HuffPost Science: Alien Planets; King's Blood; Dino Meat

January 3, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Alien Planet 'Count' Yields Big Number Our Milky Way galaxy is home to at least 100 billion alien planets, and possibly many more, a new study suggests. Continue reading... Beheaded King's Blood Found In Centuries-Old Container 'Other' Rover Mission Marks Major Milestone What Kind Of Dinosaur Meat Tasted Best? Neil Armstrong Lied? Astronaut's Brother Says 'Small Step' Line Was Crafted Before Moon Mission (VIDEO) Newborn Star Study Reveals Never-Before-Seen Stage Of Planet Birth Solar Eruption On New Year's Eve Seen By Sun-Gazing NASA Satellite (VIDEO) Neil Armstrong Lied? Astronaut's Brother Says 'Small Step' Line Was Crafted Before Moon Mission (VIDEO) Newborn Star Study Reveals Never-Before-Seen Stage Of Planet Birth Neil Armstrong Lied? Astronaut's Brother Says 'Small Step' Line Was Crafted Before Moon Mission (VIDEO) Newborn Star Study Reveals Never-Before-Seen Stage Of Planet Birth Fructose Linked To Overeating, Obesity In New Brain Imaging Study SUZAN MAZUR Evolution Scientist Carl Woese Dies: 'The Most Important Evolution Scientist of the 20th Century' It was Carl Woese who first identified the Archaea and introduced us to horizontal gene transfer. I asked Carl Woese during my recent interview with him -- perhaps the last feature interview he gave -- how he defined life. Continue reading... DAVE PRUETT Science's Sacred Cows (Part 1) Over the long arc of history, science has initially embraced -- then discarded -- most of the following tacit assumptions: dualism, determinism, reductionism, absolute time, absolute space, the principle of locality, materialism and, most recently, realism. Continue reading... COLM MULCAHY A Pound of Quarters vs. a Pound of Dimes: Which Is Heavier, and Which Is Worth More? The first question seems unambiguous and straightforward, right? Bear in mind, however, the difficulty one experiences in real life when trying to purchase exactly one pound of bananas or peaches. Presumably the second can be settled if we can get our hands on the relevant figures. Continue reading... DAVID ROCK 5 Big Discoveries About Leadership in 2012 According to the American Society for Training and Development, in 2011, U.S. firms spent about $156 billion on corporate training. Against this backdrop, what have we learned in 2012 that might help us improve the quality of leadership? Here are five of the bigger findings. Continue reading... ZOE P. STRASSFIELD Touching the Sky Guy Laliberte, a Canadian former acrobat and fire-eater who had founded Cirque du Soleil in the 1980s, was announced as the next space tourist to visit the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here Unsubscribe here.