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• Bizarre Boiling - Watching liquids boil in low gravity is an out-of-this-world experience. It has plenty of entertainment value, but it's teaching scientists some important physics lessons, too.
• Black Holes - Ever wonder what it would look like to travel to a black hole? A neutron star?
• Black Hole Mayhem - Two x-ray telescopes have caught a black hole in the act of ripping a star apart.
• Black Hole Snacks - NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has spotted a curious outburst from our galaxy's core -- a sign that the Milky Way's central black hole may be snacking on its neighbors.
• Breathtaking Saturn - On Dec. 17th, Earth and Saturn will have their closest encounter in nearly 30 years.
• Building a Droid for the International Space Station - Inspired by science fiction classics, NASA scientists are building a talking, thinking and flying robot to help astronauts with their chores in space.
• CAMEX Top Guns - Flying into the largest storms on Earth is all in a day's work for pilots on a NASA mission to explore hurricanes.
• Candlestick Rocket Ship - The high-tech rocket fuels of the future could be made from a surprisingly low-tech material: candle wax!
• Can People Go to Mars? - Space radiation between Earth and Mars poses a hazard to astronauts.
• Cell Wars - Immune cells vs. invaders: it's a war going on in every healthy human body. When the combatants travel to space, say NASA scientists, curious things happen...
• Chabot Space & Science Center - Planetarium, telescopes, astronomy and space science exhibits, hands-on activities and classes.
• Check out NASA, at the Library - A traveling exhibit brings a taste of outer space to your community library.
• Chilling Possibility - By disturbing a massive ocean current, melting Arctic sea ice might trigger colder weather in Europe and North America.
• Christmas Day Mars Landing - In search of alien life, the European Space Agency's Beagle 2 probe will parachute to the surface of Mars on Dec. 25th.
• Christmas Sunset - Look west as night falls on Dec. 25th for a lovely pairing of brilliant Venus and the crescent moon.
• CIESE - Internet Resources For Science & Math  Teachers.
• Clouds in the Greenhouse - As vexing as they are beautiful, clouds play an important role in Earth's planetary greenhouse.
• Close Encounters with Mars - Everyone on Earth will be close to Mars this week...
• Cold Peril: The Continuing Adventures of Ulysses.
• Cool Fuel Cells - Fuel cells promise to be the environmentally-friendly power source of the future...
• Constellations - The whole sky has been arbitrarily divided into eighty-eight areas, which differ greatly in size and shape.
• Confounded by Coffee - The physics of a humble bag of coffee grounds still holds surprises for scientists.
• Conjuring Crystals - NASA scientists are figuring out the physics behind a seemingly magical way to produce high-quality crystals.
• Cracks in Earth's Magnetic Shield - Immense cracks in our planet's magnetic field can remain open for hours...
• Curious Skeletons - Deep within the cells we're made of, squishy skeletons feel the effects of gravity ... and respond in unexpected ways.
• Dark Rings - Many years ago Pioneer 11 flew through Jupiter's rings, but no one knew it at the time.
• Dashing through the Snows of Io - Today, NASA's Galileo spacecraft is heading for its closest-ever flyby of Jupiter's moon Io -- an alien world where fiery volcanoes belch sulfurous snow.

• Dawn of a New Ozone Hole - Our planet's Antarctic ozone hole is opening once again as Spring approaches in the southern hemisphere.
• Dazzling Duo - This week brilliant Venus and giant Jupiter are rushing toward a close encounter in the western sky.
• Deep Space 1: The Archeology Mission - A thousand years from now NASA's Deep Space 1 probe could make some archeologist very happy.
• Destination: Gusev Crater - On January 3, 2004, NASA's Mars rover Spirit is scheduled to land in a strange crater that might be an ancient martian lake bed.
• Destination: Meridiani Planum - On January 24, 2004, NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is scheduled to land on a Martian plain in search of evidence for water.
• Dinorama @ nationalgeographic.com - Their footsteps echo like thunder across our imaginations, millions of years after the last dinosaurs walked the Earth.
• Dinosaur Eggs @ nationalgeographic.com - HUNT dino eggs around the world. HATCH them to see how embryos are exposed by researchers. See a model of how the embryos might have looked.
• Dixieland Auroras -On Nov. 20, 2003, a modest solar explosion sparked auroras in some unusual places.
• DLC-ME, The Microbe Zoo - Microbial ecology is the study of microbes in the environment. Find out the kinds of things microbial ecologists do.
• Earth's Inconstant Magnetic Field - Our planet's magnetic field is in a constant state of change ...
• Earth Rocks on the Moon - Astrobiologists speculate that a valuable record of Earth's distant past is preserved on the Moon.
• Earthshine - Northern spring is the best time to spot one of the loveliest sights in the heavens: Earthlight reflected from the Moon.
• Eggs in a Rocket - The first-ever national high school rocketry competition will send dozens of eggs hurtling into the air...
• Einstein Archives - Hebrew University of Jerusalem own the Literary Estate of Albert Einstein, as declared in his last will and testament.
• Einstein-Image and Impact - AIP History Center exhibit.
  
• Everything's Relative - Still right after all these years.
• Electronics for Kids - Basic experiments in magnetism, static electricity and simple circuits for children.
  
• El Niño Repellent? - New satellite images of the Pacific Ocean hint that El Niño will not return this winter. Instead, La Niña-like weather patterns will persist thanks to a "Pacific Decadal Oscillation"
• Energy from a Black Hole - There are plenty of black holes that gobble energy. Now astronomers have spotted one in a distant galaxy that's giving some of its energy back.
• Energy-NETLCool Science - National Energy Technology Laboratory NETL Brainwaves and Ask a Researcher Page.
• EurekAlert - An online press service created by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
• European Science Foundation - Promotes high quality science at a European level.

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