South Carolina is suing the federal government to save the mixed oxide fuel project at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, where weapons-grade plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapon stockpiles will be converted to fuel for nuclear reactors. read...
read moreNASA is fine with cute robots on Mars but if there is anything that fiascoes like the Constellation program and the James Webb Space Telescope have taught us, it's that NASA is not all that competent with big plans.Projects that were once mission critical are now instead founded on the concept that there is zero tolerance for risk. If we are really going to venture into the Final Frontier,...
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The Drudge Report is saying that "Cosmos" ratings are a disaster and, I as I discussed in Is "Cosmos" Suffering From Unrealistic Expectations? the overnights showed numbers down from the premiere, but that is hardly a disaster.1) It's a science show. That a science show was on a prime time broadcast network - and took third place in its premiere - I would say is bordering on miraculous. read...
read moreIn mainstream media, everywhere from Fox News to Time (and here on Science 2.0, though with a little more skepticism) a read...
read moreIn Five Things Neil deGrasseTyson’s “Cosmos” Gets Wrong at The Federalist read...
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