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Stuart Fox • May 28, 2008
A group of mathematicians is taking a new look at some old problems and using crafts like knitting and crocheting to solve them.
Andrew Grant • May 2, 2008
A new experiment uses New York City's rooftop water tanks as cosmic ray detectors.
Adam T. Hadhazy • April 11, 2008
A new study offers a possible solution to the riddle of the antimatter cloud in the galaxy’s core.
Adam T. Hadhazy • April 8, 2008
Are you a stargazer? If you just happened to be staring up at the constellation Bootes (the “Bear Watcher”) at 2:12 AM Eastern Standard Time on March 19th and you […]
Stuart Fox • January 15, 2008
Blinded by the red carpet and dresses no one could hope to afford and even fewer could hope to fit into, most people forget that the Oscars are run by […]
Molika Ashford • December 29, 2007
Michael Goodchild, a geographer and professor at UC Santa Barbara, just published a kind of a survey (pdf file) of citizen-based geography. Volunteered Geographical Information or VGI, Goodchild writes, is […]
Karina Hamalainen • December 10, 2007
- asks Jessie from New York
Monica Heger • December 5, 2007
A new theory proposes Earth-like planets with double the star power.
Why is it taking Iran so long to make a nuclear weapon? Didn’t it only take the US four years to invent them?
Stuart Fox • November 20, 2007
- asks Herman Blount of Birmingham, AL
Molika Ashford • November 5, 2007
- asks Ariel from Vermont
Andrea Anderson • August 22, 2007
Andrew Kent’s New York University physics lab delves into the mysterious world of quantum computing.
Erica Westly • July 18, 2007
Can physics solve the mystery of avian flight?
How could the universe expand faster than the speed of light? That seems impossible!
Joshua J Romero • July 9, 2007
- asks Paul
Emily V. Driscoll • April 1, 2007
- asks Molly from Ohio
Kristina Fiore • January 17, 2007
And what we might hope to discover, according to the new book Brave New Universe.