HuffPost Science: Comets, Asteroids & Saturn's Rings

March 30, 2013 Subscribe · Forward 'Comet Of The Century' Photo Revealed A NASA spacecraft scanning for the most powerful explosions in the universe has captured a photo of Comet ISON, an icy wanderer that could potentially dazzle stargazers when it swings close to the sun later this year. Continue reading... COUNTDOWN: Hottest Science Stories This Week Saturn Ring Mystery Spotlighted In New Study Ambitious Deep Space Mission May Be In Agency's Plans WATCH: Blob Attacks Magnet In Incredible Time-Lapse African 'Fairy Circle' Mystery Solved HD PHOTO: Mars In UNBELIEVABLE Clarity HD PHOTO: Mars In UNBELIEVABLE Clarity Primate Brain Study Sheds Light On Human Smarts HD PHOTO: Mars In UNBELIEVABLE Clarity WATCH: Blob Attacks Magnet In Incredible Time-Lapse WATCH: This Is What Atoms Look Like In 3D JON RONSON Strange Answers to the Psychopath Test Becoming a psychopath-spotter can turn you a bit psychopathic because it compels you to start reducing people to items on a checklist -- to their maddest edges. Continue reading... MARIO LIVIO The Fate of Life on Earth: A Cosmic Perspective Assuming that human ingenuity will be able to overcome expected perils like bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, violent volcanic "supereruptions," asteroid impacts and food shortages, there are still a few distant events on a more cosmic scale that may be inevitable. Continue reading... TIM CHARTIER Majorly Perfect Baseball There is one statistic from the 2012 season that may be difficult to improve upon in 2013: the number of perfect games pitched in the major leagues. Continue reading... JONATHAN APPEL Can You Be Just a Little 'Psychopathic?' There has been a supposed attempt in the soon to be published DSM-5 to move beyond the system of putting people into categorical boxes (e.g. psychopathic or not). Continue reading... LAURA COCOCCIA Psychopathy: A Cultural Reality? Whether or not psychopathy is a valid category of mental illness doesn't have much of a bearing on how fascinating our desire to categorize psychopaths is as a cultural tendency. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.