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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:12:29 -0800
I love science. OK, duh, but I really do. And when I go on vacation, I can’t help but see science everywhere, and in every case it makes the trip more fun for me. Seeing local geology, biology, how the stars might look different at a different latitude… it adds to the vacations, makes it better. That’s why my wife and I started a company called Science Getaways . We figured there are lots of ...
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:06:42 -0800
Two West Virginians are among 26 educators selected to join leading scientists aboard a National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronomy mission.
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:59:28 -0800
Mechanics of dad dancing revealed at Science Festival
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Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:09:26 -0800
You're never too old, or too young, to shoot for the stars. That's the thrust of the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute, a not-for-profit public foundation nestled in the Pisgah National Forest of Western North Carolina.
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:30:38 -0800
What happens to the spin of rapidly rotating neutron stars called millisecond pulsars when reaching the end of their mass-accretion phase?
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Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:00:00 -0800
“Aha” moments are rare in science. So it was especially unusual when San Diego State University astronomers made back-to-back discoveries recently that have helped define a new class of planets.
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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:57:28 -0800
Cerro Paranal, in the high, dry, Atacama desert in Chile, is where some of the best astronomy in the world is done. It’s graced with incredibly dark and steady skies, and a view of the southern hemisphere skies that, frankly, makes me jealous. So it’s hard to argue with the title of this short time lapse video, An Astronomer’s Paradise : This was taken by photographer Babak Tafreshi , who ...
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:10:30 -0800
Winners are the astronomers behind La Silla’s world-leading HARPS instrument World-renowned Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the Geneva Observatory have been awarded the 2011 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences for their work on exoplanets. The foundation recognized their groundbreaking efforts in developing “new astronomical instruments and ...
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:38:46 -0800
While most girls their age are fixated on movie stars, a group of students in Cork have their eyes on a whole other type of celestial bodies.
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Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:20:00 -0800
“Aha” moments are rare in science. So it was especially unusual when San Diego State University astronomers made back-to-back discoveries recently that have helped define a new class of planets.
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