Apollo 11 and giant leaps for mankind get all the love now but the missions leading up to it brought their own excitement - and a mystery. In May 1969, two months before man walked on the Moon, Commander Thomas Stafford, Command Module Pilot John Young and Lunar Module Pilot Eugene Cernan made a 'dummy' run and successfully returned from the Moon and landed their Apollo 10 command...
read moreA team at BAE System in Sweden has developed new technology called Adaptiv which is basically an ‘invisibility cloak’ they claim can make modern war tanks look like part of the landscape. Even cows. Adaptiv has scanners that read objects on the landscape and reproduce them using patterns of hot and cold on panels on [...]
read moreNational Geographic, which nows runs Scienceblogs.com, has put the hammer down on anonymous blogs.Really, that whole thing was always a little sketchy. Supposedly the rationale was that these people were going to be edgy insiders revealing things too explosive for mainstream media and maybe damaging to their careers but it mostly ended up being a way to rant about politics without...
read moreFive years into the Science 2.0 experiment I can tell you down to the eyeball how many people are involved in the communication pillar of it - but in the collaboration realm, it's not so easy.Science 2.0 fave Heather A. Piwowar from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Pitt recently gave it a shot, and the answer was...it's unknown.read...
read moreOver time, a variety of people have asked me where they should get the word out that they are writing on Science 2.0 and I am happy to tell them - but they are surprised by the answer. Social media darlings like Twitter and Facebook will accomplish very little beyond being another place to follow comments. Old technology is what matters in getting eyeballs to read your work, and that...
read moreYou may not know this, but Twitter is actually not that great. The website itself is clunky. Add-ons are what made it successful. Sometimes Twitter has acquired them, like with TweetDeck, and sometimes they have created their own once the market has shown them to be popular.The photo sharing website TwitPic started in 2008 as a way to share photos easily on Twitter. Life was...
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