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This is the decade: Alien planets, alien life

Impact: Exogenous Life    January 22, 2011
Fourth in a series of posts inspired by ten topics in ‘Insights of the Decade’ from the December 17, 2010 special issue of Science Magazine The topics are: Inflammation, climatology, tricks of light, alien planets, the microbiome, cell development, Martian water, the DNA time machine, cosmology and epigenetics. The original articles are now behind a [...]
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A different kind of lens for time

News: Cosmology    March 3, 2010
In the sense that a lens refracts (bends) light, you could say that using galaxies as a lens is reasonable – if the scale of measurement is nothing less than the age of the universe. It never hurts to have confirmation (in science and a lot of other things). While we know from various studies [...]
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