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A Matter of Curiosity

Clara Ma -- or at least her imagination -- will begin a very long journey in 2011. She's the winner of a contest run by NASA to give a more poetic name to the Mars Science Laboratory, a 2,000-pound, $2...

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May 27, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (6)

Cap and Trade

The House Energy Committee worked late last night. There was a lot of compromise, a lot of horse trading. But in the end they voted, 33-25, in favor of a bill that would create the first federally-mandated system to curb...

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May 22, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (21)

"Missing Link" Found? No, But it's a Cool Fossil

Ida, the 47-million-year-old primate fossil found in Germany and unveiled on Tuesday, is a no-question big moment in paleontology. But we noticed that the lead search term today in Google Trends was "Missing Link found" -- and that's a reasonable...

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May 20, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (31)

Sunstruck

Take a close look at the image of the sun provided by NASA The agency says it was shot from Florida on Tuesday. The dark speck is not a sunspot, or a planet, or dirt on the lens. Click on...

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May 15, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (13)

Busy Signal

While Apple, with its iPhone, was generating a lot of buzz (and selling its billionth app), Ross Rubin of the market research firm NPD Group reports that the BlackBerry Curve actually outsold it in the first quarter of the year....

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May 4, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (11)