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...Charbonneau searches for extrasolar planets by looking for signs of planets crossing in front of stars outside our solar system. Through a series of NASA-funded telescopes located in southern California that monitor 10,000 stars at a time, Charbonneau and his researchers scour the data, measuring the brightness of the stars. If a star is dark, it could be due to an eclipse from a planet in orbit around...
...Charbonneau and his team studied one such transiting planet with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and detected its atmosphere, marking the first discovery of the kind...
...most exciting, the opportunity to teach and inspire Harvard undergraduates to think about problems of public health nationally and globally would be an exciting extension of our faculty’s commitment to education at all levels and would open new worlds to the brightest young people on the planet...
LAWRENCE KRAUSS, a Case Western Reserve University physicist, in a sarcastic appraisal of Kentucky's new Creation Museum, which presents the Bible's version of Earth's history--that the planet was created in a single week just a few thousand years ago. The museum opened on May 28 as protesters rallied outside...
What evidence would convince you that global warming is a serious threat to the planet? -Jeff Young, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIAI have no doubt that global warming exists. I just question the cause and what we can do to ameliorate it. But I wonder why the Sierra Club isn't going crazy about the environmental aspects of massive immigration into the U.S. The fact is, Americans consume more energy than anyone else, so if a person moves here from another country, they automatically become bigger polluters...