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• Storms from the Sun: The Emerging Science of Space Weather

  From the casual conversation starter to the 24-hour cable channels and Web sites devoted exclusively to the subject, everyone talks about weather. There’s even weather in space—and it’s causing major upsets to our modern technological world. Space weather is all around us. There are no nightly news reports on space weather (yet), but we’re rapidly [...]

• 2001 Mars Odyssey (Developments in Hydrobiology)

  Mars, the most habitable of our sister planets, holds a special place in our imaginations and in our space exploration program. Fully half of NASA’s planetary exploration effort is now devoted to Mars. Key questions include: Has Mars ever harbored life? Is there life on Mars now? Will humans be able to survive on the [...]

• Galileo’s Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror

  The Dutch telescope and the Italian scientist Galileo have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind–so much so that it seems this simple glass instrument transformed a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the bold icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the extraordinary speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo’s [...]

• Signature in the Cell

  One hundred fifty years ago, Charles Darwin revolutionized biology, but did he refute intelligent design (ID)? In Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer argues that he did not. Much confusion surrounds the theory of intelligent design. Frequently misrepresented by the media, politicians, and local school boards, intelligent design can be defended on purely scientific grounds [...]

• Looking at the Stars through an Online Telescope

  In today’s modern hi-tech world, we are able to converse with people half way around the world with a click of the computer mouse. The Internet has opened up a whole new world of information and communication. Well, the field of astronomy is no exception and has ushered in a new way of viewing the [...]