The Drinking Bird

Recently, the Cassini space probe which has been cruising through the Saturn system made a close pass at the planet's moon Mimas. The probe was able to take a remarkable image showing the moon's most prominent feature: a crater 130 km across. This is… more »

The Spirit rover seems as though it will remain stuck, but still able to do good science. more »

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned images of Apollo mission artifacts from the moon. more »

Open letter to Oprah trying to get her to see reason and ditch Jenny McCarthy. more »

...or at least seriously maimed by allowing them to catch Polio or Measles. She's been at this for a while, but today Time has an article online where they quote a couple of her gems that are worse than usual: I do believe sadly it's going to take some… more »