Nature: Contrarian theory argues against meteorite killing dinosaurs.
Gas may be to blame for extinction
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Monthly Archives: October 2007
U.S. team to help North Korea nuclear disabling
Reuters: A team of U.S. experts is heading to North Korea to help ready steps to disable a key nuclear complex, senior U.S. envoy Christopher Hill said in Beijing, where he was due to meet his Pyongyang counterpart.
Big little black hole baffles astronomers
MSNBC: Collapsed star is too massive to be explained using current theories
Nuclear Renaissance In Russia?
Forbes: Russia, the world’s second nuclear power, has long had an active nuclear-energy industry, including exporting reactors to countries such as India and Iran. Yet until recently, the Kremlin devoted far less attention to nuclear energy than to the country’s massive and profitable oil and natural-gas industries. In 2005, President Vladimir Putin indicated his interest in the sector by appointing former Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko to head Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom).
Why They Called It the Manhattan Project
The New York Times: By nature, code names and cover stories are meant to give no indication of the secrets concealed. “Magic” was the name for intelligence gleaned from Japanese ciphers in World War II, and “Overlord” stood for the Allied plan to invade Europe.
Panel Urges Bush to Drop Nuke Waste Plan
The San Francisco Examiner: A panel of the National Academy of Sciences urged President Bush on Monday to abandon an ambitious plan to resume nuclear waste reprocessing that is the heart of the administration’s push to expand the civilian use of nuclear power.
The climate change censor
The Boston Globe: It is a race against the eraser. By the end of the Bush administration, we could all be rubbed out.
Utterly unashamed, the White House heavily deleted yet another major document on global warming. It blanched out the Senate testimony of Julie Gerberding, director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Comet Holmes brightens, taking it from obscurity to high visibility
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A comet that until recently was invisible to the naked eye has become a shining star in the night sky, easily seen even through the bright lights of the Pittsburgh region.
New paper proposes that dark matter doesn’t exist
Space.com: Two Canadian astronomers think there is a good reason dark matter, a mysterious substance thought to make up the bulk of matter in the universe, has never been directly detected: It doesn’t exist.
More questions arise over suspected nuclear site in Syria
The New York Times: The mystery surrounding the construction of what might have been a nuclear reactor in Syria deepened yesterday, when a company released a satellite photo showing that the main building was well under way in September 2003 — four years before Israeli jets bombed it.