![Artist's conception of a planet with binary stars [Credit: Tim Jones/McDonald Observatory]](http://scienceline.org/_s/files/2007/12/binary_planet.jpg)
Artist's conception of a planet with binary stars [Credit: Tim Jones/McDonald Observatory]
Double Sunrise
A new theory proposes Earth-like planets with double the star power.
By Monica Heger, December 5th, 2007
TOPIC physics
A Good Microbe is Hard to Kill
NASA’s “clean rooms” are home to a variety of extreme bacteria.
By Jeremy Hsu, November 9th, 2007
How do bikes balance when we ride them?
- asks Ariel from Vermont
By Molika Ashford, November 5th, 2007
How could the universe expand faster than the speed of light? That seems impossible!
- asks Paul
By Joshua J Romero, July 9th, 2007
No Signal in the City
Why it’s still hard to get cell-phone reception in the urban jungle.
By Joshua J Romero, April 13th, 2007
What We Know about Cosmology
And what we might hope to discover, according to the new book Brave New Universe.
By Kristina Fiore, January 17th, 2007
Stringing Up String Theory
Mathematician Peter Woit explains why string theory is worse than wrong.
By Karen Schrock, December 28th, 2006
The Poetry of Mathematics
A new book explores how the language of math is truer than words in describing the world
By Edyta Zielinska, November 13th, 2006
I’ve heard about a gravity beam that can send people through space. Is that for real?
– asks Ahren Lembke-Windler from Albuquerque, NM.
By Meredith Knight, November 13th, 2006
