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Nov 25, 2011

SPACE, Astronomy News, Nov 25, 2011


Neither Weird Nor Nerdy: 'Astro-Prof' Given Rare Honor
Patch.com
He is also the co-author of a leading college textbook in astronomy, and has published a children's book for Disney called Disney's Wonderful World of Space. Educated at Harvard and University of California-Berkeley, Fraknoi edited a large resource ...
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Nuclear or Solar, Where Does the Future of Space Exploration Lie?
OilPrice.com
The major problem that NASA faces when pursuing this form of technology is that, as Dr. John M. Logsdon, a space expert at George Washington University, said “It's really only possible with plutonium-238 to do what it's intending to do,” and the United ...
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How to Spot Planet Venus in the Sky
Space.com
SPACE.com will have more to say as we draw closer to this very special celestial event. Stay tuned! Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for The New York Times and other ...
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Was there ever life on Mars? Nasa set to launch new mission
thejournal.ie
The Curiosity will be loaded with ten scientific instruments and a laser to search for evidence of conditions favourable to microbial life, according to Nasa. Chairman ofAstronomy Ireland David Moore described the Curiosity mission as “a really ...
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Cosmology's Best-Kept Secret
Scientific American (blog)
We all know that light goes at finite speed, but it's worth recalling what that means for astronomical observations: if we see a hypothetical galaxy that's one million light-years away, we are detecting light that was emitted 1 million years ago. ...
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Copy of Qur'an in space
The Muslim News
Borzu is now an editorial member of Aseman-e-Shab magazine which is a leading astronomy and space science journal in the Middle East. Borzu, who was born in Iran and has been involved in researching on space science for over 40 years, was the publisher ...
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Rivals work well together
Bryan College Station Eagle
It's part of a space race to build the most powerful telescope in the world. Inastronomy, UT and A&M have been working together ever since A&M started its program near the beginning of Robert Gates' presidency. The university conducted an external ...
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Families: Annual candy house funshop begins Thursday
Lincoln Journal Star
Planetarium astronomy shows -- "Light Years from Andromeda," 2, 3 pm Saturdays-Sundays; "Sea Monsters! A Prehistoric Adventure," 7 pm Thursdays. No shows on home football Saturdays. Admission: $5/adults, $3/ages 5-18, $10/families (includes admission ...
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NASA's New 'Blacker Than Black' Material Could ... - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: NASA engineers at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland have created a material that absorbs close to 99 percent of light across the ...
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Space and Earth Sciences News :: NASA to support IU astronomer's ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Samir Salim has a lot of space to fit into a new NASA-funded database; about 11 million galaxies of it would be a ballpark estimate based on ...
news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster12234072/
NASA to support IU astronomer ... - IU News Room - Indiana University
But the Indiana University astronomer and research scientist believes the vast archives produced by NASA space telescopes and ground-based observatories ...
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NASA launch tower goes for a ride : Space and Astronomy news ...
THE MOBILE LAUNCHER that will host NASA's Space Launch System and new Orion spacecraft was moved to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space ...
spaceinfo.com.au/2011/11/.../nasa-launch-tower-goes-for-a-ri...
New NASA missions to investigate how Mars turned hostile ...
New NASA missions to investigate how Mars turned hostile. Written by Administrator. Posted in News - Astronomy News. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) ...
www.telescopesastronomy.com/.../new-nasa-missions-to-invest...
NASA's budget: JWST saved, but not much good news | Bad ...
NASA | Congress | A few days ago, the US House and Senate compromised on a... Space News has an excellent overview of the budget, as does The Planetary ....A lot of support for astronomy comes from the National Science Foundation. ...
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NASA SPACE NEWS: NASA's Chandra Contributes to Black Hole ...
Today, astronomers are confident the Cygnus X-1 system contains a black hole,..... Get latest news on NASA Space News, International Space Station Shuttle ...
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NASA Begins Re-purposing Space ... - Space / Astronomy - About.com
Indeed, this is expected to be just the first phase in the new-look space program with a reliance on not only NASA designed and operated exploration vehicles, ...
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Time Lapse View of Earth From The International Space Station ...
You are here: Astronomy News » Earth » Time Lapse View of Earth From the ....six months on the International Space Station (ISS), the first landing since NASA...
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Voyager 2 completes switch to backup thruster set - News Astronomy
Space / Astronomy News and Articles. Blog ... 14, 2011) — NASA's Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the...
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Space and Astronomy News Headlines - Yahoo! News
News. Find breaking Space and Astronomy news, including analysis and ...NASA's space shuttle Enterprise will land next summer on the flight deck of the ...
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NASA's Hubble Confirms That Galaxies Are The ... - Space Newsfeed
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Science Centric | News | NASA's Hubble confirms that galaxies are ...
New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are expandingastronomers' understanding of the ways in which galaxies continuously recycle immense ...
www.sciencecentric.com/.../11111804-nasa-hubble-confirms-t...
Sweet Spot for Life's Chemistry Discovered : Discovery News
Astronomers home in on places ripe for formation of complex organic molecules.... you can form at the really low temperatures in interstellar space," astronomer... with NASA's Ames Research Center in California, told Discovery News. ...
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NASA's Hubble Confirms That Galaxies Are The ... - e! Science News
New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are expanding ... Get science news via ... Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 14:50 in Astronomy & Space...
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NASA's Hubble reveals galaxies recycle fuels to ... - BioScholar News
News Section | Astronomy and Space ... volumes of hydrogen gas and heavy elements, thanks to new observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ...
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NASA delays launch of Mars 'Curiosity' rover - National Space news ...
NASA has just announced that it will delay the launch of the next Mars rover, the car-sized Curiosity, ... Space News Examiner ... Cleveland Astronomy Examiner...
www.examiner.com/.../nasa-delays-launch-of-mars-curiosity-r...
NASA 2012 Budget Funds JWST Halves Commercial ... - Space News
NASA will get $17.8 billion for 2012 under a compromise budget that ... James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) astronomy flagship but provides less than half of...
www.spacenews.com/civil/111118-nasa-budget-funds.html
EU Science News :: Hubble confirms: galaxies are ultimate recyclers
(PhysOrg.com) -- New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are expanding astronomers' understanding of the ways in which galaxies continuously...
www.science-news.eu/astronomy-news/cluster99169/
Lakes Discovered Beneath Europa Ice Pack (ContributorNetwork ...
Space, Astronomy, Astronaut, NASA News from Kepea. Science, Space,Astronomy and NASA News from off the planet! Home. « NASA Delays Launch of Huge ...
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN News, Nov 25, 2011


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Scientific American (blog)
About the Author: Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz.
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Can a California Start-Up Change the Way We Think about Lightbulbs? [Video]
Scientific American (blog)
Switch CEO Tracy Bilbrough, who paid a visit earlier this month toScientific American's offices to show off his company's wares, likens the convective cooling cycle to a lava lamp. Bilbrough would not reveal what the coolant is, but he says that it is ...
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Scientific American (blog)
#SciAmBlogs Thursday – more Thanksgiving science, land-walking octopus ...
Scientific American (blog)
About the Author: Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz.
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Scientific American (blog)
news In detail
Knowledgespeak
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has signed an agreement allowing researchers across the country to access Nature andScientific American. ...
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Climatologists Trade Tips on Destroying Evidence, Evangelizing Warming
DailyTech
After all, she recalls in a Scientific American interview, "We were generally aware of these problems when we wrote the paper, but the critics argued that these issues were much more significant than we had acknowledged." Soon she began to blog for AGW ...
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Manganiello: New developments on vitamin D3
The Daily News of Newburyport
Millions of people have low levels of vitamin D. A Scientific American study showed that three quarters of American teens and adults have deficient vitamin D levels. This is a huge problem because these deficiencies don't get remedied. ...
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Animal Experimentation on Chimpanzees Must be Banned in the USA
Gather.com
According to IDA of Animals, the prestigious magazine Scientific Americancalled for a ban on this medical experimentation on animals last September. They asked, "Why it is time to end invasive biomedical research on chimpanzees. ...
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Gifts for the mad scientist in us all
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Scientific American, New Scientist, Popular Mechanics, and National Geographic are all mainstays, obviously, but Amazon has a pretty great list of similar publications you may not have heard of before that is definitely worth checking out....
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Earthquakes, fracking and Oklahoma
Columbus Dispatch (blog)
Scientific American recently published this article which says experts are also examining disposal wells, operations that inject oil and gas field wastes deep underground. In Ohio, many Youngstown residents are wondering if a recently opened disposal ...
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Columbus Dispatch (blog)
In Search Of The Warrior Politician
Seeking Alpha
In fact, in a special issue of Scientific American (“The End” September, 2010), experts predict that there is better than a 50-50 chance that a killer pandemic would occur over the lifetime of our baby girl born in October. This is far greater than the ...
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DAVID LE PAGE: Stop giving the government a free pass on nuclear power
Business Day
While nuclear costs escalate, the price of solar-generated electricity drops 7% a year in the US, and the trend, according to Scientific American, is accelerating. Of course a national switch to renewable energy will bring its own technical and ...
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Pregnant Seattle protester miscarries after being kicked, pepper sprayed
Infoshop News
The Scoville heat chart indicates that US grade pepper spray is ten times more painful than the blistering hot habanero pepper, according to Scientific American. While law enforcement officials regulary claim that the spray is safe, researchers at the ...
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Thanksgiving News Flash: Things Are ... - Scientific American Blog
As an adolescent, I was sometimes so glum that my mom called me Eeyore. I wallowed in The Waste Land, 1984, Brave New World and other ...
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US Starts National CO2 Permits, Cap and ... - Scientific American Blog
News · Features · Ask the Experts · Edit This · Extreme Tech · Fact or Fiction ...The Network Central · Scientific American Observations · Octopus Chronicles ...
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Public bathrooms house thousands of ... - Scientific American Blog
News; Features; Ask the Experts; Edit This; Extreme Tech; Fact or Fiction ... The Network Central; Scientific American Observations; Octopus Chronicles; Solar at...
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Synthetic meat for thought | Creatology, Scientific American Blog ...
News · Features · Ask the Experts · Edit This · Extreme Tech · Fact or Fiction ... The ...
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New Theory Explains What Makes a Video Go ... - Scientific American
News · Features · Ask the Experts · Edit This · Extreme Tech · Fact or Fiction ...The Network Central · Scientific American Observations · Octopus Chronicles ...
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-theory...
Phone Calls and Exercise Make Pain ... - Scientific American Blog
News · Features · Ask the Experts · Edit This · Extreme Tech · Fact or Fiction ...The Network Central · Scientific American Observations · Octopus Chronicles ...
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SfN Neuroblogging: Modeling ideas of ... - Scientific American Blog
News · Features · Ask the Experts · Edit This · Extreme Tech · Fact or Fiction ...The Network Central · Scientific American Observations · Octopus Chronicles ...
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From Patents to Poetry: A Breakdown of Scientific American's Very ...
Earlier this month, Nature Publishing Group and Scientific American proudly ...News · Features · Ask the Experts · Edit This · Extreme Tech · Fact or Fiction ...
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Latest News from Scientific American 15 November 2011: Wo...
Contact: Ruth Institution: Nature Publishing Group. Email this page to a friend. Latest News from Scientific American 15 November 2011: World changing ideas...
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In the Minds of Others: Scientific American | Science News | Scoop.it
Reading fiction can strengthen your social ties and even change your personality ...
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Funds Restored to Build the James Webb ... - Scientific American Blog
John Matson is an online news reporter for Scientific American focusing on space , physics and mathematics. Follow on Twitter @jmtsn. More ». Contact John ...
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News Land-Walking Octopus Explained [Video] - Scientific American ...
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You'll Never Watch TV Alone Again ... - Scientific American Blog
News · Features · Ask the Experts · Edit This · Extreme Tech · Fact or Fiction ...The Network Central · Scientific American Observations · Octopus Chronicles ...
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Visions: Laws of Ideal Masses - Scientific American Blog
News · Features · Ask the Experts · Edit This · Extreme Tech · Fact or Fiction ...The Network Central · Scientific American Observations · Octopus Chronicles ...
blogs.scientificamerican.com/assignment-impossible/.../visions/
Did Sex Emerge from Cannibalism? Sex, Death and Kefir, by Lynn ...
... by renowned evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, was published in the August 1994 issue of Scientific American with the title, "Sex, Death and Kefir. ...
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=sex-death-kefir...
New Clues for Improving Antibiotics for Tolerant ... - e! Science News
Tell your friends. Get science news via. Astronomy ... Read the whole article onScientific American · More from Scientific American. Related. Antibiotics as active ...
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New Museum Exhibit Invites Visitors to ... - Scientific American Blog
John Matson is an online news reporter for Scientific American focusing on space , physics and mathematics. Follow on Twitter @jmtsn. More ». Contact John ...
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Newsvine - Archaeology Research in Egypt Struggles to Restart ...
Read Article Article Source: Science News, Articles and Information | ScientificAmerican. egypt, science, archeology, egyptology, zahi-hawass, kent-weeks ...
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Another Rhino Goes Extinct and Other ... - Scientific American Blog
News · Features · Ask the Experts · Edit This · Extreme Tech · Fact or Fiction ...The Network Central · Scientific American Observations · Octopus Chronicles ...
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Audio Slide Show: Pilots Scale Alaska Glacier to Find Wreckage of ...
Medical Web Times * Bite Size Medical News for Medical Professionals in the know. Bite Size ... November 25, 2011, 9:02 am by Scientific American: Health...
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Daily Dot | Daily Reddit Digest: The one person smarter than a fifth ...
SUGGESTED STORIES. YouTube's space challenge. Scientific American, NASA, Lenovo, and others aim to spur scientific thinking with a space contest.news/ ...
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“Occupy Wall Street” Passes Near Scientific American's Office in ...
I heard on the news this morning that the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan was ... Scientific American Premium Cover ...
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What's the (dark) matter? - Tag | Scientific American Blogs
dark matter posts on Scientific American Blog Network. ... John Matson is an online news reporter for Scientific American focusing on space, physics and ...
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