Science Etcetera, Venusday 20080801

August 1st, 2008

Total Eclipse 20080801
Credit: NASA

OFFICIAL, touched and tasted, water on Mars.

Here’s a guide to the IAU’s perpetually changing lexicon for the stuff in our solar system.

A four-square-kilometre of the Arctic ice shelf has broken off.

Liquid lake of hydrocarbons, complete with beach, confirmed on Saturn’s Moon Titan.

Artists Conception of Lake on Titan
Credit: NASA

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) has issued a warning about the dangers of text-messaging while walking.

Carbon Credits is now a $63 Billion industry.

Using x-ray machines, researchers are revealing the secrets of the Antikythera Mechanism, the world’s oldest analog computer at 2,100 years.

Elephant Beetle, Biggest in Mexico, one of the Biggest in the World (HT Oranchak)

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