The Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) is allowing scientists to see further back in time than ever before.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, the National Science Foundation has released its most recent science and technology survey, in which it tries to assess how much the American populace knows about science.
Results are not encouraging.
The general public's ability to answer basic questions about science has hardly changed. For instance, in 2001, only about 50 percent of NSF survey respondents knew that the earliest humans did not live at the same time as dinosaurs, that it takes Earth one year to go around the Sun, that electrons are smaller than atoms, and that antibiotics do not kill viruses.
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