SpaceX Close to Figuring Out Rocket Failure During Launch
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SpaceX still is trying to figure out what caused its rocket to break apart […]
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Spacecraft Closing In on Pluto Hits Speed Bump, but Recovers
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is on track to sweep past Pluto next week despite […]
AM Clouds/PM Sun for today in #Pully, #Switzerland!
Good morning This is the #weather forecast for #today: With a high of 24°C and a low of […]
March 30, 1930: Pluto Is Discovered
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR The New York Times said, “In the little cluster of orbs which scampers across the […]
Review: ‘Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole’
By VIRGINIA HUGHES The neurologist Allan H. Ropper and his co-author, Brian David Burrell, offer an inside look, […]
Reaching Pluto, and the End of an Era of Planetary ...
By DENNIS OVERBYE When the New Horizons craft passes Pluto as expected July 14, we will have explored […]
Mystery of the Lizards That Know the Way Home
By JAMES GORMAN A biologist has turned detective in an effort to learn how anoles, which never leave […]
Texas Scientist With a Thing for Longhorns
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS David M. Hillis, an evolutionary biologist, has employed genetics, biochemistry and computation to figure out […]
Sunny for today in #Pully, #Switzerland!
Good morning This is the #weather forecast for #today: With a high of 34°C and a low of […]
Almost Time for Pluto’s Close-Up
By KENNETH CHANG In a few days, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will zip past the former ninth planet, […]