An Astronomer's Fantasy - Planets in the Lab
If astronomers could somehow pull planets out of the sky and analyze them in the laboratory, it might look something like this artistically altered image illustrating new research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The...
Word of the Day
squidger
- The round disk used to play winks in the game of tiddlywinks.
- Someone who squidges a wink in the game of tiddlywinks.
The origin of this word is uncertain. The earliest citation, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is 1955.
Quote of the Day
In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withold provisional assent". I suppose that apples may start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. 
- Stephen Jay Gould
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