Faye Flam
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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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Comet ISON Carries Piece of Primordial Solar System. Will the Sun Destroy it on Thanksgiving?
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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Penn scientist recognized for new view on the nature of life
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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Upcoming Events – Talk at Chemical Heritage Foundation on Covering Complex Science
register onlineThis Thursday, The Che ...
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Upcoming Lecture: Symmetry in the Universe
Drexel University physicist David Goldberg will speak Saturday, Nov 16 for the ...
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Lost in space: Is it possible to reprogram your spatial intelligence?
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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ListenNASA announces an abundance of habitable worlds
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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Science-related events this week: stargazing and circumnavigation
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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Worlds of iron and Styrofoam: The real surprise about all those planets around other stars
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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For these animals, every day is Halloween
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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Scientist claims people are dogs, too
My first instinct was to purr with approval when I saw the headline, ...
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Sex, ‘Gravity’ and a force even physicists can’t explain
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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