More than three thousand planets have been found orbiting other stars in our galaxy. The challenge now is to find out more about these planets.
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A look at some of the more obscure methods astronomers use to detect planets around other stars, in the second of a two-part series on finding world’s elsewhere in the universe.
Astronomers have discovered more than 3,000 planets around other stars, so far. In the first of a two-part series we look at how they find world’s elsewhere in the universe.
Many of the new planets found in other star systems have some extraordinary orbital behavior. So what’s going on?
News of the Hiroshima bombing spread quickly to the US public but, thanks to science fiction writers, atomic bombs were discussed more before the war began than during it.
The first atom bomb test seventy years ago today marks the start of a change in Americans’ thinking about radiation. On balance, our nuclear anxieties endure today.
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Assistant Professor of Forestry, Mississippi State University
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Associate Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University
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Associate Professor of Health, Mississippi State University
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Associate Professor of Communication, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University
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Professor of Management, Mississippi State University
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Director of the Southern Rural Development Center & Professor of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Clinical Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science, Mississippi State University
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Associate Professor of Small Animal Surgery, Mississippi State University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Mississippi State University
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Research Professor of Rehabilitation Education and Research, Mississippi State University
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Professor of Chemistry, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Professor of Exercise Physiology, Mississippi State University
