Imagined Exotic Animals Centuries Ago, Based on Hearsay
io9:
The Most Grotesque Humanoid Monsters of the Early Modern Age
The History Blog:
Voyage to the center of Piranesi's imaginary prison
Today I Found Out:
The Man Who Parkinson's Disease is Named After Was Implicated in a Plot to Assassinate King George III
Daily Mail:
Could previously unidentified photos show President Lincoln's memorial procession through New York City?
Daily Mail:
Forget The First Kiss! This footage of lips locking dates back to 1872 - and it's between two women
Daily Mail:
'It was like being Indiana Jones and finding the Lost Ark': Scrap metal dealer discovers £20million Faberge egg at a bric-a-brac stall
Today I Found Out:
Whatever Happened to Ambrose Bierce?
The Guardian:
JRR Tolkien translation of Beowulf to be published after 90-year wait
The History Blog:
Auschwitz museum gets rare camp tattoo stamps
Gizmodo:
They Moved Mountains (And People) To Build L.A.'s Freeways
Daily Mail:
Revealed: Amazing story of Agent Blanche,
the last surviving female British spy who infiltrated the Nazis during Second World War after parachuting into northern France
Gizmodo:
The College Kid Who Built a Secret Tunnel Underneath the Berlin Wall
Popular Science:
Radar Will Scan NYC Park For A Buried Luxury Bomb Shelter From 1964
Gizmodo:
Take a Fascinating Tour Behind the Scenes of The Shining
Gizmodo:
A Nick in Time: How Shaving Evolved Over 100,000 Years of History
March 21, 2014
Universe Today:
US Air Force Space Surveillance Satellite Bumps NASA's long awaited Orion Launch to Dec. 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Military weather satellite mounted atop Atlas rocket
Space.com:
The Night Sky in 2014: 11 Must-See Celestial Events (Infographic)
Universe Today:
What Happens When The Poles Flip?
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Best of Beyond Apollo VI
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Best of Beyond Apollo VII
Popular Science:
How Many Martinis Can You Fit Inside a V-2 Missile?
March 20, 2014
IEEE Spectrum:
The Earth Was Lucky to Dodge a Massive Solar Magnetic Storm in 2012
Science Daily:
Fierce 2012 magnetic storm just missed us: Earth dodged huge magnetic bullet from the sun
io9:
New Evidence Emerges In Support Of Double Asteroid Impact Theory
Daily Mail:
Taking man to Mars: Nasa reveals the technology behind its Orion capsule and the preparation for its first journey
Universe Today:
Twin NASA Probes Find "Zebra Stripes" in Earth's Radiation Belt
IEEE Spectrum:
DARPA's Newest X-Plane Concepts Are All Robots
Gizmodo:
The Experimental Satellite that Gave Us Live International Television
March 19, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Once a detective...
CBC:
'Fireball' over Maritimes, Quebec likely a meteor
Daily Mail:
The onesie that could save astronauts' BACKS: Gravity-mimicking 'skinsuit' stops spines expanding in space
Daily Mail:
Meteorite fever grips South Korea: Rare shower sparks mass hunt for treasures that could be worth more than £50,000
Universe Today:
Zoom to the Moon's North Pole with this Incredible New Gigapixel Map
Daily Mail:
Does Titan have waves? Sunlight reflected on Saturn's moon could be first evidence of ocean ripples beyond Earth
Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Pluto Regains Its Title as Largest Object in Its Neighborhood
Scientific American:
How the First Galaxies Formed [Video]
Discovery News:
Phased Out With Vostok: The Female Cosmonaut Class
io9:
The Dangerous Origins of Model Rocketry
io9:
12 Diagrams That Changed How We Understood Our Solar System
March 18, 2014
Dvice:
SpaceX preps Mars-capable Falcon Heavy for first launch
Spaceflight Now:
Gravitational waves provide strong evidence for inflation
Scientific American:
Einstein's ripples: Your guide to gravitational waves
Space.com:
Big Bang Theory: 5 Weird Facts About Seeing the Universe's Birth
Space.com:
Cosmic Inflation: How It Gave the Universe the Ultimate Kickstart (Infographic)
Space.com:
Big Bang Theory: 5 Weird Facts About Seeing the Universe's Birth
Space.com:
Alternatives to the Big Bang Theory Explained (Infographic)
Universe Today:
We've Discovered Inflation! Now What?
Popular Science:
The Tantalizing Quest For Gravity Waves
Discovery News:
Active Volcanoes Revealed on Venus
Gizmodo:
How NASA's Supercritical Wings Save Airlines Millions Every Year
Gizmodo:
All the aircraft that have mysteriously vanished since 1948
Discovery News:
Not a Flopnik: When Vanguard Didn't Fail
March 17, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Just for the record
Daily Mail:
Have we found a message from the dawn of time? 'Major discovery' set for Monday could give scientists their first glimpse of the birth of the universe
Popular Science:
Gravitational Waves: Einstein Was Right, Again, Maybe
Spaceflight Now:
Proton rocket blasts off with Russian Express satellites
Spaceflight Now:
Launch schedule shakeup delays Orion to December
IEEE Spectrum:
Flock of 104 Spacecraft Set for Launch
Space Daily:
China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover rouses from latest slumber
Discovery News:
The Incredible Shrinking Mercury
New Scientist:
Astrophile: Wrinkles reveal Mercury's rapid slimming
Discovery News:
Council of Giants: Our Intergalactic Neighborhood
Space.com:
Is Alien Life Out There? Vatican Observatory Co-Hosts Science Conference in Arizona
Gizmodo:
Goodyear's Newest Blimp Isn't Actually a Blimp
New Scientist:
US glam or Soviet grunge? Vintage spacesuits on sale
Space.com:
Tales of Futures Past: Soviet Science Fiction of the Cold War
Gizmodo:
The Blue Angels Used to Travel Aboard a Rocket Powered Hercules
Dvice:
A history of jet packs in space
Universe Today:
Rocket Fail Video Shows Human And Technological Risk With Each Launch
Gizmodo:
Amazing photos show the SR-71 Blackbird without its paint job
WEEKEND EDITION: March 15 through March 16, 2014
Scientific American:
This Is What We Don't Know About The Universe
Discovery News:
Lost Einstein Paper Posed Alternate Cosmic Theory
Daily Mail:
Battle of the bots: Technology students put their flying and crawling machines to the test in 'Raiders of the Lost Can' competition
IEEE Spectrum:
HyQ Quadruped Robot Is Back With Even More Tricks
Scientific American:
Did Dark Matter Kill the Dinosaurs?
Daily Mail:
Bizarre-looking nine foot long aquatic reptile with hundreds of needle-like teeth uncovered by Chinese scientists
Daily Mail:
New species of tiny crocodile that roamed Earth 126 million years ago discovered
The Guardian:
Pygmy tyrannosaur roamed the Arctic
Daily Mail:
World's oldest sonar system unearthed: Whale fossils reveal marine mammals using 'sound to see' 32 MILLION years ago
Daily Mail:
Peking Man DID create fire: Soil from the early human's home suggests he could warm his cave 750,000 years ago
Smithsonian Magazine:
Ancient Migration Patterns to North America Are Hidden in Languages Spoken Today
Daily Mail:
The mysterious 9,000 year old 'magic wand' with FACES carved into it used to summon supernatural beings in Syria
Live Science:
World's Oldest Masks Show Creepy Human Resemblance
The History Blog:
Egyptian in Roman army writes mournful letter home
The History Blog:
Rare Roman intaglio bracelet to go on display
Daily Mail:
Anglo-Saxon hoard revealed: 4,000 pieces of stunning handcrafted treasure hint that Beowolf's description of 'golden warriors' is true
Daily Mail:
The drone ARCHAEOLOGIST: Unmanned aircraft captures 2,500-year-old petroglyphs in the Utah desert
Daily Mail:
Ancient shaman discovered in Mexican tomb: 1,500-year-old sculpture found guarding bodies in underground shaft
Smithsonian Magazine:
Warm, Wet Times Spurred Medieval Mongol Rise
The History Blog:
British Library acquires Revenge of Jesus play
io9:
After nearly 400 years, these distorted human bodies remain shocking
Gizmodo:
22 Incredible Images Show What the Future Looked Like 100 Years Ago
The Guardian:
Nearly 4,000 first world war diaries made available online
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Guide to Hemingway's Paris
Today I Found Out:
The Great Depression and Scrabble
Popular Science:
Tale of the Teletank: The Brief Rise and Long Fall of Russia's Military Robots
Daily Mail:
The woman who survived the Holocaust INSIDE Germany living alongside the Nazis as a 'U-boat Jew'
io9:
This Atomic Tank survived a nuclear test, then went to war
Gizmodo:
The 1960s NYC Guidebook That the Czech Secret Police Almost Destroyed
Gizmodo:
This Absurd Flying Whale Ushered in a New Age of Stealth Technology
io9:
7 Utopias that Changed the Future
Gizmodo:
Welcome to The World's Largest Ghost City: Ordos, China
March 14, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Boeing reveals government's all-electric satellite purchase
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX delays weekend Falcon 9 rocket launch
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Best of Beyond Apollo II
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Best of Beyond Apollo III
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Best of Beyond Apollo IV
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Best of Beyond Apollo V
March 13, 2014
Daily Mail:
Now that really is a megastar: Massive 'hypergiant' body 1300 times the size of the Sun spotted - and it has a second star attached to it
New Scientist:
Largest ever yellow star is 1300 times bigger than sun
Universe Today:
Did Old Galaxies Grow Up Quicker Than New Ones?
Universe Today:
Why the Asteroid Belt Doesn't Threaten Spacecraft
Popular Science:
Do Small Satellites Make For More Space Junk?
Universe Today:
How Astronauts Could Survive In The Cold After A Soyuz Landing
Daily Mail:
30,000 flights covering 25 million miles: Beautiful video reveals an entire day of European air travel in just two minutes
Daily Mail:
US fighter jet pilot in hot water over supersonic flight above Welsh town at 800mph that smashed windows and left locals terrified
March 12, 2014
Space Daily:
American, two Russians back on Earth after half-year in space
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz crew lands after 166-day space station expedition
Universe Today:
Morpheus Flies Higher and Farther Than Ever
Universe Today:
'Rainbow' on Venus Seen for First Time
Discovery News:
First alien rainbow image holds clues to Venus mystery
Discovery News:
NASA's Mars Orbiter Glitch Forces Mission Offline
Gizmodo:
This is how they load nuclear cruise missiles on a B-52 Stratofortress
Smithsonian Magazine:
An Airship The Size of a Football Field Could Revolutionize Travel
Universe Today:
Infographic Shows The Quick-Changing Satellites Of The Early Space Age
March 11, 2014
Daily Mail:
Is Curiosity driving on a giant lake bed? Nasa reveal rover's location may once have been at the bottom of a 1000m deep pool
Daily Mail:
Gravity becomes a reality: Watch the terrifying moment an 'astronaut' spins out of the ISS (...but don't worry, there's no one inside the suit)
Universe Today:
How Will Aliens Find Us?
Daily Mail:
Rare Jules Verne book describing moon landings 100 years before Neil Armstrong's 'giant leap' and signed by Nasa 'stars' sells for $2,500
Gizmodo:
A Spotter's Guide To The U-2 'Dragon Lady' And Its Many Configurations
Gizmodo:
You Must Read This Test Pilot's Story of an SR-71 Disintegrating Midair
Popular Science:
Max Valier: Modern Rocketry's First Casualty
March 10, 2014
Discovery News:
Japanese Astronaut Takes Command of Space Station
Universe Today:
NASA Lunar Orbiter snaps Spectacular Images of Yutu Moon Rover driving around Chang'e-3 Lander
New Scientist:
Most Mars meteorites may be from same giant crater
Daily Mail:
The hunt for Planet X: Nasa fails to find mysterious giant body believed to have caused mass extinctions on Earth (and they now say it may not exist at all)
Daily Mail:
The breathtaking LIVE satellite footage of Earth so accurate you can watch cars in the street and planes taking off
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Best of Beyond Apollo I
The Aviationist:
The forgotten father of the Eurofighter Typhoon: the F-104 CCV
Akron Beacon Journal:
Local history: Blimp innovation was a flash of brilliance
WEEKEND EDITION: March 8 through March 9, 2014
Scientific American:
Video: Is Our Universe a Hologram?
io9:
What happens when we exceed the universe's speed limit?
io9:
What if we've completely misunderstood our place in the universe?
New Scientist:
Father of big bang carries its hiss on his cellphone
Stuff NZ:
Introducing the quantum droplet
Universe Today:
Who Discovered Electricity?
io9:
Over 200 Miles of Yosemite Backpacking in One Incredible Time-lapse
Daily Mail:
Scientists revive 30,000 year old 'giant virus' from Siberian permafrost - and warn more could be exposed due to global warming
Stuff NZ:
The scourge of Jurassic Europe
ABC Australia:
Europe's meanest meat-eater
Daily Mail:
There really ARE more fish in the sea: Scientists find deep sea species untouched by fishing makes up 95% of all fish in the world
io9:
More Evidence that Dinosaurs Still Live Among Us
Daily Mail:
Mystery of Native Americans' missing 10,000 years solved: Ancestors lived on wooded land between Siberia and Alaska 25,000 years ago
Daily Mail:
The world's oldest masks: 9,000-year-old stone 'portraits of the dead' go on show in Jerusalem
Daily Mail:
The earliest known pet CAT: Ancient Egyptian bones reveal that felines were cared for more than 5,700 years ago
Daily Mail:
Stonehenge mystery deepens as researchers claim key stones could not have been floated down the Bristol Channel on rafts
Gizmodo:
The Amazing Ancient Machines of Hero of Alexandria
Archaeology:
Saving the Villa of the Mysteries
Live Science:
Ancient Egyptian Soldier's Letter Home Deciphered
The Guardian:
Vikings at the British Museum: great ship but where's the story?
The History Blog:
Germany's second oldest church found
The History Blog:
Confirmed: Tetrarchs looted from Constantinople
Smithsonian Magazine:
When Catherine the Great Invaded the Crimea and Put the Rest of the World on Edge
Today I Found Out:
The Large Number of Human Remains Found In Ben Franklin's Basement
Smithsonian Magazine:
The History of the Chicory Coffee Mix That New Orleans Made Its Own
Smithsonian Magazine:
The New York Times' 1853 Coverage of Solomon Northup, the Hero of "12 Years A Slave"
Archaeology:
A Civil War POW Camp in Watercolor
Today I Found Out:
The Surprisingly Short History of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
Gizmodo:
America's First 'Wireless Newspaper' Killed Catalina's Carrier Pigeons
io9:
This trippy anti-capitalist cartoon was the USSR's first animated film
io9:
There is a major error in this famous photo of physicist Enrico Fermi
Daily Mail:
Sinister secrets of the school for Nazi brides: From love pledges to the Fuhrer, to lessons in breeding the master race... The astonishing expose of Himmler's bridal bootcamp
Smithsonian Magazine:
How a Chicago Heiress Trained Homicide Detectives With an Unusual Tool: Dollhouses
The Guardian:
Sympathy for Strangelove: Kubrick's film at 50
The History Blog:
First Wolverine artwork exists & it's up for auction
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Costumes of "Downton Abbey" Now on View at Delaware's Winterthur Museum
io9:
We Want to Move into These Buildings Made Out of Old Train Cars
Gizmodo:
Holy cow, I can't believe this dude snowboarded down this snow wall
io9:
Watch this grotesque animation set in a retrofuturistic bomb factory
March 7, 2014
Space.com:
Small Asteroid Gives Earth a Close Shave, 3rd in 2 Days
The Atlantic:
The NASA Rocket That Hovers Like a Helicopter (But Could Land on Mars)
National Geographic:
Going Up: Could Partial Space Elevators Take Us Into Space?
ABC Australia:
Plasma plume defends Earth
Space.com:
Big Mars Impact Gave Earth Most of Its Martian Meteorites
Spaceflight Now:
Cassini continues pulling back the veil on Titan
Space.com:
Saturn Rings, Moon Shine in Dazzling New NASA Photo
Gizmodo:
Watch a 200-mile-high volcano explosion on the surface of Io
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
A Footstep to Mars - and Beyond
The Aviationist:
You can buy a Ukrainian Tu-95 Strategic Bomber on eBay right now
The Atlantic:
What It Looks Like When One Wingsuit Jumper Films Another
March 6, 2014
Indianapolis Monthly:
The 10 Weirdest UFO Cases in Indiana History
Cornwall Western Morning News:
Photo of a UFO in Cornwall is among the latest secret documents released by former CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
Crosseyed and painless
Universe Today:
ISS, NASA and US National Security dependent on Russian and Ukrainian Rocketry Amidst Crimean Crisis
Space Daily:
China has no plans for lunar base project
Daily Mail:
Asteroid racing past Earth at 33,000mph last night came closer than the MOON
Daily Mail:
From runway to orbit: European plane that will take passengers into SPACE for £120,000 plans its first drop test for May
The Aviationist:
MiG working on a new interceptor, capable of Mach 4
March 5, 2014
Daily Mail:
Asteroid will race past Earth on Wednesday - and YOU can watch it live online (providing the website doesn't crash like last time...)
Universe Today:
Watch the Close Pass of NEO Asteroid 2014 DX110 Wednesday Night
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 moves closer to certification by Air Force
Universe Today:
China's Yutu Moon Rover Unable to Properly Maneuver Solar Panels
io9:
Lose Yourself in these Stunning Lunar Maps
New Scientist:
NASA Researcher Finds Planet-Sized Space Weather Explosions at Venus
Discovery News:
Every Red Dwarf Hosts at Least One Exoplanet
Universe Today:
Planets Plentiful Around Abundant Red Dwarf Stars, Study Says
Wired - Danger Room:
Israel's Commercial Jets Will Soon Be Firing Lasers
March 4, 2014
Gizmag:
Boeing CST-100 (virtually) flown to space
Gizmag:
International Space Station's SPHERES robots to get new smarts
Space.com:
Incredible Technology: Inflatable Aircraft Could Cruise Venus Skies
Stuff NZ:
Morning bright light 'brilliant white'
Universe Today:
Curiosity Rover pauses mid-drive and captures Spectacular Martian Mountain Snapshot
Popular Science:
A Solar-Powered Drone Designed To Fly For Five Years Nonstop
IEEE Spectrum:
Is It a Helicopter? Is It a Plane? Is It a Jeep? Yes.
Popular Science:
2014: Year of the Eastern Arsenal
Daily Mail:
The drones that flock like BIRDS: Robots fly in formation and navigate without being remotely controlled
Gizmodo:
The Grandfather of the Space Shuttle Looked Like a UFO
Universe Today:
Relive Apollo 9's Moon Lander Test 45 Years Ago Through Incredible NASA Images
Gizmodo:
Pure space porn: these are the naughtiest rocket parts
Gizmodo:
Lockheed's Senior Peg: The Forgotten Stealth Bomber
March 3, 2014
Space Daily:
The Next Tiangong
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Columbia, Discovery, and Atlantis (1988)
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Fixing the NASA Piloted Program After Challenger: Views from 1989 and 1993 (plus an alternate history addendum)
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
International Mars Rover Sample Return (1987)
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Mars Rover/Sample Return Pre-Phase A (1988)
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Mars Sample Return: A Different Approach (1988)
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Direct Return from Mars Rover to Earth (1989)
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
The Science of Sample Return: the MRSR SWG (1989)
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Footsteps to Mars (1993)
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Merits of a Locality Sample (2002)
Daily Mail:
The flying bum! 300ft-long 'airship' unveiled in Britain is the world's longest aircraft
Daily Mail:
Bowing out in style: Final chapter in the history of a jet age icon as DC10 airliner makes last passenger flight before being scrapped
WEEKEND EDITION: March 1 through March 2, 2014
New Scientist:
Big bang birthday: Six mysteries of a cosmic bombshell
The Guardian:
The future of particle physics?
Popular Science:
Scientists Make Largest Quark, Solving A 20-Year Mystery
IEEE Spectrum:
These Quadruped Robots Double as Japanese Garden Lamps
Gizmodo:
These Awesome Cardboard Sculptures Are Math in Motion
Live Science:
Confirmed: Oldest Fragment of Early Earth is 4.4 Billion Years Old
ABC Australia:
Confirmed: Earth's oldest rock in Australia
Daily Mail:
The island that 'grew back': Pacific isle that disappeared after devastating typhoon reappears 100 years after its destruction
Live Science:
Earth's Greatest Extinction Hardly Changed Ocean Ways of Life
Daily Mail:
England's lost world: 421 species - including mammals, birds and plants - have become extinct over the past 200 years
Daily Mail:
The oldest infectious disease in humans? LEPROSY: Bacteria has existed for 10 MILLION years and affected our most distant ancestors
Daily Mail:
Stonehenge mystery deepens as researchers claim key stones could not have been floated down the Bristol Channel on rafts
Daily Mail:
The prisoners who fought for their lives: Virtual reality recreation of 1,800-year-old gladiator school reveals the misery of men who were about to die
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the medieval murder: Forensic tests on 900-year-old skeleton reveals he was stabbed in the back with a dagger
Live Science:
10 Words in Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Decoded
Live Science:
Arrgh! Adventures of 17th-Century Pirate Alliance Uncovered in Ireland
Gizmodo:
Does The Scream depict a real-life volcano explosion?
Gizmodo:
The San Francisco Mint Burned Its Carpets to Find $3,200 Worth of Gold
Gizmodo:
This is a GIF of America's Very First Film
Gizmodo:
Incredibly clear footage shows the blast effect of 1953 atomic bomb
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Three Amateur Jewel Thieves Made Off With New York's Most Precious Gems
io9:
The Space Age Never Looked Brighter Than It Did in the Mid-1960s
Daily Mail:
How a train built by a husband and wife team in 1966 using two JET ENGINES is still the fastest locomotive in America
Sploid:
This incredible structure in the desert wasn't built by aliens
February 28, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune - De Void:
'Haven't We Been Here Before?' Week
USA Today:
Meteor reports light up phone lines, social media
Washington Post:
Fiery meteor streaks across the Mid-Atlantic sky
Madison.com:
Bright fireball captured on Madison police video
Spaceflight Now:
Landmark four-ton weather satellite blasts off from Japan
Discovery News:
Bizarre Orbit of Weird-Looking Asteroid's Moon Revealed
New Scientist:
Hundreds of mini solar systems found in the Milky Way
Space Daily:
New Vostochny space center a key priority for Russian Far East
New Scientist:
Spacesuit future looks sleek, speedy and commercial
Gizmodo:
Boeing's Bird of Prey: A Prototype Jet Worthy of the Klingon Empire
The Aviationist:
The story of the first U-2 spy missions over Soviet Union
Gizmodo:
This 1924 Illustration Nails the Real Future of Drone Warfare
Popular Science:
Max Valier's 1924 Thoughts on Rocket Planes
Daily Mail:
Bringing the Bugatti 100P back to life: Engineer plans to recreate 500mph WW2 plane that never took to the skies
February 27, 2014
Cape Cod Times:
Flying Sails and more: Early UFO accounts
Stuff NZ:
Astronauts spared disaster twice
Universe Todayh:
Spacesuit Leak: Why It Took NASA 23 Minutes To Send Astronaut To Safety
Spaceflight Now:
NASA vows to fix problems that led to spacesuit leak
Spaceflight Now:
Air Force general reveals space surveillance program
New Scientist:
India unveils its first home-grown astronaut capsule
Space.com:
Population of Known Alien Planets Nearly Doubles as NASA Discovers 715 New Worlds
IEEE Spectrum:
Hacking the Van Allen Belts
IEEE Spectrum:
Chris Anderson's Expanding Drone Empire
The Aviationist:
Fascinating video shows B-1B bomber crash landing on Dry Lake at Edwards AFB
Gizmodo:
Flying man in wingsuit comes close to crashing into Rio's Jesus statue
February 26, 2014
NBC News:
Tiny Blobs and Tunnels in Meteorite Revive Debate Over Life on Mars
Spaceflight Now:
Curiosity adds backward driving to repertoire
Space.com:
Sun Unleashes Monster Solar Flare, Biggest of 2014
Space.com:
Water Found in Atmosphere of Nearby Alien Planet
The Aviationist:
E-6B Mercury "Doomsday plane" with brand new dome
The Aviationist:
Awesome, rare air-to-air photo of a B-2 Stealth bomber flying with a T-38 Talon
The Aviationist:
Mystery Stealth aircraft spotted in UK. A cancelled Black Project being revived?
February 25, 2014
Space.com:
Record-Breaking Meteorite Crash on Moon Sparks Brightest Lunar Explosion Ever
Universe Today:
Watch a Car-Sized Asteroid Slam Into the Moon
Space.com:
The Greatest Moon Crashes of All Time
Universe Today:
Yutu Moon Rover Starts 3rd Night Time Hibernation But Technical Problems Persist
Gizmodo:
Get lost in these fascinating spacecraft cutaway illustrations
The Aviationist:
This is what aerial combat during World War II over Europe looked like
February 24, 2014
Universe Today:
Dale Gardner, Astronaut Who Rescued A Satellite With A Jetpack, Dead At 65
Discovery News:
Russia Ready to Unveil New 'Angara' Rocket
Space Daily:
Is Yutu Stuck?
Danger Room:
New Jet-Powered Drone Can Kill 1,800 Miles From Home Base
The Aviationist:
Red Force exposed: Rare insight into Nellis Aggressors and their hunt for stealth planes
Sploid:
Daredevil men fixing a zeppelin in mid-flight over the Atlantic
Gizmodo:
The Goodyear Blimp's an Even Better Joyride Than You Thought
Daily Mail:
Relic of the space race hidden in the Everglades: The secret 10-storey moon rocket abandoned for more than 40 years
Gizmodo:
Soviet and American Space Suits For Sale at This Other-Worldly Auction
Dvice:
Kitty Hawk, historic flights, and preserving a shifting landscape
The Aviationist:
[Photo] Stunning ultra-low altitude flyby of a Royal Navy F-4K Phantom
WEEKEND EDITION: February 22 through February 23, 2014
Smithsonian Magazine:
What Astronomers Are Still Discovering About the Big Bang Theory
Daily Mail:
Are we living inside a BLACK HOLE? Theory suggests invisible regions may contain worlds like our own
Daily Mail:
Could a super collider end the world? Proposed upgrade could create black holes and 'strange matter', warn experts
Popular Science:
Fermilab's Neutrino Detector Sees Its First Particles
Science Magazine:
The real reason why Einstein came to believe in an expanding universe
io9:
Computers are providing solutions to math problems that we can't check
Daily Mail:
Scientists discover a new SHAPE for the first time in 400 years (but it just looks like a football)
Gizmodo:
A Century-Old Prosthesis So Advanced Even an Expert Thought It Was Fake
Gizmodo:
Was This The First Robot Ever Arrested?
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Did Computers Uncover J.K. Rowling's Pseudonym?
Science Magazine:
The Dawn of Plate Tectonics
Smithsonian Magazine:
Yellowstone Belches Ancient Helium
Daily Mail:
Evolution turned on its head: Early life on Earth DIDN'T need lots of oxygen to survive
Smithsonian Magazine:
Earth's First Animals May Have Lived in a Dead Zone
The Guardian:
Amber shows its golden tombs do not easily yield treasure
The History Blog:
Ichthyosaur fossil captures oldest reptile live birth
Smithsonian Magazine:
500,000 Cranes Are Headed for Nebraska in One of Earth's Greatest Migrations
Smithsonian Magazine:
Beautiful and Eerie Photographs of Starlings in Flight
Popular Science:
Watch A Crow Solve A Complex Puzzle
Stuff NZ:
Bonobos, like humans, keep time to music
The History Blog:
3,600-year-old "feathered coffin" found in Luxor
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Vikings' Bad Boy Reputation Is Back With a Vengeance
Popular Science:
Secret Viking Code Decrypted: 'Kiss Me'
The History Blog:
Medieval Scandinavian runic code cracked
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the Aztec dogs: Mass grave of canines may be guardians of a hidden pyramid or evidence of the first ever pet cemetery
Daily Mail:
From Mongol warriors to European traders: Interactive map reveals how fallen empires have left their stamp on our genes
Daily Mail:
Now that's bum note! 'Bottom song from Hell' on Hieronymus Bosch's 500-year-old masterpiece is played for the first time
Live Science:
San Francisco's Deadly 1906 Earthquake Was Last of Three
Gizmodo:
9 of the Most Beautiful Buildings We Ever Tore Down
Gizmodo:
19 More Beautiful Structures That Are Now Lost Forever
Gizmodo:
Oskar Schindler's Factory Is Up For Sale
The Aviationist:
Impressive, unedited footage shows preparation and nuking of Nagasaki
The Atlantic:
Our Numbered Days: The Evolution of the Area Code
Smithsonian Magazine:
What Really Happened to Michael Rockefeller
Gizmodo:
Your Next Scuba Destination Is An Entire Drowned City in China
Gizmodo:
This Woman Secretly Dubbed American Movies During the Cold War
Gizmodo:
How Russia Built a Ship Too Big to Set Sail
Gizmodo:
Inside the Ghostly Remains of Budapest's Condemned Amusement Park
Popular Science:
25 Times Everyone Was BAFFLED, According To The Daily Mail
February 21, 2014
io9:
This lost satellite could trigger a deadly Gravity-style debris field
io9:
This Chart Shows Every Space Exploration Rover Ever Launched
Gizmag:
Kepler demonstrates that it can still detect planets
Daily Mail:
Spock the difference: Nasa reveals dunes on the Martian surface that look like the Star Trek logo
Universe Today:
Could Jupiter Become A Star?
Daily Mail:
Runaway star moving at 5 MILLION mph leaves a cosmic dust trail that is a record-breaking 37 light years long
Defense Tech:
Is the F-35's Computer R2-D2 or HAL?
Gizmodo:
Military Drones Are Looking More and More Like Star Wars Characters
Gizmodo:
Why Don't Commercial Airplanes Have Parachutes for Passengers?
The Aviationist:
[Photo] Giant Antonov AN-124 Ruslan low on final approach at Gilze Rijen airport
The Aviationist:
[Video] All kinds of planes recovering at Nellis Air Force Base after Red Flag mission
Smithsonian Magazine:
Photos: The Rise of the Volocopter
Gizmodo:
The Incredible Flying Tanks of WWII
Gizmodo:
The Amazing Antonov A-40: A Flying Tank
io9:
Madame Alberti's science of flight
February 20, 2014
Huntsville Times:
25 years ago, tourists descended on tiny Alabama town in wake of UFO sightings (Odd Travels with photos)
Space.com:
Calculated Risks: How Radiation Rules Manned Mars Exploration
Discovery News:
Robots with human-like brains to take on Mars unaided
Space.com:
Can Quiet, Efficient 'Space Elevators' Really Work?
Space Daily:
Israel unveils "Super Heron" MALE drone
Daily Mail:
Now that really is a window seat: The £35million supersonic private jet where the entire cabin WALL will be a giant screen on the outside world
February 19, 2014
Space.com:
Private Cygnus Spacecraft Departs Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
Commercial cargo carrier departs space station
Spaceflight Now:
Wheel concerns prompt new route for Mars rover
Discovery News:
Kepler's Laws Govern Awesome Comet Mission
Dvice:
Video of the Day: Storm shelters in space
IEEE Spectrum:
Singapore's $300-Million Air-Traffic Automation System Unveiled
Science Magazine:
Seeing the Skies Through Galileo's Eyes
Discovery News:
First Communications Satellite Was a Huge Balloon
Air & Space Magazine:
Napoleon's Favorite Balloonist
Gizmodo:
The Experimental Hypersonic Rocket Plane That Ushered in the Space Age
February 18, 2014
News.com Australia:
A 270m asteroid has swung past Earth almost exactly a year after a meteor burst over Russia
Spaceflight Now:
Lunar rover awake after near-death experience
Spaceflight Now:
Take a virtual tour of Chinese lunar landing site
Space.com:
NASA Moon Dust Probe Beams Its 1st Lunar Photos to Earth
Universe Today:
100 Days of MOM - India's 1st Mars Mission Streaking to Red Planet Rendezvous
Universe Today:
How Would Earth Send Messages To A Starship - Or A Distant Civilization?
Universe Today:
At 'Star City', This Is How Astronauts Learn About Soyuz Spacecraft
PRESIDENT'S DAY WEEKEND: February 15 through February 17, 2014
The Guardian:
How did I get here?
Daily Mail:
Limitless power breakthrough: Researchers finally manage to get more energy OUT of fusion reaction than they put IN
Gizmag:
Researchers create robot that mimics human emotions
Gizmodo:
An RC Snowplow Lets You Shovel Your Driveway From Your Living Room
Gizmodo:
How These Magical, Gravity-Defying Doors Actually Work
Daily Mail:
Have we finally discovered the Amazon's source? Scientists pinpoint its origin - making the river 57 miles longer than previously thought
Daily Mail:
Researchers uncover 'epic' new fossil site in Canada - and say it could hold more species than anywhere else in the world
Live Science:
It Took 60,000 Years to Kill Nearly Everything on Earth
io9:
This prehistoric carnivore had teeth like steak knives
Daily Mail:
How a burst of colour in dinosaurs hints at how birds evolved: Sudden change suggests feathered arms soon developed into wings
ABC Australia:
Dinosaur colour prediction not so easy
Daily Mail:
Pictured: 250 million-year-old fossil is earliest example of a marine reptile giving BIRTH
Daily Mail:
Is Nessie DEAD? Legendary Loch Ness Monster has 'disappeared' for the first time in 90 years
Popular Science:
New Crocodile Species Found In West Africa
Daily Mail:
Earliest human footprints outside Africa discovered in NORFOLK: 800,000-year-old imprints 're-write our understanding of history'
Daily Mail:
The first American Indians: DNA of baby boy buried in Montana 12,600 years ago reveals link to Clovis man
Science Magazine:
Native Americans Descend From Ancient Montana Boy
The History Blog:
Proof found of Amenhotep III-Akhenaten co-regency
Daily Mail:
Unearthed: Stunning 3,600-year-old sarcophagus with feather patterns could belong to an ancient official
The Guardian:
'Priceless' bronze statue of Greek god Apollo found in Gaza Strip
Daily Mail:
Ancient Egyptian SCHOOL unearthed - and it even has a 1,700-year-old lesson on how to behave on its walls
The History Blog:
Charlemagne's bones found in his coffin
The History Blog:
Important early Seurat drawing acquired by the Getty
The History Blog:
Anne Frank's toy marbles rediscovered
The Atlantic:
The Moment in Space and Time When Charlie Chaplin Became the Tramp
io9:
1920s London Underground Posters Remind Us That Trains Are Wonderful
Gizmodo:
Georges Lemaitre: The Greatest Scientist You've Never Heard Of
Daily Mail:
Revealed: Inside the Hitler Youth camps where youngsters were brainwashed to become Nazis, having their heads shaved and standing guard... as rare albums from one cadet go up for auction
Gizmodo:
How a Simple Fabric Pattern Uplifted a Post-War Finland
Gizmag:
Historic Colossus computer marks 70th anniversary
Smithsonian Magazine:
The True Story of the Monuments Men
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Path of the Monuments Men Through Europe
io9:
Silent raw footage of the bombing of Nagasaki is absolutely chilling
Gizmodo:
Orange Herald: The Bomb Behind Britain's Worst Nuclear Disaster
Gizmodo:
8 of the Most Fascinating Items From Carl Sagan's Personal Archives
February 14, 2014
Space.com:
China Moon Rover Survives Lunar Night, 'Stands a Chance' of Recovery
Discovery News:
China's Yutu Moon Rover Back From the 'Dead'
New Scientist:
China's Jade Rabbit moon rover showing signs of life
Universe Today:
China's Yutu Moon Rover Alive and Awake for 3rd Lunar Day of Exploration despite Malfunction
The Aviationist:
That time an F-14 Tomcat pilot made a super low flyby on USS America
The Aviationist:
[Video] What an ordinary day at Nellis Air Force Base during a Red Flag looks like
Universe Today:
What to Wear? The History and Future of Spacesuits
The Aviationist:
When a B-47 pilot got rid of a nuclear bomb near Savannah, Georgia
February 13, 2014
Discovery News:
One Year Later: Russian Meteor is a Science Boon
Spaceflight Now:
Return of the workhorse
New Scientist:
China's Jade Rabbit moon rover showing signs of life
Space Daily:
China's Jade Rabbit rover comes 'back to life': Xinhua
New Scientist:
China's Jade Rabbit rover pronounced dead on the moon
Daily Mail:
The Jade Rabbit is dead: Chinese mission controllers give up on Moon rover following mechanical problems
Daily Mail:
Ganymede gets its first map - 400 years after Galileo discovered the largest moon in the solar system
Discovery News:
Probe to use Prehistoric Pigment Shield for Solar Plunge
Dvice:
The many ways living on Mars will kill you
Universe Today:
Experts Question Claim Tunguska Meteorite May Have Come from Mars
February 12, 2014
WMTW:
Man records fireball in sky in Oxford County
Space.com:
First 'Cubesats' in Record-Breaking Fleet Launched from Space Station
Universe Today:
Awaiting Yutu's Phone Home on Lunar Day 3
Space Daily:
Farewell to Yutu
Space.com:
New US Military Space Plane Aims for 2017 Liftoff
CNN:
World's 14 best aviation museums
February 11, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX on pace for mid-March launch to space station
New Scientist:
Seeds of life can sprout in moon's icy pockets
Daily Mail:
The 'fingers on Mars' that could reveal rivers on the red planet: New Nasa images show 'strongest indication' that flowing water may still exist today
Space.com:
Ancient Star May Be Oldest in Known Universe
Universe Today:
Found! Distant Galaxy Spotted Just 650 Million Years After Big Bang
Gizmodo:
Russian Rocket Hardware Looks Even More Badass in a Blizzard
Gizmodo:
Planes, Ships...and Caspian Monsters
February 10, 2014
New Scientist:
NASA's revived exoplanet-hunter sees its first world
Daily Mail:
A rocket launch seen from SPACE: Astronaut Rick Mastracchio captures two lift-offs from his perch 260 miles above Earth
Popular Science:
New Plane-Based Surveillance System Sees Practically Everything
Gizmag:
Details of successful first test flight of Taranis UCAV demonstrator revealed
Gizmodo:
Game of Drones: Yes, Quadcopter Fight Clubs Exist
Gizmodo:
Unedited videos really show how crazy any wingsuit jump really is
Daily Mail:
Rare images reveal the inner workings of a 1950s flight simulator that taught pilots to refuel in mid-air
WEEKEND EDITION: February 8 through February 9, 2014
Daily Mail:
Forget the Big Bang theory - the universe 'THAWED' from a long, deep freeze, claims physicist
Daily Mail:
Could studying the universe DESTROY it? Changing our perception of the cosmos could end it if quantum theories are correct
New Scientist:
Fiery black hole debate creates cosmological Wild West
Dvice:
Magnetic monopoles shouldn't exist, do anyway
New Scientist:
We still don't understand icicles
Stuff NZ:
Deepest cave yet found
io9:
Newly discovered titanosaur was one of the largest land animals ever
Daily Mail:
The 'Pompeii of the the dinosaur era': Researchers find stunningly well preserved specimens in China
Daily Mail:
Ten inch 'Devil frog' was more terrifying that first imagined! 70 million-year-old fossil suggests huge creature wore 'ARMOR'
Daily Mail:
New species of 12-million-year-old whale discovered in a high school: Fossilised skull is spotted in gardens by a science teacher
Daily Mail:
Did a lack of flower power kill off the woolly mammoth? Experts say demise of protein-packed plants led to extinction
io9:
The world's oldest known flamingo has died
Daily Mail:
Do camels prove that the Bible is inaccurate? Archaeologists reveal mammals were domesticated in 900BC - centuries after Biblical characters rode them
Live Science:
4,600-Year-Old Step Pyramid Excavated in Egypt
Daily Mail:
Pictured: The 1,800-year-old face of 'Beachy Head Lady' is revealed for the first time thanks to 3D scanning
Daily Mail:
Charlemagne's bones identified: 1,200-year-old remains in a German cathedral belong to 'Europe's father', claim scientists
Daily Mail:
Has the Voynich manuscript been decoded? Mysterious 15th century text may be written in a lost AZTEC language
Daily Mail:
Tiny 10-inch 16th century prayer book confiscated by the Nazis from Rothschild banking dynasty fetches $13.6 MILLION at auction after sparking bidding frenzy
Daily Mail:
The King versus the Kaiser: Royal rift that meant George V and Tsar Nicholas lined up against their German cousin in World War I
io9:
These Soviet Textiles Are Actually Propaganda Tools From The 1920s
Daily Mail:
World's fastest steam locomotive Mallard gets a tow from sister train on their way to National Railway Museum for historic reunion
Daily Mail:
Portraits of a murder: Fascinating crime scene photographs from 1940s including tragic wife who foresaw her death before husband shot her, then killed himself
The Atlantic:
America's Shame: Our Ketchup Packets
io9:
Read an anthropologist's paper about the rituals of 1950s Americans
Gizmodo:
How the US Invented Dirty Bombs to Stop the Soviet Advance in Europe
The Atlantic:
Perhaps the First Film Explaining Cellular Phone Service
Daily Mail:
Explore America's history the 21st century way: 700 maps explaining the country's development since 1492 are digitised and animated for the first time
Popular Science:
Materials From Carl Sagan's College Courses Now Available Online
io9:
Swallows and ravens: birds, or the language of spies?
io9:
What is life like for imaginary friends before they've been imagined?
February 7, 2014
Stuff NZ:
Chinese moon rover's poetic sign off
New Scientist:
NASA's revived exoplanet-hunter sees its first world
Stuff NZ:
Meet Kepler-413b
Popular Science:
Interactive Infographic: The Search For Other Earths
Daily Mail:
Gaia opens its eyes: The billion-pixel space telescope that will produce the most accurate 3D map of our universe ever made takes its first picture
Universe Today:
A History of Curious Artifacts Sent Into Space
Universe Today:
Mariner 10: Best Venus Image and 1st Ever Planetary Gravity Assist - 40 Years Ago Today
Gizmodo:
The F-111 Aardvark: A Flying Transformer With a Two-Man Escape Pod
Gizmodo:
Why Hubble Has a Telescope Named After Him
The Aviationist:
This is the flight simulator used by KC-97 tanker pilots 60 years ago.
io9:
The Most Astounding Airships, Dirigibles and Zeppelins in History
The Atlantic:
What It's Like to Fly Over Antarctica
February 6, 2014
Space.com:
Robotic Russian Cargo Ship Docks with Space Station after Express Flight
Gizmodo:
First high quality moon panorama since the Apollo 17 in 1972
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the massive Martian crater: Nasa spots 100ft wide fresh impact on the red planet's surface
Universe Today:
Brand New Impact Crater Shows Up on Mars
Discovery News:
Cosmic Gunshot: Stunning Mars Impact Crater Spied
Universe Today:
High Potential for Life Circling Alpha Centauri B, our Nearest Neighbor
Universe Today:
New Interactive Panorama Shows Curiosity's View from the Dingo Gap Sand Dune
Daily Mail:
Anatomy of an ASTEROID: Scientists understand the inside of a space rock for the first time - and it could reveal how Earth formed
Discovery News:
Weird Asteroid Itokawa Has a Dual Personality
Daily Mail:
The mystery of the North Star: Astronomers baffled to find Polaris is getting BRIGHTER
Gizmodo:
The Only Thing Keeping the F-35 Lightning Relevant Is the F-22 Raptor
Gizmodo:
Air Force Is Sending Brand New Cargo Planes Straight to the Boneyard
The DEW Line:
Taranis and the epic UK spotting fail
WJZ-TV:
Mysterious Tremors In Ocean City Caused By Sonic Boom, Not Earthquake
February 5, 2014
Daily Mail:
America is going back to the Moon: Nasa reveals plan to help private firms build lunar landers
Space.com:
NASA's Next Great Space Telescope Passes Major Milestone
Space.com:
NASA Moon Dust Probe Gets Longer Lunar Life
Discovery News:
Curiosity Plays in Mars Sand, Ready for Dune 'Jump'
Daily Mail:
Think our weather is odd? Nasa finds weird, wildly wobbly world where seasons change by the day
Universe Today:
'Wobbly' Alien Planet Has Weird Seasons And Orbits Two Stars
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Fixing the NASA Piloted Program After Challenger: Views from 1989 and 1993 (plus an alternate history addendum)
February 4, 2014
Daily Mail:
Now that really is cool: Nasa reveals experiment to create the coldest spot in the universe inside the International Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
Exoplanet probe leads pack of ESA mission candidates
Universe Today:
Watch Venus as it Wanders Through the Dawn in 2014
Discovery News:
The Ancient Meandering Rivers of Mars
Discovery News:
Are We Searching for Aliens in the Wrong Place?
Popular Science:
How To Find Our Planet's Twin
Daily Mail:
Lockheed Martin fires most powerful portable LASER weapon it has ever created in hi-tech race to replace missiles
Popular Science:
Beyond The Boom
Gizmodo:
Why Astronauts Were Banned From Drinking Wine In Outer Space
February 3, 2014
Space.com:
NASA Moon Camera Claimed to Be Used by Apollo Astronaut Up for Auction
Space Daily:
Waiting for Yutu
Universe Today:
Holy Wheels, Sharp Rocks Force NASA's Curiosity rover to Seek Smoother Pathway to Mount Sharp
New Scientist:
Star next door may host a 'superhabitable' world
Daily Mail:
Did alien life flourish in a warm universe just a few million years after the Big Bang? New theory claims we may be latecomers to the universe
Space.com:
Did Alien Life Evolve Just After the Big Bang?
Universe Today:
Foom! Flaming Rocket Sled Tests Parachute For Mars Spacecraft
Universe Today:
This Is What It Looks Like to Freefall From Space
WEEKEND EDITION: February 1 through February 2, 2014
Universe Today:
How We Know Gravity is Not (Just) a Force
io9:
Physicists say energy can be teleported 'without a limit of distance'
Live Science:
Bizarre Magnetic Particle Revealed in Ultra-Cold Lab Experiment
The Atlantic:
Why ROYGBIV Is Arbitrary
Gizmag:
Stratasys creates world's first color multi-material 3D printer
IEEE Spectrum:
Modular Robotics' MOSS Kit Makes Building Robots a Snap
IEEE Spectrum:
Next Generation Robotic Whiskers Promise New Capabilities, More Cuteness
Gizmodo:
23 of the Biggest Machines Ever Moved On Wheels
Daily Mail:
Grand Canyon's age revealed: Natural wonder formed six million years ago making it TEN times younger than first thought
ABC Australia:
Do plants feel Earth's magnetic field?
Science Magazine:
Slideshow: America's Fossil Record Up for Sale
Inside Science:
How The Scorpion Got Its Venom
Gizmodo:
Archaeologists Uncover 300,000-Year-Old Kitchen in Israeli Cave
Science Magazine:
What Killed the Great Beasts of North America?
Daily Mail:
'Adam' walked the Earth 209,000 years ago: UK scientists claim the first man lived 9,000 years earlier than previously thought
The Guardian:
Fifth of Neanderthals' genetic code lives on in modern humans
Daily Mail:
Swedish divers unearth a 'Stone Age Atlantis': 11,000-year-old ancient settlement discovered under the Baltic Sea
Science Magazine:
How Farming Reshaped Our Genomes
The Guardian:
Swarthy, blue-eyed caveman revealed using DNA from ancient tooth
Daily Mail:
Was this the first blue-eyed man? 7,000-year-old DNA reveals European and African traits
The History Blog:
Two new Sappho poems discovered
NPR:
Archaeologists Unearth What May Be Oldest Roman Temple
History Blog:
One of the oldest temples in Rome unearthed
Daily Mail:
Ancient Greek stories of ritual child sacrifice in Carthage are TRUE, study claims
Daily Mail:
The 3,000 year old recipe for wine that leading expert claims could prove Old Testament stories are TRUE
Daily Mail:
Stunning 1,500-year-old church mosaics displaying exotic birds, leopards and zebras are unearthed in Israel
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Heartbreaking History of Divorce
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Hope Diamond Was Once a Symbol for Louis XIV, the Sun King
Smithsonian Magazine:
Rare and Imaginative Drawings Reveal an Untold Chapter in European Art History
Smithsonian Magazine:
Victor Hugo: Acclaimed Author, Unknown Furniture Designer
The Guardian:
Why our explanation of the 1845 polar tragedy should be put on ice
Smithsonian Magazine:
When Edgar Allan Poe Needed to Get Away, He Went to the Bronx
Gizmodo:
Why the Statue of Liberty's Arm Lived In a NYC Park For Six Years
Jalopnik:
Porsche's First Car Found After Being Left In A Shed For 112 Years
Gizmodo:
The Woman Who Survived the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic Disasters
Daily Mail:
Raiders of the lost art: We saved the world's art treasures from Hitler
io9:
Freedom Drop: The 1968 plan to nuke North Korea
Air & Space Magazine:
Go To DEFCON 3
io9:
10 Failed Utopian Cities That Influenced the Future
Smithsonian Magazine:
Photos: India's Karnataka Coast
January 31, 2014
Epoch Times:
Meteor (Meteoro) in Mexico: Sightings Reported Across 8 States
WSBT-TV:
Meteor Lights Up Night Sky
Space.com:
On Mars, NASA's Curiosity Rover Seeks Smoother Road to Reduce Wheel Damage
Discovery News:
Will Mars Rover Curiosity Become a Dune Buggy?
Daily Mail:
The solar system was once like a giant chaotic SNOW GLOBE
The Guardian:
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic: why is it stratospherically off schedule?
Gizmodo:
The Air Force Prototype Fighter That Was Just Never Quite Good Enough
January 30, 2014
Gizmodo:
This space fly proves that humans aren't cut for interplanetary travel
Space Daily:
Evidence exposes space trips real toll on immune systems
Space.com:
Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Passes 400 Days in Orbit
Spaceflight Now:
NASA to buy more Soyuz seats for space station crews
The Atlantic:
Earth Resumes Surveillance of Mercury
Spaceflight Now:
ESA says Rosetta in good shape after space snooze
Universe Today:
Rosetta Is Happily Awake, But Comet Lander Will Slumber Until March
Universe Today:
How Do You Stop A Spacecraft Microbe From Attacking Mars?
Space.com:
Asteroid Belt Reveals Drama of Early Solar System Evolution
Discovery News:
Asteroids Scarred by Solar System's Violent Youth
New Scientist:
Did newborn sun have weirdly weak solar wind?
Space.com:
Brown Dwarfs: Strange Failed Stars of the Universe Explained (Infographic)
Space.com:
Alien Life Could Use Endless Array of Building Blocks
Gizmodo:
This Insanely Loud Sound System Simulates the Roar of a Rocket Launch
Daily Mail:
How fast are YOU spinning on Earth's axis? Infographic reveals the precise speed your country is moving at as the planet rotates
Daily Mail:
Watch Earth from space in REAL-TIME: Astronauts finally fit International Space Station with HD webcams that will beam back live footage
IEEE Spectrum:
Perching AR Drone Can Watch You Forever
Popular Science:
Rise Of The Insect Drones
Daily Mail:
Forget smartwatches - wear this £150,000 PLANETARIUM on your wrist (but hurry, there are only 396 left!)
January 29, 2014
io9:
A New Scientific Model that Defines Alien Intelligence
Universe Today:
'Obviously A Major Malfunction': Today Is Anniversary of Challenger's Explosion
The Tennessean:
Challenger disaster revealed major flaws
Daily Mail:
Newly surfaced Challenger launch home video shows the tragic disaster as it appeared for millions of Florida residents exactly 28 years ago
Spaceflight Now:
Mechanical anomaly raises concern for Chinese rover
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
NASA's Mars Design Reference Mission Goes Nuclear (2001)
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Mars Sample Return Site Selection & Sample Acquisition Study (1980)
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
To Mars by Flyby-Landing Excursion Mode (FLEM) (1966)
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Spacespeeder (1969-ish)
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Rosen & Schwenk's Moon Mission (1959)
January 28, 2014
The Atlantic:
January 27, 1967: NASA Loses the 3 Astronauts of Apollo 1
Universe Today:
Remembering Apollo 1's Tragic Anniversary: 'It Was Too Late From The Beginning'
Life Magazine:
The Apollo 1 Launchpad Fire: Remembering Grissom, White and Chaffee
Discovery News:
China's Jade Rabbit Lunar Lander May Be Out of Luck
Universe Today:
Yutu rover Suffers Significant Setback at Start of 2nd Lunar Night
New Scientist:
China's Jade Rabbit rover may be victim of moon dust
Daily Mail:
Forget global warming, worry about the MAGNETOSPHERE: Earth's magnetic field is collapsing and it could affect the climate and wipe out power grids
Universe Today:
Six-Hour Spacewalk Yields Two Installed Cameras, But Data Problems, NASA Says
Spaceflight Now:
Camera glitch persists after re-installation on spacewalk
Space.com:
Spacewalk Photos: Russian Cosmonauts Install HD Cameras on Space Station
Space.com:
Solar Wind Creates Water in Star Dust, Implications for Life
Gizmag:
Review: The camera-packin' Hubsan X4 FPV mini quadcopter
Air & Space Magazine:
Hey, Let's Use a Helicopter as a Tugboat!
Popular Science:
Watch A Drone Launch A Rocket
Air & Space Magazine:
I Got Those Old Beat-Up Orion Blues
Air & Space Magazine:
The Outrageous Adolescence of the F-16
Gizmodo:
The Navy Almost Built a "Flying Dorito" It Couldn't Afford to Fly
January 27, 2014
North Wales Daily Post:
Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash: 40 years on, it's still a mystery
Pacific Standard:
How You Might Come to Believe You've Been Abducted by an Alien
New Scientist:
Orion's life-support module prepares for launch
Space.com:
Private Dream Chaser Space Plane to Launch 1st Orbital Flight in 2016
Spaceflight Now:
Opportunity rover marks 10 years on the red planet
Information Week:
10 Years On Mars: What Spirit and Opportunity Discovered
Universe Today:
The Difficulties of Operating a Rover on Mars for 10 Years
Space.com:
How NASA's Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity Work (Infographic)
Inside Science:
Thirty-year-old Data Offers New View Of Venus
Space.com:
Stephen Hawking: There Are No Black Holes
Space.com:
The Strangest Black Holes in the Universe
Space.com:
Black Hole Quiz: How Well Do You Know Nature's Weirdest Creations?
Space.com:
No Escape: Dive Into a Black Hole (Infographic)
Scientific American:
Continental Telescope Array Could Usher Astronomy Revolution in Africa
Daily Mail:
Is the future of air travel SUPERSONIC? Scientists are developing transport that travels at super-high speeds without the boom
The Aviationist:
This is the cockpit of the upgraded B-1B "Bone" bomber
Daily Mail:
The ultimate PAPER airplane? Student builds a Boeing 777 model - complete with engine - using just card and glue
Daily Mail:
Deliver your message from above: the 'texting helicopter' that can display pictures and words from the sky
Gizmodo:
The Greatest Rocket Scientist Who Ever Lived
WEEKEND EDITION: January 25 through January 26, 2014
Nature:
Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes'
New Scientist:
Stephen Hawking's new theory offers black hole escape
Scientific American:
Physics and fundamental laws: Necessary truth or misleading cacophony?
Scientific American:
How the Geocentric Model of the Universe Worked [Video]
Gizmag:
Prosthesis human-piloted racing robot aims to usher in a new sport
National Geographic:
Reconstructing Dinosaur Duels
Stuff NZ:
Ancient marine fossil found
Daily Mail:
Shock and gnaw! First wild beaver spotted in England for 800 years
io9:
This intricately crafted harpoon tip is 35,000 years old
The History Blog:
Tomb of pharaoh from Abydos dynasty found
The Guardian:
King Senebkay: how did the Egyptian pharaoh stay undiscovered for so long?
Daily Mail:
Was Noah's Ark ROUND? 3,700-year-old clay tablet reveals giant boat was made out of reeds and bitumen
io9:
What caused a 10-year winter starting in 536?
Smithsonian Magazine:
Alchemy May Not Have Been the Pseudoscience We All Thought It Was
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Last Days of Blackbeard
Smithsonian Magazine:
The History of How We Came to Revere Abraham Lincoln
Gizmodo:
The History of the Human Cannonball
Jalopnik:
The Man Who Invented The Telephone Was A Secret Speed Freak
io9:
The Lawyer and the Scientist Who Predicted the Atomic Bomb in 1915
Gizmodo:
The World's First Nuclear Submarine Was Launched 60 Years Ago
Gizmodo:
This is Russia's new nuclear attack submarine
Gizmodo:
A Visit to the Weirdest Archaeological Site in North America
January 24, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas rocket puts up NASA communications spacecraft
Universe Today:
Spectacular Nighttime Blastoff Sends Critical NASA TDRS Communications Relay Skyward from Cape - Photo Gallery
Space.com:
Ancient Mars May Have Been Habitable for Hundreds of Millions of Years
Discovery News:
Mars Rover Opportunity Finds Life-Friendly Niche
Universe Today:
Opportunity Discovers That Oldest Rocks Reveal Best Chance for Martian Life
Air & Space Magazine:
The Wright Brothers' First Flight Photo, Annotated
Air & Space Magazine:
Letters From a Jenny Pilot
January 23, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Morpheus lander cruises through initial flight tests
Space Daily:
Extra Time for Tiangong
Universe Today:
China's Yutu rover trundles across the Moon in Time-lapse Panorama
Space.com:
Water Found on Dwarf Planet Ceres, May Erupt from Ice Volcanoes
Universe Today:
Herschel Discovers Water Vapor Spewing from Ceres
Space.com:
Photos: Dwarf Planet Ceres, the Solar System's Largest Asteroid
Air & Space Magazine:
Planet Earth: A Guide for Alien Scientists
January 22, 2014
Spaceflight Now:
ESA chief says Orion service module to be ready in 2017
New Scientist:
Snooze-button glitch delayed Rosetta's wake-up
New Scientist:
Water found in stardust suggests life is universal
Gizmodo:
Flying inside the cockpit of a fighter jet is the best roller coaster
The Aviationist:
On this day in 1968 a B-52 crashed in Greenland with 4 hydrogen bombs
Air & Space Magazine:
Clementine - The Legacy, Twenty Years On
January 21, 2014
Dromore Leader:
Fireball seen shooting across Banbridge skies
Huntingdon, St Ives & St Neots News & Crier:
VIDEO: Fireball seen in the sky over St Neots captured on camera in Holland
Space Daily:
China confirms new hypersonic glide vehicle test-flight
Daily Mail:
'Hello World!': Comet-chasing Rosetta sends first signal to Earth from 500 MILLION miles away after three-years in hibernation
Space.com:
Sleeping Rosetta Spacecraft Wakes Up for Historic Comet Rendezvous and Landing
Spaceflight Now:
Rosetta's comet chase is on
Space.com:
Photos: Europe's Rosetta Comet Mission in Pictures
Space.com:
How the Rosetta Spacecraft Will Land on a Comet (Infographic)
Universe Today:
1st 360 Degree Color Panorama from China's Chang'e-3 Lunar Lander
Space.com:
Mystery Rock 'Appears' in Front of Mars Rover
Gizmodo:
Traveling in a Boeing 747 in the 1970s was pretty damn awesome
Discovery News:
Blocked Out: How NASA Chose Apollo's Command Module
Scientific American:
The Case against Copernicus
DR. KING 3-DAY WEEKEND EDITION: January 18 through January 20, 2014
Space.com:
What is the Shape of the Universe?
Inside Science:
Proposed Time Machine Could Also Clone Objects
The Guardian:
Why you can't travel at the speed of light
Gizmodo:
Why Is the Solar System Flat?
The Atlantic:
Meet 'Robosimian,' the Robot That Apes an Ape
Popular Science:
Planning For A Future Of Robot Ships
Gizmodo:
These Easy-To-Install Treads Turn Any Car Into a Tank
Daily Mail:
The James Bond gadget that turns you into a FISH: Mask lets you breathe underwater without oxygen tanks
Daily Mail:
Can you spot it? Massive trough deeper than the Grand Canyon found 7km under the ice in Antarctica - yet is impossible to see from the surface
Smithsonian Magazine:
Taking the Measure of Yellowstone's Supervolcano
The Atlantic:
What Niagara Falls Looks Like Without Water
Popular Science:
How Did Insects Evolve To Feast On Your Blood?
The Atlantic:
Fossil fish re-defines origins of walking
Daily Mail:
Dogs are NOT descended from modern wolves but split from common ancestor 34,000 years ago
io9:
What killed off the world's largest apes?
Daily Mail:
Amazing formation flying skills of migrating birds unraveled: 'V'shape and timing of flaps ensures flock is aerodynamic as possible
Daily Mail:
Is this the birthplace of British civilisation? One million-year-old remains of the first settlers found buried under a £15-a-night caravan park in Norfolk
The History Blog:
Tomb of Pharaoh Sobekhotep I found in Abydos
Daily Mail:
King Solomon's treasures revealed: Newly translated Hebrew text lists legendary riches - including the Ark of the Covenant
The History Blog:
World's oldest times table found in bamboo strips
Daily Mail:
Mystery of 39 skulls found at London Wall is solved after 25 years: Decapitated heads were 'gladiators' who fought in the City
The History Blog:
Celtic brooch found among Viking artifacts in storage
The History Blog:
Adena Mound dated to first century A.D.
Daily Mail:
Could this tiny kangaroo sketched in a 400-year-old manuscript change Australian history?
Smithsonian Magazine:
There is No Shortage of History When it Comes to Velveeta
io9:
Incredibly Strange Railway Systems
Gizmodo:
What London looked like in 1927 and 2013, side-by-side
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Untold Tale of Pow!, the Fourth Rice Krispies Elf
io9:
How the reactionless space drive could send nuclear subs into orbit
io9:
The Terrifying Age of Radioactive Toys for Kids
io9:
Early Nuclear Safety Posters Are Perky and Disturbing
io9:
Photographs of Atomic Bomb Tests Are Like Science Fiction Made Real
Gizmodo:
This postcard took 44 years to reach its recipient because of the Stasi
io9:
Not chilly enough yet? Here are some of the world's coldest settlements
Gizmodo:
Why Is There a US Naval Cruiser in the Middle of This Cornfield?
Science Magazine:
How to Survive a Nuclear Explosion
io9:
This creepy claymation ballet is like a Silly Symphony from Hell
io9:
This stop-motion horror film was crafted by one animator over 4 years
Gizmodo:
How Many Humans Would a T-Rex Need to Eat Every Day to Survive?
January 17, 2014
Space.com:
China Launches Hypersonic Missile Test, Downplays Fears
The Guardian:
China tests hypersonic missile vehicle
Universe Today:
China considers Manned Moon Landing following breakthrough Chang'e-3 mission success
Spaceflight Now:
Second spacewalk planned to install UrtheCast cameras
Spaceflight Now:
Schedule for full-up Orion test flight to be reassessed
Space Daily:
Countdown to Pluto
Daily Mail:
Now THAT'S how to land on a Comet! European Space Agency releases astonishing video showing how Rosetta probe will 'dance' in space before touching down in November
Universe Today:
What's On The Far Side Of The Moon?
Universe Today:
Some Planet-like Kuiper Belt Objects Don't Play "Nice"
Smithsonian Magazine:
Will Commercial Airplanes Have Parachutes Someday?
Discovery News:
What Happened to all the Saturn V Rocket Stages?
January 16, 2014
Daily Mail:
Nasa reveal plans for the biggest rocket ever made to take man to Mars - dwarfing the shuttle and the Saturn rockets that took us to the moon
Daily Mail:
Fishing in space! Japan to test 'magnetic net' to clean up space junk circling Earth
Discovery News:
Galaxy Surveyor Arrives in Orbit... Around Nothing
Spaceflight Now:
European Space Agency's Gaia mission settles in at L2
Discovery News:
Rare Exoplanet Found in Cluster, Orbits Sun's 'Twin'
Space.com:
Potato-Shaped Mars Moon Phobos May Be a Captured Asteroid
Space.com:
Strange Metal Asteroid Targeted in Far-Out NASA Mission Concept
Daily Mail:
The future of air travel? Three-storey Sky Whale fits 755 passengers, has virtual reality windows and self-healing wings
Popular Science:
Researchers Create Micro-Flyer That "Swims" in Air
New Scientist:
Star-aligned temples hint at Pompeii's religious mix
January 15, 2014
Cape Cod Online:
January UFO sightings in the early seventies
Universe Today:
Stunning Footage from SpaceShipTwo's Third Rocket-Powered Flight
Universe Today:
A Possible Meteor Shower from Comet ISON?
Discovery News:
Sub-$500 Pocket Drone folds for transport and carries a GoPro
Discovery News:
Kugelblitz! Powering a Starship With a Black Hole
Space.com:
Dyson Spheres: How Advanced Alien Civilizations Would Conquer the Galaxy (Infographic)
January 14, 2014
Falmouth Patch:
Meteor's Fireball Seen by Hundreds in New England
Syracuse.com:
Meteor sightings in Upstate New York? Some are convinced they heard and saw meteors near Lake Ontario
Syracuse.com:
Astronomy expert: Meteor likely in Upstate New York, but was it caused by Comet ISON?
Universe Today:
China's Historic Moon Robot Duo Awaken from 1st Long Frigid Night and Resume Science Operations
Spaceflight Now:
NASA satellite attached to booster rocket for launch
Universe Today:
See the Smallest Full Moon of 2014: It's the "Return of the Mini-Moon"
Discovery News:
DNews: 60 Billion Planets Could Harbor Life
Live Science:
US Navy's Huge Triton Drone Will Provide 360-Degree Surveillance
Dvice:
Sky Whale concept is a three-deck aircraft with serious moves
Popular Science:
When Astronauts Set Sail Aboard Apollo Command Module 007
The Aviationist:
Here's the video of the B-52 bomber flying without its fin
January 13, 2014
Daily Mail:
Giant leap for space tourism! Virgin Galactic's third test flight reaches an all time high altitude of 71,000 FEET
Universe Today:
SpaceShipTwo Goes Supersonic in Third Rocket-Powered Test Flight
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceShipTwo achieves highest flight to date
Discovery News:
SpaceShipTwo Aces Third Rocket-Powered Test Flight
Universe Today:
Private Cygnus Freighter Berths at Space Station with Huge Science Cargo and Ant Colony
Scientific American:
"Flock" of Nano Satellites to Capture High-Res Views of Whole Earth
Universe Today:
China's Yutu Moon Rover and Chang'e-3 Lander - Gallery of New Images and 1st Earth Portrait
The Guardian:
The dark side of the moon is turquoise, say astronomers
io9:
I could watch this time-lapse of Jupiter (and Io) all day long
Discovery News:
Stormy Alien Atmospheres May Spark Seeds of Life
Astrobiology Magazine:
A Celestial Object That Defies Description
Daily Mail:
The remote-controlled FLYING TRUCK set to carry U.S. troops into battle: Drone could transport troops WITHOUT a pilot
Popular Science:
Will This Helicopter Truck Fly?
Gizmag:
Multicopter meets monster truck: The AT Transformer roadable VTOL aircraft
Gizmag:
DJI releases mid-priced Phantom 2 and Phantom FC40 quadcopters
New Scientist:
Hunting wormholes in a Soviet-era science city
The Aviationist:
50 years ago a B-52 lost its tail over New Mexico. But managed to land.
Gizmodo:
Spectacular photos of SpaceShipTwo breaking the sound barrier
WEEKEND EDITION: January 11 through January 12, 2014
Daily Mail:
'Time travellers don't exist on the internet': Researchers spend months scanning the web for voyagers from the future - but find nothing
Wall Street Journal:
Robotics Expert Warns Future 'Is Coming Much Faster Than We Think'
Information Week:
CES 2014: 8 Radical Robots
Gizmag:
MakerBot unveils three new 3D printers at CES: Giant, compact, and "just right"
Daily Mail:
That's got to hurt! Student designs £85 machine gun that fires 14 RUBBER BANDS a second
Smithsonian Magazine:
What Happens to All the Salt We Dump On the Roads?
Daily Mail:
Lightning can shape MOUNTAINS: African peaks were formed by strikes capable of blowing 10 metres of rock into the air
The Guardian:
Geologists identify trigger for apocalyptic 'super eruptions'
Popular Science:
Dinosaurs Were Mostly Scaly, Study Finds
Daily Mail:
A cross between a panther and a squirrel: 55-million-year-old fossil reveals shared ancestor of cats and dogs
Popular Science:
From Untold Billions To None: How Passenger Pigeons Went Extinct
Daily Mail:
4.4 million-year-old 'unusual primate' skull reveals that Ardi IS linked to humans
Daily Mail:
Light skin in Europeans stems from ONE 10,000-year-old ancestor who lived between India and the Middle East, claims study
Gizmodo:
This Is (Possibly) What 5,500-Year-Old Man Looked Like
Daily Mail:
Tomb of Ancient Egyptian beer brewer is opened by archaeologists for the first time in 3,200 years
The History Blog:
Tomb of Pharaoh Sobekhotep I found in Abydos
Live Science:
King Tut's Mummified Erect Penis May Point to Ancient Religious Struggle
Live Science:
Fate of Ark of the Covenant Revealed in Hebrew Text
Daily Mail:
The 3,000-year-old PLONK: Ancient Hebrew text unearthed in Jerusalem revealed to be a label for cheap wine reserved for slaves
Daily Mail:
Did toxic wine kill Alexander the Great? Scientists 'find plant behind ancient leaders agonizing death over 12 days'
Live Science:
Uncannily Lifelike Roman Masks Recreated in Wax
io9:
The Bitter Feud That Gave Us the Brontosaurus
io9:
Century-Old Photos of the U.S. Take Us Back to the Industrial Age
Popular Science:
The Rise and Fall of the Battleship (And Why They Won't Be Coming Back)
Jewish Daily Forward:
Math and Anti-Semitism Went Hand-in-Hand at Harvard for Decades
Gizmodo:
The Military Once Asked Walt Disney to Build Real-Life Iron Man Suits
New York Times:
Burglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows
January 10, 2014
Space Daily:
Orbital Sciences launches second mission to space station
Universe Today:
Antares Private Rocket Thunders off Virginia Coast bound for Space Station - Marks 2nd US Commercial Launch This Week
Spaceflight Now:
Europe eyes cooperation on Dream Chaser space plane
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Rinehart's Floating Moonbase (1959)
Wired - Beyond Apollo:
Rosen and Schwenk's Moon Mission (1959)
January 9, 2014
Daily Mail:
Sun unleashes massive solar flare SEVEN times the size of the Earth - and is so strong it's delayed an ISS rocket delivery
Discovery News:
Massive Solar Flare Grounds Space Station Cargo Flight
Space Daily:
NASA extends space station life to 2024
Daily Mail:
Forget the 'Goldilocks Zone' - planets can support life up to TEN times further away from stars than previously thought
Daily Mail:
Super-sized surveillance: U.S. navy to get drone with the wingspan of a BOEING 757
Daily Mail:
From hunting hyenas to bathing hippos: Photographer captures stunning aerial shots over the Serengeti with a HOMEMADE drone
The Aviationist:
Enjoy a Guided Tour Inside the E-4B NAOC Doomsday Plane
January 8, 2014
Universe Today:
Monster Sunspot Erupts with an X-Class Flare
Journal.ie:
Did you see the fireball that broke up over Ireland last Friday evening?
Discovery News:
Recommissioned NEOWISE Discovers Near-Earth Asteroid
Daily Mail:
Earth has a gassy twin! Chance discovery uncovers mysterious planet 200 light years away with the same mass as our world
Universe Today:
Kepler Finds an Earth-Sized "Gas Giant"
Universe Today:
The Most Common Exoplanets Might be "Mini-Neptunes"
Space.com:
5 Rocky Alien Planets Revealed by NASA's Kepler Spacecraft
Gizmag:
SpaceX launches second satellite
New Scientist:
India's hefty 'naughty boy' rocket comes in from cold
Space.com:
Private Cygnus Supply Ship 'Go' for Frigid Launch Wednesday
Discovery News:
New Exoplanet Hunter Directly Images Alien Worlds
Discovery News:
Has the Weirdest Star in the Universe Been Found?
Stuff NZ:
Brilliant blue at universe dawn
Popular Science:
A Goose-Powered Moon Lander And Other Imaginary Spacecraft From The Past
January 7, 2014
Florida Today:
$1B mission to check out asteroid that may threaten Earth ... in 2182
Space.com:
Boeing to Use Former Space Shuttle Hangar for Secret Space Plane
New Scientist:
Astrophile: Trio of dead stars could take on Einstein
Astrobiology Magazine:
Does a Planet Need Life to Create Continents?
New Scientist:
Anybody out there? The how and what of alien life
Scientific American:
Canada's Ex-Defense Minister: Aliens Would Give Us More Tech If We'd Stop Wars
Popular Science:
The (Brief) Story of the Saturn IB Rocket
January 6, 2014
Tech Crunch:
Mysterious Computer Chip Crop Circle Is An Nvidia CES Publicity Stunt [Update: Confirmed]
Spaceflight Now:
Freezing forecast forces Antares launch delay
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 rocket launch delayed to next week
Universe Today:
Spirit Rover Landed on Mars 10 Years Ago Today
Universe Today:
Spirit Retrospective: Top Shots on 10th Year Since Mars Touchdown
Discovery News:
Gecko feet will let robot minions fix space stations
Gizmodo:
Parrot's New Drones Fly the Mini Skies and Bite Your Ankles
Gizmodo:
This swarming horde of black stealth fighter jets is not a movie scene
Popular Science:
A Goose-Powered Moon Lander And Other Imaginary Spacecraft From The Past
Gizmodo:
Witness the Real Life Apollo 13 Disaster As It Actually Happened
WEEKEND EDITION: January 4 through January 5, 2014
Live Science:
6 Cool Underground Science Labs
Daily Mail:
Behold the Death Ray Drone Bot! Robot enthusiast creates a terrifying mechanical spider that bursts balloons with real lasers
Daily Mail:
High but not dry: Dolphins filmed chewing toxic puffer fish 'to enjoy narcotic-like effects'
Daily Mail:
Did Neanderthals speak like US? Horseshoe-shaped neck bone suggests ancestors used complex speech
Daily Mail:
'Til death do us part? Scientists discover mysterious 3,500-year-old male and female skeletons that were buried facing each other and holding hands in Siberia
The History Blog:
3,000-year-old bronze trove found in Chinese tomb
Gizmodo:
How the Circumference of Earth Was Accurately Estimated 2000 Years Ago
Daily Mail:
The medieval DROID: Designer creates a robotic servant that helps dry hands using an 800-year-old Arabic design
io9:
Michelangelo's illustrated grocery list is a work of everyday art
Daily Mail:
Photographs of ill-fated Antarctic mission seen for first time after scientists develop century-old box of negatives found preserved in the ice of Captain Scott's hut
Daily Mail:
The spying Scotsman who hunted the Nazis of New York: The amazing story of Britain's clandestine war on Hitler's agents... and his big-money backers in the US
Gizmodo:
Bucky Fuller's Forgotten WWII Shelters Rediscovered In New Jersey
Daily Mail:
Did Soviets really spend $1billion on mind control programme? Report 'reveals secretive parapsychology operations dating back to 1917'
Gizmodo:
This is how the sky would look seconds before nuclear holocaust
Gizmodo:
Spend Your Weekend Gawking at Nearly 700 Old Maps of the U.S.
The Guardian:
It's time to challenge the notion that there is only one way to speak English
io9:
9 Extraordinary Underground Cities
The Atlantic:
How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
January 3, 2014
Discovery News:
We Saw It Coming: Dinky Asteroid Hits Earth, Burns Up
Universe Today:
Three-Meter Asteroid Hits Earth's Atmosphere? Somewhere
Space.com:
First Meteor Shower of 2014 Peaks Friday, but Sun Interferes
New Scientist:
Astrophile: Wrinkles reveal Mercury's rapid slimming
Popular Science:
A Silent Isolation Room For Satellites
Popular Science:
Inside One Of The FAA's New Drone Test Sites
Daily Mail:
From ejector seat armchairs to a clock made using a Boeing 747 fuselage: Recycled aeroplane parts turned into high-end furniture (with a £25,000 price tag)
Daily Mail:
How mysterious orbs could be used to predict earthquakes: Scientists link strange lights to movement in the Earth's crust
January 2, 2014
CNN:
(Psst, aliens) Elaborate crop circle in California mowed down
EarthSky:
A new major meteor shower in 2014?
EarthSky:
EarthSky's meteor shower guide for 2014
Universe Today:
Happy New Year's Day 2014 from Mars - Curiosity Celebrates 500 Sols Spying Towering Mount Sharp Destination
Universe Today:
Space Science Stories to Watch in 2014
Live Science:
Smarter, Deadlier Drones Mapped Out in Defense Plan
Dvice:
Swarm of gesture-controlled drone minions knows you're the boss
Gizmodo:
I just don't get tired of seeing awesome photos of rocket launches
Gizmodo:
Spectacular skydiving video is so perfect it looks computer generated
io9:
The First American Rocket Flight Was an Advertising Stunt
Gizmodo:
Scientists make things float and move in space using sound waves
January 1, 2014
Sarasota Herald Tribune:
Sarasota woman was an astronaut pioneer
IEEE Spectrum:
NASA Readies Orion for First Test Flight
Space.com:
European Spacecraft To Land On Comet In 2014 - Animation
New Scientist:
Water plumes spark a race to Jupiter moon Europa
Space.com:
Best Night Sky Events of January 2014: Stargazing Sky Maps (Gallery)
NBC News:
Mega-moon, meteor showers: 11 must-watch events to light up 2014 sky
Live Science:
Secret to Ancient Roman Sundial Revealed in 3D Simulations
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