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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 11, 2009 
In 1918, magician extraordinaire Harry Houdini created a sensation when he made a 10,000 pound elephant disappear before a mystified audience of over 5,200 at New York's famed Hippodrome theatre. But a vanishing pachyderm is nothing compared to the magnificent illusion to be performed by our solar system's own sixth rock from the sun on Aug. 11. On that day, ladies and gentlemen, boys and ... read more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 11, 2009NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets around a young star. Astronomers say that two rocky bodies, one as least as big as our moon and the other at least as big as Mercury, slammed into each other within the last few thousand years or so - not long ago by cosmic standards. The impact destroyed the smaller body, vaporizing ... more
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 11, 2009Splat! There goes another bug on the windshield. Anyone who's ever driven down a country lane has seen it happen. A fast moving car, a cloud of multiplying insects, and a big disgusting mess. The next time that happens to you, instead of grossing out, try thinking of the experience as an astronomy lesson. Your car is Earth. The bugs are tiny flakes of comet dust. The carnage on your ... more 
Fort Davis TX (SPX) Aug 11, 2009It's time once again for nature to put on its late-summer fireworks show: the Perseid meteor shower. This year's best viewing will be before dawn on August 12, with a second chance after sunset that night, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. At its peak, this year's shower could produce up to 100 meteors per hour. The actual peak is during the day for viewers in North America ... more  
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 11, 2009Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions). The new work, described in the August 6 issue of Science Express,* overcomes significant hurdles in scaling up ion-trapping technology from small demonstra ... more |
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Akron OH (SPX) Aug 05, 2009The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Goodyear Tire have developed an airless tire to transport large, long-range vehicles across the surface of the moon. The new "Spring Tire" with 800 load bearing springs is designed to carry much heavier vehicles over much greater distances than the wire mesh tire previously used on the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). The new ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2009Scientists have long debated the role of asteroid and comet impacts in mass extinctions on Earth. New research may indicate that it is highly unlikely that comets caused any mass extinctions. The findings could have implications in determining the likelihood of globally-damaging impacts in our planet's future. Scientists have debated how many mass extinction events in Earth's history were ... more  
Miami (UPI) Aug 3, 2009 Four Miami-area high school students have an unusual summer job on their resumes: building a cosmic ray detector alongside nuclear physicists. The four participated in a six-week paid internship with Florida International University's physics department, selected from a pool of top student applicants, The Miami Herald reported Monday. "It was a little overwhelming at first," Alys ... more |
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