NASA's latest spacecraft, Kepler lifted off into a solar orbit but in a region close to earth. It's mission over the next 3 1/2 years is look for Earth-like planets by using a photometer that is very sensitive to variation in the light intensity emitted from stars....
Australian astronomers noticed a surprise blip on an image taken from Siding Spring Observatory, and announced that an asteroid, designated 2009 DD45 would pass about 40,000 miles from Earth on March 2. It did, and it was reported on most news services. And it...
The new administration in Washington has made it clear that it climate change would be one of the science-related issues that it would deal with, and there is clearly some evidence to support this. In an article in USA Today, entitled Politics heats up global warming...
About a week ago, I wrote a post entitled Volcano in Your Backyard, which was initiated by the Governor of Louisiana's comment that spending money on volcano monitoring was an other example of wasteful spending by the government. February 8, 1984, I was on board a...
Legislators in several states believe that laws need to be passed to ensure that students are engaged in critical thinking activities. However, the legislators have limited their own thinking, and have selected specific scientific theories that should be examined...
Volcanoes have received a bad rap recently, especially if the US Geological Survey is to receive "stimulus" funding to monitor and investigate volcanoes. According to the Governor of Louisiana funding "something called 'volcano monitoring' is an example of...
