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May 2, 2016

Google 'Doodle' celebrates Sally Ride, 1st American woman in space

Google has paid tribute to America's first woman in space with a series of five animated "Doodles" appearing on its website today, May 26.

May 2, 2016

Aliens will be bear-size, according to math

With thousands of planets outside Earth's solar system, there's a pretty good chance that some of them have the conditions needed for life.

May 2, 2016

Baby spiders fall from the sky, cover the ground with 'angel hair' in Australia

Those who suffer from arachnophobia beware. Last week, people in the city of Albury in New South Wales, Australia encountered an eerie sight — silky webs coated the land, teeming with millions of small baby spiders. The spiders parachuted down from the sky, a process known as “ballooning,” reports CNET.

May 2, 2016

Where is the safest place to sit on a train?

Tuesday's deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia, which killed at eight people and injured more than 200 others, may have people wondering, where is the safest place to sit on a train? Conventional wisdom holds that the front car of a train is the most dangerous place in the event of a head-on collision, while the last car is less safe if the train is rear-ended.

May 2, 2016

Art and technology battle autism through MSSNG project

 On May 6, the typical stylish New York City gallery crowd mingled and gawked at art lining the walls of the Betaworks studio gallery in the city’s Meatpacking District for The MSSNG Lab, an invitation and one-night-only art installation and auction. What separated this from similar art events in the city? Well, for one thing, biochemist and fine art photographer Linden Gledhill was stationed center stage on a platform staring down a microscope as a screen projection on the wall showed in real-time the microscopic images he was analyzing.

May 2, 2016

Samsung Solve for Tomorrow winners head to Washington, D.C.

High school freshman Bela Reyes-Klein said she was overwhelmed with pride when she found out that she and her fellow teenage engineers from Galena High School in Reno, Nev., were one of five groups to win the national Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest. The competition, designed to encourage students and teachers throughout the country to use STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) projects to solve problems facing their communities, announced the five winning schools in April. On April 29, students and teachers from the winning schools – which won a combined $2 million — will attend an awards luncheon in Washington, D.C.

May 2, 2016

For Earth Day, Levi Strauss & Co. wants consumers to pledge to wash less

Did you know that about 3,800 liters of water are used over the course of the lifetime of a pair of jeans? What about this statistic – consumer care, like washing, contributes 37 percent of the roughly 74 pounds of carbon dioxide emitted during a pair of jeans’ use. The figures come from a recent Levi Strauss & Co. study on the impact that jeans have on the environment, an update on a similar 2007 report from the company. The goal was to shed light on the fairly large-scale impact that wearing a pair of jeans – something most people just take for granted – can have.

May 2, 2016

Super species: Animals with extreme powers invade museum 

The astonishing tardigrade — a microscopic animal that looks like a cross between a bear and a cushy pillow — can survive for 10 years without water, endure boiling temperatures and withstand the radiation, weightlessness and iciness of space

May 2, 2016

Genomics guru dives deep into DNA data

Eric Schadt, director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai in New York was thrust into the tech spotlight last month after launching an Asthma Health app with Apple.

May 2, 2016

Medieval parasite-filled poop found in Jerusalem latrine

The excavation of a roughly 500-year-old latrine in Jerusalem has uncovered thousands of eggs from human parasites, including some that may have come from Northern Europe, a new study finds