Valentine’s Day is Sunday!  Instead of trying to decide what to get your significant other, spouse, or family member, suppress your hunter-gatherer instincts for a moment and think about the love you have for that person.  Thousands of symphonies, ballads, sonnets, plays, films and Jem songs have been written about the strength of a bond between two [...]

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This morning, exactly ten tramillion astronomers streamed from their hotel rooms into the first scientific talk of the day, which was the release of the first results from the Kepler mission.  The 5 plantes that were announced at the talk stimulated not only the scientific curiosity of the delegates, but also created a tremendous hunger [...]

The Allen Array is just starting up – we have to keep looking, and expand the array to give it a fighting chance. The only telescope array in the world that is focused on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has produced its first scientific results – but unfortunately there’s still no word from ET. Astronomers [...]