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The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope lets us look at the universe in gamma ray vision: the highest energy, shortest wavelength form of light there is. But what we see in the gamma ray sky presents some big questions. Calla Cofield talks with Keith Bechtol, a researcher with the FGST Collaboration.

Mike Lucibella interviews William Chaplin, a researcher at the University of Birmingham who uses asteroseismology, the music of the stars, to study stars' resonance.

NASA's Kepler mission, launched in March of 2009 to search for extrasolar planets, has found a system with five Earth‑like planets in the habitable zone, where liquid water may exist. Now, Kepler needs
your help in the hunt for other planets.

Engineers at Duke and Harvard Universities are working on a new technology that could eventually administer medical drugs to patients
via a very small sponge that squishes up under the force of a magnetic
field.

After watching his own cat lapping up its breakfast one morning, MIT Engineer Roman Stocker wanted to know just how the cat moved liquid from the bowl to its mouth. The answer is unexpected, and it involves some interesting physics.

It’s the start of the International Year of Chemistry, and it’s always
good to start with the basics. What is chemistry, and how does it
relate to physics?

It’s the start of the International Year of Chemistry, and it’s always
good to start with the basics. What is chemistry, and how does it
relate to physics?

It’s the start of the International Year of Chemistry, and it’s always
good to start with the basics. What is chemistry, and how does it
relate to physics?

It’s the start of the International Year of Chemistry, and it’s always
good to start with the basics. What is chemistry, and how does it
relate to physics?