Each Friday we’ll post a collection of links for you to check out over the weekend — posts from around the web that didn’t quite make the cut for the week. Not saying these aren’t cool, by any means — they’re just older or not as exciting as the links we decided to post.
Enjoy:
- There are 8.7 million species on Earth. Guess how many we have actually discovered? (io9)
- Why Scientific Progress Sometimes Goes Boink (Wired)
- Sharpest photographs yet of the tracks humans left on the Moon (io9)
- Self-directed microspider could repair blood vessels (NewScientist)
- STUNNING lunar eclipse photo (Discover Magazine)
- What happens when one black hole eats another black hole? (io9)
- Giant Mars crater hints at steamy past (NewScientist)
- What makes this strange space blob glow? (io9)
- Hubble’s Successor (Discover Magazine)
- Primordial Organic Material On Pluto? (Space.com)
And here is a recap of this week’s community posts, in case you missed them on Facebook or Twitter:
- 10 Stubborn Food Myths That Just Won’t Die, Debunked by Science (Lifehacker)
- Why Some Seconds Seem to Last Forever (Wired Science)
- 21 Scientific Research Projects Starting This Fall That Could Change The World (io9)
- Science Question from a Toddler: How ants evolve (Boing Boing)
- The Secret Lives of Metal-Detector Guys (Wired)
- Mystery Fossils Link Fungi to Ancient Mass Extinction (Wired)
- The Zero-Carbon House: It’s Just Around the Corner (Wired)
- 45 Years Ago, NASA Took the First Image of Earth from the Moon (Geekosystem)
- Video: The Astronaut’s Guide To Life In Space (NPR on Vimeo)
- NASA Scientists Discover Coldest, Darkest Stars Ever Found (Geekosystem)
- Spacesuit adjusts for gravity, or lack thereof (Boing Boing)
- Butanol Biofuel Producing Bacteria Discovered in Animal Poop (Geekosystem)
Have a great weekend!