The most important spacecraft since the Hubble Space Telescope has been felled by a couple of reaction wheels that stubbornly held to their predicted useful lives, NASA reports.
If distant planets and their stars were this obvious, Kepler wouldn't have needed remotely the same pointing accuracy.
Something about Kepler, despite its stubborn refusal to return pretty pictures…
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They found Randy Udall yesterday -- he had been hiking alone on a remote trail up in Wyoming's Wind River Range, a place he knew well. Poles were still in hand, the Denver Post reports.
"Randy left this Earth doing what he loved most: hiking in his most favorite mountain range in the world," the Udall…
A year ago today, I had just practiced my TEDxMileHigh talk to an all-but empty Ellie Caulkins Opera House the day before the big show.
There was a producer in the front row, typing away on her laptop, and, in the far reaches of the gallery, my daughters, ages 9 and 6, with my wife, who…
Amid my sixth and most foolish soccer career at age 44 (indoor, over-30 coed, more challenging than it sounds), I've pounded my feet into plantar fasciitis twice now, joining Antonio Gates, Ty Lawson and untold legions of middle-agers (not to be confused with medieval individuals) limping around. By the second time I knew a lot more about…
Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler announced this morning that he's pursuing the death penalty for alleged (I use this word loosely) Aurora theater mass murderer James Holmes.
Holmes's attorneys had agreed to a plea deal in which he would spend life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Life without parole essentially ends your life from…