Death Rays And The Popular Media, 1876-1939 by William J. Fanning, Jr. (book review).
The kind of happy subject you want this time of year is ‘Death Rays And The Popular Media’. Specifically from
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Neuroscience In Science Fiction Films by Sharon Packer, M.D. (book review).
I have to confess that I wasn’t quite sure what ‘Neuroscience In Science Fiction Films’ was going to cover. I
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Ground Control to Major Tim, take your protein pills and put your helmet on.
A British astronaut on the ISS? It all looked a little Mr Bean Goes to Space on the news, but
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Fusion power plasma, achieved for the first time.
On December 10th 2015, the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device – a stellarator-type fusion device at the Max Planck Institute for
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The Paradox Of Evolution by Stephen Rothman (book review).
Stephen Rothman’s book ‘The Paradox Of Evolution’ is explained a little better by it’s sub-title ‘The Strange Relationship Between Natural
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Kepler And The Universe by David K. Love (book review).
As author David K. Love points out, Johannes Kepler was a man who made as many mistakes as he got
Read MoreGoogle’s quantum computing breakthrough: 100 million times faster!
Moore’s Law just got torn up and jumped on by the future of quantum computing, as Google in partnership with NASA
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Planet Earth Owners’ Workshop Manual by David Baker (book review).
Any book called ‘Planet Earth Owners’ Workshop Manual’ will have a long time-line to cover as described by its sub-title
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Rockets go up . . . now they come down too.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard space vehicle successfully flew to space, reaching its planned test altitude of 329,839 feet (100.5 kilometers)
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A Numerate Life by John Allen Paulos (book review)
John Allen Paulos is a prominent American mathematician with eight previous books behind him that I haven’t seen. At this
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