http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120326-oldest-planets-found-jupiter-big-bang-space-science//oldest-alien-planets-foundborn-at-dawn-of-universe Two huge planets, some 12.8 billion years old, are the oldest alien worlds yet discovered, astronomers say http://t.co/ajA7kdHt ]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:05:59 -0700 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120326-oldest-planets-found-jupiter-big-bang-space-science//oldest-alien-planets-foundborn-at-dawn-of-universe http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727721.200-rethinking-einstein-the-end-of-spacetime.html Physicists struggling to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics have hailed a theory – inspired by pencil lead – that could make it all very simple

IT WAS a speech that changed the way we think of space and time. The year was 1908, and the German mathematician Hermann Minkowski had been trying to make sense of Albert Einstein's hot new idea - what we now know as special relativity - describing how things shrink as they move faster and time becomes distorted. "Henceforth space by itself and time by itself are doomed to fade into the mere… ]]> Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:25:00 -0700 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727721.200-rethinking-einstein-the-end-of-spacetime.html http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health_medicine/4337315.html?do=print Pick up a 30-year-old astronomy textbook and you will find more illustrations of planets than actual pictures; Pluto still holds onto its full planet status and exoplanets are theoretical. In the intervening decades, new instruments and methods have acted together to form one giant, interdisciplinary zoom lens on our planetary companions in the solar system. We now not only have hi-res images of planets, we can also predict their weather, dig for water under their surfaces and send spacecraft through icy plumes on their moons. Planet by planet, here's a quick guide to how our vision of the solar system… ]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:46:00 -0700 http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health_medicine/4337315.html?do=print