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If you have ever considered "purchasing" a star for the purpose if attaching your name or the name of a friend or relative to it, the following tale is for you.

As academics work to understand the architecture of the universe, they sometimes uncover connections in mysterious places. So it is with Smith professor of mathematics Richard L. Taylor, whose work connects two discrete domains of mathematics: curved spac

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Since many of the tried and true tools we use on Earth will be impossible to bring, some scientists are hard at work inventing from scratch the machines we'll need to make life possible on the moon.

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The 200,000 processor core system known as Blue Waters got the green light recently as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign said it has finalized the contract with IBM to build the world's first sustained petascale computational system.

In preparation for a possible manned return to the Moon in just over a decade, NASA decided to tap into the ingenuity of students from the design school to arrive at novel some ideas as to how eliminate the risk of letting lunar dust into a future moon...

(Amanda Peet) Seven noted physicists—Jim Gates, Sheldon Glashow, David Gross, Joe Lykken, Amanda Peet, Stephen Weinberg, and Ed Witten—share their views on the meaning and nature of string theory.

NASA announced the creation of the Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration. The fellows will search for life on planets outside our solar system, the so-called exoplanets.

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