NMDHS Marauders

"Using its fins to walk, rather than swim, along the ocean floor in an undated picture, the pink handfish is one of nine newly named species described in a recent scientific review of the handfish family. "

"Normally a small pleasant town with a population in the low thousands, Hokitika is being transformed every March by it's annual Wilde Food Festival. This year festival was celebrating its 21st anniversary."

"Canadians are consuming more fresh fruits and vegetables and cutting calories, a report by Statistics Canada shows."

"Six would-be astronauts will this week begin a 520-day mock space voyage to simulate a mission to Mars. How will they cope with the huge psychological pressures?"

"An innovative bicycle-powered water pump, created by a student at the University of Sheffield, has proved a huge success and is now in regular production in Guatemala, transforming the lives of rural residents."

"Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak -- the real-life version of the film's eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow's computers will be controlled?"

Live ROV feed of the Deep Water Horizon oil spill

"SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket has enjoyed a successful maiden test flight after the first launch attempted was aborted. The rocket, which could one day carry astronauts, blasted-off from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 1845 GMT. "

"A containment cap on a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is now funnelling off 10,000 barrels of oil a day, BP's chief executive Tony Hayward says. "

One of the specialty areas of the RCMP is accident reconstruction. These people analyze traffic accidents to determine the cause of an accident and the causes of any injuries that people sustained. It is also their job to decide whether or not the accident was preventable.

The Physics Factbook™ is an encyclopedia of scientific essays written by high school students that can be used by anybody. It is an exercise in library research methods in which students are sent out in search of a measurement with the intent of having them find more than just a number with a unit. It is an ongoing project with no foreseeable end date or limits.

"Red Bull Stratos has enlisted the most advanced engineering and technology of our time. Advancements under development in each aspect of the mission aim toward an unprecedented achievement, and hold promise for future aerospace endeavors."

iRobot's soft, shape-shifting robot blob can roll around and change shape, and it will be able to squeeze through tiny cracks in a wall when the project is finished. Video presented at IEEE IROS 2009. Read more robot news at http://spectrum.ieee.org

"Aviation history was made when the University of Toronto's human-powered aircraft with flapping wings became the first of its kind to fly continuously. The "Snowbird" performed its record-breaking flight on August 2 at the Great Lakes Gliding Club in Tottenham, Ont., witnessed by the vice-president (Canada) of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the world-governing body for air sports and aeronautical world records."

"Writing in the journal Nature, they say that in western countries, conserving water for people through reservoirs and dams works for people, but not nature."

"A team of planet hunters led by astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington has announced the discovery of an Earth-sized planet (three times the mass of Earth) orbiting a nearby star at a distance that places it squarely in the middle of the star's "habitable zone," where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface. If confirmed, this would be the most Earth-like exoplanet yet discovered and the first strong case for a potentially habitable one."

"In 1975, a new word came into use, when a maverick mathematician made an important discovery. So what are fractals? And why are they important? "

"Optical illusions are more than just a bit of fun. Scientist Beau Lotto is finding out what tricking the brain reveals about how our minds work. Here he explains his findings. "

"Lack of aerobic fitness may impair how the heart copes with the stress of running a marathon, Larose and his colleagues said. "This is not a permanent injury that will leave any type of scar," said Larose, a professor of medicine at Laval University at Quebec City."

High-Speed Flash Photography using CHDK( Canon Hack Development kit), laser pointer and a simple analog circuit to capture milk drops splashes!