Marc Lamont Hill: Make Black History Month a guidepost for year-round - Philadelphia Daily News

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Marc Lamont Hill: Make Black History Month a guidepost for year-round Philadelphia Daily News But few have heard of CB Brooks, who invented the street sweeper; Garrett Morgan, who invented the stop sign; George Franklin Grant, who invented the golf tee; or Bayard Rustin, a principal architect of the 1963 March on Washington. and more »

Search for aliens is on again, but next quest is finding money - NDTV

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Search for aliens is on again, but next quest is finding money NDTV Early in December, a brace of 42 radio telescopes, known as the Allen Telescope Array, nestled here in the shadow of Lassen Peak, came to life and resumed hopping from star to star in the constellation Cygnus, listening for radio broadcasts from alien ... and more »

VisionCare Announces Close of Series E Expansion Financing and Board Changes - MarketWatch (press release)

VisionCare Announces Close of Series E Expansion Financing and Board Changes MarketWatch (press release) VisionCare's Implantable Miniature Telescope was invented by company founders Yossi Gross and Dr. Isaac Lipshitz. Information on VisionCare can be found at www.visioncareinc.net and www.centrasight.com . and more »

A Cosmic Illusion: Gravitational Lensing Helps Redraw the Map of Space - TIME

A Cosmic Illusion: Gravitational Lensing Helps Redraw the Map of Space TIME In the first, astronomers using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, in Hawaii, released the largest map ever made of how dark matter is distributed through space. And in the second, a team using a network of smaller telescopes, presented evidence that ... and more »

Superconducting detectors offer high-speed astronomy - Nature.com

Superconducting detectors offer high-speed astronomy Nature.com So astronomers build ever-bigger telescope mirrors to catch light, but they also pay close attention to how reliably the cameras at the back of the telescopes record each photon. Ben Mazin, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, ...

New Licking County astronomy club exploring the night sky - The Newark Advocate

New Licking County astronomy club exploring the night sky The Newark Advocate Weaver owns a number of telescopes, including a 5 1/2-inch Newtonian and an 8-inch Dobsonian that stands almost five feet tall. The Newtonian is a reflecting telescope invented by Isaac Newton, while the Dobsonian is another reflecting telescope, ... and more »