The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in the United States is encouraging you to go outside at nightfall, look up, count the stars you see in a specific constellation and report what you see online. Read more here about opening the windows to the universe — October 20 to November 3 2008.

The ExoFly, a lightweight aerobot that looks like a “dragonfly-on-steroids”, is being created at the Technical University Delft, Wageningen University in the Netherlands. One day this flying robot equipped with a tiny camera may be used for geological exploration on Mars or Titan. Read the full article and check out the video here.

The Noble Prize for Physics was announced this past Tuesday.
Yoichiro Nambu (University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute), Makoto Kobayashi (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization Tsukuba, Japan) and Toshihide Maskawa (Kyoto University’s Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics) shared the Nobel Physics prize – Nambu for the principle of symmetry breaking and Kobayashi and Maskawa for the prediction of three generations of elementary particles called quarks. Read more here.