Welcome back to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment.
This week's featured story comes from National Geographic.
Welcome back to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment.
There was a lunar eclipse today. Unfortunately, those of us in North America couldn't see it. To make up for it, here is a video of the last lunar eclipse back in February.
More on the eclipse and other science stories after the jump.
Welcome back to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment.
This week, instead of a photo gallery or slide show, Science Saturday presents a top story.
TAIYUAN, CHINA -- Su Aimin spat on the ground, and admired the result.
"You see, it's white," said the 33-year-old production manager at Taiyuan Iron & Steel, pointing to his saliva. "Before, it was black. I'm not kidding."
Although Beijing is still struggling to make the skies clear for the Olympics, a massive cleanup effort before the Summer Games has given people here a taste of fresh air. They want to keep it that way, but business groups are likely to lobby for an easing of the restrictions.
More science, space, and environment stories after the jump.
Welcome back to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment.
A narrow swath of the Earth stretching from Canada to Mongolia experienced a total solar eclipse early this morning, Pacific time.
The event was streamed live by the Exploratorium museum on the web, at their physical location, and in Second Life. You can catch an excellent replay of the event at their website.
But there were also people across the globe who experienced the total eclipse, or at least a partial one with their own eyes and cameras. Here, we bring you a gallery of photos of the event from around the world.
More on this and other science stories, especially many space stories in honor of NASA's 50th anniversary, after the jump.
Welcome back to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment.
This week's featured slideshow is from National Geographic.
Lightning crackles, a storm makes its power felt, and more in our new weekly roundup of weather shots, natural disaster images, and other nature news photos.
More on these and other science stories after the jump.
Welcome back to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment.
This week's featured slideshow is from National Geographic.
Welcome back to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment.
This week's featured slideshow is the old reliable from the New York Times depicting the past two weeks in science.
Welcome back to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment.
This week's featured slide show is from Scientific American and commemorates an astronomical disaster that occurred 100 years ago this week--the Tunguska Event.
What happened on June 30, 1908 in central Siberia? Was the atomic bomb–size airburst caused by antimatter? An extraterrestrial spacecraft? A wayward black hole?
The most likely answers to this question, along with details on other science stories of the past week, after the jump.
Welcome back to Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday, in which I present a sampling of this week's science news and the readers celebrate science, space, and the environment.
The New York Times Science slideshow has returned--huzzah!
All hail the official beginning of summer, the solstice, the longest day of the year!
Welcome back to Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday, in which I present a sampling of this week's science news and the readers celebrate science, space, and the environment.
The N.Y. Times failed to grace us with a new slideshow of this week's discoveries in science. In its place, I present this photo in the news from National Geographic.
June 20, 2008—Before-and-after photos taken by NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander show "perfect evidence" of water ice on Mars, according to Peter Smith, the mission's principal investigator, in a statement released Thursday.
The dice-size crumbs of bright material seen in the bottom left corner of the so-called Snow White trench in the left image, taken June 15, appear to have vanished by the time the right image was taken, on June 19.
More on this and other science stories after the jump.
Happy Fathers Day to all the dads who are reading this. As for all the rest of us, including the dads who are sons of still-living dads, call your father today. Sadly, I won't be; my father passed in 2002 and I miss him.
Welcome back to Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday, in which I present a sampling of this week's science news and the readers celebrate science, space, and the environment.
First up, the New York Times slideshow reviewing this week in science.
Welcome to Science Saturday, where you can join the Overnight News Digest crew in celebrating this week's news in science, space, and the environment. As usual, we begin the festivities with a slide show of this week's news in science, courtesy of the New York Times.
Also pictured, a possible landing spot for the next Mars Rover, the nucleus of a mouse cell during division, brown dwarfs, rapidly uplifted rocks in Bolivia, and a polar bear in Iceland.
More on these and other science stories after the jump. Also this week, a special reader feature in the comments--stay tuned!
Welcome to Science Saturday, where you can join the Overnight News Digest crew in celebrating this week's news in science, space, and the environment. As usual, we begin the festivities with a slide show of this week's news in science, courtesy of the New York Times.
Early Memorial Day greetings, everyone. Welcome back to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew invites you to join us in a celebration of science and the environment. As usual, we begin the festivities with a slide show of this week's news in science, courtesy of the New York Times.
Welcome back to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew invites you to join us in a celebration of science and the environment. As usual, we begin the festivities with a slide show of this week's news in science, courtesy of the New York Times.
Happy Mothers Day to all the moms who are reading this. As for all the rest of us, including the moms who are daughters of still-living moms, call your mother today. I know I will be!
Welcome back to Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday, in which I present a sampling of this week's science news and the readers celebrate science, space, and the environment.
First up, the New York Times slideshow reviewing this week in science.
Also depicted--carbon beads from an asteroid impact, a microscopic fungus, missing ordinary matter in space, an erupting Chilean volcano from space, and great tits (the birds) in England.
More on these and other science stories after the jump.
A belated Happy May Day to all of you! Welcome to Overnight News Digest's Science Saturday, where I share with you this week's news in science. This week, the unifying theme involves stories that straddle categories, demonstrating one of environmentalism's favorite maxims, Everything Is Connected to Everything Else.
First up in our celebration of science and the environment, a slideshow, courtesy of the New York Times:
Also pictured: Geoengineering side effects, T. rex bones and proteins, the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Spain, sand dunes of Mars, a possible glacier on Mars, the age of the Sierra Nevada, red tide, and fruit bats intentionally eating dirt.
Details on these and other stories after the jump.
