Astronomy
- Planetary Science
Saturn’s rings may not be as young as they look
Saturn's rings might be more massive, and thus older, than researchers had believed.
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McCain Is Bullish on R&D
Featured blog: John McCain weighs in on science and technology issues with long-awaited written responses to the Science Debate 2008.
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Preserving digital data for the future of eScience
From the August 30, 2008 issue of Science News.
- Astronomy
Invisible clumps in the galaxy
Model finds dark matter nearby and might shed light on the invisible material’s composition.
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The Universe in a Mirror
The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It.
- Astronomy
Save the date: solar eclipse
NASA will broadcast and webcast the next total solar eclipse Aug. 1, live from China
- Archaeology
Greeks followed a celestial Olympics
A Greek gadget discovered more than a century ago in a 2,100-year-old shipwreck not only tracked the motion of heavenly bodies and predicted eclipses, but also functioned as a sophisticated calendar and mapped the four-year cycle of the ancient Greek Olympics.
- Astronomy
Science Future for August 2, 2008
August 16–24 Australia celebrates National Science Week. Visit www.scienceweek.info.au September 18 and 19 University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Holtz Center presents “Climate Change is Global.” Visit www.sts.wisc.edu October 8 Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to launch as part of the final mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Visit www.nasa.gov/missions
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Postcards from the edge
New data about the edge of the solar system offer surprises about how the sun interacts with our galaxy.
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Citizen Astronomy
Astronomers have found big benefits from recruiting the public to lend their eyes and image-processing prowess
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Too much information in the Odyssey
A controversial interpretation of passages from the Odyssey suggests that Homer knew much more about planetary motions than historians thought possible.
