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"What these people fail to realize is that there are bad guys out there," says the concerned senior intelligence official. But the trackers counter that if they can do it with binoculars and brainpower, so can any enemy. So why so much secrecy around not-so-secret satellites? Good question...
The good news is that just such a detection system, after a slow start, is rapidly gearing up. Four small groups of dedicated astronomers in Arizona and California, totaling fewer than the number of employees at an average fast-food restaurant and using mostly off-the-shelf equipment for their...
The economic downturn of the Chianti region in the ’70s is, thank heavens, a bygone era. Not so the deluge of so called supertuscans that resulted from the fiasco. Obiter dictum, the word “fiasco” alludes to another bygone era of Italy. One...
On Thursday, Edith Zierer was waiting for him. Fifty-five years ago, recently liberated from a Nazi work camp, the 14-year-old girl had walked as far as she could toward Krakow and then had lain down, expecting to die of exhaustion. "I was with swollen feet and with...
When New York City's American Museum of Natural History announced a few years ago that it would be rebuilding its hallowed Hayden Planetarium from the ground up, lots of New Yorkers screamed to the heavens--and Neil de Grasse Tyson, the planetarium's recently appointed director, couldn't blame...