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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NASA Mercury: 1956 to 1963 by David Baker (book review).
In many respects, I have always wondered why Haynes left a look at NASA’s Mercury Program until last of their
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The Patterning Instinct by Jeremy Lent (book review)
Jeremy Lent’s book title, ‘The Patterning Instinct’, sounds like a book on knitting but makes more sense from its sub-title,
Read MoreAlien Covenant – with extra real rover.
The Moonrover Audi Lunar Quattro celebrates its film debut in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi movie Alien Covenant this week, ahead of
Read MoreUK fusion reactor achieves first plasma: predicts power plants on grid by 2030.
The UK’s newest fusion reactor has been turned on for the first time and has achieved first plasma. The reactor
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