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Not so, says self-described scientist Rhawn Joseph, an author of trade books on topics ranging from alien life to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. (Sample article: “Dreams and Hallucinations: Lifting the Veil to Multiple Perceptual Realities.”) The rock was a living thing, and he’s filed a lawsuit to compel NASA to examine the rock more closely. Joseph is involved with the Journal of Cosmology, online publisher of some very controversial papers....

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Woods toiled away at the intersection of science fiction and architecture, favoring big-concept paper projects over the quotidian limitations of brick and mortar. He proposed a traveling space station to memorialize Albert Einstein, a dark underworld beneath the streets of Manhattan (see top image), and a new San Francisco waterfront sculptured in the aftermath of an earthquake. For Woods, architecture was a way of reconsidering our basic assumptions about the built environment....

Most of the times though, the difference between good, flattering light, and finding your subjects’ face covered in dense, inescapable shadows, is not that clear. But with a little practice, you’ll definitely know how to identify good light, where to find it, and how to make the most of it. Learn to tell hard light from soft light There are two kinds of light sources in photography: hard and soft....

Still, even as the issues have changed, the general message of saving the planet has remained largely the same. The first generation of participants targeted air and water pollution and hazardous waste—which are still a challenge today—but modern activists are also staring down problems such as climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and the fact that plastic seems to be everywhere. It’s in Earth Day’s approach where environmental leaders have seen the most development....

Driving through the center of Waidhofen an der Ybbs in Lower Austria feels like taking a trip back in time. My GPS insisted I drive down a narrow and increasingly steep road at which end the Cooperage Schneckenleitner supposedly was located. Still unsure and rather alarmed by the ever-narrowing road right next to the river, suddenly I was confronted by a scene right out of a medieval play. Partly situated under the arcs of a tall stone bridge was, indeed, a cooperage....

About 85 percent of preventable battlefield deaths are from internal wounds that need surgery or other in-hospital treatment. There’s often just not enough time to transport a soldier from a firefight to a place where they can get the right medical attention. But during testing on pigs, DARPA says the foam increased the chances of survival after three hours from 8 percent to 72 percent, and surgeons removing the foam could do it in less than one minute....

Is life just incredibly resilient, or is something else going on? Could mass extinctions actually help life diversify and succeed—and if so, how? Given that we’re currently facing another extinction event, there’s extra urgency in trying to work out how mass extinctions affect diversity. Mass extinction is probably the most striking pattern in the fossil record. Vast numbers of species—even entire families—disappear rapidly, simultaneously, around the world. Extinction on this scale usually requires some kind of global environmental catastrophe, so severe and so rapid that species can’t evolve, and instead disappear....

How do these riders—and their bikes—survive such brutal impacts? A lot of it has to do with the skill of the pilots and their ability to land smoothly after jumping a canyon. But, the bikes still take a beating; it requires a lot of engineering and rugged materials to withstand that kind of punishment. You can, however, walk into a high-end bike shop and almost all the components—except for the total lack of fear—right now....

InSight touched down safely on the surface of Mars in late November, and promptly unfurled its two wing-like solar panels. Now that the lander—which doesn’t have any wheels to roll around—has powered up, it’s checking out its surroundings with the help of a camera mounted on the “elbow” of a six-foot-long robotic arm, seen hanging down from the top of the frame. Once the arm has mapped nearby areas it will start to set up shop, placing two instruments onto the ruddy soil....

In the study, the researchers modified the genes of more than a dozen mice so that they over-expressed three different genes known to play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s. The researchers collected their urine, which contains chemical variations that help doctors detect other disorders, and placed it in front of “sensor” mice with a strong sense of smell. They were interested to see if the sensor mice could tell the difference between the mice with Alzheimer’s mutations and those without....

Amputating a man’s arm is a gut-wrenching and shocking act. Regardless of the clinical justification and no matter the years of practice, severing a limb from a body requires stubborn resolve and intense personal subordination. Perhaps some surgeons grow callous to cutting off a limb—I never have. I am a surgical intern at Pennsylvania State University and all I want is a couple hours sleep. I figure, if I can lie down now, I’ll instantly fall asleep, and will get enough shut-eye before 4:00 a....

Pediatric researchers from Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine asked 28 first-time mothers to view photographs of smiling, crying, and neutral-expression infants while lying motionless in a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner. The technique measures increases of oxygenated blood in the brain, a sign of heightened neural activity. When the mothers reached the photo of their own happy child, brain regions associated with reward “lit up.” “These are areas that have been activated in other experiments associated with drug addiction,” said Lane Strathearn, the lead on the study....

The good news is that there are numerous apps and services that will take good care of your images, and if you decide to move them, it is possible to make the switch without too much of a hassle. If you think Instagram and Snapchat are already doing a pretty good job for you, keep in mind these are great for quick and fast mobile sharing, but they are not designed for managing several years’ worth of accumulated images in bulk....

These natural dog treats are a perfect choice for training your pup in the field. At three calories each, they won’t stuff your dog but will provide plenty of positive reinforcement. Chicken, duck, salmon or other real food is the first ingredient, and they don’t include corn, wheat, soy artificial colors or flavors. They’re also made in the U.S.A. Yes, pointing dogs are instinctually inclined to point. But making sure your dog consistently points to a bird every time will not come without work....

On New Year’s Day three years ago, a small spacecraft zoomed by a chunk of ice billions of miles away, and scientists on Earth cheered. That was the second time the New Horizons probe got up close and personal with an object in the far-away Kuiper Belt—after capturing images of Pluto, its first target, in unprecedented detail. Now, New Horizons has a third chance to revolutionize how astronomers see the distant parts of our solar system....

Why do we have the leap day? It all comes down to our rotation around the sun, a journey that takes approximately 365 and a quarter days. As Neil deGrasse Tyson explained on Twitter and in a new video today (above), normally, “We just ignore that quarter day. We sweep it under the rug. For three years.” Then, every four years, we add on an extra day. But then it gets weird....

“Overall, it wasn’t very dramatic,” said LHC spokesman James Gillies, “One person’s account was compromised. It was detected rather rapidly and dealt with, and it was nowhere near the sensitive machines running the LHC.” The hackers, who called themselves the “Greek Security Team”, attacked a website related to the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment. The website, which Gillies would neither confirm nor deny to be password-protected, relayed data from the experiment and was not designed for public view....

FIPEL technology is by no means brand new, but turning it into a viable light source has taken some time. The Wake Forest team used a multi-layer white-emitting blend of polymers imbued with a small amount of nanomaterials that glow when stimulated with an electric charge. This nano-engineered polymer matrix is essentially a whole new type of light bulb, different from both the filament-filled Edison bulb and mercury-exciting fluorescent, as well as the LEDs and compact fluorescents (CFLs) that have been slowly replacing some traditional light sources in recent years....