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The Music Of Sceintific Endeavor - NASA’s GLAST Telescope

The void between art and science may have just been breached! NASA asked Dr. Nolan Gasser to do nothing short of capture the universe in music recently. The musicologist and composer has been tasked with writing the theme song for NASA’s “GLAST” (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope) project.
GLAST is designed to investigate perhaps them most [...]

25Jul2008 | Phil | 0 comments | Continued
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Beetles 148 Million Years Ago - You Thought We Have Bugs!

For years paleontologists have been puzzled by dinosaur bone specimens that are incomplete for no apparent reason. From sets of teeth without jawbones to pitted and grove bone sections, scientists have until now only theorized the reason for these missing pieces of the fossil record. A recent Brigham Young University study may have revealed the [...]

18Jul2008 | Phil | 0 comments | Continued
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Educational Toys Planet - Science Toys for Kids

It’s not customary for TerraHermes to feature website reviews, but this time we think Educational Toys Planet is a perfect match.
At TerraHermes our goal is to bring to the reader all that can positively effect our lives for the better and we think that everything aimed at building a better future for our children is [...]

24Jun2008 | Mihaela Lica | 0 comments | Continued
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When Half A Galaxy Disappears

Ok, so half the Milky Way did not disappear. However, new science from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that the galaxy has only two major arms versus four as previously thought. Scientists are now rethinking the structure of the entire Galaxy as new data comes in. Observations from radio observations of the galaxy since the [...]

4Jun2008 | Phil | 3 comments | Continued
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The Death of a Star

The Universe is a continuum of events. The starry skies at night hide worlds the naked eye can never even grasp – it takes high-tech and a stroke of luck to see the death of a star.
Alicia Soderberg was that lucky: setting a NASA X-ray satellite to spy a dyeing star she actually witnessed the [...]

24May2008 | Mihaela Lica | 0 comments | Continued
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Life Elsewhere - Can Math Prove or Disprove It?

We love science! There seems to be a never ending stream of discover from the science world and we love covering it, even if we do not agree on the findings. Recently, a team of scientists at the University of East Anglia (don’t ask me) calculated via a new math model – that the probability [...]

20Apr2008 | Phil | 2 comments | Continued
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Earth’s First Animal - Jelly?

Scientists have been mapping our evolutionary history to isolate our most distant ancestor – a strange jellyfish creature similar to the Comb Jelly. The study was funded by the National Science Foundation, and incorporated the use of special techniques for analyzing massive volumes of genetic data. These techniques revealed the earliest splits in the [...]

16Apr2008 | Mihaela Lica | 0 comments | Continued
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Breaking News Flash! - Money Does Buy Happiness

This is true at least according to social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn of the University of British Columbia (UBC). Studies conducted on 109 UBC students (!) shown that by spending money for charity or friends (altruistic giving) people generally end up being happier than those who spend on themselves.
The studies leading to the conclusion that people [...]

27Mar2008 | Mihaela Lica | 0 comments | Continued
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Unfolding The Universe - Dark Side Of The Moon

Just when we thought we had covered everything from NASA, the minds there have embarked on yet another auspicious venture – lunar telescopes. Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have begun studying, via a NASA sponsored program, the next generation of space astronomy studies. The study is designed to prioritize future research for astronomy and [...]

18Mar2008 | Mihaela Lica | 0 comments | Continued
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Death Of A Star Viewed From Hubble

Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratories are witnessing so many wonderful phenomena via the Hubble telescope. The latest amazing images come from planetary nebula NGC 2371, a planetary nebula which is the remains of a sun-like star. The center of the nebula, remnants of a red giant, glows super hot at over 240,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The [...]

10Mar2008 | Phil | 0 comments | Continued
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