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Science and Technology Mega Brief

This Tuesday’s Science and Technology brief is super-stuffed, with seven articles and commentaries for your reading pleasure. The Science and Technology Brief is a biweekly glance at interesting science and technology news and profiles on science and technology that is or will affect us all. Continue reading

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Science and Technology Brief

You see, the US Government is currently burying massive quantities of radioactive waste in an abandon salt mine deep beneath the mountains and desert near Carlsbad, New Mexico. As part of this operation, the US Government plans to build a monument to what lies beneath in an effort to warn future generations, ‘Danger: Horrible Radioactive Death Below.’ Continue reading

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Science and Technology Brief

The Science and Technology Brief is a biweekly glance at interesting science and technology news and profiles on science and technology that is or will affect us all. For Tuesday: ‘Energy Efficient Black Holes’ and ‘Blogging the Future’. Continue reading

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Science Item of the Day: …On a Planet Far, Far Away…

20060126 Fox News      A group of astronomers recently released in the journal Nature the data that shows the existence of a ‘rocky planet 5.5 times the mass of the Earth’ orbiting a star some 20,000 light years away. This … Continue reading

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Science Item of the Day: The Moon Gets Whacked.

20051226 http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IEW20051224064926&Title=World&Topic=0          Mostly, we don’t think about the moon much. Its this big, white/blue ball that hangs in the sky, forever unchanging. Or is it? Apparently not, because scientists caught the moon getting whacked by a Taurid meteor during the … Continue reading

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