New York Times: Fourteen Nobel laureates, including three whose prize-winning work involved data gathered by NASA instruments, have joined other prominent US scientists in signing a letter supporting President Obama’s plan for space exploration. The letter was sent yesterday to Representative Bart Gordon (D-TN), the chair of the House Committee on Science and Technology. The scientists wrote the letter in response to moves in Congress to restore funding to costly manned missions at the presumed expense of unmanned science missions.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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