The Secret Life Of Space by Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest (book review)
Oddly, when you bear in mind that both Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest are astronomers/astrophysicists, their latest book, ‘The Secret
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Numbers: Their Tales, Types And Treasures by Alfred S. Posamentier & Bernd Thaller (book review)
Numbers. You can’t live without them and I suspect even those of you who don’t see yourselves as numerate can
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Making everything magnetic?
Scientists have demonstrated for the first time how to generate magnetism in metals that are not naturally magnetic, which could
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NASA’s Spitzer confirms closest rocky exoplanet.
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside our solar system, larger
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NASA’s Kepler Mission discovers Earth’s older cousin.
NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and
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NASA Gemini: 1965-1966 (All Missions, All Models) Owners’ Workshop Manual by David Woods and David M. Harland (book review).
NASA’s Gemini programme was needed if they were to fulfil President John F. Kennedy’s order to get American astronauts on
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Spike Aerospace presses ahead with a Concorde for billionaires.
The firm Spike Aerospace is pressing ahead with their Spike S-512 Supersonic Jet, a business jet able to fly at supersonic speeds.
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NASA’s Pluto success: the last planet falls.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft phoned home just before 9 p.m Tuesday 14th 2015, to tell the mission team and the
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Quantum computing? Try, bio-computing with Rat-brain networks.
File under shocking new developments in Franken-computing – but the brains of four rats have been just been wired up
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We’re all doomed, as NASA finds oceans hide Global Warming.
A new NASA study of ocean temperature measurements shows in recent years extra heat from greenhouse gases has been trapped
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