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changing sources. The all-sky image released today shows us how the cosmos would look if our eyes could ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2009 - 10:49am

because it is relatively difficult to set off. What makes these explosives high is that all the ...

Article - Robert H Olley - May 4 2009 - 6:32pm

Step 1—Initially, all four ions are placed in the same zone of an ion trap and cooled with lasers to ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2009 - 1:28pm

size of the map over the next year to cover all of the galactic plane visible from the APEX site on ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2009 - 11:18am

mixes with all of it (the bulk). Now, if we live on the surface of the water, to us the drop of paint ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 13 2009 - 9:07am

he knew it. In fact, he named four of Jupiter's moons after some of the Medici kids. Yet all was ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Sep 29 2009 - 2:34pm

all revolves around the meaning of conditional probability. We may call C a restricting condition on ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 8 2009 - 6:12am

'all space exploration', but it is the largest single platform ever to be put in space, a first ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Oct 7 2009 - 9:41pm

after all systematic variations on the analysis, the significance always remains above five standard ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 16 2009 - 1:04pm

in the applications of nanoparticles both in science and in industry, all of which will benefit from ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:59pm

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John
We can know that this isn't purely a Trumpian thing because of the reviews from two years ago which basically said: 1) Astronomers have treated the people of Hawai'i like crap and owe...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 9 hours ago
Hontas Farmer
I'm not going to say you are wrong about any of the above. I'd not be surprised by a rising price tag as that seems to be how these things always go. I can't think of any big science...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
John
To be honest, TMT did this to themselves by not being honest about the cost from the start. Had they told everyone that the cost for the installation would be on the order of $3 billion (most of...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
Zack Y.
Isn't this a dangerous inversion of how science is supposed to be done? What's to prevent this same scenario playing out for ANY potential discovery coming from a precision measurement...

The Anomaly That Wasn't · 1 day ago
bizdean
Thank you for this, IrishNeanderthal. Actually I believe what’s going on in America is under-hyped. The mainstream press is far too easy on Mr. Trump, who is convicted of multiple felonies and...

Editorial: This Week’s LA Non-riots · 4 days ago

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