Word: scilla
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...Thanks to the evocatively named High-Accuracy Radial-Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), a telescope mounted atop La Scilla Mountain in Chile, Mayor and his team were able to detect a litter of new planets, some as small as four times the mass of Earth - tiny by exoplanet standards. One star, just 42 light-years away, is home to a trio of such worlds - which Mayor is now calling "super-Earths." The largest of the three is just 9.5 times as big as Earth, the smallest just 4.2 times. It was not only the modest size of all the new worlds...
...performances around Sept. 11 at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio. Music by Chloë Goodchild, who was flying over New York near the time of the attacks, will alternate with poetry readings and speeches from those who have renounced violence. "The arts," says the organization's founder Scilla Elworthy, "can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political." What power has theater to influence people's views? "Violence is often unthinking," says Mark Rylance, artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London and one of Elworthy's performers...
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