The Marvellous Learning Animal: What Makes Human Nature Unique by Arthur W.Straats (book review).
I have to confess that when I started reading Arthur W. Straats’ book, ‘The Marvellous Learning Animal: What Makes Human
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Neutron star is full of secrets…
Astronomers using NASA’s Swift X-ray Telescope have observed a spinning neutron star suddenly slowing down, yielding clues they can use
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NASA Mars Rover 1997-2013 (Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity And Curiosity) Owners’ Workshop Manual by David Baker (book review).
Oddly, considering how close, relatively speaking, Mars is to Earth, the proportion of speculation as to what was there to
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Catch me an asteroid!
NASA’s first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in
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Hurricanes of Saturn.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole.
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2001: A Space Rotation: an article by GF Willmetts (feature).
A lot of the articles I write often start from seeing a problem and then seeing how I can resolve
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Ah, grasshopper.
SpaceX’s Grasshopper spaceship shows the world some of that old-style rocket action just like we used to imagine it in
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The Mystery Of Existence edited by John Leslie and Robert Lawrence Kuhn (book review).
The sub-title of ‘The Mystery Of Existence’ is ‘Why Is There Anything At All?’ to which I heartily retort say,
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Science Team… fight the alien threat.
Here comes Science Team, an independent feature-length motion picture looking to raise funds via http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/science-team-an-independent-feature-length-motion-picture – this project features a
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NASA finds smallest habitable zone worlds yet.
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range
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