Saturn's Enceladus Spewing Geysers of "Primordial Organic Brew * Image of the Day: The "Gamma Ray Galaxy" & 8 new articles

Saturn's Enceladus Spewing Geysers of "Primordial Organic Brew * Image of the Day: The "Gamma Ray Galaxy" & 8 new articles: News Flash: Stardust Mission Fly By With Comet Tempel1 Tonight at 24,000 MPH Back in 2003, the Stardust probe collected samples of comet dust and successfully returned the sample to Earth. Since that time, not much has been heard as scientists poured over the data. Now, results are starting to emerge, though the...

The Day a Half-Million Years of Starlight Zapped Earth It came suddenly from the distant reaches of the Constellation Sagittarius, some 50,000 light years away. For a brief instant, a couple of tenths of a second, on December 27, 2004 an invisible burst of energy the equivalent of half...

Saturn's Enceladus Spewing Geysers of "Primordial Organic Brew" Last March the Cassini spacecraft tasted and sampled a surprising organic brew erupting in geyser-like fashion not from Yellowstone National Park, but from Saturn's moon Enceladus during a close flyby on 12 March. Scientists are amazed that this tiny moon...

Image of the Day: The "Gamma Ray Galaxy" If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. Human eyes can see wavelengths between...

The World's First Laser Beam -"Invented to Make War Impossible" Fast on the heels Flash Gordon, who made his first appearance to the world in a science-fiction comic strip published on January 7, 1934, the frontpage of The New York Times on July 11 blared TESLA, AT 78, BARES NEW...

2020: Are We Only 9 Years Away from an Artificial Human Brain? "It's a new brain. The mammals needed it because they had to cope with parenthood, social interactions, complex cognitive functions. It was so successful an evolution from mouse to man it expanded about a thousand fold in terms of the...

Update: Does The Earth Harbors a Huge, Natural Nuclear Reactor at its Core? Using a delicate instrument called the scintillator (above) located under a mountain in central Italy, two University of Massachusetts Amherst physicists are measuring some of the faintest and rarest particles ever detected, geo-neutrinos, with the greatest precision yet achieved. The...

Hot Tech: SHAZAM! The magical music identifier If you love music, you gotta check out Shazam, the sound-identifying app, that works on a technical level using algorithms enabling you to ID all songs. The NY Times has a cool post on the hunter-gatherers who go out collecting... Provided by The Daily Galaxy