Lakes of the Sahara Desert from the International Space Station (ISS)

Ounianga Lakes in the Sahara Desert are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 21 crew member on the International Space Station. This view highlights one of the largest of a series of ten, mostly fresh water lakes in..

USOC eager to build on 2010 record medals haul

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — After watching their heroes in action during the 2010 Winter Games, somewhere out there are the next Shaun White, Apolo Anton Ohno, Shani Davis, Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn – and the U.S.

Evolutionary Hide & Seek: Species Avoids Extinction By Abstaining from Sex for 30 Million Years

They haven’t had sex in some 30 million years, but some very small invertebrates named bdelloid rotifers should have gone extinct long ago. Cornell researchers have discovered the secret to their evolutionary longevity: they are microscopic escape artists. “These animals have evolved a way to avoid parasites and pathogens by drying up and blowing away,” said Paul Sherman, Cornell professor of neurobiology and behavior

The Thing About Rockstars

In the course of this century, there has been an obvious change in the type of music and lifestyle that is now desired by the youth.

The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (1/02)

Obama ends moon program, endorses private spaceflight On the seventh anniversary of the Columbia disaster, President Obama unveiled a sweeping change of course for the nation’s space program Monday, putting an end to NASA’s post-Columbia moon program and shifting development and operation of new rockets and capsules from the government to private industry. Requesting some $19 billion for NASA in fiscal 2011, the administration announced plans to pump an additional $6 billion into NASA’s budget over the next five years to kick-start development of a new commercial manned spaceflight capability, including some $500 million in 2011. Apple Has Another Tablet In The Works.

Are Tattoos Less Taboo on the College Scene?

A new school that recently opened in Tinley Park, Illinois , hopes to lure out-of-work art students by offering a two-week intensive program that promises to teach them a new skill—body art. The school, Bette Baron’s Art of Body Coloring School, opened earlier this month, and faced little opposition from the town, which saw it as another opportunity for students seeking vocational schools.

Discovery of 33 Pairs of Black Holes Show Supermassive Systems Common in Universe

Astronomers announced yesterday that they have discovered 33 pairs of waltzing black holes in distant galaxies located at distances 4 to 7 billion light-years away from Earth (corresponding to look-back times of 4 to 7 billion years; when the Universe was 7 to 10 billion years old). This result is particularly important because it shows that supermassive black hole pairs are more common than previously known from observations, and because the black hole pairs can be used to estimate how often galaxies merge with each other. A team of astronomers discovered that the two bright nuclei near the center of this galaxy correspond to two supermassive black holes shining as Active Galactic Nucleis Astronomical observations have shown that nearly every galaxy has a central supermassive black hole (with a mass of a million to a billion times the mass of the Sun), and that galaxies commonly collide and merge to form new, more massive galaxies

The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (12/28)

This New Years Eve Brings the Rarest Blue Moon of All Magical things happen once upon a blue Moon. And this Thursday we get a chance to find out just what those magical things as we watch the rare lunar event coincide with all the beautiful fireworks of New Years Eve.

Webinars – out with the old, in with the new

This year, the AdSense team has brought you a series of live webinars covering a range of topics, and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who attended. We hope that you’re already profiting from implementing the tips featured in our webinars. Your feedback to date has been very helpful, and we’ll spend the coming weeks developing brand new, interesting content for 2010.

Could "Avatar’s" Inhabited Moon Pandora Exist? Harvard Astrophysics Team Says "Yes"

Imagine being roused by an attendant floating in zero gravity from a years-long sleep just before landing on a distant inhabited moon, Pandora. What you would soon discover is an exotic DNA carbon-based world on a twin Earth.