Tsang Cheung Shing is the ceramic artist who created this incredible pottery installation called “Ying Yeung.” The name refers to a Chinese beverage of mixed coffee and tea and also symbolizes the mandarin duck, a metaphor for marriage and love. Just amazing. Submit your photograph or artwork to the Science of Kissing Gallery and remember [...]

Speaking of NASA and the Shuttle, the last planned night launch of the Shuttle is scheduled for February 7 at 04:39 Eastern time (09:39 GMT). This will be a 13 day mission for Endeavour, which will install the Tranquility node, a connector, and a cupola to the ISS. After this, five more launches are planned, [...]

If climate-watchers found no solutions in December’s failed Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, then they might be heartened by the fact that billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates thinks there needs to be a greater focus on researching technologies that can slow global warming. ScienceInsider reports that the Microsoft founder had provided at least $4.5 million of [...]

Were you out last night to see the Moon and Mars together? It was a lovely get-together! I took some pictures, and here’s the best one: Mars is the reddish “star” to the left of the Moon. A couple of actual stars are visible as well, and the pink blob on the left is a [...]