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With fat days over, NASA must innovate (CNN.com Feature)
In a long-awaited speech Thursday in Florida, President Obama will boldly go where no president has gone before, laying out an entirely new vision for the U.S. space program. The firestorm of controversy has already begun.
Read the Feature on CNN.com
Today Show appearance speaking about the future of the space program
April 15th, 2010: Michio Kaku tells TODAY’s Matt Lauer that with the cancellation of the Constellation program, the U.S. will lose its status as a leader in space exploration, falling behind Russia and China.
A Second Big Bang in Geneva?
Champagne bottles were popped Tuesday in Geneva where the largest science machine ever built finally began to smash subatomic particles together. After 16 years—and an accident that crippled the machine a year and a half ago—the Large Hadron Collider successfully smashed two beams of protons at the astounding energy of 3.5 trillion electron volts apiece. Read More
Russia Takes Aim at Asteroids
Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Space Agency, caught scientists off guard when he called for a closed meeting of Russian scientists to counter a killer asteroid headed our way. He said that a potential impact from the asteroid Apothis around 2036 could kill hundreds of thousands of people. Read the entire article on the Wall Street Journal website.
Dr. Kaku to be Interviewed by Art Bell (Coast to Coast AM) on 1/29/10
Filling in for George Noory, Art Bell welcomes one of his favorite guests, Dr. Michio Kaku, who’ll discuss his latest work in theoretical physics on 1-29-10. Visit Coast to Coast AM’s Radio Affiliates to find a station near you.
Physics of the Impossible Lecture at WGBH and Museum of Science, Boston
April 30th – Museum of Science (Boston) Lecture about Physics of the Impossible
Dr. Kaku’s new book hits #10 on NY Times Paperback NonFiction Best Sellers List
Dr. Kaku’s new paperback version of Physics of the Impossible hits #10 on the NY Times Paperback NonFiction Best Seller list!
Talk to Dr. Kaku Live on the Radio
There are several ways you can ask me a question directly. First, you can call into my live national science radio show, Science Fantastic, which broadcasts to 125 radio stations around the country. Science Fantastic Radio Station List