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02-08-2010 - interviews

Bad Astronomy blogger Phil Plait on NASA's future

"This is not the end of NASA's manned space program," said Plait about the new NASA budget. "I see t >>

02-08-2010 - Space

Bad Astronomy blogger Phil Plait on NASA's future

"This is not the end of NASA's manned space program," said Plait about the new NASA budget. "I see this as a shake-up that is actually pretty important and may very well be needed desperately by NASA >>

02-08-2010 - Space

Tom Woods studies sun in super HD with NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory mission is studying the solar storms the drive our space weather here on Earth. >>

02-08-2010 - Earth

Vasily Titov's advances in tsunami forecasting

Titov explained that, today, as soon as an earthquake hits the Pacific, scientists collect data from tsunami detectors sitting at the bottom of the ocean. This information gets plugged into computer m >>

02-08-2010 - Agriculture

Johannes Lehmann on turning waste into a natural resource

Lehmann sees 'biochar' - the substance that's created when biomass is charred, rather than burned - as a way to improve local agricultural productivity, while at the same time preserving nearby ecosy >>

02-08-2010 - Earth

Daniel Sigman on ocean algae and global cooling

"Since CO2, a greenhouse gas, warms the Earth, ocean life effectively works to cool the Earth by helping remove CO2 from the atmosphere," says Sigman. >>

02-08-2010 - Health

Christine Biron studies body's first responders to infection

Natural killer or 'NK' cells really make a difference between health and disease, says Biron, "They can kill, or help kill, virus- infected cells." >>

02-01-2010 - Space

David Schlegel says BOSS will use ancient sound waves to map universe

"It's a very exciting time in astronomy right now, because we do have these big unknown questions about both dark energy and dark matter. Yet, at the same time, we now have these experiments where we' >>

02-01-2010 - Biodiversity

Paul Barrett on how dinosaurs' teeth reveal what they ate

Barrett said that just like the animals around us today, dinosaurs had teeth adapted to what they ate. But, Barrett said, certain dinosaurs had no teeth, which makes their diet a nearly unsolvable mys >>

02-01-2010 - Health

Francis Collins, National Institutes of Health director, speaks on 5-year priorities

Francis Collins, director of the NIH., spoke to EarthSky about NIH priorities for the next five years. >>

01-25-2010 - Agriculture

Andy Jarvis models the effect of climate change on world's top 50 crops

Jarvis said that previous studies have focused primarily on wheat, corn and rice, but food security on a global level depends on a lot more than those three big crops. >>