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    Universe is Expanding, But Not All of It

    Nov 24, 2010 01:21 PM EST

    ... same everywhere." Astronomers rely on observations of bright, far-flung objects like supernovas to measure the rate of expansion. And they use supercomputer simulations to show that regions of high-matter density stay intact. Email your Just Ask! questions to science@newshour.org with "Science Question" in the subject line.

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    Introducing an All New Science Page

    Nov 17, 2010 02:43 PM EST

    ... We'll have more science features and breaking news. Once a week, a science expert will answer your -- and our-- questions in a feature called "Just Ask." Also weekly, we'll be posting a list of the science stories we're reading. And we'll have lesson plans for teachers ...

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    Harvard Astrophysicist Answers: What Is a Supernova?

    Nov 15, 2010 08:38 PM EST

    ... its material out into the gas between the stars. So a supernova explosion is an exploding star. It's something that is the end of a star, and it's a tremendously energetic explosion. Email your Just Ask! questions to science@newshour.org with "Science Question" in the subject line.

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    Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Encounter New Stumbling Blocks

    Nov 09, 2010 12:50 AM EST

    ... a chance to try. MARGARET WARNER: And this threat by Prime Minister Abbas to -- or President Abbas -- to go straight to the U.N. and just ask for declarations, independent state, is that an empty threat? SHIBLEY TELHAMI: Well, here's the problem for the Palestinians. One is, on the ...

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    Pakistani Aid Effort Hurt by Scale, Terrain, Instability

    Aug 23, 2010 04:00 AM EST

    ... aren't stopping now. The rains keep on coming. And we need to get people into some kind of dry place. So please I'd just ask people again just to be generous. JUDY WOODRUFF: Daniel Wordsworth with the American Refugee Committee. Thank you very much. DANIEL WORDSWORTH: Thank you.

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    Mosque Near Ground Zero: Local Issue or Matter of National Debate?

    Aug 17, 2010 01:07 AM EST

    Now we're finding out that they -- they need the property next door, which is utility property, for another several million dollars.Where is this money coming from?Who is behind this? GWEN IFILL: Mr. Lazio -- Mr. Lazio, but if I can just ask you about the president's statement ...

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    Senators Press Kagan on Military Recruiter Access, Abortion Rights

    Jun 29, 2010 04:00 AM EST

    So in his struggle for racial justice, you know, he could go to the statehouses or he could go to Congress or the president, and those claims generally were ignored. SEN. JON KYL: Well, let me just ask you, do you believe, then -- and it's hard, I realize, though ...

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    Gulf States Face Long Road to Environmental, Economic Recovery

    Jun 15, 2010 04:00 AM EST

    The -- just everything he said, the federal government needs to step and assist us in getting all the resources here possible. And we need to fight this thing. GWEN IFILL: Let me just ask... GROVER ROBINSON: We work well together, state, local, and federal, in hurricanes. Why can't we ...

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    Gwen's Take: The Perils of Ambition, and Does Obama Have Any Coattails?

    Jun 04, 2010 04:50 PM EST

    ... With that, Artur Davis became the latest example of one of the oddest truisms of this political cycle: President Obama appears to have no coattails. Just ask Arlen Specter, or Martha Coakley or Jon Corzine. Each of these politicians made the calculation that President Obama's popularity would add some ...

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    Evaluating Gulf Coast Damage from Worst Spill in U.S. History

    May 28, 2010 04:00 AM EST

    ... removed from the crude oil, and actually the detergents then can enable it to become dissolved in the ocean. So...JEFFREY BROWN: And let me just ask you -- let me just ask you, very briefly, how long before we know the extent of the damage here, briefly, if you would ...