Yesterday, January 31, marked the 50th anniversary of America's first satellite, Explorer 1. The four-foot long tube-shaped satellite was built at Huntsville's Redstone Arsenal. Find out more about Explorer 1 from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NPR science correspondent Robert Krulwich filed one of his delightfully inventive pieces for Morning Edition on Tuesday, this one about a woman whose brain hallucinated sounds. Listen to her tale and see what it tells us about the amazing human brain at NPR.org.
NASA's MESSENGER space probe flew past Mercury on January 14, beaming back some impressive images of the closest planet to the Sun. What those first images show us is already helping to rewrite the history (and present understanding) of the planet and its space environment. Get more at Science@NASA.
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