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NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #5049 Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 8:37PMNASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #5049
Sex, Death and Sacrifice in the Mochica Religion at the Musee du Quay Branly Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 8:05PMWrinkle Face in a fish boat, part of "Sexe Mort et Sacrifice" (Sex, Death and Sacrifice) exhibition are seen Monday, March 8, 2010 in Paris.
World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 4:18PMIn a manner somewhat like the formation of an alliance to defeat Darth Vader's Death Star, more than a decade ago astronomers formed the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope consortium to understand Nature's Death Ray Gun (a.k.a. blazars). And contrary to its at-death's-door sounding name, the GASP has proved crucial to unraveling the secrets of how [...]
A true centre for rational thought would be a fantastic idea Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 2:17PMothers also read... Re: (‘Following faith or ‘teaching children lies?’ March 5): As a conservative evangelical Christian, I am grateful KTW reporter Melissa Lampman wrote this article.
Area researcher looks to decode the universe Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 4:56AMDecoding the universe keeps Charles Sven of Antioch occupied.
Extreme physics at the ends of the earth Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 4:55AMAnil Ananthaswamy visits some of the bleakest locations on Earth to explore the most tantalising mysteries of the cosmos in The Edge of Physics
Einstein's Gravity Confirmed on a Cosmic Scale Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 1:05AMWe may finally have proof that general relativity applies to cosmic bodies great and small—and that dark matter and dark energy are real.
How to Train Your Dragon Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 1:54PMReviewed by Owen Gleiberman | A-
News Search: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 10:28AMRealVNC, the Cambridge company which allows you to sit at a computer here and control another on the other side of the world, has appointed Tom Blackie to head the mobile business unit.
New Kapolei courthouse opens this month to serve 'second city' Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 6:03AMThe new Kapolei Court Complex on the Hawaiian island of Oahu will open this month after two decades of planning and some controversy.
Hubble constant and dark energy measure universe Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 11:51PMA paper in the March edition of The Astrophysics Journal said current astronomical efforts are being made to utilize gravitational lenses to measure the Hubble constant, a scientific value which can determine the size and age of the universe.
NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #5047 Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 8:37PMNASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #5047
Tall stories Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 4:30PMPuppets, painted poetry, and the Kennedys The Institute of Contemporary Art gets down and dirty this spring with Mexican artist Jerónimo López Ramírez, who's better known as DR. LAKRA — or, as they might say in his home of Oaxaca, "Dr. Delinquent." UNTITLED (CHOCOLATITOS) The ICA goes looking for trouble with Mexican artist Dr. Lakra. The Institute of Contemporary Art gets down and dirty this ...
‘All of nature in surrender’: Women and Islam Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 4:17PMA leading Qur’anic scholar and Muslim feminist, Professor Amina Wadud, has challenged the ‘received tradition’ of a vertical relationship between Allah, man and woman, and reconstructed it as a horizontal relationship of reciprocity, or equality, with the male and female pair united in surrender to Allah.
Einstein's theory of relativity on display for first time Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 2:47PMJERUSALEM (AFP) - In a darkened room in Jerusalem, the world was given a rare glimpse Sunday into the mind of Albert Einstein as he worked to unlock the secrets of the universe.
Einstein’s theory of relativity on display for first time Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 2:19PMIn a darkened room in Jerusalem, the world was given a rare glimpse yesterday into the mind which unlocked the secrets of the universe.
Einstein theory of relativity on display Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 1:40PMFor the first time the complete, original manuscript of Albert Einstein's landmark General Theory of Relativity is on display.
Einstein's original manuscript displayed Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 12:31PMThe original manuscript of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity has gone on display for the first time.
Einstein's theory of relativity on display Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 11:12AMJERUSALEM (AFP) - In a darkened room in Jerusalem, the world was given a rare glimpse on Sunday into the mind which unlocked the secrets of the universe.
I BELIEVE: 'Our obsession with acquiring material things has become our current religion' Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 7:19AMAfter watching President Obama’s first speech to the nation last year, I went to sleep thinking about what he had said regarding the economy and his perception of how we ended up in this financial mess in the first place.
The Role of Electricity in the Morphology of the Universe Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 6:08PMArtist Paul Malone takes you on a unique and controversial tour of the Universe.
St. Patrick's dinner at Mount Manresa Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 7:04AMSTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A St. Patrick's Day Dinner Celebration will be held at Mount Manresa Jesuit Retreat House on March 14, with seatings at 3 and 4:30 p.m. Mass, which is optional, will be said at 2 p.m. Dinner...
Astronomically Large Lenses Measure The Age And Size Of The Universe Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 5:16AMUsing entire galaxies as lenses to look at other galaxies, researchers have a newly precise way to measure the size and age of the universe and how rapidly it is expanding, on a par with other techniques.
UCSB Staff Contributes to Space Study Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 1:03AMA recent study, conducted in part by UCSB researchers, has confirmed with increased precision the size and age of the universe.
Sadler Wins Education Prize Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 11:50PMEvery year, astronomy lecturer Philip M. Sadler asks his students if they have ever toured an inflatable planetarium dome as a middle or high school student.
Man believes machine caused rain Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 7:30PMIF you have had enough of the rain then you had better have a word with Peter Stevens, of Casino. Mr Stevens claims his rain machine, invented by Jack Toyer in the 1970s, is responsible for the current downpour.
Research and Markets: Advanced Computational Infrastructures for Parallel and Distributed Applications Is A Valuable ... Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 12:12PMDUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Advanced Computational Infrastructures for Parallel and Distributed Applications" to their offering.
Klamath: Direct Action! Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 2:06AMORLEANS -- Molli Jane had clambered up the ropes not effortlessly but quickly. But now she hung there halfway up a large Douglas fir tree and strained to make the muscular transition to descent.
Universe's high-energy haze gets murkier Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 5:56PMAn unexpectedly small fraction of the gamma-ray light that pervades the universe comes from gluttonous black holes – the source of the rest is unknown
Mysterious "Dragons" Make Universe's Gamma Ray Fog Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 1:17PMUnknown but fearsome sources are filling the universe with a blanket of high-energy gamma rays, normally created by the universe's most violent events and most powerful objects.
Fermi Probes 'Dragons' Of The Gamma-Ray Sky Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 9:07AMImage 1: Fermi's LAT detects gamma-rays by tracking the electrons and positrons they produce after striking layers of tungsten. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Image 2: Fermi data invalidates a once-popular explanation for the extragalactic gamma-ray background. Jets from active galaxies play only a minor role in producing the emission. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT ...
Astronomers use galaxies as lenses Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 6:21AMPeering through entire galaxies as their lenses, a team of researchers has found a new way to establish the size and age of the universe. read more
Black-hole-powered jets create fog of gamma rays Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 2:23AMAstronomers, using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, have found that black-hole-powered jets from active galaxies are responsible for almost a third of the ever-present fog of gamma
Black-hole-powered jets create fog of gamma rays Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 1:33AMWashington, March 3 : Astronomers, using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, have found that black-hole-powered jets from active galaxies are responsible for almost a third of the ever-present fog of gamma rays outside our galaxy.
NASA's Fermi probes 'dragons' of the gamma-ray sky Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 7:32PMA new study of the ever-present fog of gamma rays from sources outside our galaxy shows that less than a third of the emission arises from what astronomers once considered the most likely suspects -- black-hole-powered jets from active galaxies.
NASA's Fermi Probes "Dragons" Of The Gamma-Ray Sky Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 5:41PMby Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2010 One of the pleasures of perusing ancient maps is locating regions so poorly explored that mapmakers warned of dragons and sea monsters.
20. Daughter marries science with fiction for children Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 6:18PMLUCY Hawking is Stephen Hawking's second child from his first marriage. The 41-year-old journalist and author has co-written two children's books with her father and they are both working on the third one. Below is an interview with her.
God's existence debated Monday at Socratic Club Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 12:37AMThe existence of God will be the topic of an Oregon StateUniversity Socratic Club debate Monday.
Some students (and locals and alumni) take the Hispanic theater course over and over Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 1:01PMThe unique Teatrotaller (Spanish for theater-workshop), a blend of academics and performance in Spanish, has been going strong ever since Cornell students founded it in 1993 to preserve and promote Spanish, Latin American and Latino cultures through theater at Cornell.
What Is Time? One Physicist Hunts for the Ultimate Theory Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 10:16AMTime is a slippery concept, and scientists have not figured out how to explain it satisfactorily. But physicist Sean Carroll is on the hunt for a theory of time, and he thinks he'll find it in the multiverse. Carroll talks about his ideas in this Q&A with Wired.com.
Take a Week-Long Education Vacation at Oxford Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 6:31AMWhatever your age, if you love to learn, take a look at what Oxford could teach you this summer.
Cahokia mounds reveal a vast copper workshop Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 5:15AMNearly 1,000 years ago, the ancient city of Cahokia flourished only 20 minutes away from modern St. Louis in the floodplains of the Mississippi River. Today, the discovery of a copper workshop by a team of researchers led by John Kelly, Washington University archeology professor, and James Brown of Northwestern University will provide insight into the lives of the mysterious Cahokians.
This dark story is part of a cinema movement to break the boundaries of realism Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 2:18AMwas murdered " That's the second line of Alice Sebold's best-selling novel about the death of a 14-year-old girl at the hands of a serial killer.
NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #5040 Thursday, February 25, 2010 @ 11:37PMNASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #5040
Tribal Member Disputes Claim of Sacred Ground Thursday, February 25, 2010 @ 11:07PMAdding another twist to the high-stakes gamble for who will win the right to use the ocean waters around the Vineyard for industrial wind power development in the name of green energy progress, a formerly prominent member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has publicly disputed the claim that Nantucket Sound is sacred ground traditionally used by the tribe for sunrise ceremonies.
The Work of Zurich Painter and Poet Salomon Gessner Presented at Kunsthaus Zürich Thursday, February 25, 2010 @ 9:18PMSalomon Gessner, Der Wunsch oder die poetische Einsidelei, 1786. Gouache on paper, 28,4 x 39,3 cm. Permanent loan from the City of Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich.
Aerial Support Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 4:47PM“You need more help than you know. You’re trying to live your life in open scaffolding.” The operative word for local artist Mary Day, in the line above from the poem “Bismillah,” is “scaffolding,” also the title of her current exhibit at Nebraska Arts Council’s Fred Simon Gallery.
From The Clash Of White Dwarfs, The Birth Of A Supernova Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 2:45PMHow many ways can a star go “kaboom!”? It might depend on what kind of galaxy the star lives in, astronomers said last week.
Report shows Duke considered impact on Kituwah Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 8:54AMIn the wake of the controversy surrounding the company’s proposed substation, Duke Energy representatives claimed they were unaware of the project’s potential impact on the Cherokee’s most valued site.
Vast online archive to celebrate British scientists and inventors Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 6:28AM200 UK scientists are to be interviewed to create an audio archive of British science.