How Puzzles Improve Your Brain by Richard Restak with puzzles by Scott Kim (book review).
Mix neurologist Richard Restak and puzzle-maker Scott Kim and you’ve got the makings of explaining how exercising your brain is
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Life on ancient Mars? Could be, says NASA, after amazing discovery.
An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists
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Global warming getting much worse, discovers Nature study.
Vegetation growth at Earth’s northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study based on
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Flood channels of Mars.
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has provided images allowing scientists for the first time to create a 3-D reconstruction of
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When Gravity Meets Inertia – an observation by: GF Willmetts (article).
Gravity makes everything fall down. Inertia makes everything stay there until given a push by something that can move it.
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The Whole Story Of Climate by E. Kirseten Peters (book review).
When I started E. Kirseten Peters’ book, ‘The Whole Story Of Climate’, I was expecting, based off the cover, something
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Strange new structures in space discovered by NASA.
NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission has discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt around Earth, revealing the existence of unexpected
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The Joy Of X: A Guided Tour Of Mathematics by Steven Strogatz (book review).
If it wasn’t for the sub-title, ‘A Guided Tour Of Mathematics: From One To Infinity’, ‘The Joy Of X’ could
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Science Fiction And Philosophy edited by Susan Schneider (book review).
I have to say from the start, I found ‘Science Fiction And Philosophy’ an odd book, which became odder as
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The very, very small planet.
NASA’s Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around
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