Change rattles the world's biggest dish

05/24/11 After nearly half a century, Cornell University loses stewardship of the renowned Arecibo radio telescope.

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Change Rattles Arecibo Radio Telescope

05/24/11 By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine As Earth's biggest "ear" on the Universe, the giant 305-meter radio dish at Arecibo , Puerto Rico, has played a part in groundbreaking discoveries, searches for alien civilizations and the occasional Holly¬wood movie. [More]

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No shale gas threat to S.African mega-telescope: minister

05/24/11 by Staff Writers Cape Town (AFP) May 24, 2011 South Africa will not allow shale gas drilling in the vast central Karoo to threaten its bid to host the world's largest radio telescope, the science ministry said on Tuesday.

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Arecibo Telescope To Have New Management

05/21/11 The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will be getting a new manager after four decades of operations under the direction of Cornell University, officials said.

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Huge asteroid to buzz Earth in November

05/09/11 On November 8 and 9, the quarter-mile-wide asteroid 2005 YU55 will zoom past the Earth, coming within about 200,000 miles, a distance closer than our moon.

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Coast Guard medevacs 4 from sailboat

05/06/11 The crew of a 45-foot response boat from Coast Guard Station San Juan, Puerto Rico, medically evacuated the four-man crew aboard the sailing vessel Manua Thursday in waters 16 nautical miles north of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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Coast Guard rescues 4 sailors off Puerto Rico

05/05/11 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The Coast Guard says three Canadians and a U.S. citizen were apparently stricken with food...

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Spacecraft Earth to perform asteroid 'flyby' this fall

05/04/11 Since the dawn of the space age, humanity has sent 16 robotic emissaries to fly by some of the solar system's most intriguing and nomadic occupants -- comets and asteroids. The data and imagery collected on these deep-space missions of exploration have helped redefine our understanding of how Earth and our part of the galaxy came to be. But this fall, Mother Nature is giving scientists around ...

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WAPA Television Nets Puerto Rican Basketball League Rights

03/21/11 After televising the circuit's 2010 playoffs , WAPA America, the U.S. cable arm of the leading broadcaster in Puerto Rico, WAPA Television, has secured exclusive rights to air the 2011 Puerto Rico Basketball League season.

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Weekly Sports League and Franchise Report

02/07/11 Arizona Winter League: The month-long AWL, which is operated by the Golden Baseball League, has started its fifth season with ten teams. In the past couple of season some games were played in Blythe (CA) El Centro (CA), and San Luis (AZ), but in 2011 all games will be played in Yuma (AZ).

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Scientists suggest protocol for messaging to aliens

02/04/11 (PhysOrg.com) -- In 1974, humans broadcast the first message targeted at extraterrestrial life using the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. The message, which was aimed at the globular star cluster M13 located 25,000 light years away, consisted of binary digits that encoded information about our DNA, as well as graphics of a human, our Solar System, and the Arecibo telescope. Since then ...

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Wave goodbye to Enlightenment as this is the age of Goatsuckers

01/31/11 They call him The Goatsucker. Or rather they did. Because the chupacabra - a fearsome monster first spotted in 1995, who, according to the Fortean Times, is the third most famous mythical beast after Bigfoot and Nessie - has recently been revealed as a hoax by the other, smarter FT. Related Stories Should we care what Andy Gray and Richard Keys think?

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MICHAEL PEREZ RETRUNS TO PUERTO RICO IN SEARCH OF 12TH PROFESSIONAL WIN AGAINST MARCOS HERRERA ON

01/30/11 JAYSON VELEZ VS. JUAN JOSE BELTRAN FEATURED IN CO-MAIN BOUT OF FEBRUARY 4 TELEFUTURA BROADCAST Unbeatens Mikael Zewski, Eddie G?mez & Eduardo Alice ...

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Caribbean Desktop Daydream: Puerto Rico, Pt. 1

01/27/11 Arrival and Luquillo There was a point well after I arrived in Puerto Rico where I felt like I had f

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Saint Mary's professor Olowin champions connections between science, faith, community

01/25/11 Saint Mary's astronomy professor Ron Olowin may have his eye trained on the stars, but his focus is always much closer to home.

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Saint Mary's professor Olowin champions connections between science, faith, community

01/21/11 Saint Mary's professor champions studying 'broader picture' of how disciplines relate

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Saint Mary's professor Olowin champions connections between science, faith, community

01/19/11 Saint Mary's professor Olowin champions studying the 'broader picture' of how they relate

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Fire set at family dinner in PR claims 4th victim

01/05/11 A fourth person died early Wednesday from a New Year's attack in which police say a Puerto Rican man using kerosene and a propane tank set fire to more than a dozen of his family members and a visiting U.S. woman as they sat down for dinner.

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Puerto Rico lures visitors with natural, manmade attractions

12/17/10 I took my first trip to Puerto Rico this year. Not knowing whether I'd ever get back there again, I tried to see every popular tourist attraction I could.

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Holiday calendar: Listening for E.T.

12/08/10 The 1,000-foot-wide Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is used for lots of scientific inquiries, such as getting a fix on comets and tracking down radio pulsars.

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