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Month: December 2013

Science Art: Cumulative Absorption Spectrum, Hubble Telescope by NASA/STScI.

8 December 2013 grant 0

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This is how spectroscopy works – how you can tell what’s floating around in space even when you can’t see it, only light that passes *through* it. The Hubble Space Telescope… Read the rest “Science Art: Cumulative Absorption Spectrum, Hubble Telescope by NASA/STScI.”

Oldest ancestor’s DNA is sequenced.

6 December 2013 grant 0

Meaning, although PhysOrg stops short of saying so, that we could maybe someday build a hominin from scratch. As it is, though, we’ve still got a lot we can do today, now that we’ve… Read the rest “Oldest ancestor’s DNA is sequenced.”

Space-X launches a satellite. Meaning: they’re in money.

5 December 2013 grant 0

International Business Times hints at what the first commercial satellite means for the future of space:

After two failed launch attempts due to technical glitches last week, the 22-story

… Read the rest “Space-X launches a satellite. Meaning: they’re in money.”

Wet planets – we’ve got their names.

4 December 2013 grant 0

Science Daily has Hubble’s latest clue to finding life elsewhere in space. The telescope has found five distant, watery worlds:

The five planets — WASP-17b, HD209458b, WASP-12b,

… Read the rest “Wet planets – we’ve got their names.”

The Barry White organ. It’s how koalas get low.

3 December 2013 grant 0

Nature gets the lowdown on the anatomical secret behind the koala’s deep, deep voice:

Benjamin Charlton, a biologist at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, wanted to know what

… Read the rest “The Barry White organ. It’s how koalas get low.”

Amazon’s fleet of flying robots

2 December 2013 grant 0

Mashable looks to the skies at Amazon’s latest innovation in delivery – a fleet of flying robots bringing YOUR Christmas present:

A video of how the service will work has already

… Read the rest “Amazon’s fleet of flying robots”

Science Art: Solar System by Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum

1 December 2013 grant 0

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In the book Mysterium Comsmographicum, Johannes Kepler started mapping out how planets worked.

The idea here is that the solar system is structured according to the Platonic solids, one… Read the rest “Science Art: Solar System by Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum”

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