Backyard Sketches

• Dating a globular may give you a case of X-ray binaries
  (tags: space science physics astronomy)

• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Dull jobs really do numb the mind
  I knew it!
  (tags: science brain health psychology work)

• Physicists Renew Claim, in New Experiment, of Detecting Dark Matter Particles – New York Times
  A team of Italian and Chinese physicists on Wednesday renewed a controversial claim that they had detected the mysterious dark matter particles that astronomers say swaddle the galaxies in halos and direct the evolution of the universe.
  (tags: physics)
• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nasa ‘should follow Columbus’
  Professor Stephen Hawking has called for a new era of space conquest akin to Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the new world.
  (tags: astronomy space)

Just got an email from Astro-Physics and thought my name had come up after, oh, months of waiting! Alas, it was only to confirm that I wasn’t another me living in California :(

Not that I have the money to be buying AP telescopes at the moment :D

• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Gravity ‘ripples’ hunt upgraded
  The next phase in physics’ great 21st century quest – to detect gravitational waves – has been approved.
  (tags: astronomy physics science)