by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 8, 2009 | Blog, News
Tomorrow (Friday, Oct 9) at 7:31:19 a.m. EDT and 7:35:45 a.m, Centaur and LCROSS spacecraft (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) will search for water ice on the Moon by making two impacts into the moon’s Cabeus crater at the lunar South Pole. And...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 6, 2009 | Blog, News, Science Education, video
This is a video of Sally Ride on CNN talking about her space adventure as America’s first female astronaut. I had the honor of working closely with Sally Ride several years ago, first at Space.com, then when she hired me to create a middle school science...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 6, 2009 | Blog, News, Science Education, video
THIS week marks the 10th anniversary of World Space Week, an event designed to “celebrate each year at the international level the contributions of space science and technology to the betterment of the human condition”. Teachers: Use space creatively in...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 5, 2009 | News
From Scientific American Magazine: The first doses of approved vaccines for the H1N1 “swine” flu will start trickling in across the U.S. on Tuesday. The first to arrive, 600,000 doses of MedImmune’s FluMist nasal spray, will be for healthy people...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 1, 2009 | Blog, News
A musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn – Cosmos remixed. (Thanks, John-the-Science-Tourist for finding this on SlashDot: News for Nerds.)
by Darlene Cavalier | Sep 28, 2009 | Blog, News
(Dr. John Wild pictured with Rosalyn Queen, former Chair, Board of Trustees, Columbus Foundation ) Last week, Dr. John Wild passed away. Dr. Wild is widely recognized at the inventor of the ultrasound and he was honored for this distinction in 1998 by the Christopher...
