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	NASA - Top Story - neutron star explosion reveals inner accretion disk
		Scientists at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and NASA have captured unprecedented details of the swirling flow of gas hovering just a few miles from the surface of a neutron star, itself a sphere only about ten miles (16 km) across.
		Scientists say these superbursts are caused by a buildup of nuclear ash in the form of carbon from the helium fusion.
		The scientists said the bursting neutron stars serve as a laboratory to study accretion disks, which are seen (but in less detail) throughout the Universe around nearby stellar fl holes and exceedingly distant quasar galaxies.
	www.nasa.gov /centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0220stardisk.html (1278 words)

	Movie Scientists: Beyond Their Time
		The scientist as god, or the good scientist, is one of two seminal types of science fiction/horror movie scientists.
		Within the films, the good scientists realize that they are "playing god" but cannot turn away from their pursuits until it is too late.
		Like their evil counterparts, the bad scientists of the next session, they make choices in the pursuit of science that prove unacceptable to societal norms and cause their personal destruction.
	www.fathom.com /course/21701774/session2.html (2270 words)

	New Scientist SPACE - Features - 13 things that do not make sense
		The mission's scientists have all agreed that if Levin's instruments on board the landers detect emissions of carbon-14-containing methane from the soil, then there must be life on Mars.
		Almost all the mission scientists erred on the side of caution and declared Viking's discovery a false positive.
		When you consider the fact that the Big Ear telescope covers only one-millionth of the sky at any time, and an alien transmitter would also likely beam out over the same fraction of sky, the chances of spotting the signal again are remote, to say the least.
	www.newscientistspace.com /article.ns?id=mg18524911.600 (4139 words)

	TIME 100: Jonas Salk
		Many scientists were racing to make a polio vaccine in the '50s — but he got there first
		And just in case anyone wasn't scared enough, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis hammered the nightmare home with photos that seemed to show up everywhere of sad-looking children in leg braces.
		It was inevitable that whoever was first to allay such fears would become a national hero.
	www.time.com /time/time100/scientist/profile/salk.html (492 words)

	ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news and science breakthroughs -- updated daily
		Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new, high-throughput technique for identifying the many species of microorganisms living in an unknown "microbial community," --...
		Johns Hopkins scientists report the discovery of a protein found only in cerebrospinal fluid that they say might be useful in identifying a subgroup of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) or...
		Scientists have completed an extensive study of more than 3,000 patients who received a promising anti-inflammatory drug, natalizumab, that was linked to three cases of a serious brain infection in...
	www.sciencedaily.com (1522 words)

	IGN: The Top 25 PC Games of All Time
		Years ahead of its time, Elite used the simple graphics that were available at the time to put forth what still stands as the greatest space combat simulator ever.
		While it may seem a little bit crude now, for the time, Doom's graphics and gameplay were unsurpassed and every single first person shooter on the shelf owes its existence to the release of this title.
		With this accomplished, it was time to wait for an attack and for your scientists to research new items and equipment to help you in your battles to come.
	pc.ign.com /articles/082/082486p1.html (5246 words)

	Here They Are, Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Estimating from travel time that the towns were 5,000 "stadia" apart, Eratosthenes concluded that the earth must be 50 times that size — 250,000 stadia in girth.
		Aristotle would have predicted that the velocity of a rolling ball was constant: double its time in transit and you would double the distance it traversed.
		Galileo was able to show that the distance is actually proportional to the square of the time: Double it and the ball would go four times as far.
	www.nytimes.com /glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/24/science/24BEAU.html&OQ=_rQ3D3Q26orefQ3DsloginQ26orefQ3Dslogin&OP=1a909bfdQ2FRjgvR,lk!Q51llXPRP55PR5zRP(R!kegUkgRP(3Q60TAQ2BhXMc (1360 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Life \| 'I've seen things...'
		Whether you prefer the original theatrical version (with a bored-sounding narration and without the famed unicorn scenes) or the director's cut of a few years later (sans narration and unicorn duly re-inserted), Blade Runner was the favourite in our poll.
		"For the first time we got the idea that, in the far-flung future, people who live and work in space might be a bunch of Average Joe slobs sitting around with leftover pizza, smoking and playing cards to pass the time," he says.
		One of a few films to deal with problems of time travel, such as the grandfather paradox: if you travel back in time and kill your grandfather, you wouldn't exist so wouldn't be able to travel back in time to...
	www.guardian.co.uk /life/feature/story/0,13026,1290561,00.html (1468 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Magazine \| The physics hit parade
		Where D is the displacement field, E is the electric field, B is the magnetic-flux density, H is the magnetic-field strength, p is the free charge density and j is the free current density.
		This was joint top with Maxwell's equations and was discovered by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler in the 18th Century.
		If a and b are the lengths of the two shorter sides and c is the length of the long side, then all you need to do work out c is to add up the squares of the other two sides and take the square root of the answer.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/3721406.stm (888 words)

	Top Story - Scientists Worldwide Race to Observe Fading Gamma-ray Burst - Oct. 08, 2002
		Scientists have captured the optical afterglow of a gamma-ray burst just nine minutes after the explosion, a result of precision coordination and fast slewing of ground-based telescopes upon detection of the burst by NASA's High-Energy Transient Explorer (HETE) satellite.
		The quick turnaround has so far allowed scientists to determine a minimum distance to the explosion, which likely marks the creation of a fl hole.
		Thus, scientists have been hard-pressed to determine the origin of these events.
	www.gsfc.nasa.gov /topstory/20021008heteburst.html (1049 words)

	Doomsday Clock: Current Time \| thebulletin.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Chicago, February 27, 2002: Today, the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the minute hand of the "Doomsday Clock," the symbol of nuclear danger, from nine to seven minutes to midnight, the same setting at which the clock debuted 55 years ago.
		At the same time, Al Qaeda operatives were actively seeking to acquire radioactive materials to fashion either a crude nuclear weapon or a radiological dispersion device, commonly known as a "dirty bomb."
		Stronger international support for the global movement to limit the spread of small arms and to ban land mines, which each year maim or kill tens of thousands of people, most of them innocent civilians, would also be a welcome and necessary development.
	www.thebulletin.org /doomsday_clock/current_time.htm (2047 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Sci-Tech - Seconds out as scientists divided over time
		An international argument has developed between British astronomers and scientists working for American telecommunications firms who have called for the abolition of the "leap second" - the additional time unit used to keep modern atomic time-measuring systems in line with the earth's movement round the sun.
		It would be thousands of years before the change had a noticeable impact on the correlation between the clock and daylight, but the astronomers say it would immediately effect scientific projects, such as the satellite system used to track the progress of Hurricane Katrina.
		The proposals to abolish the leap second from 2007 are to be discussed at a meeting of the International Telecommunications Union in Geneva.
	news.scotsman.com /scitech.cfm?id=1975362005 (545 words)

	SPACE.com -- The Top 5 Telescopes of All Time
		When the limits of each new telescope are reached, be it a simple magnifying tube or a multibillion dollar space-based observatory, the scientists go back and try to make something more powerful and, sometimes, something novel.
		There are some telescopes that were so fundamentally innovative in design and so awesome at work that they stand out, even in a crowd of other mighty achievements.
		The telescope, as Galileo knew it, was unveiled in the Netherlands in 1608 and had become widely known in Europe by the time Galileo learned of it the following year.
	www.space.com /businesstechnology/technology/top5_telescopes_021023-1.html (509 words)

	SPACE.com -- Experts Pick: Top 10 Space Science Photos
		After millennia of staring up at the heavens, wondering, humans are now mapping it all in pictures, ultimate Kodak moments that provide vivid close-ups of pinwheels that used to be seen only as bright dots, glimpses inside ethereal stellar wombs, stunning clues to all that is and ever was.
		Image processors, curators, scientists and public information folks who decide what images to process, print, study and release.
		In the old days, much of Van der Woude's time involved late-night work, picking images from the Voyager spacecraft that would be released to the press the following morning.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/astronomy/top10_images_010925-1.html (1040 words)

	Paleontologists - AllAboutDinosaurs.com
		A paleontologist is a scientist who studies paleontology, learning about the forms of life that existed in former geologic periods, chiefly by studying fossils.
		William Parker Foulke was a US scientist and dinosaur artist who found the first American dinosaur skeleton, Hadrosaurus, a duck-billed dinosaur.
		The first dinosaur used for adult amusement was a life-size model of an Iguanodon (made of concrete by Hawkins) that was used to house a dinner party for scientists (including Richard Owen, who coined the term dinosaur) at a major exhibition in London, England, in 1854.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/Paleontologists.shtml (5238 words)

	The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Before the digital stopwatch, when you timed something, you had to do it on a wacky round device that ticked and was just as hard to read as a wall clock.
		Although professionals and teachers had used laser pointers for years, it wasn't until they dropped from $100 to less than $30 in the late '90s that kids were able to grab them and terrorize cats and moviegoers alike.
		And, on top of it all, there's the appeal of wearing a compact toolkit in a leather holster on your belt.
	www.zugatrons.co.uk /top-100-gadgets.htm (6010 words)

	Comixfan Forums - TOP 10 DC DEATHS OF ALL TIME
		She wed alien princes and fought off invasions, dined with poets, scientists and heads of state, fought crime, took on corrupt politicians and tried to form superhero teams to help her change the world.
		Identity Crisis took the time to introduce Sue to a new audience, retelling her story to make readers care about her life, before bringing on her death.
		Barry ran a race through time, reliving the greatest moments of his own heroic career, and buying the rest of the heroes of the DCU enough time to defeat the Anti-Monitor.
	www.comixfan.com /xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=32553 (6089 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Personal Favorites \| Top Fragrances of All Time, Part 1
		I was just giving you a hard time because I thought your racial biology stuff was crazy a while back.
		I'll tell you what got me the most raves one time from all the guys I work with: I went a little nuts one morning after doing pies etc. for the county fair, and cinnamon oil on for perfume.
		Scientists did some study where they found that one common food fragrance -- I'm almost positive it was grapefruit, but I could be wrong -- was found more alluring by men than almost any other fragrance, natural or man-made, that they tested.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/07/17/120147.php (3726 words)

	Bush Administration Accused of Suppressing, Distorting Science
		In a 46-page report and an open letter, the scientists accused the administration of "suppressing, distorting or manipulating the work done by scientists at federal agencies" in several cases.
		Excluded scientists who've received federal grants from regulatory advisory panels while permitting the appointment of scientists from regulated industries.
		Russell Train, an EPA administrator in the Nixon and Ford administrations who spoke on the protesters' behalf, described the Bush administration's treatment of science and scientists as so "dictatorial" that it was causing good scientists to leave the federal government.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0219-02.htm (1082 words)

	Unexplained Mysteries :: Scientists: Earth Travel Time on Schedule
		In a phenomenon that has scientists puzzled, the Earth is right on schedule for a fifth straight year.
		To make the world's official time agree with where the Earth actually is in space, scientists in 1972 started adding an extra "leap second" on the last day of the year.
		The leap second was an unexpected consequence of the 1955 invention of the atomic clock, which use the electromagnetic radiation emanated by Cesium atoms to measure time.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /viewnews.php?id=10459 (230 words)

	The Top 5 Best Inventions of All Time
		Though the guillotine may not be one of the best inventions of all time, it's history struck my fancy after reading in Parade magazine about someone who wanted to build one in his backyard for the sake of a conversation starter.
		Everyday we use things that have become second nature to us, but yet we give little time to thinking how these creations have been created and who was the mastermind behind them.
		This group is similar to a rehab program; people can talk with each other about their addiction to lip balm and all their near death experiences that lip balm has caused.
	www.elsegundousd.com /eshs/be2003/november/features/top5bestinventionsofalltime.htm (1250 words)

	The 10 best rock bands ever - MUSIC - MSNBC.com
		Almost miraculously, they embodied the apex of the form artistically, commercially, culturally and spiritually at just the right time, the tumultuous '60s, when music had the power to literally change the world (or at least to give the impression that it could, which may be the same thing).
		At the time the Rollin’ Stones (named for the Muddy Waters song, Oldham added the “g”) were a ragged RandB cover band, but their run at the Crawdaddy had generated much attention, and with the Beatles on their way up no one wanted to miss the next big thing.
		By February of '64, they reached the UK Top 10 with Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away,” which also cracked the Top 50 in the U.S. — the bad boys were on their way.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4595384 (5516 words)

	DrumNet - Top 5 Scientists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Any one of his great discoveries (mechanics, the universal theory of gravity, and the calculus) would put him in anybody's top five, and together they arguably form the greatest body of work by a single person in history.
		In a single stroke, Darwin transformed a field with a thousand different theories and nothing to make sense of them, into a single cohesive structure with the power to explain the origin and evolution of the entire panorama of life over the course of 4 billion years.
		I agree, but despite Einstein's seminal contributions I believe that quantum mechanics is a more important discovery than relativity, and I chose Heisenberg primarily as a representative of the group of physicists who formulated quantum mechanics between 1900 and 1930.
	members.cox.net /kdrum/Topscientists.htm (830 words)

	Top 1000 Scientists from the begining of time to 2000 AD by Philip Barker - Wikibooks, collection of open-content ...
		Top 1000 Scientists from the begining of time to 2000 AD by Philip Barker - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		Top 1000 Scientists from the begining of time to 2000 AD by Philip Barker
		This is a compilation of the top 1000 names in science as voted by 80 universities around the world and their biographical sketches.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Top_1000_Scientists_from_the_begining_of_time_to_2000_AD_by_Philip_Barker (231 words)

	Time to Redefine the Kilogram, Scientists Argue - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community
		Use this board to engage in collaborative discussion and debate on a broad range of conspiracy, extraterrestrial, secret project, government agency, and other alternative topics.
		Now a group of scientists is arguing that the artifact is archaic and the time has come to redefine this most basic measuring unit.
		Other countries bring their standards to Paris to compare – something the U.S. has done three times since the inception of the international standard in 1889.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread136414/pg (411 words)

	Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
		For the sake of national security, it is crucial to legally protect whistleblowers from retaliation, argue Sibel Edmonds and William Weaver.
		A troubling new government report suggests that U.S. missteps in the Iraq War may have elevated the dirty bomb threat by creating opportunities for terrorists or others to steal from Iraq's unprotected inventory of thousands of radiological sources, writes Andrew Grotto.
		It provides one-time awards of $2,500-$5,000 to three to five undergraduate students each year.
	www.thebulletin.org (738 words)

	Slashdot \| Slashdot's Top 10 Hacks of all Time
		It's an event that will live in infamy in the lore of the Internet for all times for the problems it caused, but that it could accomplish what it did shows an incredible understanding of the way the systems worked and how they were interconnected at the time it happened.
		A hack is often performed under a time crunch, thus a large reason for the lack of documentation and/or the job being done properly.
		Once upon the time, the military decided it would be really great to know exactly where you were anywhere in the world, say by just pressing a button on a hand-held unit.
	slashdot.org /features/99/11/24/0912234.shtml (7263 words)

	Epinions.com - Top Ten Ghost Movies of All Time!
		In the end, the movie spirals a bit out of control thanks to a transparent (no pun intended again) script, but there are several, several genuinely creepy scenes and some pretty amazing special effects that burned their way into my mind for a loooong time.
		The film is about a group of scientists who investigate the paranormal and manage to create ghost-capturing devices, which elevate them to a super-hero type status.
		Also, this film is ideal for repeat viewing because you get a chance to notice a lot of details you missed the first time when you were too busy riding the film's emotional roller coaster.
	www.epinions.com /mvie-review-66F9-2CAFE33B-399D568E-prod5 (1616 words)

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