BIG Questions – Page 57

Space Travel: Pioneer Anomaly Solved?
By the Editor on October 10, 2012
The 100 Year Spaceship Symposium, an international event advocating human expansion into other star systems, has some crucial hurdles...
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Why Climate Change Is a Winning Political Strategy
By the Editor on October 10, 2012
He’s been called “America’s fiercest climate blogger.” And as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a...
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Extending Einstein’s Theory Beyond Light Speed
By the Editor on October 10, 2012
University of Adelaide applied mathematicians have extended Einstein’s theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light....
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Large Water Reservoirs at the Dawn of Stellar Birth
By the Editor on October 10, 2012
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapor to fill Earth’s oceans more than 2000 times over, in...
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U.S. Scientists Win Chemistry Nobel
By the Editor on October 10, 2012
Two U.S. scientists shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for learning how cells respond to the world around them,...
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Researchers Map Carbon Emissions at Street Level
By the Editor on October 10, 2012
Typically, when we talk about pollution, including carbon emissions, the numbers are talking about entire areas rather than specific...
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Education Reform Is Impossible Without Addressing Racism
By the Editor on October 9, 2012
From Michaela Pommells at Huffington Post: Let’s face it, race inequity may not be a deliberate goal of education...
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The Clothesline Paradox: A Conversation With Tim O’Reilly
By the Editor on October 9, 2012
If we’re going to get science policy right, it’s really important for us to study the economic benefit of...
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Haroche, Wineland Win Nobel Physics Prize
By the Editor on October 9, 2012
Serge Haroche of France and David J. Wineland of the U.S. shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for devising...
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Arctic Sea Ice Collapse Triggers Record Greenland Icesheet Melt
By the Editor on October 9, 2012
This year’s record melt in northern latitudes has surprised – even shocked – many climate scientists. While most of...
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