Scientists are looking for Earth-like planets around other stars. But one way to limit the search can be to figure out where an Earth-like planet cannot exist and eliminate those types of systems. [More]
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Feed SubscriptionMagnetoastrocoolness: How Cosmic Magnetic Fields Shape Planetary Systems
AUSTIN, Texas Astrophysicists have a funny attitude toward magnetic fields. You might say they feel both repelled and attracted. Gravitation is assumed to rule the cosmos, so models typically neglect magnetism, which for most researchers is just as well, because the theory of magnetism has a forbidding reputation
Read More »B-list celebs hit the high seas
Now is your chance to sign up for the just-announced Kate Gosselin cruise and sail away with the two-time reality-TV star, former “Dancing with the Stars” competitor and celebrity blogger for CouponCabin.com.
Read More »Part I: The energy that drives the stars comes closer to Earth
Nuclear fusion drives the stars, including our sun. But on Earth, despite efforts dating to the 1940s, sustained and controlled fusion for electrical power production has never been realized
Read More »Video: Chaz Bono talks "DWTS" on "The Talk"
LGBT activist Chaz Bono discussed his performance on ABC's "Dancing With The Stars" with the women of "The Talk."
Read More »Fundamental question on how life started solved?
For carbon, the basis of life, to be able to form in the stars, a certain state of the carbon nucleus plays an essential role. In cooperation with US colleagues, physicists from the University of Bonn and Ruhr-Universitat Bochum have been able to calculate this legendary carbon nucleus, solving a problem that has kept science guessing for more than 50 years.
Read More »Too Hard For Science? David Brin – Raising Animals to Human Levels of Intelligence
If we cannot find aliens in the stars, we might create alien intelligences on Earth
Read More »Star.me Makes the Web Messier, More Fun
Humorist and TED speaker Ze Frank tells FastCompany how his new startup can help save us from living our entire online lives in blue and white. Ze Frank, the performer and humorist who once won a Webby for his personal website, is a guy who is plainly awed at the oddity of human beings on the Internet. He says the blue-and-white sterility of our popular social networks--Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Foursquare--is threatening to choke out the messy, weird home-made kitsch once typified by MySpace pages and message boards
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