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Oct 14, 2011

SPACE, Astronomy News, Oct 14, 2011


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What's in a Name? Astronomers Invite You to Submit One for Radio Telescope
ABC News (blog)
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory believes it needs a new name to reflect is new capability. Something sexier than Very Large Array is in order. Don't they remember what happened when NASA invited people to name a new module on the space station ...
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Florida and Spain launch joint agreement for small-satellite research
University of Florida
“Spain has had a successful program that has built and flown small satellites for years,” said Peggy Evanich, a former NASA programs manager who now works with UF'sastronomy department to build relationships between the university and industry leaders ...
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The Dish seeing stars over budget cuts
The Canberra Times
BY ROSSLYN BEEBY, SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTER One of Australia's best-loved science icons - the Dish radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory - will have its budget slashed by 40 per cent to meet a $15 million shortfall in CSIRO's astronomy ...
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ASU in space: 7 current missions, more in the wings
Arizona State University
With Mars and solar system exploration growing, in 2006, ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration was born through the interdisciplinary combination of the department of geological sciences with astronomy and astrophysics researchers and students ...
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Editorial: Can't wait for observatory
Plattsburgh Press Republican
Further, in July the APO became an official member of the NASA Night Sky Network, a national group of amateur astronomy clubs dedicated to "the science, technology and inspiration of astronomy" that helps deliver NASA's missions to the general public. ...
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Webb Space Telescope replica goes on display Friday in Baltimore's Inner Harbor
The Republic
AP BALTIMORE — Astronomy buffs can get a close-up look at a full-size replica of the James Webb Space Telescope in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The replica goes on display Friday outside the Maryland Science Center and remains through Oct. 26. ...
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The Bad Astronomer Talks Asteroids
Universe Today
Nancy Atkinson is Universe Today's Senior Editor. She also is the project manager for the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast, works with Astronomy Cast and is host of theNASA Lunar Science Institute podcast. Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador.
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NASA's Next-Generation Space Observatory Comes to Baltimore
MarketWatch (press release)
... recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics and Webb telescope senior project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.- Adam Riess, recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, professor of astronomy and physics at the ...
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America vs. Astronaut: The Case of the Lifted Lunar Camera
Universe Today
I love astronomy and space exploration and enjoy finding and sharing the best space images on my blog www.LightsInTheDark.com, here on Universe Today and now also on Discovery News. Follow me on Facebook and Twitter for the latest in space!
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Universe Today
The Cost of Betrayal: Apple's Destruction of Android
The Mac Observer
During his five years at Apple, he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager for science and technology, Federal Account Executive, and High Performance Computing Manager. His interests include alpine skiing, SciFi, astronomy, and Perl. ...
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The Mac Observer
Astronomers Find Elusive Planets in Decade-Old Hubble Data
Finding these hidden gems in the Hubble archive gives astronomers an ... for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., ...
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New view of Vesta mountain from NASA's ... - Astronomy Magazine
... Astronomy News » New view of Vesta mountain from NASA's Dawn mission ... A new image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a mountain three times as ...
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NASA Solicitation: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ...
STATUS REPORT Date Released: Monday, October 10, 2011. Source: Dryden Flight Research Center. NASA Solicitation: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared ...
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NASA Solicitation: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ...
NASA Solicitation: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy - SpaceRef.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-02 | The Barefoot Astronomer
RT @CRKARLA: #Astronomy Astronomers discover new way to measure Universe: ...RT @AstronomyMag: News: NASA space telescope finds fewer mid- size ...
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Foothill College Astronomy Program
Foothill Astronomy Instructor Andrew Fraknoi has a Facebook page for astronomy news called "Andrew Fraknoi (The AstroProf)": http://www. ... NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View (which offers internships for Foothill students) has ...
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NASA-backed space taxi to fly in test next summer - One News Page
SomercoResearch RT @sciencetwits: Space/Astronomy News NASA-backed space taxi to fly in test next summer (Reuters): Reuters - A seven-seat sp... ...
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European Association for Astronomy Education » NASA releases ...
category: Astronomy Education, Astronomy Internet Tools, NASA Comments Off. Source: NASA News Release. NASA has released an interactive, educational ...
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HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Astronomers Find Elusive Planets in ...
News Release Number: STScI-2011-29. Astronomers Find Elusive Planets in Decade-Old Hubble Data. Introduction · NASA ... News release from NASA: ...
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN News, Oct 14, 2011


Scientific American Features Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad '58
DePauw University
He delivered the golden anniversary address to his Class of 1958 at DePauw's Alumni Celebration on June 14, 2008, in which he expressed his concern that the United States "may be starting to lose the race" in science and technology. ...
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DePauw University
Famous for Being Fatuous: Celebs and Pols Say the Darnedest Things--Especially ...
Scientific American
We decided to take a look back at some of the biggest science goofs made by public figures in the past 10 years. Some of these were submitted by Scientific Americanreaders, who wrote in with their favorites. Others came from Sense about Science's ...
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Scientific American
New Evidence for Comet Sources of Ocean Water
Scientific American
... 2"] So maybe comets did play a major role in delivering Earth's oceans. Something to ponder next time you have a day at the beach. [The above text is a transcript of this podcast.] [Scientific American is part of the Nature Publishing Group.]
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Pluto Might Be the Largest Dwarf Planet, After All
Scientific American (blog)
(Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.) Pluto and its moons from the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Weaver (JHU/APL), A. Stern (SwRI), and the HST Pluto Companion Search Team There is little question that Eris is...
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Scientific American (blog)
USC in the News 10/13/2011
USC News
Scientific American highlighted USC research on asthma rates among people living near highways. Carbon and ultrafine particle levels are extremely high at one school near the Terminal Island Freeway, due to the quadruple whammy of nearby ports, ...
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Journey to the Exoplanets
Astrobiology Magazine (press release)
The app also features original artwork by Hugo Award-winning illustrator Ron Miller and contributions from Scientific American staff and space science experts. NASA was not directly involved in the app, but contributors to the project included Jim ...
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The more feminine you look, the more children you want. It must be science.
Scientific American (blog)
Being a rather obsessively logical person, I know why I felt angry about this paper, and I worked very hard to step back from it and approach it in a thoroughly scientific manner. It didn't work, I called in Kate. That helped a little. ...
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How Black Death Kept Its Genes But Lost Its Killing Power
Huffington Post
(Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.) The 660-year-old plague DNA was isolated from four victims, who had been exhumed from London's East Smithfield Cemetery in the 1980s by the Museum of London Archaeology. ...
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The Scientific Curmudgeon - Author James Gleick to recount the history of ...
The Stute
My two-page profile for Scientific American didn't come close to doing justice to Shannon, who died in 2001. After all, this playful polymath, whose work bridged electrical engineering, mathematics, computer science, physics and even philosophical ...
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The Periodic Table, and Why Batteries Don't Work the Way You Think
Scientific American (blog)
About the Author: Davide Castelvecchi is a freelance science writer based in Romeand a contributing editor for Scientific American magazine. Follow on Twitter @dcastelvecchi. electronegativity.
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Scientific American (blog)
Alien worlds through iPad eyes
Scientific American (blog)
So by now you're wondering if this is just a long infomercial for the Scientific American imprint at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and my own part in the project – well, I guess yes and no (did I mention I got to do audio narration too?). ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Recommended: Dwarf planet's downsizing confirmed
msnbc.com
Today, a lot of the details came out not only on Lakdawalla's blog, but also on Scientific American's Observations blog — which is interesting, because Scientific American is part of the Nature Publishing Group. (SciAm's John Matson helpfully included ...
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Climate Change and White Males: The Growing Scientific Consensus
Discovery Institute
In case you'd noticed that conservative white males disproportionately doubt global warming and wondered what's wrong with them, Scientific American explains it all to you. Citing a new study, SciAm clarifies: "Conservative white males' motivation to ...
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Discovery Institute
Climate debate reaches A&M
Texas A&M The Battalion
An article that appeared in Scientific American Magazine in early September compared the scientific validity in Spencer's and Dessler's works. Although both scientists used the same data set, their approaches in data analysis varied, ...
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Honoring bioinformatics pioneer on Ada Lovelace Day
FierceBiotech IT
Scientific American blogger Joanne Manaster has an informative post and video about Dayhoff's contributions to the field in recognition of Ada Lovelace Day, which fell on October 7 this year and honors the contributions of women in science. ...
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Getting Science Beyond the Research Community: Examples of Education and ...
Space Ref (press release)
The novelty of the idea was recognized in 1999 by Scientific American when AMANDA was named the weirdest of the seven wonders of Modern Astronomy [1]. Construction on the IceCube detector began during the 2003-2004 austral summer season. ...
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Space Ref (press release)
Is Decanting Wine Worth Doing?
Smithsonian (blog)
Andrew L. Waterhouse, a California viticulture and enology professor, explains in Scientific American that an expensive (more than $20) red wine intended for cellar aging can taste astringent or “closed” if drunk before its time, and that decanting ...
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Personality Expert Analyzes Romney vs. Perry
MarketWatch (press release)
A leading psychiatrist and neuroscientist, he is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His others books include Mood Genes, Better than Prozac and the Scientific American Library title Molecules and Mental ...
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Simulating the universe for movie fans
University of Texas at Austin News
For example, the simulation work was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and when you have an NSF grant you are under a mandate to engage in public outreach. I wrote popular articles in Scientific American and Sky and Telescope that reach ...
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University of Texas at Austin News
Pluto's rival is tinier but shinier than thought
New Scientist (blog)
Bruno Sicardy of the Paris Observatory and colleagues compared the shadow's size from two different sites in Chile, and found that Eris's diameter is 2326 kilometres, reported Scientific American's Observations blog. That's hardly different from the ...
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New Scientist (blog)
Shutterbug has a passion for insect world
News & Observer
On his blog Compound Eye ( http://blogs.scientific american.com/compound-eye ), he writes about science photography and shares his work and techniques. You can also follow him on Twitter as @Myrmecos and see more of his work at www.alexan derwild.com. ...
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News & Observer
Discover (2-year) | Indoblogger
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Data: Informative news section with short pieces on breaking science developments. Blinded byScience: A column where ... Features: Cover subjects represent a selection of topical science,technology, environmental, global and health issues that affect our life and the world around us. Recent issues include: Year in ... spectrum of science news. Designed for the general reader, Discover translates and interprets many of the same stories professionals peruse in Scientific American. ...
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Make Carbonic Colors!: Scientific American Video
... Evolution; Health; Mind & Brain; Space; Technology; More Science. NYC's Ring ... BringScience Home: Make a homemade compass .... Scientific American Magazine 23 minutes ago ...News Jul 12, 2009 | 103 ...
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Brutal Winter Predicted for U.S.: Scientific American
Energy & Sustainability · Evolution · Health · Mind & Brain · Space · Technology · More Science · All topics. Magazines. Scientific American Magazine Subscribe ...
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Science news and technology updates from Scientific American, Ganhe 500 Creditos na ativacao da conta. Agora no facebook, twitter, autosurf, myspace, ...
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Press release archive: About NPG
About NPG home > NPG press room > Press release archive. Press release archive. Scientific American Continues to Encourage Families to Bring Science Home ... public-private partnership to support science, technology, engineering and ...
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The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Honors ... - e! Science News
Get science news via ... today to Daniel Schechtman of the Technion--Israel Institute ofTechnology in Haifa. ... Read the whole article on Scientific American ...
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Scientific American Frontiers - YouTube
Take the DNA of Wired Magazine, the first word on how science and technology are changing the world. Add the giant-robot might of PBS. Result: Wired Science ...
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