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Science Etcetera Saturnday, 20080426

April 26th, 2008
  • The world’s largest solar power plant is coming to the Mojave Desert.

    • Mojave Solar Array

    Mojave Solar Array
  • The worlds rarest kind of great ape, the Cross River gorilla, is getting a new sanctuary.
  • This is progress: United States requires fisherman to bring shark catches to shore before definning them. This will go a long way to protecting endangered species.
  • A naturalist exploring in Manhattan has found the previously-thought extinct Northern Dusky salamander alive and well.
  • How duct tape saved the Apollo 17 moonbuggy.
  • Scientists in Finland plan to fly a solar sail around the Earth.
  • New Mexicans for Science and Reason test everything from magic tricks to lake monsters.
  • Fighter jet reproduced at 1:5 scale.
  • The Pentagon is investing $250 million into research to regrow troops skin, muscle, and limbs from stem cells.
  • Humans may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago.
  • More than half of scientists at the EPA who responded to a survey, reported political interference in their work.
  • Women trying to get pregnant who want a boy need to eat more calories. If they want a girl, eat less.
  • Genetically modified soya crops produce 10 percent less food than unmodified.
  • NASA has released 59 new images of colliding galaxies. w00t!

    • When Galaxies Collide

    When Galaxies Collide
    Image courtesy of NASA
  • World’s first bionic eye successfully installed, involves a camera wired to an artificial retina wired to the optic nerve.
  • Monitoring brain activity can detect brain farts 30 seconds before they happen. A discovery with applications in preventing accidents in the future.
  • Image: Growth of Light Pollution in North America, projected to 2025.
  • The United States ranks just above Turkey in acceptance of Evolution.
  • Here’s a question without an easy answer how do magnets work?
  • Wired’s guide to brain drugs, also drink small doses of caffeine all day instead of one big cup at a time.
  • Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club have started rationing rice.
  • Carbon Dioxide levels are rising at an accelerated rate according to the NOAA.
  • A climate engineering idea to inject sulfur into the atmosphere to reduce global warming would damage the ozone layer.
  • Don’t believe in Global Warming? Here’s 8 different teaching styles to educate you.
  • Hard drives hold data for just a few decades, now researchers think they have a way to store digital information for 1400 years.
  • The Vulcan Project maps world CO2 Emissions with some suprising results:



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