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Library of Congress Acquires Sagan's Personal Collection, Thanks to Seth MacFarlane - 0 views

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  • Carl Sagan’s personal archive — a comprehensive collection of papers contained within 798 boxes — was delivered to the Library of Congress recently for sorting… thanks in no small part to “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane
  • MacFarlane provided an “undisclosed sum of money” to the Library to purchase the collection from Sagan’s widow Ann Druyan, who had kept the papers preserved in storage
  • MacFarlane has been working to bring Sagan’s Cosmos series back to television, with Neil deGrasse Tyson reprising Sagan’s role
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  • Tyson who introduced MacFarlane to Druyan, and apparently got a peek at the astrophysicist’s impressive collection of papers, which “ranges from childhood report cards to college term papers to eloquent letters written just before his untimely death in 1996 at age 62.”
  • organization, a process expected to take several months
  • files labeled F/C, for ‘fissured ceramics,’ Sagan’s code name for letters from crackpots
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One Weird Trick To Probe Exoplanet Atmospheres - 0 views

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    tion coming from the planet versus that emitted by its star, allowing the velocity and mass of Tau Boötis b to be determined. "Thanks to the high quality observations provided by the VLT and CRIRES we were able to s
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Dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded: study - 0 views

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  • found evidence that dinosaurs probably had a high metabolic rate to allow fast growth -- another indicator of warm-bloodedness
  • cold-blooded, meaning they cannot control their body temperatures through their own metabolic system
  • bones of warm-blooded animals such as birds and mammals had never been properly assessed
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  • found the rings in all 41 warm-blooded animal species they studied
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Dinosaur Debate Gets Cooking - Science News - 0 views

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  • Annual growth lines etched in the femurs of 115 wild warm-blooded mammals such as giraffes, reindeer and gazelles are similar to those previously seen in the bones of reptiles and dinosaurs
  • People always said that mammals do not show these lines
  • like a myth that’s going around; you read it everywhere
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  • people haven’t really studied mammals
  • In dinosaurs and reptiles, yearly cycles of growth and nutrition are stamped in the bones like the rings of a tree
  • months, animals pack on blood vessel-rich bone tissue
  • lean months they skimp, laying down only thin sheets
  • Under a microscope, the slender sheets of bone look like dark lines
  • “lines of arrested growth” or “rest lines” stripe the bones of both dinosaurs and reptiles, some scientists assumed that dinosaurs, like reptiles, were cold-bloode
  • new work shows that warm-blooded mammals have banded bones, too
  • Every mammal Köhler’s team examined showed cyclical growth
  • their specimens looked just like those seen in dinosaur fossils.
  • probably not going to close the debate whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or not
  • the argument that [rest lines] mean cold-blooded is certainly not valid any longer
  • analyzed bone slices — as thin as strands of human hair — from 41 species of ruminants — mammals with four-chambered stomachs
  • Institute of Zoology at the University of Hamburg donated most of the skeletal specimens from its Oboussier collection
  • vast bunch of now-endangered and protected African animals gathered in the 1950s through the 1970s
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Saturn Moon Titan May Hide Buried Ocean | Space.com - 0 views

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  • The best evidence yet for a liquid ocean buried under the surface of Saturn's moon Titan has been found
  • New observations show that Titan warps during the gravitational tides
  • suggesting an ocean sloshes under its outer shell
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  • long been theorized but never confirmed
  • larger than the planet Mercury
  • biggest of the
  • moons orbiting Saturn
  • By monitoring how Cassini's acceleration changed during six close flybys past Titan between 2006 and 2011
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Titan's Tides Suggest a Subsurface Sea - 0 views

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  • s tidal flexing
  • mostly composed of rock, the flexing would be in the neighborhood of around 3 feet (1 meter.)
  • measurements taken by the Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn since 2004, Titan exhibits much more intense flexing — ten times more, in fact, as much as 30 feet (10 meters
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  • the presence of such an ocean — possibly containing trace amounts of ammonia – would help explain how methane gets replenished into the moon’s thick atmosphere.
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Shenzhou-9 Landed - YouTube - 0 views

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  • China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft returns to Earth
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Understanding what's up with the Higgs boson - 0 views

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  • CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, will hold a seminar early in the morning on July 4 to announce the latest results from ATLAS and CMS, two major experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that are searching for the Higgs boson
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NASA Space Shuttle Trainer Lands in Seattle | Shuttle Musuem Displays | Space.com - 0 views

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  • Seattle's The Museum of Flight moved a nose closer to exhibiting a full-size mockup of the space shuttle on Saturday (June 30) with the delivery of the front section of a retired astronaut trainer by a large NASA cargo plane
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Landing Pictures: Space Station Expedition 31 Crew Returns to Earth | Space.com - 0 views

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  • Soyuz Landing Photos: 31st Space Station Crew Returns to Earth
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Expedition 31 Crew Lands Safely in Kazakhstan - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Expedition 31
  • safely on the steppe of Kazakhstan near the town of Dzhezkazgan on July 1, 2012
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More clues soon in hunt for Higgs particle - 0 views

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  • On Monday, scientists working at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in the midwestern US state of Illinois will announce their latest Higgs search results based on data from Tevatron experiments there.
  • The Tevatron
  • closed down last year, but physicists have continued to scrutinize its data in the hunt for the Higgs.
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  • physicists have double the data they had last year
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Physicists Bet They're Homing In On Higgs - Science News - 0 views

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  • Fermilab’s data come from its now-shuttered Tevatron collider
  • Between 2001 and 2011
  • it gathered data on 500 trillion such collisions
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  • If the Higgs is found, the question turns to whether its properties match predictions made by the standard model, or whether they are slightly different
  • How long it will take, though, remains a mystery. “I can tell you 2012 is the year” to learn if the Higgs exists or not, says Tom LeCompte of Argonne National Laboratory. “I can’t tell you July is the month.”
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All Dinosaurs May Have Had Feathers - Science News - 0 views

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  • A newly discovered, nearly complete fossilized skeleton hints that all dinosaurs may have sported feathers.
  • Eventually, the study’s authors hope to figure out the color of the dinosaur’s feathers. But because color tests require fossil snippets, scientists would have to clip bits from the dinosaur’s remains. And since this specimen is one of a kind, researchers aren’t quite ready to disturb it.
  • So far, nearly all of the feathered dinosaurs ever discovered have come from eastern Asia. But excavators unearthed this fossil in southern Germany
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"Beautiful" Squirrel-Tail Dinosaur Fossil Upends Feather Theory - 0 views

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  • Previously, paleontologists have found feathers only on coelurosaurs—small, birdlike dinosaurs that evolved later than so-called megalosaurs suchas Sciurumimus.
  • the oldest known meat-eating dinosaur with feathers
  • hatchling had a large skull, short hind limbs, and long, hairlike plumage on its midsection, back, and tail.
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  • Because Sciurumimus is from a completely different branch of the dinosaur family tree from the coelurosaurs, the new fossil suggests feathered dinosaurs were the norm, not the exception
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Video: MIT Alumni Bring Spacesuit Tech to Temperature-Regulating Dress Shirts | Popular... - 0 views

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  • team of MIT grads
  • Apollo line of dress shirts
  • use phase-change materials to absorb heat from your body to cool you off when it's hot, then release it when things cool down
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  • similar to technology used in NASA-approved spacesuits
  • anti-microbial coating
  • been a hit on Kickstarter
  • blowing past its initial goal of $30,000
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Ministry of Supply: The Future of Dress Shirts. by Ministry of Supply - Kickstarter - 0 views

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  • the proprietary Apollo blend of fibers. And it’s ready for production.  
  • already manufactured and sold incredible, premium dress shirts
  • After the campaign, the Apollo Shirt will likely retail for $129
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Ministry of Supply: 2012 America's Coolest College Start-ups | Inc.com - 0 views

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  • Ministry of Supply’s “agent shirt” and undershirts are made of moisture-wicking fabrics with antibacterial coatings and are wrinkle-free
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New Particle at World's Largest Atom Smasher is Likely Higgs Boson | LHC | Space.com - 0 views

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  • Physicists are more than 99 percent sure that they've found a new elementary particle that is likely the long-sought Higgs boson.
  • they'd seen a particle weighing roughly 125 times the mass of the proton
  • it must be a boson and it’s the heaviest boson ever found
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  • The Higgs
  • is thought to hold the key to one of the mysteries of the universe: Why do things have mass?
  • statistics reach a level called 5 sigma, meaning that there is only a one in 3.5 million chance the signal isn't real.
  • data clear signs of a new particle, at the level of 5 sigma, in the mass region around 126 GeV
  • GeV stands for gigaelecton volts
  • Today's findings come from the two general-purpose experiments at LHC, ATLAS and CMS. Both observed particle collisions independently and analyzed their observations separately
  • scientists from each team were not allowed to tell each other what they found until today, for fear their results would bias the other experiment's researchers toward looking for the same results.
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