10 Feb 2012 at 12:00am  Janice Voss , a space shuttle astronaut and scientist who explored the behavior of fire in weightlessness, how plants adapt to extraterrestrial flight and an array of other phenomena while logging nearly 19 million miles circling Earth , died on Monday at a hospital in Scottsdale, Ariz. She was 55 and lived in Houston. The cause was cancer, her...
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30 Jan 2012 at 12:00am ''Most of my life I went to parties and heard a little groan when people heard what I did,'' says Robert Tibshirani, a statistics professor at Stanford University. ''Now they're all excited to meet me.'' It's not because of a new after-shave. Arcane statistical analysis, the business of making sense of our growing data mountains, has become high...
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30 Jan 2012 at 12:00am  HAT CREEK, Calif. -- E.T. might be phoning, but do we care enough to take the call? Operating on money and equipment scrounged from the public and from Silicon Valley millionaires, and on the stubborn strength of their own dreams, a band of astronomers recently restarted one of the iconic quests of modern science, the search for extraterrestrial...
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27 Jan 2012 at 12:00am Around Town Museums and Sites American Museum of Natural History: Astronomy Live: NASA Missions (Tuesday) A look at NASA missions of the past and for the future, offered by museum personnel, with images and visualizations. At 6:30 p.m., Central Park West and 79th Street, (212) 769-5200, amnh.org/calendar/event/NASA-Missions; $15, or $13.50 for...
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22 Jan 2012 at 12:00am  AFTER 35 years at Columbia University, where he was chairman of the astronomy department and co-director of the Astrophysics Laboratory, David J. Helfand is on leave to serve as president of Quest University Canada, a tiny liberal arts college in British Columbia that graduated its first class last spring. It is Canada's only private, secular...
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