Posted in In The News, Opinion on Mar 30th, 2006
[Administration, Cancer, Contamination, EPA, Groundwater, TCE, War on Science]Starting in the early 1980s, it became clear that the common industrial degreasing agent Trichloroethylene (or TCE, for short) might increase the risk of cancer in those exposed to it. Since then, over 80 studies have been published on the possible toxicological effects of TCE exposure. […]
Posted in Informative Articles on Mar 23rd, 2006
[Apollo, Lasers, LLRE, Lunar Laser Ranging, Moon, solar eclipse, Space, totality]While most folks remember Apollo for the videos and photos it returned of a foreign, desolate world, some of the science experiments left behind have gone under-appreciated. Two of the science experiments, the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment and the lunar seismometers (Passive Seismic Experiments), […]
Posted in Informative Articles on Mar 22nd, 2006
[Astronomy, Big Bang, CMB, Cosmology, Inflation, Science, Space, WMAP]In my undergraduate cosmology class my professor introduced this satellite as having brought about quantitative cosmolgy. While that’s probably just a bit of an exaggeration, this little craft definitely revolutionized the science. Prior to the launch of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) (and to […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Mar 21st, 2006
[Astronomy, Cassini, Cold Faithful, Enceladus, Life, Planetary Science, Saturn, Space, Water]Almost two weeks ago, Cassini mission scientists published a host of results pertaining to Saturn’s tiny moon Enceladus. The world had been given a hint of what to expect from the image on the right released last November that revealed a geyser of material […]
Posted in In The News on Mar 16th, 2006
[ESA, Mars, Mars Express, Planetary Science, Space, Water]Following the discovery of what appeared to be an ice-filled crater early this year, the MARSIS team announced that they have discovered a thin layer of water ice surrounding the southern polar ice cap. Though the layer is not very thick, its extent means that it contains […]
Posted in In The News on Mar 15th, 2006
[Astronomy, DNA, Double Helix, Life, Nebula, Spitzer]One of the reasons that astronomy appeals to so many people are the stunningly beautiful photographs of nebulae throughout our galaxy. Tomorrow’s edition of the journal Nature features a paper that explains just how a cloud of gas was twisted and formed into a double helix shape. […]
Posted in In The News on Mar 14th, 2006
[Mathematics, Pi, Topology, Universe]Here’s a short article that I wrote for DamnInteresting.com, but I finished it a bit late in the day so I’m not sure that it will get published:
Mathematicians (I won’t call them math geeks) are not generally considered wild partiers. Positioned in front of whiteboards endlessly writing arcane proofs and derivations, they […]
Posted in In The News, Informative Articles on Mar 13th, 2006
[Aviation Week, Blackstar, Dragon, Enceladus, SpaceX, The Space Review]While working on my new condominium (well not exactly while I was working, in the evenings more like), I enjoyed some great reading this last week, and some really terrific news from Enceladus. I’ll be writing a published research synopsis on the Science paper later today […]
Posted in Announcements on Mar 5th, 2006
[No Tags]My wife and I are buying our first home, and we are going to use Spring Break to clean, paint, and install floors, lights, and everything else. So, I’ll be taking a week off here unless something comes up that I feel the need to write about. Also, this will give me […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Mar 4th, 2006
[disaster, Geologic Hazards, Geology, Volcano, yellowstone]Before reading this week’s Published Research Synopsis, hop on over to DamnInteresting.com and check out my latest entry A Big, Big Hole in the Ground. Now that you have the basics down about the Yellowstone Supervolcano, we can dig a little bit deeper into what geologists are doing to […]
