Surprises in star formation, finds NASA.
Researchers using the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured the most detailed mid-infrared images yet of a
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To AI Or Not AI: The Computer Doesn’t Have All The Answers (article).
To AI Or Not AI: The Computer Doesn’t Have All The Answers a discussion point by: GF Willmetts How does
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The Enlightenment Vision by Stuart Jordan (book review).
‘The Enlightenment Vision’ by Stuart Jordan is, to my mind, an odd book. Its sub-title ‘Science, Reason And The Promise
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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
Read MoreLife 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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