Bella Luna!

The “solstice moon” will be visible tomorrow night. It just might be the biggest thing you’ve seen in quite some time!
There’s no better time to see it. The full Moon of June 18th is a “solstice moon”, coming only two days before the beginning of northern summer. This is significant because the sun and [...]

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With the London Olympics a mere 4 years away, Brits are preparing for the huge influx of tourism and media attention that comes along with hosting the Olympic games. One of the things that they’re doing is setting up a fleet of hydrogen hybrid fuel cell taxis to tote the imminent hoards around their fair [...]

Fractals Shown as Grown From Dense To Delicate

When it comes to unique pieces of furniture, this is about as unique as you can get.

 
After a few hiccups and false starts, downloads of Mozilla’s highly-anticipated Firefox 3 web browser are flowing smoothly. But for a period of about two hours, the demand for the open-source browser was too much for Mozilla’s servers to handle.

 
A British-led study has confirmed for the first time that an important component of early genetic material is extraterrestrial in origin.

 
A study by psychologist William Szlemko at Colorado State University in Fort Collins that recorded whether people had added seat covers, bumper stickers, special paint jobs, stereos and even plastic dashboard toys to their cars has found a link between road rage and the number of personalized items on or in their vehicle.

A strong cup of coffee in the morning can feel like a life saver. Now, one of the largest and longest studies of coffee drinking suggests that coffee may indeed boost your lifespan – providing you drink enough of the stuff, that is.

 
Yes, a lot can happen over a cup of coffee especially if your coffee table is stylish, hip and, to top it all, an expensive one. Most coffee tables are just meant to harmonize the mood and overall decor of your living room, right?
 

 
Every extra second it takes an ambulance to get to its destination can mean life or death. But how, besides driving faster, can ambulances get emergency services to people in need as efficiently as possible, every day? It’s a classic operations research question that three Cornell researchers are tackling in groundbreaking ways.