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  • How to kill a coal plant

    As a recent British protest shows, nonviolent civil disobedience may be our best hope to counteract global warming
  • Neighborhood watch on planet Earth

    We need to keep going to space to know what's happening down here
  • NASA administrator stonewalling Obama team

    Mike Griffin is reportedly "obstructing" the Obama transition team's efforts to get information, and has been pressuring contractors to back him.
  • Ask the pilot

    Has the U.S. met its match in airport-security craziness? Plus: NASA's pilot survey coverup.
  • One small step: A look back

    New footage of the moon walk that launched the hopes, conspiracies and astronaut smackdowns of a generation
  • Quote of the Day

    Two firsts for space travel, one (coincidental) giant leap for womankind.
  • Love triangle in space!

    Media frenzy over NASA attack: Not a giant step for womankind.
  • Next stop, Mars

    Science writer Timothy Ferris examines the latest evidence of water on the red planet -- and why millions of people could end up living there.
  • Colbert finds job for Rumsfeld

    Then laments about "boring" Gates' confirmation.
  • Uncle Sam's extreme makeover

    There's a bold new spirit in America: Downtrodden workers slaving harder than ever to build a better life for members of the investor class!
  • My own private space station

    Robert Bigelow has his funding priorities straight: Orbiting cruise ships and paranormal research.
  • Hey, NASA, quit hoggin' space!

    It's time to share the universe. Dennis Tito ranks with John Glenn. He's a pioneer, leading the way in bringing space down to earth.
  • Failing, falling and burning to bits

    On its red-hot deathbed, the Mir space station helped us root for misery, a good story and fiery debris.
  • Space invaders

    Bounced from astronaut training because of their gender, the Mercury 13 get no respect.
  • Far-out

    The author of "Black Hawk Down" picks five great books about the U.S. space program.
  • One small peep for man...

    NASA software is at the heart of a new product that could hunt for porn on the Internet.
  • Arthur C. Clarke

    For decades, the author of the science-fiction classics "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Childhood's End" has exhibited an uncanny ability to see the future.
  • The right stuff for the Red Planet

    At 35, Dava Newman's an MIT engineer with a lab that would put James Bond's "Q" to shame and a passion for sending people to Mars.
  • Master of the universe

    With the existence of six new planets announced just this week, Geoffrey Marcy is racking up "extrasolar" discoveries like Mark McGwire racks up homers.
  • Earth, moon and stars

    Three photography books focus on the amazing spectacle of the planet we live on and the skies beyond.
  • Moonstruck

    The photographer who compiled NASA's spectacular lunar photos talks about how they almost didn't happen, and how they changed his life.
  • The true adventures of a space buccaneer

    "I think space will happen," Jim Benson says. "People will move off the planet." And when they do, he wants a piece of the action.
  • Write your name on Mars

    Space enthusiasts are signing their names to a CD bound for Mars -- where it will be radiated beyond recognition.
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