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The Face of Creation

January 3, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The latest autotuned installment in John D. Boswell’s Symphony of Science series waxes melodic about the particle-smashing science being done with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, in particular its search for the Higgs boson, a.k.a. the… ok, ok, I won’t [...]

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From Eternity to Here: The Amazing Origin of our Species (in 90 Seconds)

October 31, 2012

From the initial expansion of the Big Bang to the birth of the Moon, from the timid scampering of the first mammals to the rise — and fall — of countless civilizations, this fascinating new video by melodysheep (aka John D. Boswell) takes us on a breathless 90-second tour through human history — starting from [...]

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CINEMA and the Cube-Shaped Future of Space Science

August 2, 2012

Caption: Jerry Kim, a former student and systems engineer, holds the CINEMA nanosatellite before it was packaged up and sent to NASA in January 2012. Credit: Robert Sanders. We all will be biting our nails on August 5th as Curiosity makes its perilous descent to the surface of Mars. We have put all our eggs [...]

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Fish in Space: Space Station Gets an Aquarium

July 27, 2012

Caption: The Aquatic Habitat will enable the study of fish aboard the International Space Station. Credit: JAXA. How does microgravity impact marine life? One of the more unique experiments on board the Japanese HTV-3 supply ship, scheduled to be berthed to the International Space Station’s Harmony node at 12:00 UTC on July 27, 2012, is [...]

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Independent Filmmaker Wants to Kickstart America’s Space Program

July 20, 2012

“If Kennedy said ‘we will go to the Moon…some time before the century ends,’ what is… what is that? That’s not ambition. That’s pandering.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson, Fight for Space Here we are on the 43rd anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing, with no more shuttles flying, slashed space program budgets and no real [...]

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