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Among the projects on the block to pay for the $3 billion cut is the NuSTAR satellite, which would have used x-ray detection to find black holes, galactic nuclei and supernovae; the Terrestrial Planet Finder, which, as its name suggests, would hunt for Earth-like planets around other stars...
I have to admit, I find the entire process of finding a summer job very intimidating. Last summer, as my friends’ internships led them to conquests on Wall Street, launchings of their 2024 presidential campaigns, establishments of new religions, etc., I found myself coaching 10-year-olds at...
“Huge.” That is the only word Harvard men’s hockey coach Ted Donato ’91 could use to describe the importance of this weekend’s road games. Given its competition, “difficult” may also...
Astronomers have found more than 150 planets orbiting distant stars, but they?ve all been so much bigger than Earth that they?re totally inhospitable to life. But now, with a little help from Albert Einstein, they?ve spotted a world that is by far the smallest ever found- albeit...
The good news, however, is that it?s at least relatively earthlike- and because it's only the third planet discovered this way, the proportion of earthlike planets is probably pretty high. That means Einstein?s trick of light is almost certain to yield others. So while this isn?t...