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Science Etcetera, Mercuryday 20080820

August 20th, 2008
  • The Phoenix has taken its first image of a Martian dust particle.

    • Image from Phoenix's Atomic Force Microscope

    Image from Phoenix’s Atomic Force Microscope
    Credit: NASA
  • EEG’s reveal our ability to process the visual information of a human face depends greatly on whether they are making eye contact.
  • Survivors of the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, still have antibodies to the virus 90 years later.
  • Photoshopping your old photos to add or remove people can effect your actual memory of the event.
  • Amphibians have survived the last four mass extinctions on Earth, but are now dying off in record numbers.

    • Dead southern mountain yellow-legged frogs (Rana muscosa) killed by the chytrid fungus.

    Dead southern mountain yellow-legged frogs (Rana muscosa)
    killed by the chytrid fungus.
    Credit: Photo by V. Vredenburg (August 2006),
    San Francisco State University.
  • Octopuses have six arms and two legs.
  • The Russia-Georgia conflict is jeapordizing the ISS.
  • Top 10 Funniest Green Videos.
  • Time-Lapse gecko eaten by ants:



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