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torchwood

Torchwood To Continue Without Pictures

Bridging the gap between an apparently apocalyptic end to its second season and the potentially-revamped third, sexy alien-hunter show Torchwood is making the jump to radio. A special one-off episode about the secret organization that guards a "temporal rift" in Cardiff will be transmitted on BBC Radio 4 this summer — and it happens to be oddly topical, if you're a science geek.
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8:20 AM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Graeme McMillan
3,627 views, 13 comments

mega astronomy

Supermassive Telescope Hears What the Early Universe Looks Like

Yeah, you read that headline right. This supermassive radio telescope, set to be completed in Chile in 2012 (you're seeing an artist's rendering), listens to frequencies between the infrared and radio spectrum. It tunes in particles that will give astronomers an unprecedented portrait of the early universe, as well as planetary and star formations in our current volume of space. It's called the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA for short). One of the best parts of the array is that it comes with giant antenna transporters that allow researchers to reconfigure it on the fly. Just last week, the transporters arrived in Chile. Want to see one? More »

7:00 AM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Annalee Newitz
830 views, 12 comments

Latest by gStar: @aarchiba: You don't want them on tracks (at least straight tracks) because that limits the so-called 'UV coverage'. Basically, if they are all in a line, like the VLA, then your image fidelity kinda sucks the proverbial butt, with more »

space porn

The Rise and Fall of the Biggest Radio in the World

The Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico is the most sensitive and gigantic radio telescope in the world, used to do radar studies on objects in our local solar system. Despite its long history of excellent operation - it was built in the early 1960s - the National Science Foundation is threatening to cut its funding down to almost nothing by 2011. Nevertheless, the massive radio apparatus just got a fresh coat of paint, as you can see in the picture, and the Arecibo Observatory is scrambling for fresh funding sources. See the telescope in its glory days in 1962 below the fold. More »

1:58 PM on Tue Dec 25 2007
By Annalee Newitz
169 views, 3 comments

Latest by aarchiba: There are still many radio observations no other telescope in the world can do: mapping neutron star magnetospheres, for example, or single-pulse studies of the Crab pulsar. At least the Chinese are building FAST, so there'll be a successor to more »

the green hornet

Green Hornet Wasn't Always a Paunchy Jewish Canadian

Everybody's buzzing about how Seth Rogen is attached to play superhero Green Hornet in the movie adaptation he's also writing. That means most people will think of the Green Hornet as a paunchy, Jewish hero if this thing actually gets made. Since most audiences today aren't familiar with The Green Hornet, we've put a shorthand guide together for your edification. More »

2:30 PM on Thu Nov 29 2007
By Kevin Kelly
93 views, Comment