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WEDNESDAY 5. OCTOBER 2011


In praise of… the accelerating universe

The universe – far from disappearing – is accelerating, according to three scientists who have been awarded a prize by the Nobel FoundationDoes it matter to us whether the universe will ultimately be squeezed to death, like a car in a scrapyard compactor, or whether it will end by shooting off in all directions, like a merry-go-round disintegrating? It matters to the Nobel Foundation, which...

Who deserves a Nobel prize? Open thread

Now that the odds of Bob Dylan winning the Nobel prize for literature have shortened dramatically and the first posthumous award is to be made, we want your nominationsIt's Nobel prize season, and the range of possible winners is ever-expanding. Bob Dylan's odds of winning the prize for literature have been slashed from 100-1 to 10-1. The prize for medicine is to be awarded posthumously to Dr...

Spacewatch: The end of Rosat

If you thought that Nasa's odds of one in 3,200 that someone somewhere on the Earth would be struck by a piece of the falling UARS satellite were worrying, then the next major satellite decay poses even more of a risk. The German Aerospace Center puts the equivalent odds for Rosat, the Roentgen Satellite, at one in 2,000. In fact, your personal odds of being hit are more like 1 in 14 trillion, so...


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