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Ernst Stuhlinger wrote this letter on May 6, 1970, to Sister Mary Jucunda, a nun who worked among the starving children of Kabwe, Zambia, in Africa, who questioned the value of space exploration. At the time Dr. Stuhlinger was Associate Director for Science at the Marshall Space Flight Center, in Huntsville, Alabama. Touched by Sister Mary’s concern and sincerity, his beliefs about the value of space exploration were expressed in his reply to Sister Mary. It remains, more than four decades later, an eloquent statement of the value of the space exploration endeavor. Born in Germany in 1913, Dr. Stuhlinger received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Tuebingen in 1936. He was a member of the German rocket development team at Peenemünde, and came to the United States in 1946 to work for the U.S. Army at Fort Bliss, Texas. He moved to Huntsville in 1950 and continued working for the Army at Redstone Arsenal until the Marshall Space Flight Center was formed in 1960. Dr....

In 1955, pathologist Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy on one of the most revered scientists of the era: Albert Einstein, the German-born theoretical physicist whose general theory of relativity made him a household name. In the course of the autopsy, Harvey decided to preserve Einstein’s brain for future study. For years, he kept slides containing microscopically thin sections of Einstein’s brain matter in his personal archives. Now, these slides are on display in an exhibit at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring.   "What can we learn from a Brain" features “maps” and photographs prepared by Harvey before, during and after the sectioning process. The combination of these archival materials and the slides may offer insights into what made Einstein’s brain so unusual, according to the museum. The exhibit includes an iPad application called “Einstein Brain Atlas,” developed using more than 350 images of the brain, that is shown on ...

HOUSTON: Earth's largest volcano — and possibly the second largest in the solar system— has been discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Covering an area roughly equivalent to the British Isles or the state of New Mexico, the volcano dubbed Tamu Massif, is located about 1,609 km east of Japan. Tamu Massif is the largest feature of Shatsky Rise, an underwater mountain range formed 130 to 145 million years ago by the eruption of several underwater volcanoes. Tamu Massif, which became inactive within a few million years after it was formed, covers an area of about 310,798 square km, the equivalent area of Britain and Ireland combined. By comparison, Hawaii's Mauna Loa — the largest active volcano on Earth — is approximately 5,179 square kms, or roughly 2% the size of Tamu Massif. Also, Olympus Mons on Mars, the largest known volcano in our solar system, is only about 25% larger by volume than Tamu Massif. However, until now, it was unclear whether Tamu...

  Guinness World Records can today confirm that a Senior Citizen Chandra Bahadur Dangi from Nepal is the world's new Shortest Living Man, measuring 54.6cm (21.5 in). Chandra claims to be 72 years of age and weighs 14.5kg. He has spent his entire life in the remote Nepalese mountain village of Rhimkholi, about 250 miles west of Kathmandu. He lives there with his five brothers (all of an average height) and makes his living weaving traditional Nepalese garments. Chandra's home is so remote that it wasn't until recently that he gained attention; a forest contractor cutting timber in the village met him and informed local media. Until now, Chandra's stature has been a burden; acutely aware of the difficulties of fitting into an average-sized world. However he is hopeful that the new title will see a change in his fortunes. "I'm very happy that I'm being recognized by Guinness World Records and that my name will be written in book. It...

  Life on Earth was kick-started thanks to a key mineral deposited by a meteorite from Mars, according to a novel theory aired on Thursday. The vital ingredient was an oxidized mineral form of the element molybdenum, which helped prevent carbon molecules — the building blocks of life — from degrading into a tar-like goo. The idea comes from Steven Benner, a professor at the Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology in Gainesville, Florida, who was to present it at an international conference of geochemists in Florence, Italy. "It's only when molybdenum becomes highly oxidized that it is able to influence how early life formed," Benner said in a press release. "This form of molybdenum couldn't have been available on Earth at the time life first began, because three billion years ago the surface of the Earth had very little oxygen, but Mars did." In this violent epoch of the solar system, the infant Earth was pounded by comets and aster...

  The suspension of Durga Shakti Nagpal may have been over an illegally mined and traded commodity but there are other civil servants like her with sadder - and far more bizarre stories to tell. Lakshminarayana was among the toppers in Civil Services. Keen to work for the CBI, he opted to be deputed to the agency as DIG in Hyderabad on June 12, 2006.Nobody knows much about Lakhsminarayana till he t ook up the investigation against YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.The only time when his name came into focus was during the investigation into the multi-crore accounting fraud by Satyam Ramalinga Raju. And just because he has taken up the Jagan case now, people have started casting aspersions against Lakshminarayana. IAS officer Ashok Khemka Who raised voice against wrong doing of Robert Vadra and DLF received 'threat calls'.Dr Khemka, who has had 40 transfers in his 20-year-career, says," If these problems are brought in sunshine, prob...