Title: Can the gravitational effect of Planet X be detected in current-era tracking of the known planets?
Authors: Daniel C. H. Gomes, Zachary Murray, Rafael C. H. Gomes, Matthew J. Homan, and Gary M. Bernstein
First Author's Institution: Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 S. 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19104
Wavefront Shaping: From Telescopes to Biological Tissue | www.caltech.edu
Researchers in Caltech's Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering have made a major step forward in medical imaging by taking inspiration from the field of astronomy.
The paper describing this research was published in Nature Photonics on January 23 and is titled "High-gain and high-speed wavefront shaping through scattering media."
Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz – Locus Online
The very title of Annalee Newitz's The Terraformers suggests ambition, and not only the hubris involved in setting out to remodel whole planets as though they were unfinished basements.
Terraforming tales often follow the familiar template of planetary colonization stories: settlers followed by developers followed by some sort of crisis that, as often as not, results in a movement for independence.
Out There: Snow Job(Less) | The Highlands Current
The Nintendo game "Blanc" is about the closest we've gotten to winter this year. (Photos courtesy of Gearbox Publishing)
"Just wait until winter," she'd say at some point during the five-minute window between when she came home and when she'd pass out asleep.
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