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Space Weather
- The Universe Through the Looking Glass - A whole new world came to life for Alice when she passed through the looking glass.
- A Fantastic Monday Morning Sky Show - On Monday morning, Nov. 5th, anyone willing to step outside before dawn will see a fantastic display of stars and planets.
- The Sun is Bristling with X-ray Jets - Astronomers using Japan's Hinode spacecraft have discovered that the sun is bristling with powerful "X-ray jets."
- Ulysses Flyby of the Sun's North Pole - "This is a wonderful opportunity to examine the sun's North Pole at the onset of a new solar cycle."
- Touch the Invisible Sky: Exploring the Cosmos in Braille - Images from NASA telescopes are jewels of the space program, marvelous to behold. But how do you behold them when you can't see?
- Venus and Jupiter Converge! - The two brightest planets in the Solar System, Venus and Jupiter, are converging for a spectacular close encounter.
- Total Lunar Eclipse - On Wednesday evening, February 20th, the full Moon over the Americas will turn a delightful shade of red and possibly turquoise, too. It's a total lunar eclipse.
- Is the Moon Still Alive? - Conventional wisdom says the Moon is dead. Conventional wisdom may be wrong.
- First Light for Hinode - Get ready for some fantastic images of the Sun.
- 2006 Transit of Mercury - Mark your calendar: On Wednesday, Nov 8th, the planet Mercury will pass directly in front the Sun.
- A Growing Intelligence Around Earth - Indonesian volcano Talang on the island of Sumatra.
- Novarupta - In June 1912, Novarupta—one of a chain of volcanoes on the Alaska Peninsula—erupted...
- Strange Moonlight - Not so long ago, before electric lights, farmers relied on moonlight to harvest autumn crops.'Harvest Moon'
- PLUTO - HEADED FOR PLUTO
- Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
- MBARI News - Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
- The Space
Place - Come on in and check out our games, animations,
projects, and fun facts about Earth, space and technology.
- Space
Station Science - Picture of the Day Archive.
- See Learning In A
Whole New Light!
- Ciencia@NASA - Nasa Español
- Liftoff to Space
Exploration
- NASA KIDS -
A Nasa site dedicated to kids - Kids of all ages!
- SpaceFlight
Now -The latest news.
- Nasa - Office of Eucation
Science - News & Views
- BBC
NEWS - Science/Nature.
- EurekAlert!
- An online science news service, sponsored by AAAS, the
science society. It features health, science and technology
news from leading research institutes.
- Exploratorium
- The museum of science, art and human perception.
- HubbleSite
- NewsCenter.
- Nature Publishing Group
- Science journals, jobs and information.
- New Scientist.com
- Daily science news and technology news, hot topics,
and a comprehensive database of science jobs and technology
jobs.
- NOAA Magazine
- Publication of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA).
- Reuters AlertNet
- Aims to keep relief professionals and the wider public
up-to-date on humanitarian crises around the globe.
- ScienceDaily
Magazine - Research News in Science, Health &
Medicine, the Environment, Space, Technology, and Computers.
- Scientific American
- Science and Technology at Scientific American.com: Amphibians
Suffering Unprecedented Decline, Global Study Finds --
daily science news and technology news with in-depth astronomy,
spaces, nanotechnology, chemistry, and physics coverage...
- Union of Concerned
Scientists
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2007 Perseid Meteor Gallery
[observing tips] [sky map]
- 4000 Years of Women in Science - The History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the
Nineteenth Century.
- A
Black Box for People - Developed for astronauts, a
small device called "the CPOD" does for people
what black boxes do for airplanes..
- A
Chip Off the Sun - Sky watchers can enjoy a solar
eclipse this Friday when the Moon's shadow sweeps across
the Pacific Ocean and parts of the Americas.
- A
Close Encounter with Jupiter - This week, Earth and
Jupiter are only 400 million miles apart--the nearest
the two worlds will be all year.
- A
Close Encounter with Mars - Today Earth and Mars will
be closer together than at any time during the last 12
years.
- A
Cold New World -The Hubble Space Telescope has measured
the diameter of a distant world more than half the size
of Pluto.
- A
Day in the Life of a Space Walker - Astronaut and
explorer Jim Reilly tells what it's like to do construction
work in the far-out environment of space.
- A Disco Ball in Space - Students and scientists are teaming
up for a far-out experiment to monitor the outer reaches
of Earth's atmosphere.
- A
Galactic Center Mystery - Astronomers have learned
that the center of our Milky Way galaxy harbors a long-sought
black hole. But the finding has raised even more questions
than before.
- A
Gathering of Planets - The five brightest planets
are gathering in the evening sky for a rare after-dark
display.
- A
Gathering of Planets:Part II
- A
Greener Planetary Greenhouse - In recent years Earth-orbiting
satellites have seen plants growing more vigorously than
usual over northern parts of our planet.
- A
New Form of Matter - Scientists have created a new
kind of matter: It comes in waves and bridges the gap
between the everyday world of humans and the micro-domain
of quantum physics.
- A
New Form of Matter: II - NASA-supported researchers
have discovered a weird new phase of matter called fermionic
condensates.
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Pocket of Near - Perfection - Now orbiting Earth,
Gravity Probe B is a technological tour de force.
- A
Propitious Alignment of Planets - In ancient times
heavenly alignments foretold doom. Nowadays they set the
schedule for space exploration..
- A
Quirky El Niño - The 2002-03 El Niño has resisted
stereotypes with its unpredictable behavior.
- A
Rare Meteor Shower - Earth is approaching a cometary
debris stream that might trigger an unusual Antarctic
meteor shower this weekend.
- A
Shocking Space Movie - Astronomers have captured extraordinary
footage of a Manhattan-sized star rotating and spewing
antimatter jets into space.
- A
Spaceship Among Meteors - With millions of people
watching, the ISS will glide over North America during
the 2002 Leonid meteor storm.
- A
Star with two North Poles - Sometimes the Sun's magnetic
field goes haywire, and the effects are felt throughout
the solar system.
- A
Super Galactic Discovery - Astronomers have spotted
two supermassive black holes in the crowded center of
a distant galaxy. And it's only a matter of time, they
say, before the pair collide.
- A
Teacher in Space - Educator-astronaut Barbara Morgan
will visit the International Space Station in 2003.
- Activities and Quizzes on Science
- Science Quiz Activities to learn Physics, Chemistry
and Biology for Kids, Teens, School and College Students.
- Adventure
July/August - Human sacrifice, flesh-infesting worms,
flooded caverns—photographer Stephen Alvarez reveals
the secrets of the nightmare caves of Belize, and of life
in the field for Adventure.
- Alien
Atmospheres - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected
the atmosphere of a planet circling a distant Sun-like
star.
- Alka-Seltzer
Experiments - Not only does Alka-Seltzer help you
to feel better fast, it's also pretty cool to watch!
- Amazing GRACE
- A pair of satellites will soon begin mapping tiny variations
in Earth's gravity, allowing scientists to track the motions
of mass around and beneath the globe for the first time.
- Amazing
Magnetic Fluids - Astronauts onboard the International
Space Station are studying strange fluids that might one
day flow in the veins of robots and help buildings resist
earthquakes
- Ancient
Planet - Some 13 billion years ago in a distant cluster
of stars, a planet formed.
- Annihilating
Anthrax - NASA- and industry-sponsored research aimed
at growing plants in space has led to a device that attacks
and destroys airborne pathogens -- like Anthrax.
- Another
Daring Adventure for Galileo - NASA's durable Galileo
space probe is heading for a close encounter with an alien
volcano on August 6, 2001.
- Anthropology in the News
-From Texas A & M.
- Anthropology Subject Guide
- LSU Libraries,| Louisiana State University.
- Anthropology Tutorials -
Cultural and Physical Anthropology tutorials.
- Antibiotics
from Space - Test tubes of bacteria produce more antibiotics
in space than they do on Earth. Researchers aren't sure
why ... but they aim to find out.
- Approaching
Mars - Earth and Mars are converging for a close encounter
in August.
- Artificial
Cells - NASA-supported researchers are learning to
make designer cells for dehydrated blood supplies and
space-age medicines.
- Astronaut
Fingers - A device just delivered to the ISS will
add something important to space station research: the
human touch.
- Atmospheric Optics - Light playing on water drops, dust or ice crystals in the atmosphere produces a host of visual spectacles.
- Backyard Jungle
- A free, safe, kid-friendly website where users around
the world load photos, drawings, and descriptions about
the natural surroundings...
- Balancing
Brains - NASA researchers are learning new things
about the human brain by studying how astronauts regain
their balance.
- BBC Science
- Take a tour from the smallest atoms, to the largest
planets and the most ferocious dinosaurs.
- Beagle 2
- Mission home page.
- Beakman's World
- Bonus.com the SuperSite for Kids features over 2,400
fun, free, online activities for Kids. Free Games, Puzzles,
Brain Teasers, Build Things, Explore and More!
- Better
Bone Implants - Using space technology, NASA-funded
researchers are developing artificial bones for pain-free
hip implants.
- Big
Moonshine - Not all full Moons are alike. This week's
will be the brightest of 2002 -- but will anyone notice?
- Bionic
Eyes - Using space technology, scientists have developed
extraordinary ceramic photocells that could repair malfunctioning
human eyes.
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