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...buzz is 55 Cancri, about the size and age of our sun, located just 41 light-years away. This is not the first time a planet has been seen orbiting the star. In 1996 Geoffrey Marcy, a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and astrophysicist Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington spotted a different Jupiter-size world circling 55 Cancri in a close-up orbit just 10 million miles from the solar fires--closer than little Mercury orbits our own sun. All told, astronomers have found about 90 big planets circling many other stars, either...
...world revealed by Marcy, Butler and their team last week, however--yet another around 55 Cancri--is an entirely different beast. About 3.5 to 5 times the mass of Jupiter--close enough by planetary standards to be a sister--it orbits at a distance of 510 million miles, remarkably like Jupiter's 480 million. The new world takes 13 years to complete a single orbit; Jupiter takes almost 12--again, all but identical...
...beyond 55 Cancri and our sun may have their own Jupiter-size planets, their orbits often carry them through this habitable zone, preventing small Earth-size worlds from gaining a toehold. "An Earth-like planet can't get established when a Jupiter-size wrecking ball is sailing through," explains Butler...
...developed a vacuum-cleaning droid with powerful dust sensors, while Sanyo is working to commercialize a remote-controlled guard dog equipped with a digital camera and mobile phone. Sony has taken a slightly different approach. While Honda researchers pursue the holy grail of the film Bicentennial Man?a mechanized butler?Sony's vision is closer to the sci-fi movie A.I., which features a boy-bot that offers unconditional robot lovin'. The company has sold more than 100,000 of its toylike AIBOs since the robo-dog was introduced three years ago, at an average price of $1,500 each...
Marketing major Jonathan Mackey, who graduated in December from Butler University in Indianapolis, Ind., tried to compete for jobs against experienced sales professionals and M.B.A.s, and is now awaiting medical clearance for the Peace Corps. "My friends aren't doing a whole lot better," he says. "It's a relief to know it's not just...