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Cassini's closest encounterCosmic Log - Oct 10, 2008 NASA / JPL / SSI An image of the Saturnian moon Enceladus taken during Thursday's flyby shows a deep channel cutting through the surface ice. The Cassini orbiter came through its closest-ever encounter with a … Also tagged: images |
Cosmic Log - Oct 8, 2008
As if scientists weren't having enough problems due to federal budget freezes, now they're facing flak from Republican presidential candidate John McCain because of a $3 million planetarium projector. Which was never …
Also tagged: space
Cosmic Log - Oct 7, 2008
IEM This chart shows a year's worth of trading on the Iowa Electronic Market, with a steep fall in GOP fortunes (shown in red). As the political season reaches its peak, economists are seeing evidence that the …
Cosmic Log - Oct 7, 2008
Dave Einsel / Getty Images file A sculptor's rendering, part of an exhibit focusing on the 3.2-million- year-old hominid called Lucy, shows how she might have looked in life. The world’s best-known skeleton of a human …
Cosmic Log - Oct 2, 2008
The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, an annual celebration of silly (but serious) science, will be broadcast live on the Web from Harvard University at 7:30 p.m. ET tonight - just before yet another highly anticipated event …
Also tagged: daily dose
Cosmic Log - Sep 26, 2008
A federal judge in Hawaii today dismissed a lawsuit raising fears about Europe's Large Hadron Collider, on the grounds that she had no jurisdiction over the multibillion-dollar project. ...(read more)
Cosmic Log - Sep 26, 2008
NASA / JPL / SSI Click for slide show: The Cassini spacecraft looks beyond Saturn toward the icy face of Mimas, the innermost of the planet's major moons. Click on the image for other highlights from September. The …
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Cosmic Log - Sep 26, 2008
J.D. Schiffman, C.L. Schauer / Drexel Univ. Click for slide show: See a snapshot of squid suckers and other images from the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. They say a picture is worth …
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Cosmic Log - Sep 25, 2008
Every year, a few science writers are chosen for special recognition by the National Academies, which take in the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the …
Cosmic Log - Sep 25, 2008
Justin Knight Photography Nobel-winning physicist Frank Wilczek says reality at its most basic level is best described as the interplay of energy fields in "empty" space. What is the Matrix? It might be more than a …
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