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Wired June 2006 Adam Rogers |
The Challenger When Peter Diamandis gave the $10 million Ansari X Prize to the SpaceShipOne crew in 2004, he did more than build excitement about private space travel. |
Chemistry World May 10, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Making Fun of Beagle 2 (Again) Colin Pillinger, who ran the Beagle 2 mission to Mars that famously went missing on Christmas day 2003, is capitalizing on the media attention the failed mission attracted with an exhibition of cartoons charting man's obsession with reaching the red planet. |
Scientific American May 8, 2006 Graham P. Collins |
Chaos in the Crater Welcome to the Vredefort Crater, a real Bermuda Triangle about 100 kilometers southwest of Johannesburg. It is the oldest and largest impact remnant on the planet, created by an asteroid about two billion years ago. |
Science News May 6, 2006 |
Science Safari: Aircraft Photos The Dryden Flight Research Center's Web site contains images of many of the research and experimental aircraft flown at the test facility, from the 1940s to today.. |
Chemistry World May 2006 Andrew West |
Mission to Marzzz... With planned manned missions to Mars, ESA and NASA both recently announced that they are funding research into methods that would allow astronauts to spend months or even years in suspended animation. |
Geotimes May 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Sunspot Outlook 2012 The future of the sun appears spotty, according to some solar scientists. By incorporating physical observations of the sun into a model, some scientists predict that the sun will boast more sunspots during its next cycle than previous estimates anticipated. |
Popular Mechanics May 2006 Karen C. Fox |
How it Works: Large Binocular Telescope The world's most powerful optical telescope will soon be peering at objects that date back to the dawn of time. |
Science News April 29, 2006 |
The Mysterious Smell of Moondust Here's a link to an account of Apollo astronauts describing the smell and taste of moondust, which they experienced firsthand inside their lunar landers. |
Chemistry World April 20, 2006 Barry DiGregorio |
Calcite Differences on Mars Differential thermal analysis of calcite samples is aiding the hunt for life on Mars. |
Chemistry World April 13, 2006 Jon Evans |
Chemists Bring Alien Molecule Down to Earth Chemists have recreated an alien molecule in the laboratory by synthesising a stable version of the carbene cyclopropenylidene. Cyclopropenylidene was first detected by radio astronomers in 1985, and is now the most abundant cyclic hydrocarbon observed in interstellar space. |
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