Science

So You Think You Can Solve a Cosmology Puzzle?

Cosmologists have come up with a new way to solve their problems. They are inviting scientists, including those from totally unrelated fields, to participate in a grand competition. The idea is to spur outside interest in one of cosmology's trickiest...

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Double Vision: New Instrument Casts Its Eyes to the Sky

The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer has taken its first images of the star Beta Peg in the constellation Pictor -- an encouraging start for an instrument designed to probe the cosmic neighborhoods where Earth-like planets could exist.

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Phaeton Group's Rocket Launches From New Mexico

Recent college grads who work for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., successfully launched a sounding rocket 120 kilometers (75 miles) above Earth's surface on Monday, Dec. 6, from the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New...

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Phaeton Group's Rocket Launches From New Mexico

Recent college grads who work for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., successfully launched a sounding rocket 120 kilometers (75 miles) above Earth's surface on Monday, Dec. 6, from the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New...

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NASA Mars Rover Images Honor Apollo 12

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has visited and photographed two craters informally named for the spacecraft that carried men to the moon 41 years ago this week.

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Chinese supercomputer ranked world's fastest

A Chinese supercomputer has been ranked the world's fastest machine in a list issued by US and European researchers.

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In Brief: South African city looks to turn urine into fertilizer

South Africa's east coast city of Durban is looking at the feasibility of turning the urine it collects from 95,000 dry toilets into fertilizer.

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IT Management Slideshow: IT Professionals Wanted, But Hard to Find

Do you feel as if it's a challenge to find entry-level IT hires who can enter your workplace with the basic level of professionalism that the job requires? You're not alone.

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