Chris Buescher

SpaceX's Falcon 9 headed for ISS

On Tuesday, May 22, at 3:44 a.m. EDT (0744 GMT) SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This third flight of the independently designed and operated rocket system carries along with it the...

How to make a black hole

Black holes are, well, odd. They are the place where common sense goes to die. Physics takes such a beating when it comes to black holes that when it comes to the central point of a black hole...

The Mantidflies, family Mantispidea

For those who are afraid of insects, the first image of the slideshow will probably haunt your dreams for years to come. For the rest who are unfamiliar with this unusual insect, your first reaction may be to stare...

The Green-Banded Broodsac - Leucochloridium paradoxum

The Green-Banded Broodsac is name that is equally horrifying and mysterious. The fact that they were given the descriptive title of 'green-banded' suggests that we live in a world so full of organisms befitting the...

The song of Archobollus musicus

Within a sparsely populated coniferous forest, night is quickly approaching. As twilight pushes on and the sun slowly disappears from the horizon, the nocturnal singers of the forest begin to awaken. Joining the choir of amphibians and other...

Envisat captures image of a phytoplankton bloom

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Envisat satellite captured a stunningly gorgeous image of a phytoplankton bloom in the southern hemisphere. This compressed version of the image is beautiful enough on its own, but is nothing compared to...

Discovery of the chib(3p) particle

The Large Hadron Collide (LHC) has proved its value once again. This time by confirming the existence of an up till now hypothetical particle. Known as the Chib(3p) particle, it is a boson, the same class of...

Carl Sagan

I would like to talk a bit about a personal hero of mine. For most of my life, I have not found another with a mind that worked even remotely similar to my own. I have lived, for far to...

CERN announces possible evidence for the Higgs Boson

The European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced Dec. 13 that two competing teams have possibly detected the hypothetical Higgs Boson, the last of the elementary particles predicted by the Standard Model remaining to be uncovered. The possible new discovery...

How the firefly glows

Biolumination, the creation of light by living things, is an evolutionary strategy that has formed multiple times for different reasons. But in the case of the fireflies, or lightning bugs if you prefer (despite them not being members of the...

SpaceX's Falcon 9 headed for ISS

How to make a black hole

The Mantidflies, family Mantispidea

The Green-Banded Broodsac - Leucochloridium paradoxum

The song of Archobollus musicus

Envisat captures image of a phytoplankton bloom

Discovery of the chib(3p) particle

Carl Sagan

CERN announces possible evidence for the Higgs Boson

How the firefly glows

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