December 21, 2003    (San Diego Union-Tribune)   It was by accident that Link stumbled upon a discovery that not only won the grand prize at an international inventors competition, but could help the nation combat terrorism.

December 11, 2003    (USA Today)   A military satellite has detected auroras, those shimmering displays of colorful light, at altitudes far higher above Earth than previously known, confirming anecdotal reports from astronauts that scientists had dismissed.

December 11, 2003    (Houston Chronicle)   A military satellite has detected auroras, those shimmering displays of colorful light, at altitudes far higher above Earth than previously known, confirming anecdotal reports from astronauts that scientists had dismissed.

December 11, 2003    (Washington Post)   A military satellite has detected auroras, those shimmering displays of colorful light, at altitudes far higher above Earth than previously known, confirming anecdotal reports from astronauts that scientists had dismissed.

December 11, 2003    (San Diego Union-Tribune)   For the first time, scientists are creating three-dimensional images of huge clouds of plasma that the sun periodically hurls into space.

December 10, 2003    (Space.com)   The first direct images ever made of a solar storm as it engulfs Earth have also vindicated astronauts who said they'd seen colorful sky lights at dubiously high altitudes.

November 28, 2003    (San Diego Union-Tribune)   On Oct. 26, as smoke and ash rained on San Diego County from the wildfires, a small team of UCSD scientists began collecting samples of acrid air outside a fifth-floor laboratory on campus.

November 27, 2003    (EDN.com)   Imagine fully functional sensor circuits so small and inexpensive that you could afford to scatter thousands into an area of interest to sense local conditions or to detect the presence and movement of chemicals, vehicles, or even humans. These small circuits, collectively referred to as smart dust, are part of a new vision of tiny elements that combine sensing, computing, and communications. Although today's technology has not yet reached dust-particle size, several design teams, including the military, are working hard to perfect the concept and decrease the size. Some of their long-term dreams include intravenous circuits that seek out and attack cancer cells and networked sensors that are dropped from an airplane and then report troop and vehicle locations in a battlefield situation.

November 20, 2003    (The Oregonian)   Sally Ride flew into space two years before Ashlen Saulson was born. But the 18-year-old senior at St. Mary's Academy says although the former astronaut may be from another generation, she "definitely" serves as an important role model for girls interested in science and math.

November 1, 2003    (New Seiences)   IT IS a mystery of cosmic proportions: why is the universe filled with matter and not antimatter? Physicists hoping to find the answer have been left scratching their heads this week by an analysis which claims that some antihydrogen atoms created last year may not be normal antiatoms after all. Instead they may sit on the blurry line between atoms and plasma.