The great bonanza of worlds.
NASA’s Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems
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The Stardust Revolution by Jacob Berkowitz (book review).
‘The Stardust Revolution’ has nothing to do with rebellion in outer space. The sub-title ‘The New Stories Of Our Origin
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Magnificent Principia: Exploring Isaac Newton’s Masterpiece by Colin Pask (book review).
Now this is the kind of book you won’t come across very often. Colin Pask explores and analyses Isaac Newton’s
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Combat Aircraft 80: Lockheed SR-71 Operations In Europe And The Middle East by Paul F. Crickmore (book review).
The use of the SR-71 Blackbird or Habu in Europe and the Middle East meant that it would have to
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SpaceShipTwo creeps closer to the big dark.
Virgin Galactic has completed the third rocket-powered supersonic flight of its passenger carrying reusable space vehicle, SpaceShipTwo. In command on
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Good Math by Mark C Chu-Carroll (book review).
The quirky and entertaining aspects of mathematics will be relatively familiar to most SFCrowsnest readers. For example, you would have
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When super-worlds get cloudy.
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have characterized the atmospheres of two of the most common type of planets in
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Combat Aircraft 76: Lockheed SR-71 Operations In The Far East by Paul F. Crickmore (book review).
I did wonder when I started this book, ‘Combat Aircraft 76: Lockheed SR-71 Operations In The Far East’ by Paul
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Mood: The Key To Understanding Ourselves And Others by Patrick M. Burke (book review).
Patrick M. Burke’s book ‘Mood: The Key To Understanding Ourselves And Others’ looks at what makes us depressed or happy,
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UFO Investigations Manual by Nigel Watson (book review).
In more recent years, I’ve tended to become a lot more ambivalent when it comes to UFO sightings. Going back
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