News
- 02-01-03 Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster (Awesome Library)
Provides news and information regarding the space shuttle Columbia and her crew. 2-03
- 03-04-04 Former Astronaut Glenn Criticizes Bush Space Plan (Dayton Daily News)
Former astronaut John Glenn criticized President Bush for planning to discard the U.S. space shuttle program and the scientific research associated with space station research, a $2.9 billion program. 3-04
- 07-12-03 Oldest Planet "Mind-Boggling" (ABC News)
"Astronomers have discovered the oldest known planet, a primeval world 12.7 billion years old that will force them to reconsider how and when planets form. The discovery raises the prospect that life may have begun far sooner than most scientists ever imagined. A leading planet-formation expert not involved in the work called the discovery mind-boggling." 7-03
- 07-24-03 Report Concludes 9-11 Could Have Been Prevented (CBC News)
"The attacks against the United States on Sept. 11, 2001 could have been thwarted months or years in advance, according to a damning report by the U.S. Congress." 7-03
- 07-24-03 Scientists Bore Into Ice Over 100,000 Years Old (BBC News)
"Scientists have drilled through the central Greenland ice cap, obtaining an ice core that records climate data for the past 120,000 years." 7-03
- 08-06-03 Mars Rover Expedition (CNN)
"A NASA robot packed with eight cameras, geology instruments and super-rugged wheels roared into space on Tuesday, one of three missions headed to Mars this summer during the most favorable cosmic conditions in centuries."
"Their geologic studies, scheduled to last three months, are designed to find physical evidence of water activity on Mars from billions of years ago, when the planet was thought to have been wetter and warmer -- and possibly inhabited by microbes."
"Like surfers who have been waiting for the big wave, the spacecraft are riding to the red planet as Mars and Earth make their nearest pass to each other since prehistoric times."
"A closer approach won't take place until 2287, according to Sky & Telescope Magazine." 8-03
- 08-10-03 Chimpanzee or New Ape? (CNN News - Walton)
"From a remote region in the heart of Africa to a genetics lab at the Omaha Zoo, scientists are trying to find out if they have a new big ape on their hands."
" 'Discovering any new primate is a huge thing, a new ape would be incredible,' said Ed Louis, conservation geneticist at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska."
"Williams also has a fascinating anecdote from a longtime resident of the region, an 84-year-old Norwegian Baptist missionary known as 'Madame Liev.' "
" 'Years ago, she was driving an old truck and one of these apes walked by in front of her. It was walking bipedally (upright) and was taller than her, and she's six feet tall,' " Williams said. 8-03
- 08-24-03 Mars Closest Ever (USAToday.com - Vergano)
"On Aug. 28, the day after the closest passage, the alignment of the sun, Earth and Mars will be perfectly straight."
"But this week, the two planets pass as close as they ever get — 34.6 million miles (34,646,418.5 miles, to be precise) instead of the usual distance of about 60 million miles, says astronomer Myles Standish of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory." 8-03
- 10-20-03 Electricity from Water (BBC News)
"A new way to generate electricity from water which could be used to power small electronic devices in the future has been developed by Canadian scientists." 10-03
Papers
- Dramatic New Evidence of a Planet in Another Solar System (The Scotsman)
"Astronomers said there was an 'odds-on' chance of intelligent life in space after new observations produced the best evidence yet of planets circling stars outside our solar system."
"A team led by the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (ATC) in Edinburgh announced yesterday that they had found the dusty wake of a Saturn-like planet around one of the brightest stars in the sky."
Professor Ian Robson said that the new tool used, with specially-cooled camera called SCUBA, 'will revolutionize our search for evidence of planetary systems.' "10-02
- Earliest Tick Discovered (Discovery.com)
Provides a description and picture of a tick considered 90 million years old and the earliest found so far. 4-01
- Fossil of Earliest Land Walker Found (CNN)
"A fossil found in 1971 has been newly identified as the earliest known animal built to walk on land, a salamanderlike creature that marked a previously unknown stage in the evolution of fish into the ancestors of all vertebrates alive today." "The toothy animal, Pederpes finneyae, lived between 348 million and 344 million years ago in what is now Scotland." 7-02
- Geminid Meteor Showers (American Meteor Society - Kronk)
Describes the Geminid meteorite shower, which can be seen in early December. 11-01
- Geminid Meteor Showers (NASA)
Describes the Geminid meteorite shower, which can be seen in early December. 11-01
- New Planets Discovered (CNN - Space)
Describes the discovery of 11 new planets outside of our solar system. One is in the "habitable" zone for life as we know it. 4-01
- Planet Discovered in "Life" Zone (CNN - Stenger)
Describes planet found in another solar system that is the correct distance from its sun to support life on one of its moons. 5-01
- Solar Flare - Largest Recorded (CNN - Space)
Describes the largest flare from the sun that has ever been recorded. 4-01
- Speed of Light May Be Changing (New Scientist)
Provides a summary of research that shows that the speed of light, one of the most important constants in physics and astronomy, is changing. 8-01
- Transistors - Single Molecule Transistor Invented (CNN)
Describes a new transistior invented that is the size of a molecule. It will take several years before it will be available for use in electronics, such as computers. 11-01
- Water May Flow on Mars (BBC News - Whitehouse)
Shows pictures that suggest that water may have flowed on the surface of Mars recently. 6-01
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