Online gamers playing a game called Foldit deciphered a puzzle that stumped scientists and automated computers working on the problem for over a decade. In 3 weeks.

An amazing timelapse video created by James Drake. 600 photos were used to create this view of Earth from the International Space Station.

Here’s a collection of science links for you to check out this weekend. Good stuff that just missed the cut this week on our blog. Have a good weekend!

Life imitates Star Wars as NASA astronomers discover (for the first time) an exoplanet that orbits around two stars instead of one.

Recently discovered protofeather fossils encased in amber from the Late Cretaceous era support theories of dinosaur and avian evolution, according to researchers. Highly recommend clicking through to original article for the photo gallery.

NASA announced they are ready to move forward with the development of the Space Launch System (SLS) in a news release yesterday. SLS is “an advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle that will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyond Earth’s orbit.” The Space Launch System, or SLS, will be designed to carry the …

A recent study, published in the journal Pediatrics, on the effect of fast-paced television shows on preschool-aged children has made the rounds on the Internet over the last few days. Are you concerned?

A cool story of 13-year-old Aidan Dwyer, who harnessed his curiosity and the Fibonacci sequence to develop an award-winning solar power experiment.

Our Fall catalog is here! If you are on our mailing list, you should be receiving your copy in the mail soon, if not already. (If you aren’t getting our catalog, why not?! Request one here.) This new edition is chock full of new products too. Here are a few of the highlights: Salt Water …

Cassini sent back this amazing photo of a solar eclipse by Saturn. You need to click through to the larger image — you can even see Earth!