Some questions intrigue scientists and the public. Other questions do not. This stud addresses one such question: “Can Bulgarian Yogurt Enhance Astronauts’ Performance During the Mars Missions?” Izabela Shopova, Diana Bogueva, Maria Yotova, and Svetla Danova, Journal of Ethnic Foods, vol. 10, no. 46, 2023. This image, figure 6 in the study, may help some […]
Compare and contrast, if you will, this press release from the University of Colorado: “Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction” …and the Ig Nobel Prize-winning patent by George and Charlotte Blonsky: “Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force”
A cat named Félicette gets ever-widening recognition as being the first cat intentionally (and probably otherwise, too) launched into outer space. Félicette has many admirers, and has admired research into the history of the thing, and inspired artists, too. (Thanks to Brent Freeze for bringing this to our attention.) NOTE: The saga of Félicette should […]
These are our picks for best space music videos of the past few years. In our view, they qualify as being improbable in all the best senses of that word. Both videos show performances done by musician-astronauts in spacecraft orbiting the earth. Chris Hadfield performs David Bowie‘s “Space Oddity”: Cady Coleman and Ian Anderson (of […]