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Monthly Archives: November 2011
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If you also think that sharing your research with a bunch of enthusiastic high school students is one of the best things about being a scientist, you will be interested in this London-based online outreach program: “I am a Scientist, Get me out of here! (IAS)” Here is how it works: About three or four times a year, IAS admins announce the application deadline for the interested candidates (aka graduate students and postdocs). If you are selected, the next step.... |
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4. As Shawn mentioned yesterday, neutrinos have once again made headlines recently where the OPERA collaboration has verified their measurement using a different beam and some groups have refuted their claims (surprise!). Here are 158 papers debating this issue. 3. Phobos-Grunt, the Russian mission to bring samples from the Martian moon Phobos got into trouble just minutes after the launch. There seems to be very little chance of a recovery. 2. In other news, humans on the other side of.... |
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The countdown is back! Now that PaleBlue.blog has more writers, we’re going to share countdown duties. So come by here to get a daily rundown of what’s happening in astrobiology, planetary sciences, and earth/climate research. We’ll also continue to post more thoughtful “essays,” and will try to stack these on weekends when we have more time to write and you have more time to read and we all have more time to think. Today there are some political things in.... |
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It’s official… We’re doing a FameLab Astrobiology event!!! Enter. Learn. Win. Learn more and register here: http://astrobiologyfamelab.arc.nasa.gov/ Here’s the press release: http://famelab.org/uk/news-events/nasa-makes-science-communication-competition-interplanetary More details on this later… for now I’ll just say I can’t wait to see what you all come up with. |
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More to follow, but I wanted to post quickly (VERY quickly as my keyboard is racing my battery) about the Science Update on Europa. The basic gist is this: Earth scientists had a well-validated model for how certain terrains form on Earth They applied this model to the chaos terrains on Europa They were able to explain these features quite well, arguably much better than previous efforts If the work holds up (remember, this is a a hypothesis to be.... |
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Europa, home to a subsurface ocean and thus one of the most habitable planets known, will be the subject of a press conference tomorrow. You can catch it on NASA TV at 1 PM EST (check local cable listings)… or online at: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv. You can see the announcement of the science update here: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/nov/HQ_M11-233_Jupiter_Moon.html Here’s who will be on the panel: - Britney Schmidt, postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin - Tori Hoehler, astrobiologist and senior.... |
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Astrobiology Magazine Top Story |
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