Tear me apart: criticizing Excalibur's design

The Associated Collegiate Press convention in Los Angeles offered ‘Excal’ staffers plenty of seminars, but also a chance to have our newspaper critiqued by industry professionals. We were ready to hear the worst of it– but didn’t.

The search for the earth look-alike

A whopping 1,235 possible planets, including five Earth-size planets capable of supporting liquid water: a startling discovery, presented at a widely anticipated NASA news conference Feb. 2. That’s the day the space agency announced its planet-hunting Kepler telescope had gained traction and delivered astronomers a significant boon – the first planets ever discovered that could harbour life.