We have ice on Mars

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Jun 20 2008 Published in: Science Tags: , , , , ,

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@MarsPhoenix said on Twitter early this morning “ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!”

The Phoenix Mars Mission website then post an update just a few minutes after the announcement.

Being gay is something you’re born with according to new brain scans study

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Jun 20 2008 Published in: Science Tags: , , , , ,

Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden have conducted a study using brain scans to see whether being gay or straight is something that you were born with.

The researchers have concluded that being gay or straight is a biologically fixed trait and the differences are likely to have been forged in the womb or in early childhood.

Ovulation moment caught on video for the first time

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Jun 18 2008 Published in: Science Tags: , , , ,

Last week we reported that Gynecologist Dr Jacques Donnez from Belgium posted the first ever human ovulation pictures, which used gas to distend the organs for photography.

Ovulation moment caught on camera for the first time

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Jun 13 2008 Published in: Science Tags: , , , ,

Gynecologist Dr Jacques Donnez spotted a human egg emerging from the ovary a 45-year-old Belgian woman and filmed the whole process. It is the first time a human ovulation has been recorded in detail and Dr Jacques Donnez saw it in progress during a routine hysterectomy operation.

A short rest is the best way to combat afternoon sleepiness

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Jun 11 2008 Published in: Science Tags: , , , ,

I often feel very sleepy during the afternoon, and I think it was one of my good friends who recommend Zinc tablets. I did actually take some, but they didn’t help.

How to: 5 ways to spot a photoshop job

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Jun 3 2008 Published in: Science Tags: , , , , ,

Scientific American has published an informative article, a how to guide listing 5 ways in which you can detect doctored images.

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Composite images made of pieces from different photographs can display subtle differences in the lighting conditions under which each person or object was originally photographed. Such discrepancies will often go unnoticed by the naked eye.

Japanese scientists creates world’s smallest bowl of noodles

Written by: Bruce Cat on: Jun 3 2008 Published in: Science Tags: , , , ,

Mechanical engineering students at the University of Tokyo, Japan have create a bowl of noodles so small it can be seen only through a microscope.

The world’s smallest ramen bowl was carved out of microscopic nanotubes with a diameter 1/25,000 of an inch.

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Lucy Pringle’s crop circles

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

Lucy Pringle is the founder member of the Centre for Crop Circle Studies, she is also an aerial photographer and world’s best crop circle photographers as well as having the UK’s most comprehensive photographic crop circle library.