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Tech Billionaire Sets Sights on Big Science with Biggest Prize 14 Aug 2012 | 06:30 am
Yuri Milner is a Russian technology billionaire who was an early investor in start-ups like Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, Zynga and Spotify. He is a big fan of big science and was even pursuing a PhD in...
SDF: Life on Mars? 11 Aug 2012 | 04:27 am
Editor’s Note: It’s Science Ditty Friday. Every Friday REALscience compiles a song (generally with an accompanying video) to kick your weekend off with a musical start. Have a favorite science song? S...
Butterfly Wrangling Behind Bars 9 Aug 2012 | 02:33 am
The state penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington is not the most hospitable place. It’s filled with criminals, many of whom will spend the rest of their lives behind the prison walls unable to be fre...
Science of…The Olympics – Oscar Pistorius’s Rise as the Blade Runner 8 Aug 2012 | 06:57 am
Science of…The Summer Olympics is a 10-part series created by the National Science Foundation, NBC Learn and the 2012 London Games. REALscience will examine the engineering of sports during the three-...
Curiosity Lands Safely on Mars 7 Aug 2012 | 02:09 am
NASA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory worked late on Sunday, helping to safely land a $2.5 billion roving science lab on Mars. Their hard work paid off with a flawless landing and tears, hug...
SDF: Scifoo Serendipity 4 Aug 2012 | 03:24 am
Editor’s Note: It’s Science Ditty Friday. Every Friday REALscience compiles a song (generally with an accompanying video) to kick your weekend off with a musical start. Have a favorite science song? S...
Bird Flu Strain Takes Hold in Seal Population 3 Aug 2012 | 02:45 am
After 162 dead harbor seals washed up along the shores of New England last year, scientists took note. At first they thought it was a big pneumonia outbreak among seals but upon closer microbiological...
Richard Muller Reverses His Own Climate Skepticism 2 Aug 2012 | 03:05 am
Richard Muller is a physicist and head of the Berkley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project, a privately funded set of studies that examine the scientific literature about global warming. He has be...
Human Activity is Melting Arctic Sea Ice Faster than Nature 1 Aug 2012 | 02:22 am
One of the big areas of uncertainty in climate science is natural variability. The Earth’s climate is a complex system and one that allows for natural and cyclical shifts from warmer to cooler and bac...
Ebola Virus Spreads across Uganda 31 Jul 2012 | 03:32 am
They’re the words no one in infectious disease wants to hear. Ebola virus spreads. But that appears to be what’s happening in Uganda after a month of uncertainty. When a deadly virus in Uganda killed ...
