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THE ITHACAN

The Student News Site of Ithaca College

THE ITHACAN

NASA unveils new planet hunt, accelerates asteroid landing plans

By Amanda Hutchinson, Contributing Writer April 8, 2013
Despite the drop in federal funding this year, NASA has some upcoming programming that will give life to the administration and American space exploration. Curiosity, Opportunity, and the Voyager spacecrafts are alive and well, but NASA announced plans for a planet-searching satellite and an ISS experiment to study neutron stars this weekend. Earlier this week,…

Naming contests bring readers closer to science

By Amanda Hutchinson, Contributing Writer March 27, 2013
March Madness marks the time of year where pretty much everything is turned into a bracket. Southern California Public Radio, for example, crafted a competition among 32 public radio stations, including popular shows such as Talk of the Nation, Car Talk, and two personal favorites of mine, Radiolab and Science Friday. Radiolab itself is currently…
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