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• Two halves of NASA merge at half-century
To this day, scientists and policy experts debate which side of NASA — robots or humans — has provided the most bang for the buck. Roughly 60 percent of NASA's $17.3 billion budget went to manned exploration this year, with another 30 percent ...
• Fineman: Bailout ushers in the era of Obama
It did so not with a bang, but with a whimper — a cry of help from erstwhile Masters of the Universe who suddenly feared for their platinum-level lives. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson could hear those cries because, until two years ago, he was a ...
• The Grid we live in
Some grand cosmological theories suppose an oscillating universe, where the universe (that is, the big dimensions of the universe) repeatedly shrinks to a choke point, then has a Big Bang, expands to its maximum size, and then shrinks again to a ...
• Clinton summit warns on global warming
NEW YORK - Bill Clinton's fourth annual, star-studded philanthropy and cause-advocacy thinkfest — the four-day Clinton Global Initiative — kicked off Wednesday with a bang of urgency, rife with references to global climate change, the U.S ...
• Mysterious ‘dark flow’ found in space
By observing the interaction of the X-rays with the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is leftover radiation from the Big Bang, scientists can study the movement of clusters. The X-rays scatter photons in the CMB, shifting its temperature in an ...