Next total solar eclipse tomorrow

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Aug 1 2008 Published in: Science Tags: ,

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Do you remember the last total solar eclipse back in March 29, 2006? I remember it clearly, it was an amazing day for me, as it was the first time I’ve seen the total eclipse. There were several total eclipses before, but 2006 was the first time I really paid any attention to it. Today Friday August. 1, is the next one and NASA will broadcast and webcast live from China.

NASA confirms “we have water” on Mars

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Jul 31 2008 Published in: Science Tags: , ,

NASA have confirmed today that water does exist on Mars for real.

Laboratory tests aboard NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander’s robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples.

Photos of the Pinwheel galaxy, 27 million years away

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Jul 23 2008 Published in: Science Tags: , , ,

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NASA scientists took this magnificent photo of the Pinwheel galaxy, also known as Messier 101 using the Spitzer Space Telescope. The galaxy was first discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781 and takes at least 27million years to reach us.

Apollo 14 astronaut claims Aliens have been in contact and they are little people with a small frame, large eyes and head

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Jul 23 2008 Published in: Science Tags: , , ,

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Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview aliens have contacted humans several times but governments have hidden the truth from us for 60 years. He said real life ET are little people with a small frame, large eyes and head. He also mentioned that Aliens have better technology than ours and had they been hostile, we would be been gone by now.

Universal theory of humor developed, humor is the fundamental to our survival as a species

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Jul 17 2008 Published in: Science Tags: ,

In a report titled “The Pattern Recognition Theory of Humor” published on June 12, Alastair Clarke has documented how and why humans find situations humorous and identifies the reason humor is common to all human societies:

Water on the moon

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Jul 10 2008 Published in: Science Tags:

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Moon rock brought back to earth during Apollo mission in the late 1960s and early 1970s revealed that water existed on the moon from the beginning, dating back 3 billion years.

The study increases the possibility that water is still present in shadowed craters on the moon’s surface and casts doubt on the theory that liquid was brought to the moon by comets.

Darkest man made material created

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Jun 26 2008 Published in: Science Tags: , , ,

Researchers at Rensselaer and Rice University have created the darkest material ever made by man. The results were published in Nano Letters.

Good news for coffee drinkers, coffee can cut heart disease

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Jun 23 2008 Published in: Science Tags: , , ,

Researchers at the Autonomous University of Madrid have studied 129,000 men and women over two decades and found that people who drink more than five cups of coffee a day every day were less likely to die of heart disease than those that don’t drink coffee at all.