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...Allen. He works at least six hours a day, scanning new scientific literature and regularly charting fluctuations in the intensity of incoming cosmic rays. In a paper published last year in the prestigious Geophysical Research Letters, he reported new data from the Pioneer 10 and the two Voyager spacecraft, all still alive at the time and the most distant man-made objects in the universe. Those data proved that the effect of the solar wind, the charged particles emitted by the sun, reaches out more than 7.5 billion miles in all directions. The finding provided "beautiful evidence," Van Allen says...
...debut novel, The Guru of Love, Upadhyay applies his cool hand to universal themes like money worries, infidelity and evil mothers-in-law. He tells his story well?even if we have heard it before. The book's title is a cosmic joke on its sad-sack protagonist. Middle-aged Ramchandra is far from a guru of love, or much of anything except for mathematics, which he teaches at a grubby Kathmandu school and to private students desperate to pass college-entrance exams. It's through these extra tutoring sessions that Ramchandra hopes to scrounge together enough rupees to move...
...stars turned on just 200 million years after the Big Bang. Finally, the universe is made of three things in the following proportions: 4% ordinary atoms; 23% "dark matter," whose nature is still unknown; and 73% "dark energy," the equally mysterious force whose antigravity effect is speeding up the cosmic expansion. "This," says astrophysicist John Bahcall, of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., "is a rite of passage for cosmology, from speculation to precision science...
...that radiation are patterns of warmer and cooler spots, marking places where matter was a little more or less dense than average--spots that would eventually evolve into the clusters of galaxies and empty spaces that we see today. These patterns were first detected in crude form by the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite in 1992, but without enough detail for much to be said about them...
...longer governing Minnesota, Jesse Ventura has agreed to take a job for which he is far more qualified—teaching a Harvard science class. “The Body” turned “Mind” will introduce students to the many parallels between our cosmic universe and professional wrestling. How did we get here? Will Rowdy Roddy Piper defeat Rick Flair in next week’s steel cage match? What are planets? Guest lecturers include “Mean” Gene Okerlund and Vince McMahon. Demonstrations, including a simulation of a figure-four...