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Project Budburst

Submitted by Zinger on February 22, 2008 - 00:55. | | |

Join us in collecting important climate change data on the timing of leafing and flowering in your a

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Science on a budget

Submitted by Zinger on November 1, 2007 - 09:04. | | |

Microscopes made from bamboo bring biology into focus

Launch your own space mission

Submitted by Zinger on September 12, 2007 - 09:23. | |

An experiment can be flown into space, recovered, and provided back to young experimenters for as li

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Can you write a better NASA slogan?

Submitted by Zinger on September 7, 2007 - 14:58. | | |

NASA recently changed its slogan in an attempt to better articulate it's role for the American peopl

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Science videos

Submitted by Zinger on August 31, 2007 - 09:20. | |

ScienceHack is a video search engine for science videos.

WIKISKY

Submitted by Zinger on August 31, 2007 - 09:09. | | | | |

The main purpose of WIKISKY is to consolidate astronomical, astrophysical and other information abou

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Cables to lay foundation for deep sea observatory

Submitted by Zinger on August 23, 2007 - 09:03. | |

More than 900 kilometres of fibre-optic cable is about to become the backbone of the first real-time

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Radar reveals vast medieval Cambodian city: study

Submitted by Zinger on August 15, 2007 - 12:16. | | |

A medieval settlement surrounding Angkor, the one-time capital of the illustrious Khmer empire which

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Apollo mission archives now digitized and online

Submitted by Zinger on August 10, 2007 - 08:46. | | | | |

Johnson Space Center and Arizona State University's Space Exploration Resources are scanning and cre

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The downside of diversity

Submitted by Zinger on August 7, 2007 - 20:07. | | | | |

A Harvard professor's research suggests that diversity can 'bring out the turtle is all of us' and t

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Galaxy Zoo

Submitted by Zinger on August 4, 2007 - 20:45. | | | |

Help classify galaxies via the Internet.

The Reading Experience Database

Submitted by Zinger on July 26, 2007 - 09:35. | | | |

A database containing as much information as possible about what British people read, where and when

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The Buckminster Fuller Challenge

Submitted by Zinger on July 20, 2007 - 21:19. | | | | | |

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge seeks submissions of design science solutions within a broad range

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Carbonated drinks industry and C02 production

Submitted by Zinger on June 26, 2007 - 14:05. | | | |

Has anyone ever calculated how much C02 is released into the atmosphere via carbonated drinks? There

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Volunteers sought for 520-day Mars flight simulation

Submitted by tigerincanada on June 21, 2007 - 20:16. | | |

How good are you at staying sane? Does 520 days in a simulated Mars expedition module with five othe

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Now you too can review patents

Submitted by Zinger on June 18, 2007 - 21:49. | | | | | |

Help the US Patent Office find the information relevant to assessing the claims of pending patent ap

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Face Research

Submitted by Zinger on June 18, 2007 - 09:12. |

FaceResearch.org allows you to participate in short online psychology experiments looking at the tra

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Sound and salt (video link)

Submitted by Zinger on June 1, 2007 - 22:50. | | |

Vibrations from pure tones make salt crystals form distinct patterns. Turn your volume down before v

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Modern Students Devour Old Math

Submitted by Zinger on May 28, 2007 - 12:30. | | | | |

Modern students are turning to math tricks found in Vedic texts to speed up their calculations. See

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Automotive X-Prize

Submitted by Zinger on May 21, 2007 - 10:55. | | | | |

The X-Prize Foundation is working on developing an automotive prize "To inspire a new generation of

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Archon X Prize for Genomics

Submitted by Zinger on May 21, 2007 - 10:39. | | |

The Archon X PRIZE for Genomics challenges scientists and engineers to create better, cheaper and fa

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Cone Sutro Forest - Collaborative Observatory

Submitted by Zinger on May 16, 2007 - 22:38. | | |

CONE Sutro Forest allows players to earn points by taking live photos and classifying wild birds. CO

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Fab@Home

Submitted by Zinger on May 9, 2007 - 19:12. | | | | | | |

Awebsite dedicated to making and using fabbers - machines that can make almost anything, right on yo

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Become a NASA Clickworker

Submitted by Zinger on May 2, 2007 - 17:19. | | | | |

The HiRISE camera, one of the instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, has been sending back

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Open Medicine

Submitted by Zinger on April 19, 2007 - 12:31. | | | | | |

The new peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal.

Historian James R. Fleming urges caution about a quick technological fix to global warming

Submitted by jcarman on April 9, 2007 - 15:28. |

In the Spring issue of The Wilson Quarterly, historian James R. Fleming urges caution

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Private rocket rides into space

Submitted by tigerincanada on March 21, 2007 - 19:18. | |

Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) has lofted it's Falcon-1 rocket on t

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Visual Complexity Resource Site

Submitted by Zinger on March 10, 2007 - 17:25. | | |

intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networ

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Draw your simulation

Submitted by Zinger on February 12, 2007 - 23:40. | | | |

The white board like you've never seen it before - turn your sketches into real time design simulati

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