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Messenger’s Pictures From Mercury Leave Scientists Dumbfounded
Scientists got a little surprise this week when they began analyzing photos and data sent back by the Messenger spacecraft who made a pass of Mercury earlier this month. Turns out Mercury isn’t quite what they expected. Messenger’s Pictures From Mercury Surprise Scientists – washingtonpost.com: “The Messenger spacecraft that sped past Mercury on Jan. 14 [...]
The Sky is Falling The Sky is Falling
An out of control spy satellite that was reported as “crashing to earth” has experts assuring people that the chance you might actually be hit by the pieces of the satellite as “very slim”. BBC: “In reality, a spy satellite heading uncontrollably towards Earth is not an uncommon event, says Dr Ruediger Jehn, a space [...]
Hyperfast Star Alien in Origin
A super fast moving star has proven to be an enigma to scientists but now a new theory has surfaced that the star may actually be alien in origin. Science Daily: “A young star is speeding away from the Milky Way so fast that astronomers have been puzzled by where it came from; based on [...]
Get Your Edugroove On
Here’s something cool and new: iTunes is now offering iTunesU, a collection of lectures from Yale, Harvard, Stanford and other universities across the nation. I just downloaded Yvon Choinard, famous Yosemite big-wall climber and president of Patagonia clothing talking at Stanford University. Nice part is it’s FREE.
Have You Caught the WoW Disease?
Two years ago a virtual plague unintentionally spread across the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft now researchers want to study the dynamics of the virtual plague to see if it can help scientists model and predict the spread of real world diseases. Ars Technica: “There were a number of features in the virtual outbreak that [...]
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