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Geologic Puzzle: What Explains Titan's Low Crater Count?

Geologic Puzzle: What Explains Titan's Low Crater Count?

Jul 20 2012 | comment(s)

Compared to most moons in our solar system, Titan is relatively smooth. It has few craters  but Titan is around four billion years old, about the same age as the rest of the solar system - so it isn't an age issue. Yet if you went by the number of craters, its surface looks much younger, between 100 million and one billion years old.

In 2004, radar images from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft penetrated the atmosphere of Titan and revealed an icy terrain carved out over millions of years by rivers of liquid methane, similar to how rivers of water have etched into Earth's rocky continents but that opened up the mystery about its geologic past. 
Jansky Very Large Array Gets First Light

Jansky Very Large Array Gets First Light

Jul 20 2012 | comment(s)

The Very Large Array (VLA) radio astronomy observatory, named for American physicist Karl Guthe Jansky, who discovered radio waves emanating from the Milky Way in 1931, is the largest and most capable radio telescope in the world
California Has Highest Whooping Cough Incidence In 60 Years

California Has Highest Whooping Cough Incidence In 60 Years

Jul 20 2012 | comment(s)

California had the highest number of cases of whooping cough (pertussis) in 60 years, despite the fact that it has a readily available vaccine. A new study in The Journal of Pediatrics describes that 2010 whooping cough epidemic and details strategies to decrease the incidence of this infection.

Some science education would be a good place to start. California has a strong anti-vaccine mentality, especially in coastal regions, and results showed much higher incidents of Whooping Cough in those areas, despite those being high income, well-educated communities.
World CO2 Emissions Up, Despite Declines In OECD Countries

World CO2 Emissions Up, Despite Declines In OECD Countries

Jul 20 2012 | comment(s)

Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), considered the main cause of global warming, increased by 3% last year, reaching an all-time high of 34 billion tons in 2011.
Antioxidants: In Wild Boars, Redheads Are Bad But Gray Hair Is Good

Antioxidants: In Wild Boars, Redheads Are Bad But Gray Hair Is Good

Jul 20 2012 | comment(s)

Redheads are dangerous to human men but in wild boars, red hair means a danger to themselves. 

New research has found that boars with more reddish hair tend to have higher levels of oxidative stress; damage that occurs as toxins from cell respiration build up. The researchers suggest it is because the process of producing reddish pigment eats up a valuable antioxidant that would otherwise be fighting the free radicals that lead to oxidative stress.

Visualizing Science And What It Can Show Us About Solar Heating

Visualizing Science And What It Can Show Us About Solar Heating

Jul 19 2012 | comment(s)

Data visualization is gaining increased importance. Unlike arcane statistics (damned lies), visualizing data can provide context for a very big story - even enormous datasets like the heating and cooling effects of the sun.

Nicholeen Viall, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., creates images of the sun with broad strokes of bright color splashed across a yellow background. But it's not simply art. The color of each pixel contains a wealth of information about the 12-hour history of cooling and heating at that particular spot on the sun. That heat history holds clues to the mechanisms that drive the temperature and movements of the sun's atmosphere, or corona.