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IEEE Spectrum February 2011 Spencer Klein |
IceCube: The Polar Particle Hunter Searching Antarctica for the frozen paths of cosmic-ray neutrinos |
Scientific American July 31, 2006 Mark Alpert |
The Neutrino Frontier Scientists are fascinated by neutrino oscillations because they may reveal phenomena that cannot be explained by the Standard Model, the highly successful but incomplete theory of particle physics. |
Scientific American September 2008 Mark Alpert |
Fermilab Looks for Visitors from Another Dimension A prototype liquid-argon detector called ArgoNeuT will pave the way for the MicroBooNE facility at Fermilab |
Popular Mechanics June 17, 2009 Joe P. Hasler |
Do We Really Need Another Satellite Orbiting the Moon? It is a tale of two satellites, a shared destination, and two very different missions. |
Wired Sarah Douglas |
3 Weird Things About the Moon Three small unknown facts about the moon. |
Popular Mechanics January 12, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
Moon-Rock Bricks Could Build Lunar Bases and Settlements One of NASA's most ambitious goals is to return to the moon and create a permanent base. Some scientists think that the materials for lunar buildings are on the moon already. |
Wired May 2003 Tom McNichol |
The Race Back to the Moon Astropreneurs are counting down for a return to Apollo country. The first small step: a satellite atlas of the lunar surface. The next giant leap: ice mining, helium farming, and a launchpad to the solar system. |
Science News September 9, 2006 |
Science Safari: Neutrino Detector A special underground laboratory created to detect subatomic particles offers descriptions of its facilities, updates on its experiments, and a special section for students and teachers. |
Chemistry World August 2009 Richard Corfield |
One giant leap NASA's Apollo missions answered many questions about the Moon - and as NASA unveils plans to return, lunar chemistry will again play a prominent role |
Popular Mechanics September 24, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Water Found on Moon These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. |
Scientific American January 2009 Charles Q. Choi |
Does Dark Matter Encircle Earth? Dark matter might exert measurable effects on the earth, moon and gas giants |
Popular Mechanics May 23, 2008 Erik Sofge |
The Next 5 Extreme Research Machines You Need to Know There's room for more than one groundbreaking megamachine in today's scientific pantheon. Around the globe, natural mysteries are under assault from all kinds of colossal devices. |
AskMen.com |
Water On The Moon The moon isn't the dry dull place it seems. Traces of water lurk in the dirt unseen. |
Popular Mechanics September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
Popular Mechanics October 2004 Harrison H. Schmitt |
Mining The Moon An Apollo astronaut argues that with its vast stores of nonpolluting nuclear fuel, our lunar neighbor holds the key to Earth's future. |
Scientific American March 2009 Davide Castelvecchi |
Colliding Philosophies: Smarter Algorithms Help Find New Particles A novel way to rummage for particles in accelerator debris |
InternetNews August 20, 2009 |
A Peek at NASA's Faster Connection to the Moon One giant leap for the U.S. space agency: 100Mbps connectivity from the Earth. |
Geotimes November 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Moon Tapes Still Missing As NASA officials continue to search for missing Apollo 11 moon landing tapes, the search has turned up some interesting leads, including some lunar data found on the other side of the globe. |
Popular Mechanics November 13, 2009 Jeremy Jacquot |
NASA Confirms There is Water on the Moon--But Where Did It Come From? By obtaining core samples like the ice cores collected by scientists in the Antarctic, it will be possible for scientists to study the climatic record of the moon and draw comparisons with the Earth's. |
Science News November 12, 2005 |
Moon Zoom A link to access software developed by NASA that allows you to interactively browse three-dimensional images of the moon. |
Geotimes February 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Tiny Moon, Gigantic Geyser A tiny moon of Saturn, no larger than England, is changing researchers' notions about which celestial bodies can support geologic activity. |
AskMen.com |
Bombing The Moon NASA will throw a one-two punch at the big old moon Friday and the whole world will have ringside seats for the lunar dust-up. |
Popular Mechanics September 4, 2007 Jill Tarter |
Where Will the Next 50 Years in Space Take Us? Expert Opinions Leading thinkers from Buzz Aldrin (a robot fan) to Arthur C. Clarke (he wants a sub-orbital joyride) share their thoughts on where space will take us in the half-century ahead. |
AskMen.com |
NASA To Bomb The Moon A pair of unmanned science probes will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Sweet |
Do We Need to Go to the Moon to Get to Mars? Returning to the moon is not all that technically challenging. What's challenging is to make it an international effort that puts behind past grievances and sets the stage for a truly challenging international mission to Mars. |
AskMen.com |
Water On The Moon NASA says a spacecraft that was intentionally crashed into the moon has turned up the best evidence yet of water. |
Wired December 2004 Andrew Chaikin |
Man vs. Machine Today, decades after the final Apollo mission, we still haven't sent a human back to the moon - or beyond it. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Stone |
Mining the Moon How the extraction of lunar hydrogen or ice could fuel humanity's expansion into space |
Popular Mechanics December 23, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
NASA'S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Is Ready for Its April Launch, but Will It Help the U.S. Return to the Moon? The orbiter is more than just another satellite looking at moon rocks -- this mission is one of the first steps in NASA's mission to return humans to the moon, and use the moon as a springboard to reach beyond. |
Geotimes May 2005 Laura Stafford |
Saturn's New Moon In a small space between Saturn's rings, scientists discovered a previously unknown moon, currently known as S/2005 S1, from the images sent back to Earth from Cassini less than a year after the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn. |
Chemistry World July 21, 2010 James Urquhart |
Volatile elements locked in moon rock Samples of a mineral present on the Moon and on Earth have been found to contain almost the same concentrations of hydrogen, chlorine and sulfur, adding weight to questions over how the Moon formed and evolved. |
Chemistry World July 9, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Water found in Moon rocks US researchers have found water in rocks from the Moon - prompting new questions about its origin. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John Rhea |
Money for space Space exploration is becoming politically fashionable again, and advanced technology firms would be well advised to get on board while the getting is good. |
Popular Mechanics June 2007 Ian Christe |
The Next Threat to Astronauts: Moon Dust NASA's plans for colonizing the moon by 2024 have hit a problem. Dust particles discovered by the Apollo crew can make their way into moonwalkers' lungs. |
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2007 Rand Simberg |
Space Gas Station Would Blast Huge Payloads to the Moon Boeing has unveiled a radical redesign of NASA's plan to return to the lunar surface: save weight by saving gas for an orbital fill-'er-up, then shoot 15 times more material to the moon. |
Scientific American March 13, 2005 Mark Alpert |
Lunar Science NASA's plan to establish a permanent lunar base and use the program's technology to prepare a human mission to Mars hinges on a risky prediction: that astronauts will find water ice in a permanently shadowed crater basin at one of the moon's poles. |
Chemistry World September 24, 2009 Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay |
A moist moon Strong evidence for water on the moon's surface has been found by three separate spacecraft-based spectroscopic studies. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 |
NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources NASA is using the unique optical capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope for a new class of scientific observations of the Earth's Moon. |
Popular Mechanics August 27, 2008 Erin McCarthy |
MythBusters Tackle Moon Conspiracies: Behind the Scenes Ever since man went to the moon -- and still today as America plans to go back (via DIY, NASA or the next president) -- there have been those who said we never actually made it there in the first place. |
Geotimes June 2004 Harrison H. Schmitt |
Space Exploration and Development: Why Humans? George Bush's new initiative places the president squarely in support of moving civilization into the solar system and "into the cosmos." |
Science News July 15, 2006 |
Science Safari: A Meteoroid Hits the Moon This NASA Web page describes observations of a recent meteoroid impact on the moon, which created a new crater. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 |
India Joins League of Lunar Nations Last November, India reached the moon, the fifth country to do so after the United States, Russia, Japan, and China. |
Wired December 2004 Patrick Di Justo |
Mysteries of the Cosmos The top 13 places to explore in outer space. |
Geotimes November 2004 Joseph Richard Gutheinz |
In Search of the Goodwill Moon Rocks: A Personal Account This senior special agent with NASA's Office of Inspector General was to locate and stop the predators who feed on the elderly by selling them bogus moon rocks, often for the victim's life savings. |
Popular Mechanics September 2007 Thomas D. Jones |
The Lunar Base: How to Settle the Moon (and Pay for Sleepovers) A four-time Space Shuttle astronaut explains what life will be like on NASA's four-man outpost come 2020, when the anti-Apollo mission will cast off aboard a new rocket and send explorers to hazardous territory. |
InternetNews December 19, 2006 David Needle |
Google Reaches Far Out For Users Google announced it signed a Space Act agreement with NASA Ames Research Center. |
Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Jetting Through Space President Bush announced on Jan. 4, 2004, his vision to return humans to the moon, Mars and beyond. Without the Cold War era impetus, however, NASA is searching for new ways to motivate development of innovative new vehicles to fly humans to the moon. |
AskMen.com February 3, 2011 Jason Heaton |
The Moon Phase: Degrees Of Complication The moon-phase complication holds a timeless fascination with watch lovers, at once irrelevant but equally timeless, and as long as there are mechanical watches, there will be moon-phase watches. |
Wired December 2004 James Cameron |
The Next Giant Leap Buzz Aldrin talks about his walk on the moon and the next step in manned space exploration. |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 David Noland |
Moon Man: Buzz Aldrin's Advice on NASA's Orion Mission Buzz Aldrin offers his thoughts on the next mission to the moon. |