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The Subway Map of Science [Chart]Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 10:55AM# chart Interconnecting natural philosophy, theoretical physics and quantum mechanics, astronomy and cosmology, natural history, geology and paleontology, genetics, chemistry, microbiology, neurology, medicine, and even the closed Chemistry line, this map of the subway is a fascinating summary of human sciences. More »

Astro2010: Limitless Vistas on a Limited BudgetThursday, September 2, 2010 @ 9:50AMA look at the NRC Decadal Survey for Astronomy and Astrophysics with Survey Committee Chair Roger Blandford and Committee Member Michael Turner.

Hawking rejects divine role in Big Bang, creation of the universeThursday, September 2, 2010 @ 6:41AMAuthor of A Brief History of Time modifies stance on God, says ‘it is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going’

God did not create the universe, says HawkingThursday, September 2, 2010 @ 6:39AMLONDON, Sept 2 — God did not create the universe and the “Big Bang” was an inevitable consequence of  the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book. In The Grand Design, co-authored with US physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made  a creator of the universe ...

Hawking: God didn't create universeThursday, September 2, 2010 @ 5:19AMGod did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.

The great and the (quite) good: best books of 2009Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 4:07AMThe UK's Royal Society announces its shortlist for the best science books of 2009, but it misses out on some great reads

First mega black holes were born soon after Big BangMonday, August 30, 2010 @ 2:29AMA panel illustrating the complexity of dynamical evolution in a typical collision between two equal-mass disk galaxies. The simulation follows dark matter, stars, gas, and supermassive black holes, but only the gas component is visualised.

Dark Matter Detector Poised for Magical Mystery TourFriday, August 27, 2010 @ 2:37PMA cosmic ray detector designed to search for antimatter made its way to the Kennedy Space Center Friday in preparation for a February launch that will take it to the International Space Station on the final space shuttle flight. The detector, called the "Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer," was flown in from the CERN Labs in Switzerland.

In the tracks of Goanna, a dream takes shapeFriday, August 27, 2010 @ 12:10PMFew people try to hold a world in the palm of their hand. Shane Howard holds a world made of two worlds where the wash of two cultures flows and ebbs.