Space & PhysicsJune 6, 2016
World's Largest Radio Telescope Faces a Troubling Future
The National Science Foundation is considering pulling its support from the famous Arecibo radio dish in Puerto Rico
Stories by Sarah Scoles
Sarah Scoles is a Colorado-based science journalist, a contributing editor at Scientific American and a senior contributor at Undark. Her newest book is Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons (Bold Type Books, 2024).
Space & PhysicsMarch 30, 2016
NASA Considers Its Next Flagship Space Telescope
The space agency has embarked on a long and arduous process to select a new grand space observatory that will meet the needs of astronomers in the mid-2030s