The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project re-launches this week, with a call to volunteer citizen scientists to join the search for cold worlds near the Sun. With its newly revamped online interface and equipped with twice as ...
Astronomy
Feb 19, 2019
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Americans hear a lot about consumerism and materialism. But most either think it applies to others or succumb to the notion that there's no way around it, given our culture and the pervasive influence of the market, which ...
Social Sciences
Nov 13, 2018
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When you bang on a simple drumhead, it will most certainly make a noise, but you probably wouldn't call that noise a musical note.
Optics & Photonics
Oct 6, 2017
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NASA is inviting the public to help search for possible undiscovered worlds in the outer reaches of our solar system and in neighboring interstellar space. A new website, called Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, lets everyone participate ...
Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2017
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Astronomers studying distant galaxies powered by monster black holes have uncovered an unexpected link between two very different wavelengths of the light they emit, the mid-infrared and gamma rays. The discovery, which was ...
Astronomy
Aug 24, 2016
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After searching 100,000 galaxies for signs of highly advanced extraterrestrial life, a team of scientists using observations from NASA's WISE orbiting observatory has found no evidence of advanced civilizations in them. "The ...
Astronomy
Apr 14, 2015
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Attorney Steven Wise is on a crusade to prove that, as a matter of law, chimps are people too.
Plants & Animals
Mar 21, 2015
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(Phys.org) —A "brown dwarf" star that appears to be the coldest of its kind—as frosty as Earth's North Pole—has been discovered by a Penn State University astronomer using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer ...
Astronomy
Apr 25, 2014
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(Phys.org) —After searching hundreds of millions of objects across our sky, NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has turned up no evidence of the hypothesized celestial body in our solar system commonly dubbed ...
Astronomy
Mar 7, 2014
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NASA's WISE mission has released a new and improved atlas and catalog brimming with data on three-quarters of a billion objects detected during two full scans of the sky.
Astronomy
Nov 15, 2013
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