NASA to Delay Next Mars Mission - Transworld News
NASA has decided to delay the launch of its next Mars mission for at least two years due to continued problems with testing and hardware. Plans to launch the Mars Science Laboratory rover mission in early 2009 were scrapped after it was determined ...
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Youtube's Lessons in Physics - Wired
I'd reckon most of readers will have seen this video of a truck dumping its payload of shopping carts (and if you haven't get to it!). Adam Weiner over at Popular Science points out that it is more than a demonstration of people being stupid. It's a ...
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Business events scheduled for the coming week - Forbes
SATURDAY, Dec. 6 POZNAN, Poland - U.N. climate conference. Thru Dec. 12. SUNDAY, Dec. 7 STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Newser with Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and economics. 08:00 GMT. MONDAY, Dec. 8 WASHINGTON - Weekly Treasury briefing, auction ...
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Robert M. Walker Postdoctoral Fellowship in Experimental Space ... - CERN Courier
The McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis invites exceptionally well-motivated scientists in the area of direct detection of dark matter particles to apply for this prestigious postdoctoral position. This ...
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Health Physicist - Newport News, VA - CERN Courier
Successful candidate will be routinely engaged in radiologically challenging, time sensitive tasks with regulatory constraints. This position requires an experienced and versatile individual capable of fulfilling multiple functions. Specific ...
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UH professor's wife deemed insane during fatal stabbing - Houston Chronicle
Kristen Elaine Dewald will be moved to a mental health facility in the Texas prison system, where she will be evaluated annually for "future dangerousness." James Dewald went to sleep on a fall night last year behind a locked door, his wife of two ...
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Two-year delay for NASA's Mars mission - Itwire.com
The launch of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has been delayed by two years to the northern autumn of 2011. As Scotty used to say, "you cannae change the laws of physics!" The MSL is a six-wheeled rover that's larger and has a greater range (as ...
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Quantum Trick Makes Metals Become Insulators - Science Daily
ScienceDaily (Dec. 5, 2008) ? The investigation of complex materials such as high-temperature superconductors is problematic because of the presence of disorder and many competing interactions in real crystalline materials. "This makes it difficult ...
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Universe's dark matter mix is 'just right' for life - New Scientist
IT'S not just the nature of dark matter that's a mystery - even its abundance is inexplicable. But if our universe is just one of many possible universes, at least this conundrum can be explained. The total amount of dark matter - the unseen stuff ...
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Nobel Son - Boston Globe
Not flagrant enough to be vile, not original enough to be any good, "Nobel Son" does offer a rare opportunity to see Alan Rickman at his worst. It also allows you to admire the astonishingly ageless Mary Steenburgen's ongoing transformation from ...
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