They've got college down to a science
Holding the spectroscope close to his eyes, Vinny Dastra II examined the thin tube of colored mystery gas sitting on the classroom table."It's definitely hydrogen," he said confidently to h...
Lancaster Online,
Sat Nov 28 21:22:02 PST 2009
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Fermi Finds Gamma-Ray Microquasar
Fermi's Large Area Telescope has detected bursts of gamma-rays in the binary system Cygnus X-3, which astronomers say are coming from a microquasar. While microquasars have strong emissions...
Universe Today,
Thu Nov 26 12:59:34 PST 2009
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Future spaceships powered by black holes and dark matter
Spaceships powered by black holes or dark matter may be the future of stellar exploration.
Daily Telegraph,
Thu Nov 26 08:04:11 PST 2009
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Books of the Year: Part II
Sarah Churchwell Goldengrove (Harper Collins, £10.99), the 12th novel by Francine Prose, is an elegiac farewell to the golden groves of childhood, a slim, sad coming-of-age tale in the grea...
The New Statesman,
Wed Nov 25 21:45:47 PST 2009
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Robert Creamer: Giving Thanks For Laughter, Wonder And The Life Of Michael McLaugh...
Sometimes at Thanksgiving it's not so obvious what goes on the "I-am-thankful-for" list. For me, this year there was no question. This year I am thankful for the life of my late son-in-law ...
The Huffington Post,
Wed Nov 25 13:25:17 PST 2009
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Splitting Time from Space--The Evidence
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Scientific American,
Tue Nov 24 05:03:11 PST 2009
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First Proton Collisions in the LHC
After the early announcement on Friday that CERN had successfully circulated the first protons around the 17 mile-long ring of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), really early news of the firs...
Discovery Channel,
Mon Nov 23 12:55:06 PST 2009
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Collapsing canonical cosmology
Alexander Franklin Mayer, the Jay Pritzker Fellow in Theoretical Physics, has come up with a theory that threatens to overturn the conventional wisdom of modern physics. One might suggest t...
SciScoop,
Mon Nov 23 05:03:23 PST 2009
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