I’ve been a cheerleader for compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) in this blog and will abandon the technology in a millisecond. When it comes to technology, my loyalties are short lived. …
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MESSSANGER is the space probe that NASA sent to Mercury to give the Solar System’s innermost planet the first up-close look since 1975, when Mariner 10 flew by. The MESSENGER’s main mission will begin in earnest when it returns to Mercury and finally settles into an orbit around the planet, on…
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NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury-artist concept.
Photo by: NASA
I’ve been waiting for the “whole story” on Martian ice at the Phoenix lander site to unfold more completely, but the chemical analyses have not yet run their full courses-so I’ve decided to widen the focus on this blog to give a status report…
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Depiction of a major alignment of
the five visible planets in 1059 BCE.
Photo By Ben Burress
There are some pretty good “lineups” coming soon to skies above you.
First of all, “lineups,” or alignments, go on in the heavens all the time, though most often they are alignments of objects too faint to easily…
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You’re as likely to be struck by lightningas to have a severe reaction to a vaccine.
I was reading an article in Time last week about parents not vaccinating their children. The story was about how this phenomenon is becoming more widespread.
These kinds of stories are weird to me because vaccines are…
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Infrared image of a zebra from the London Zoo.
Credit: Steve LoweRight now I am very excited about the possibility of working on a new small telescope in southern Utah. This telescope was funded by a private donation and will be run by the University of Utah. We even found a mountain…
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Last week on QUEST, we took a look at the history of the San Francisco Bay’s most dangerous toxin: mercury. This week, now that the mercury is here in the bay, how is it affecting us? The obvious place to go was the Berkeley Marina, one of the bay’s…
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In honor of Earth Day, we wanted to take a big look at a chronic environmental issue in the Bay Area, tracing it from its origins to the contemporary strategies to solve it. Mercury was the obvious choice: It’s been flowing into the Bay since before California joined the…
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