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DAN TALPALARIU
Dan is in charge with the space and technology aspects of the Science category. He enjoys writing his stories in a way that makes them easy for most people to understand (most scientific and technical texts are so complicated and sometimes hardly accesible!). Dan has worked with several newspapers and publishing houses and has made it his purpose to attract as many readers as possible to the wonderful world of science.
Besides science, Dan is also passionate about nature, books, movies, fishing, videogames and music (he plays the guitar in two different bands!).
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With 2009 being labeled as the International Year of Astronomy, it is quite obvious why the next year should be named the Galileo year, after the great scientist and visionary of his time, Galileo Galilei, the author of the world's greatest discovery in the field. This is even more valid as in 2009, there w... |
18 December 2008
18:01 GMT |
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Most likely, many of you don't have access to or cannot afford a glass of exquisite wine and have to abide by a bottle of average plonk that a true connoisseur would call sewage. Perfect wines take way too long to be obtained; the required conditions are not easy to reproduce, while the know-how of the process i... |
18 December 2008
10:28 GMT |
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It appears that dangerous neighborhoods are not only a problem down here, on Earth, but instead cosmic bodies face such difficulties as well. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, seeing in infrared, has managed to capture an interesting phenomenon going on near a group of large stars. The image depicts an apocalyptic... |
18 December 2008
09:24 GMT |
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In Italy, all the ancient artifacts found are considered the property of the state and should be reported to the authorities. The law forbids selling such items and the sentences are quite harsh. Yet, that's exactly what a farmer in the southern part of the country did. As he was carrying his works, he came upon... |
18 December 2008
08:36 GMT |
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Google's Lunar X Prize competition, founded last year, proves to be a major attraction for the teams interested in winning the $20 million first prize or, at least, the second place, which would bring them $5 million in cash. Also, there are bonus prizes available, worth $5 million. Following the recent applicat... |
18 December 2008
07:54 GMT |
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If you're an official from a major and famous scientific or educational institution, then you're probably aware of NASA's intent of having its fleet of three space shuttles displayed after their retirement. And you may also be aware that, theoretically, you only have less than two years to decide wheth... |
18 December 2008
16:01 GMT |
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How would you like it if you paid a lot less for your energy bill, while the ambient light in your house dimmed or increased depending on your needs or on the time of the day, as well as change color, and last longer without the need of replacement? If this sounds good to you, you should know that this is not just a ... |
18 December 2008
05:47 GMT |
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Inscriptions on a fragment of an ancient limestone block bring new evidence in the long controversy related to the lineage of King Tutankhamun. As it appears, when the fragment was joined with the rest of the block, the full inscription suggested that Tutankhamun's father was Akhenaten, his predecessor to Egypt&... |
18 December 2008
15:41 GMT |
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Who would have thought just a few decades ago that space flight would be ramping up so abruptly? We're talking about sending probes and landers anywhere in the solar system and far beyond, or even going to the Moon or Mars. And with things evolving at such a fast pace, who can tell what we'll be able to do ... |
18 December 2008
03:28 GMT |
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Peru once again proves the fact that it is an archaeological El Dorado, one of the few places where ancient scientific treasures lie beneath the ground, waiting to be found. Its hundreds of archaeological sites reveal the legacy of old cultures that existed thousands of years ago, spanning many cultures, such as the ... |
17 December 2008
10:56 GMT |
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The "breathing" cycle of the Earth's atmosphere is not a new phenomenon, nor is it the way it appears. But, in the light of the latest research, there is some novelty – and indeed a large amount of it – related to the rate at which it occurs. Previous theories claimed that our atmosphere breathes onc... |
17 December 2008
10:56 GMT |
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There are extremely few vehicles that can attenuate the bumps and/or noises of a ride, especially when conditions are tougher than normal. And even those cannot reach the dampness level achieved by a novel technology from the French ARTEC Aerospace. The company's experts devised a vibration and acoustic attenuat... |
17 December 2008
10:04 GMT |
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Three ancient statues representing the African animal-god Amun were unearthed at el-Hassa, in Sudan, nearly three weeks ago, some 200 kms (120 miles) to the north of the capital city of Khartoum. The statues bear inscriptions that could help experts understand an ancient tongue, one of the few left undeciphered in th... |
17 December 2008
09:12 GMT |
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Another lucky strike for science came in the form of an accidental discovery of magma, following the drill operations conducted in Hawaii by a commercial geologist. Magma has never before been studied in its original form, and the many computer models were built based on the properties inferred from its cooler, gas-f... |
17 December 2008
08:25 GMT |
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A new study supported by NASA and the National Science Foundation has reached more thorough results related to the way solar storms affect the Earth's magnetic shields, making the old views inaccurate. Depending on the alignment with the Sun's magnetic field, our own develops two huge holes which allow larg... |
17 December 2008
16:31 GMT |
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Perhaps not many of you remember the agitation caused two years ago by a massive solar flare on December 5, 2006. It was an X9 event on a scale where an X1 is still considered very powerful, but X20 phenomena have been observed, fortunately scarcely enough. The one in 2006 was the most powerful in the last three deca... |
17 December 2008
06:41 GMT |
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The images sent by NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate there's a high possibility that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is subject to a dynamic volcanic activity. Instead of regular volcanoes on which we know a lot, these particular ones don't eject lava, but icy water, ammonia and methane, substances... |
17 December 2008
05:53 GMT |
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A new study performed with the help of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, focused on galaxy clusters, indicated that they are forming at a slower rate than they should be, which is considered a new piece of evidence in the complicated case of dark energy. These results, in tandem with those of previous extensive res... |
17 December 2008
15:41 GMT |
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As a result of decades of studies, Mars' dichotomous landscape is now common knowledge for scientists. It is known, for instance, that the mountainous southern hemisphere rises some 6 km (3.73 miles) above the smooth northern one, and it's much thicker. This, together with the planet's peculiar magneti... |
17 December 2008
03:33 GMT |
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Two months ago, On October the 5th, NASA's Cassini probe came as close as 25 km from the surface of Saturn's small moon, allowing it to capture a new set of images that sparked new interest in Earth's scientists. These photos indicated that the southern polar surface of the geologically active moon fea... |
16 December 2008
11:34 GMT |
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We know how the seven continents are arranged today and we are aware (and it's easy to observe) that they were once grouped up in a single, massive continent, called Pangaea. But what's the mysterious force that caused the division of the continents and keeps moving them apart? New studies associate the con... |
16 December 2008
10:52 GMT |
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UK experts have finally completed a successful experiment that allowed them to demonstrate that the energy recovery process is possible on a particle accelerator. Three days ago, on December 13th, at 2 am, the Accelerators and Lasers In Combined Experiments (ALICE)' linear accelerator transported for the first t... |
16 December 2008
10:07 GMT |
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Battles fought in the heights with powerful laser weapons are no longer the product of SF stories, as such a device has recently been tested with success. The Airborne Laser (ABL) was installed on a Boeing 747 airplane and carried aloft, where it fired shortly upon a ground target. Although the laser beam is invisibl... |
16 December 2008
09:32 GMT |
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Now that the Phoenix Mars Lander is defunct and the mission is officially over beyond all hope, scientists have been able to focus on the data that the device has collected and relayed to us. The main source of interest is represented by the water found in the region of the landing site, but a series of examinations ... |
16 December 2008
08:31 GMT |
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Perfection does indeed come from flaws, as a new discovery in the fields of nanotechnology and energy conductivity indicates. Namely, a team of US experts managed to alter the internal structure of carbon nanotubes that typically behaved as insulators so that now it performs better than the traditionally-used silicon... |
16 December 2008
07:35 GMT |
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Surprisingly, the skies over the southern hemisphere of the Earth have never been scoured in great detail, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has done for the northern regions. As such, the knowledge scale is heavily tilted towards the celestial objects of the north. This issue had to be addressed, especially since... |
16 December 2008
06:43 GMT |
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Gold has always been a major fuel for humans' imagination, oft-present in their tales, from legends and children's stories to serious novels, stressing on the importance of the glittering material associated with the difference between rich and poor. The Incan, who built vast cities of gold, referred to it ... |
16 December 2008
15:51 GMT |
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There have been a lot of discussions concerning the path NASA should follow related to its current and future space missions, but no solid conclusion has been drawn yet. The collaboration between Barack Obama's new NASA transition team and Michael Griffin, NASA's current administrator, has not bee... |
16 December 2008
18:01 GMT |
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What would you say if you walked on the street and the air smelled like coffee instead of burned gas? Although the very few people who can't stand the smell of coffee (assuming there are any) may be disappointed, for those who aim at having waste turned into fuel, good news is here: coffee and biofuels just beca... |
16 December 2008
15:31 GMT |
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There seems to be a constant rush as of late to demonstrate that what we used to know and treat as a given is wrong. Evolving technology and the increased amount of accurate scientific data provide more insight on many of these aspects that were not thoroughly investigated so far. As such, it appears that the prevale... |
15 December 2008
18:01 GMT |
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