Faye Flam

It lived for more than four billion years in the fringes of the solar system before a passing star would change its destiny, sending it o ...

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Science fans will get our own special entertainment on Thanksgiving this year. In addition to the usual football and college basketball g ...

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For Penn scientist Les Dutton, physics offers a simple, elegant, and potentially useful way of understanding what makes life alive — di ...

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register onlineThis Thursday, The Che ...

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Drexel University physicist David Goldberg will speak Saturday, Nov 16 for the ...

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If you hate reading maps or have trouble judging how much will fit in a suitcase, science writer Faye Flam feels your pain. ...

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For millennia, people have looked up at the stars and had no idea what they were seeing. It’s only been in the last few cent ...

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Few feats of our age could top the daring and excitement of Magellan’s voyage around the globe. This week the University of Pennsyl ...

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It would have surprising if all the other stars out there were devoid of planets. Why should our sun be so special? But until the mid-199 ...

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We’re not talking about pit bulls dressed as pirates or dachshunds turned into hot dogs. In the wild, sometimes imitating something ...

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My first instinct was to purr with approval when I saw the headline, ...

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I knew, before I went to see “Gravity” that the filmmakers took a few liberties with the science. I’d read a ...

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