Life on Titan… plastic based?
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used to make food-storage containers, car bumpers and other consumer products, on
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Cloud spotting on Kepler-7b.
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond
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Magnificent Mistakes In Mathematics by Alfred S. Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann (book review).
I do think the title ‘Magnificent Mistakes In Mathematics’ needs to be qualified as ‘Magnificent Mistakes In Mathematics Made By
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The Efficiency Trap by Steve Hallett (book review).
The whole point of Steve Hallett’s book, ‘The Efficiency Trap’, is pointing out things that we think are ‘green’ or
Read MoreNASA to Mars: Who (or ‘what’) is hiding the methane now?
Data from NASA’s Curiosity rover has revealed the Martian environment lacks methane. This is a surprise to researchers because previous
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Signatures Of Life by Edward Ashpole (book review).
Looking at the book cover of Edward Ashpole’s book ‘Signatures Of Life’, where it shows a barren planetary surface, you’ll
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Aeroscraft… floating into the future, floating into the past.
Meet the Aeroscraft – it’s the future of aviation. And it’s also the past. To some, it looks like a
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SpaceShipTwo… all your planets is ours.
Virgin Galactic reports that their SpaceShipTwo vessel shattered the sound barrier above the Mojave Desert in one of its final
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The Forces Of Nature: Our Quest To Conquest The Planet by Barry A. Vann (book review).
Author Barry A. Vann, through his book ‘The Forces Of Nature’, looks at how Man has conquered this planet. Obviously
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The Trachtenberg Speed System Of Basic Mathematics translated and adapted by Ann Cutler and Rudolph McShane (book review).
Jakow Trachtenberg was born in Russia and a pacifist who married a German woman, stayed in Germany but with the
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