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Cornering the terahertz gap: controlling light's path could enable invisibility or harness an intriguing but so far elusive stretch of the spectrum
Light is a nimble gymnast. It travels in many colors and frequencies. Its waves, whether long or short, can shift to be longer or shorter. Light...
Science News, 03/28/09 by Ashley Yeager · More from publication -
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet Neil deGrasse...
Science News, 02/28/09 by Ashley Yeager · More from publication -
Highly wired
Men are dense--in the temporal neocortex anyway. An investigation of brain tissue recovered from epilepsy patients during surgery showed men had a...
Science News, 10/11/08 by Ashley Yeager · More from publication -
Dead—but not duds: white dwarfs shed light on physics and the fate of the cosmos
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Amid the liveliest stars in the cosmos lie stellar corpses. Of these dead stars, the most...
Science News, 10/11/08 by Ashley Yeager · More from publication -
Galaxy cluster outweighs neighbors: distant find could support the existence of dark energy
A new cosmic crowd has captured the heavyweight title for galaxy clusters discovered deep in the universe. The record-breaker sits billions of...
Science News, 09/27/08 by Ashley Yeager · More from publication -
Amniotic infection
The amniotic sac that envelops the fetus during pregnancy harbors never-before-seen pathogenic microbes, Daniel DiGiulio of Stanford University and...
Science News, 09/27/08 by Ashley Yeager · More from publication -
Doctors debate death definition for transplants: success with infant hearts shows that timing matters
A heart stops beating in one person. It is transplanted and restarted in another. Was the individual from whom the heart was taken really dead? A...
Science News, 09/13/08 by Ashley Yeager · More from publication -
Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics
Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics By Renee Bergland Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science:...
Science News, 08/30/08 by Ashley Yeager · More from publication -
A solar system like few others: conditions for formation were perfect, study says
Goldilocks isn't the only one who demanded everything to be "just right." Earth and its fellow seven planets also needed perfect conditions to form...
Science News, 08/30/08 by Ashley Yeager · More from publication -
Mars lander confirms water ice: Phoenix also samples unexpected chemical compound
The Phoenix Mars Lander has finally confirmed the presence of water ice on the Red Planet, mission scientists have reported. This result, along...
Science News, 08/30/08 by Ashley Yeager · More from publication
