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Blog / Perseid Meteor to Light Up Night Sky

August 10, 2016August 9, 2016 / JoEllen McBride / 1

The Perseids are here! This annual meteor shower is one of the best and brightest, but this year it’s predicted to be even more spectacular. So, if you’re in a…

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Blog / The End of A Planetary Road Trip

July 30, 2016July 30, 2016 / Josh Fuchs /

Recently, NASA’s JUNO spacecraft slowed down by 1,212 miles per hour in a carefully coordinated 35 minute maneuver. This slowdown is similar to you slamming on the brakes to stop…

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Blog / The Physics Behind the Newest OK Go Video

March 15, 2016October 7, 2019 / Josh Fuchs /

I first heard of the band OK Go when they released their music video for ‘Here It Goes Again,’ which features the band members cruising back and forth over treadmills.…

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Blog / Biology and Physics Meet in the Middle

February 24, 2016March 3, 2016 / Lydia Morris / 1

Scientists thrive on “aha” moments— breakthroughs in knowledge that come from careful planning or perhaps fortuitous luck. For a team of researchers led by Josh Lawrimore, a fourth-year graduate student…

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Blog / Discovering New Horizons

January 13, 2016October 7, 2019 / JoEllen McBride /

Humans need to explore. Not because it is in our DNA – the gene for exploration hasn’t been discovered yet – but because it is essential to our survival and…

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Blog / The Pillars of Creation and Destruction

September 4, 2015October 7, 2019 / JoEllen McBride / 1

We like to think of the Universe as static. Our time is very short compared to the age of the Universe. But there are processes in space that happen on…

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Blog / The Trouble with Reproducibility in Science

August 11, 2015March 1, 2016 / Nicole M. Baker /

As scientists, many of us have read a paper, been inspired by the glamorous data, carefully followed the methods section in order to replicate the results in our own hands,…

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