Some quick sciencey links

I’ve got way too many tabs open (again), so by way of cleaning some up, I’ll share these links with my beloved readers.

The Space Shuttle Endeavour successfully touched down on Friday from its mission to the ISS. Well done, folks! Especially Canadian flight engineer Julie Payette.

Scientists have bombarded aluminum with x-ray radiation, causing it turn transparent. That’s great news — now we can build whale tanks in our spaceships’ cargo bays.

The Huffington Post’s war on medical science rages on, and Orac corresponds from the front lines.

An older article on MSNBC from February shows seven examples of observed speciation with some very pretty animal pictures. Too bad they can’t be zoomed.

The new camera on Hubble managed to take a snap of Jupiter’s new comet scar, despite not being fully tested and calibrated yet. Can’t wait to see the fully-calibrated pictures.

More links coming in a separate post — a proper blog entry on Poe’s Law hopefully later tonight, and scheduled to go up tomorrow is some Sunday Atheist reading.