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January 2013
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Gaia Telescope Will Map the Milky Way The European Space Agency project will change how astronomers view our galaxy   |
Wired
December 2002
Gregg Easterbrook |
The New Convergence After centuries of battle, scientists and theologians are finally forging a grand unified theory. As the era of biotechnology dawns, scientists realize they're stepping into territory best navigated with the aid of philosophers and theologians. |
Geotimes
September 2007 |
Geomedia On the Web: Stellarium... Galaxy Zoo... |
Reactive Reports
Issue 60
David Bradley |
Large-Scale Chemistry Reveals Galactic Origins A chemical survey of inter-galactic systems is shedding star light on our Galaxy's ancestry and revealing it to be very different from that of our neighbors. |
Geotimes
October 2007 |
Galaxies Collide Four galaxies are slamming into each other to form a single massive galaxy 10 times larger than the Milky Way. |
Chemistry World
December 2009
Jon Cartright |
Reading between the lines Since its emergence in the mid 19th century, spectroscopy has become the most important tool in astronomy, and in recent years there has been no end to its new discoveries. |
Geotimes
October 2007 |
Hubble Sees Evolving Galaxies Researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute recently compiled more than 500 images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to reveal a tapestry-style image of at least 50,000 galaxies in a small stretch of sky near the Big Dipper. |
Scientific American
February 7, 2005
Govert Schilling |
String Revival Are cosmic strings behind unusual lensing effects? |
Scientific American
August 2005
W. Wayt Gibbs |
Cosmic CAT Scan A low-tech radio telescope under construction in western China will use thousands of consumer television antennas and hundreds of cheap personal computers to slice through the fog that shrouded the infant universe. |
Scientific American
November 2008
David Appell |
Planck Satellite Mission Set to Explore Cosmic Secrets Planck mission promises to pierce inflation and other cosmic secrets |
Chemistry World
July 23, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Telescope detects ionised carbon in early galaxies An international team of radio astronomers has detected the first faint trace of ionized carbon in the early universe. |
Scientific American
July 2005
George Musser |
Flaw of Averages Is ordinary matter causing the cosmos to accelerate? |
Popular Mechanics
December 10, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
What NASA's WISE Space Mapper Will Look for in the Sky Hunting for brown dwarf stars, crashing galaxies, and asteroids. |
Science News
April 6, 2002 |
TimeLine: April 2, 1932 Teletypewriters can now be used in home... Einstein and de Sitter return to Euclidean idea of cosmos... Cannot know universe's shape without more observations... Entire universe still young, little older than earth itself... New long-time clock is rotation of Milky Way... etc. |
Scientific American
January 2009
Charles Q. Choi |
Does Dark Matter Encircle Earth? Dark matter might exert measurable effects on the earth, moon and gas giants |
Popular Mechanics
June 25, 2009
Lisa Merolla |
High-Tech Telescopes Yield New Galactic Photos: Gallery Space photos from advanced telescopes provide new views of the cosmos. |
Scientific American
May 2009
Michelle Press |
Scientific American Reviews: Manhattan, Circa 1609 Excerpt from Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City by Eric w. Sanderson... Einstein's Telescope by Evalyn Gates... Mothers and Others by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy... |
Wired
December 2002
Kevin Kelly |
God Is the Machine Digital physics suggests that those strange and insubstantial quantum wavicles, along with everything else in the universe, are themselves made of nothing but 1s and 0s. The physical world itself is digital. |
Searcher
September 2011
David Mattison |
Searching for the Stars: Cosmic Views and Databases While amateur astronomers continue to play an important role in the field and are supported by numerous clubs, associations, and their peers, I have primarily examined resources originating from government and academic research environments. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Amber Dance |
The Night Sky In his free time, biologist Fred Eiserling photographed faraway galaxies and nebulae measuring light-years across -- a hobby he continues to pursue today. |
Wired
February 2007
Hodgman et al. |
What We Don't Know How did life begin? What's the universe made of? Why do we sleep? 42 of the biggest questions in science... Six mysteries of the universe solved... Smart answers to silly questions... |
Science News
September 2, 2006 |
Timeline: From the August 29, 1936, issue Modern science helps to combat forest fire menace... Milky Way still in infancy judging by mass radiated... New kind of atom destruction found in Pike's Peak tests... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2005
Ben Ames |
General Dynamics to build antennas for ALMA radio telescope Defense contractors are helping build the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) telescope that will allow astronomers from around the world see galaxies out to the edge of the universe, and stars and planets in their formative stages. |
Popular Mechanics
March 22, 2010
Cassie Rodenberg |
The Best in Armchair Astronomy Some online sites post images from powerful telescopes around the world; others let viewers take control of the scopes. |
Scientific American
February 2009
Graham P. Collins |
Limits on Human Comprehension May Explain Exceptions to the Rules of Physics The mathematical theory of knowledge-limits claims the universe lies beyond the grasp of any intellect |
D-Lib
March 2004
Bonnie Wilson |
D-Lib Featured Collection March 2004: Cosmic Evolution The Cosmic Evolution site uses text, images and movies to trace the evolution of the Universe from its origin through seven epochs (Particulate, Galactic, Stellar, Planetary, Chemical, Biological, and Cultural) as well as an eighth, Future Epoch, that includes Chaisson's ideas on the future prospects for human life and for alien life elsewhere in the Universe |
Scientific American
February 2009 |
Readers Respond on "The Search for Intelligence" Inscrutable intelligence... Bangs, bounces, and black holes... Prize probabilities... |
Science News
May 23, 2009 |
Book Review: The Day We Found The Universe By Marcia Bartusiak In this history of early 20th century astronomy, Bartusiak describes the period marking the discovery of the universe's existence. |
Science News
July 18, 2009
Paul Fendley |
Five Problems In Physics Without The Definite Article Most physicists don't consider a phenomenon to be understood until there are both repeatable experiments displaying it and a quantitative theoretical description. |
| AskMen.com |
It's Turtles All The Way Down The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang -- a success that kick-started a multi-billion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began. |
Wired
June 23, 2008
Michael D. Lemonick |
Watching the Skies: Space Is Really Big -- But Not Too Big to Map The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will be the first telescope to take images of the entire. |
Fast Company
May 2008
Theunis Bates |
Primer: The Big-Bang Machine The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will power up later this summer and start smashing particles together to try to understand the beginnings of the universe. |
Reason
April 2002
Gregory Benford |
Leaping the Abyss Stephen Hawking on black holes, unified field theory, and Marilyn Monroe... |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Erin McCarthy |
NASA's Hubble Is Ready for Its 3D Closeup (With Video!) During the past 20 years, the Hubble Space Telescope revealed the age of the universe (about 14 billion years), shed light on dark energy and captured galaxies in all stages of evolution. |
Scientific American
March 2009
John Rennie |
In Our Expanding Universe, Earth Is Nothing Special We're an ordinary species on an ordinary planet. Or are we? |
Science News
December 23, 2000 |
TimeLine: December 20, 1930 70 Years Ago in Science News: Arachne Provides Lovelier Festoons For Christmas Tree... Astronomers Find Pluto as Massive as Earth... dr. Hubble Finds Galaxies Evenly Scattered in Space... |
Wired
November 2003 |
View What will replace today's batteries?... Stamping Out Short People... DirecTV Takes No Prisoners... Cosmic Reality Check... The New Road to the White House |
Scientific American
July 2008 |
Readers Respond: "When Markets Beat the Polls" Schizophrenia -- Markets vs. Polls -- Expanding Universe |
Science News
May 10, 1930 |
TimeLine: May 10, 1930 70 Years Ago in Science News: Cannon-Ball Tree... New Picture of Universe Painted... Chemical Action in Brain Studied... |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
Top 10: Overlooked Doomsday Scenarios With the help of a little interpretative science the universe offers the imagination a host of lesser-known, but equally disastrous doomsday scenarios. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
World's Biggest Science Project Aims to Unlock 'God Particle' The energy released by the Large Hadron Collider could at last nail down that holy grail of contemporary physics, the Higgs boson, and may even finally unveil the secret of dark matter. |
Salon.com
January 26, 2001
Michael Scott Moore |
"The Hole in the Universe" by K.C. Cole An engaging new book explores the riddles of space, from string theory to the possibility that the universe is a holographic projection... |
Macworld
March 2003
Sean Wagstaff |
Universe 5.0 Venerable 3-D animation software adds match moving, multiprocessor support to its galaxy of features |
Science News
April 1, 2006 |
From the March 28, 1936, issue Thaw-saturated earth forced Eastern rivers to overflow... Gigantic stellar explosion great event of astronomy... Three new planetary nebulae discovered in Milky Way... |
Chemistry World
February 6, 2014
Colin John Humphreys |
Science, religion and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence This book by David Wilkinson would be ideal for anyone interested in the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere else in the universe. I will be buying it for someone myself. |
