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Earth’s sister in the crosshairs

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Earth’s sister is out there, somewhere, and scientists searching for planets that may support life believe they are closing in on finding just that. “Maybe this year, maybe next — before 2014,” predicted Harvard astronomer Dimitar Sasselov, head of...

Toward a science of simplicity

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Cheap, functional, reliable things unleash the creativity of people who then build stuff that you could not imagine. There’s no way of predicting the internet based on the first transistor. — George Whitesides Simplicity: we know it when we see it - but...

Good day, moons

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Now that astronomers routinely find far-flung planets orbiting other stars, a fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is pushing into a new frontier in detecting bodies outside our solar system: distant moons. “It’s the next big...