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A controversial theory first presented in May 2007 suggests huge comet impacts wiped out North America’s large mammals nearly 13,000 years ago.
Posted in Science on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
While these galaxies are small enough to fit within the central hub of our own Milky Way Galaxy, they each contain as many stars as bigger, older galaxies.
Posted in Science on May 7th, 2008 14 Comments »
The unexpected eruption of Chilean volcano Chaitén started these days after 450 years of silence have been displaced more than 4,000 peoples in the area.
Posted in Science on Feb 1st, 2008 No Comments »
On January 31, 1958 the first U.S. satellite was launched into Earth orbit atop a Jupiter C rocket developed beneath the direction of Wernher von Braun by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. Starting the era of space exploration for the United States, Explorer I was a 30.8 pound satellite that carried instruments to measure temperatures, [...]
Posted in Science on Jan 27th, 2008 No Comments »
NASA’s new Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), scheduled for launch in May, can help scientists learn more about the strange gamma rays generated in staggeringly distant galaxies. Gamma ray bursts, bursts of photons with billions of times more energy than ordinary light, were first observed in the 1960s by U.S. satellites looking for evidence [...]