Saturday, September 19, 2009

First Rocky Planet - Outside our Solar-system

CNN is carrying a great little story about the first discovery of a rocky planet in a distant solar-system. CoRoT-7b is five times the size of Earth and much closer to its star. Probably not inhabitable but a wonderful discovery none the less.

Read it here

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Seven Deadly Sins, Mapped across the USA

Yup, your right, some team of students (with a flair for having fun with statistics) mapped out the Sin rate across the US. Actualy, the related the national crime statistics with the traditional "Seven Deadly Sins" and graphed it out as a map.

Take a look its a grate fun, see where your State falls: Saintly or Devilish!

Click Here

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Refurbished Hubble!



Hay, the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope is returning some great immages. Check out this article in Scientific American.