This podcast is brought to you by the American Chemical Society. The global challenges chemistry solutions podcast from ACS discusses how chemistry research is critical in solving some of the world's most daunting problems, concerning energy, food an...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber .This will just take a minute. A year ago astronomers sent out an invitation. A robotic telescope called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey had produced almost a million images. Researcher...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mursky. Got a minute? Orbiting around stars far far away is sand. Astronomers have found sandy particles circling a pair of stars about 2,400 light years from us. And they think they might be...
Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations. If you've ever been to a planetarium, you know what it's like to look at stars and planets while an expert guide explains what you're looking at....
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By Jessica Berman Washington 19 March 2008 For the first time ever, astronomers using the Hubble space telescope have discovered the presence of the organic molecule methane in the atmosphere around a planet outside our solar system. While astronomer...
By Jessica Berman Washington 14 September 2007 Scientists have known for some time that most of the stuff in the Universe is so-called dark matter, material that cannot be seen directly because it does not interact with light. That makes it very diff...
By David McAlary Washington 14 September 2006 Astronomers have found that the universe began lighting up in its infancy. They have observed the most distant and oldest galaxies ever seen, small galaxies that helped lift the cosmos out of its dark ag...
By David McAlary Washington 12 January 2006 As astronomers detect more and more planets outside our solar system, they are finding that many of them have more than one sun, unlike Earth and its compan...
By David McAlary U.S. astronomers have made a finding they say increases the chance that distant stars may harbor planetary systems like our own. They have discovered two planets the size of Neptune e...
