The Best Reviews of the Year
2010 was a great year for gadgets. It’s always a great year for gadgets! Let’s re-live it a little, shall we? Check out some of the best, worst, and oddest of the year. 1. Xbox Kinect Review: It’s a Brand New Console Microsoft’s motion gaming peripheral is, if executed correctly, quite possibly the future of…
The Best Science of the Year
2010 was a great year for Science. NASA’s space plane (and the Dolly lineage) were resurrected while a secret laboratory Neturino observatory was built under the South Pole. Check out our best science stories of the year! 1. The Real Story Behind NASA’s Resurrected Space Plane Why did NASA quietly move two long-grounded X-34 space…
Why aren’t galaxies evenly distributed throughout the universe?
Monday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day was this beautiful shot of the nearest 1.5 million (or so) galaxies, as mapped by the 2-Micron All-Sky Survey, with ours shaded in blue. How did the galaxies end up clustered together like that? If you’re an astrophysicist, you might look at the above image and ask yourself how…