Two earth-size planets discovered

Dec. 21, 2011   5 Comments  

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A fun week to be a space geek!

Asteroid 2005 YU55 will pass between moon and earth Tuesday

Nov. 7, 2011   1 Comment  

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Size of an aircraft carrier

“Tatooine-like” planet found

Sept. 17, 2011   3 Comments  

Kepler-16b orbits two suns, just like Tatooine

Kepler-16b is the first observed circumbinary planet

Science, fire come together at ATF lab

Jan. 2, 2010   Leave a Comment  

ATF fire engineers put out a fire after the testing is completed. (Media credit/Courtesy of the ATF)

How do you investigate arson? By burning something, of course.

Local high school students are serious researchers

Dec. 1, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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Brookline senior first to study hepatitis-diabetes connection

Scientists create scaffold to grow new bones

Oct. 20, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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A novel material that holds drugs directing synthesis of bone

NASA makes a levitation device that floats a mouse

Sept. 14, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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It’s not quite thwarting entropy, but we must finally be in the future!

Scientists visualize bonds in a single molecule

Sept. 2, 2009   Leave a Comment  

Image produced of a single pentacene molecule.

Atomic force microscopy is the newest tool for seeing the small.

Your sleep needs are dictated by your genes

Aug. 18, 2009   Leave a Comment  

Scientists found a gene that lets people live on less sleep.

Humans absolved of blame in limbless frogs mystery

July 14, 2009   2 Comments  

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Hungry insects and burrowing parasites actually cause frog abnormalities.

Using email networks to predict Enron’s fall

June 25, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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Who you email can say more than what’s actually in your message.

Are we one step closer to Skynet?

April 16, 2009   1 Comment  

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I know the robot revolution is becoming a played out meme on the internet these days, but that’s mostly because the world around us is actually becoming more and more automated. Our GPS units are learning about us as we drive. In February, the L train in New York started overnight operations with a fully [...]