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January 5, 2009 By Sarah Webb 3 Comments

Roving Mars for 5 years and counting

The Mars rovers may not make the news as much as they once did, but Spirit and Opportunity are still the little Mars missions that could. Spirit bounced its way through a successful landing on Mars 5 years ago, on January 3, 2004. The rovers feel like old dear work colleagues that I revisit from…

January 3, 2009 By Sarah Webb

the toy that stumped Niels Bohr

I didn’t make it to the Nobel Prize festivities in early December. But my husband’s Ph.D. adviser (a friend of a 2008 laureate) hobnobbed with the Nobel elite. She brought back a couple souvenirs as holiday gifts for members in the lab. First of all, everyone needs their own chocolate Nobel Prize. But we were…