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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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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