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This is a blog post about the sexy social media technology Twitter. It mentions Justin Bieber. You'll want to tweet it. At least, my editors hope you do. My job might depend on it.  The Internet and social media have altered the face of journalism. [ Čítaj celý článok ]

Fifty million to 200 million years from now, geologists expect Earth's continents to smash together into one big supercontinent, just as they've done repeatedly in our planet's distant past — and a new computer model suggests that the Arctic Ocean and Caribbe … [ Čítaj celý článok ]

Colorful videos prove that the astronauts on the International Space Station had the best seats in the house during last month's flare-up of auroral activity. NASA's Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth is offering a whole new batch of time-lapse videos from the Jan. [ Čítaj celý článok ]

Anyone who watched the recent X-Games coverage heard commentators obsess about "amplitude" — how high snowboarders such as Shaun White soar above the lip of the superpipe to perform aerial tricks. Scientists more concerned with using vibrating sensors to detect harmful che … [ Čítaj celý článok ]

What could be more marvelous than seeing microscopic wonders at super-close range? How about watching those wonders at work, through the magic of time-lapse photography? That's the kind of wow factor that Nikon Instruments was going for with their first-ever Small World in Motion … [ Čítaj celý článok ]

After a long delay due to legal snags, skydiver Felix Baumgartner is once again gearing up for a supersonic plunge from a 120,000-foot-high balloon — a publicity stunt aimed at breaking a record that has stood for 52 years. The Red Bull energy-drink company announced today  … [ Čítaj celý článok ]

Researchers have re-created the love song of a katydid from 165 million years ago, based on an analysis of fossilized wings found in northwest China. [ Čítaj celý článok ]

A customized artificial jawbone built with a 3-D printer has allowed an 83-year-old woman to continue breathing, chewing, and chatting away, a team of European scientists announced. The first-of-a-kind jaw reconstruction was accomplished with a printing technique called las … [ Čítaj celý článok ]

Commercial spaceship companies are due to get some additional breathing space, thanks to legislation that was approved by the House on Friday and seems certain to become law. The provision takes up just a few words in the reauthorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administrati … [ Čítaj celý článok ]

There's not much red in this picture of the Red Planet, produced by the high-resolution camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Browns and blues and greens and yellows and violets ... but red? Not so much. [ Čítaj celý článok ]

Corning, the company known for its innovation in glass, has just put out another mesmerizing video exploring how its interactive display technology could mate with the computers and gadgets of the tomorrow. The video envisions interactive displays that do everything from&nb … [ Čítaj celý článok ]

High-speed video cameras are allowing university researchers to document how butterflies gracefully flutter through the air. The U.S. [ Čítaj celý článok ]

Fans of Sphero, the robotic ball that you control with your smartphone, will soon be able to use the ball to navigate fields of flying space rocks as they blast them apart with an anti-matter cannon, the makers of the gadget entice on their website. The "coming soon" gaming app  … [ Čítaj celý článok ]

Within a few years, a special powder sold in little plastic baggies could turn your grass clippings into an electricity-generating solar cell, scientists reported Thursday. "That's the dream," Andreas Mershin, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-auth … [ Čítaj celý článok ]

A week after NASA released an updated version of its "Blue Marble" photo, the picture of our planet's Western Hemisphere has become such a hit that the space agency is coming out with a sequel. Today researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center unveiled the Eastern Hemi … [ Čítaj celý článok ]

Visualizing science has come a long way from the days of overhead projectors and boxes of microscope slides — and to see just how far we've come, all you need to do is take a look at this year's top entries in the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challeng … [ Čítaj celý článok ]

Some might argue that GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich blew his political chances by emphasizing big scientific ideas like the establishment of a moon colony — but what's really needed is more science, not less. That's the way Shawn Otto sees it, anyway. [ Čítaj celý článok ]

Researchers say they ran a more rigorous version of the experiment that sparked a yearlong debate over the prospects for arsenic-based bacteria — but found no trace of arsenic within the organisms' DNA. The findings, submitted to the journal Sc … [ Čítaj celý článok ]

A war-ready electromagnetic railgun took a step closer to reality this week when the U.S. [ Čítaj celý článok ]

The next three years just might be prime time for poor little Pluto, thanks to NASA's New Horizons mission — and if the leaders of that mission are successful, a brand-new Pluto postage stamp will be part of the celebration. [ Čítaj celý článok ]