NASA’s Langley: free William Shatner documentary.
An interesting new documentary by William Shatner about NASA’s Langley Research Center explores its history.
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Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy by Tim Harford (book review)
Don’t think the title ‘Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy’ is going to be about the money side of
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Super-Speed: Faster Than A Speeding… a rushed article by: GF Willmetts
There are a lot of problems with super-speed. Fortunately, the few super-human characters who can genuinely fly under their own
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Supersonic X-Plane (now with extra whisper-mode).
NASA has achieved a significant milestone in its effort to make supersonic passenger jet travel over land a real possibility
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US to establish brand new military service … the U.S. Space Corps.
All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Corps! A day in
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Seeing What Others Cannot See by Thomas G. West (book review)
It’s odd that I haven’t come across any of the other books by Thomas G. West because he specialises in
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Ten new ‘Earths’ rustled up by NASA.
NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has just released a fascinating mission catalog of planet candidates which introduces 219 new planet
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming, edited by Paul Hawken (book review).
Something that is pointed out at the beginning of this book, the extensively titled ‘Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever
Read MoreWhen gravity falls: with ‘orphan memory’.
Monash University researchers have identified a new concept – ‘orphan memory’ – which changes the current thinking around gravitational waves.
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Jupiter: planet of weird wonder.
Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex,
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