Periodic table moves closer to completion – if element 113 has been discovered as expected

After nine years of searching, a group of Japanese researchers may have finally done it. Researchers in Japan have reported that they have created an atom of element 113, an element with 113 protons and 165 neutrons in its nucleus.

Over the course of five years, beginning in December 2012, DECam will survey one-eighth of the sky (20 times larger than the full moon), image more than 300 million galaxies, 100,000 galaxy clusters, and 4,000 supernovae, the bright dying throes of stars.

If you place two metronomes on a stationary board and start them out of sync, they will remain out of sync forever. But if the board is placed on two rollers, so that the movement of the metronomes can be transferred through the moveable board, each metronome’s movement will affect the movement of the other…

NASA announced today (on the evening of Sol 51), that Curiosity Rover has found evidence of an ancient flowing stream on Mars at a few sites. Round-shaped rocks, called clasts, have lead Geologists to the conclusion that they have been moved about by water. The clasts are too heavy to have been moved by wind.

The April 11, 2012 series of Earthquakes in Indonesia may have been a bigger event than originally thought – they may have broken the tectonic plate. The largest of the quakes was a magnitude 8.7 offshore quake that produced stronger ground-shaking than any earthquake in history. Scientists found it odd that it triggered several earthquakes…

NASA has just said that the International Space Station debris avoidance maneuver for today was cancelled. NASA was concerned that debris from the Cosmos satellite and the Indian rocket debris would collide with the ISS.

The new eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) photograph gives us a glimpse back 13.2 billion years into the universe’s past. Given that the universe is thought to be around 13.7 billion years old, this gives us a glimpse of the universe at its very earliest stages of development. To create the picture, Hubble returned to the…

On August 8, 2012, Australian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, will board a helium filled balloon in Roswell, New Mexico, climb to 120,000 feet (23 miles above the Earth), and then jump, breaking a world record that has stood for 52 years.

Each year, the Royal Observatory Greenwich‘s hosts its annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Now in its fourth year and growing, they received over 800 photo submission. Winners were announced on Sept. 19 in four main categories — Deep Space, Our Solar System, Earth and Space, and Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year —…

Most geeks have fantasized about living in a space colony. What would it be like? Would you grow bored? What would you eat, where would you sleep, what would living in such close quarters with fellow colonists be like? Even NASA has pondered space colonization and in fact, it’s likely their ultimate goal.

Category: Science

Periodic table moves closer to completion – if element 113 has been discovered as expected

570-Megapixel Dark Energy Camera aims to figure out the mysterious dark energy that fills our universe

MESMERIZING VIDEO – watch 32 out-of-sync metronomes magically synchronize themselves

NASA Curiosity Rover finds evidence of ancient flowing streams on Mars – UPDATED PICTURES

Unusual April 2012 Indonesian Earthquake may have broken tectonic plate and created new plate boundary

ISS debris avoidance maneuver cancelled – NASA breathes sigh of relief

Record breaking deep space photo captures farthest-ever view into the universe – only .5 billion years short of the beginning of time

Skydiver will go supersonic in record breaking jump from edge of space

Winners of the Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition

So what would it really take to build and inhabit a space colony? Here’s what it takes to colonize space.

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