Discover Magazine - January 2003 Issue
Check out Discover magazine's January 2003 issue - it's a look back at the top 100 science stories of 2002; serving as a quick summary of what important science was done last year. Some of the highlights are: (66) Why space suits don't fit women - they were actually designed to fit men, that's why; (10) Gigahertz waves detected confirms Big Bang; (74) Babies are a lot smarter than we thought - and researchers still have to confirm that the majority of parents are given too much credit for having smarts; (75) The average colour of the universe turns out to be a pinkish beige - this after the colours of the stars from 200,000 galaxies were averaged; (3) The world's population growth is slowing down - the biggest reason? Women don't go for having kids as they did before. For example: roughly 40% of Brazilian women of reproductive age are now sterilized; (47) Last year, the US Congress voted to suspend animal rights for rats, mice and birds - this year, they're working on the researchers; (55) Stephen Wolfram and his book: A New Kind of Science; (34) Ice Ages may be brought on by the solar system passing through regions of the galaxy rife with supernovas; (2) Physicists found out that neutrinos are not massless after all; (7) Two mathematicians have provided a 13-line test for prime numbers - there goes cryptography and every secure transmission on the internet; (38) Quaoar discovered - located beyond Pluto, this 800-miles diameter minor planet is the largest found in our solar system; (42) Two physicists have figured out how to communicate beyong the speed of light - huh? (6) NASA discovers water at Mars south pole; (20) The US' EPA agrees that global warming is actually happening - Bush dismisses it as work of "the bureaucracy;" (65) Did Heisenberg try to build the A-bomb for Hitler? (16) Astrophyscists have proposed that Black Holes have no surface; (4) Researchers at CERN managed to "bottle" some antimatter. Check out the site for more!
Check out Discover magazine's January 2003 issue - it's a look back at the top 100 science stories of 2002; serving as a quick summary of what important science was done last year. Some of the highlights are: (66) Why space suits don't fit women - they were actually designed to fit men, that's why; (10) Gigahertz waves detected confirms Big Bang; (74) Babies are a lot smarter than we thought - and researchers still have to confirm that the majority of parents are given too much credit for having smarts; (75) The average colour of the universe turns out to be a pinkish beige - this after the colours of the stars from 200,000 galaxies were averaged; (3) The world's population growth is slowing down - the biggest reason? Women don't go for having kids as they did before. For example: roughly 40% of Brazilian women of reproductive age are now sterilized; (47) Last year, the US Congress voted to suspend animal rights for rats, mice and birds - this year, they're working on the researchers; (55) Stephen Wolfram and his book: A New Kind of Science; (34) Ice Ages may be brought on by the solar system passing through regions of the galaxy rife with supernovas; (2) Physicists found out that neutrinos are not massless after all; (7) Two mathematicians have provided a 13-line test for prime numbers - there goes cryptography and every secure transmission on the internet; (38) Quaoar discovered - located beyond Pluto, this 800-miles diameter minor planet is the largest found in our solar system; (42) Two physicists have figured out how to communicate beyong the speed of light - huh? (6) NASA discovers water at Mars south pole; (20) The US' EPA agrees that global warming is actually happening - Bush dismisses it as work of "the bureaucracy;" (65) Did Heisenberg try to build the A-bomb for Hitler? (16) Astrophyscists have proposed that Black Holes have no surface; (4) Researchers at CERN managed to "bottle" some antimatter. Check out the site for more!
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