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Science Future for January 17, 2009

January 25–April 5 Data + Art: Science and Art in the Age of Information at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Visit www.pmcaonline.org February 5–7 Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2009, “Towards Copenhagen: An equitable and ethical approach” to be held in New Delhi. Visit dsds.teriin.org/2009/index.htm February 15–21 Engineers Week 2009. Visit www.eweek.org

Science Past for January 17, 1959

PROPOSE CRATER THEORY — Huge bubbles of gas bursting through the moon’s surface may be the cause of lunar craters. Two British scientists proposed in a new “blowhole theory” that gases trapped under the surface when suddenly set free would form craters resembling those observed on the moon. Among other current theories are those attributing […]

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