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Anyone who saw the lunar eclipse last month likely noted that it was relatively bright, with the darkened moon illuminated by ghostly red light. Now that same light is leading some scientists to questions about recent climate change data, according to ...
From JOHN BORLAND,
Wired,
3 Mar 2008
Engineers reached one of the last major construction milestones at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator today, lowering the final major piece of the facility's ATLAS particle detector more than 300 feet into the ground to be fitted ...
From JOHN BORLAND,
Wired,
29 Feb 2008
The Planetary Society offers a fascinating look at a little-known issue that some in spaceflight circles are calling the "flyby anomaly" – the apparent tendency of spacecraft swinging past Earth to speed up slightly, more than can be accounted for by ...
From JOHN BORLAND,
Wired,
29 Feb 2008
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NASA
It doesn't take much to make a massive star. Just a lot of interstellar dust and gas, and perhaps – according to a new theory published this week – a lot of little stars nearby.
As carbon-based lifeforms, on a planet rich with relatively heavy atoms, ...
From JOHN BORLAND,
Wired,
28 Feb 2008
If I was Dr. Evil, looking for a way to become fabulously wealthy, I'd pay pretty close attention to this news. Scientists are increasingly convinced that cosmic dust clouds are full of tiny diamonds, and that now they've figured out a way to spot ...
From JOHN BORLAND,
Wired,
27 Feb 2008
They were given a variety of tasks to do, including playing a simple
C major scale, improvising within that single scale, playing a tune
from memory, and improvising along with a pre-recorded jazz quartet
playing through headphones.
In both ...
From JOHN BORLAND,
Wired,
27 Feb 2008
It's not true, as I grew up thinking, that Velcro or Tang are spinoffs of the U.S. space program. But I can live with that. There are plenty of things that are.
As an easy guide to some of these highlights, NASA has released a clever around-the-house ...
From JOHN BORLAND,
Wired,
26 Feb 2008
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NASA
From NASA astronomers comes the art of the long exposure: In this case, an ultraviolet image of the relatively nearby (2.9 million light years distant) Triangulum Galaxy, also known as M33.
The image here is a mosaic, taken from 39 separate frames ...
From JOHN BORLAND,
Wired,
26 Feb 2008
Related Topics:
NASA
Geologists and astronomers tend to be the most loose and
easygoing. Women can be tough because they think I'm sexualizing
science. ... One of our female faculty saw my show, and her comment was
that I wiggle my hips too much. It's like, if you're ...
From JOHN BORLAND,
Wired,
25 Feb 2008
After a week of delays, Japan launched a new, experimental Internet satellite on Saturday that shows why Japan is still so much farther ahead than the United States in terms of bandwidth.
The "Kizuna" satellite (the name, selected through a public ...
From JOHN BORLAND,
Wired,
25 Feb 2008
