Physical Science

When Congress asked the U.S. space agency NASA how the world can be protected from marauding asteroids and careening comets, the officials at NASA gave a collective shrug and space agency chief Charles Bolden simply responded: “Pray.” That’s the unsettling…
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has photographed a rodent on the surface of Mars! Or a rock. Such is the potentially historic news making waves on sites such as the Huffington Post, which ran a story on the blurred but suggestive photo…
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Under President Obama’s 2011 budget proposal, NASA’s Constellation program is canceled, and NASA is given the outline for a new direction. Constellation was supposed to be the program that got America back to the moon and beyond. Does its cancellation…
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Naiad, a tiny moon of Neptune was lost and had not been seen for over twenty years. The elongated-shaped moon was originally discovered in September, 1989 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Since 1989 all attempts to view the tiny moon…
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Legends about the stars have been with us since the dawn of recorded history, many thousands of years ago. As time has gone by, the legends have been greatly refined, but they still exist. Many of these legends were created…
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Analysis of soil samples from the surface of Mars has revealed that there is an abundance of water on the Red Planet. The astonishing results, which may have profound implications for any future human exploration of the Red Planet, were…
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“We’re on Mars again.” These simple yet astonishing words were spoken by NASA chief Charles Bolden as the Curiosity rover touched down on the Red Planet one year ago this week. The one tonne mechanical marvel had survived a nine…
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Updated report. How can the U.S. and world economy be saved? Simple: mine asteroids. That’s the ambitious plan that motion picture producer-director, adventurer James Cameron and Internet search engine giant Google announced to a stunned media. Details about the out-of-this-world…
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The USA’s prestigious space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, loves to talk about nuts and bolts, engineering, space exploration and the life humans may discover “out there.” The space agency is even willing to discuss shuttle toilets and…
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What happens chemically when acids and bases are mixed?  If general the two cancel each other out and you end up with salts and water!  What happens chemically when you mix acids with bases?  You can get strange smells and…
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