Planetary disruption beyond imagination at Fomalhaut.
Newly released NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut and a mysterious
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The Puzzler’s Dilemma by Derrick Niederman (book review).
One thing I’m not particularly good at is complex puzzles. That doesn’t mean that I can’t do standard crosswords, although
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Wonderful Life With The Elements: The Periodic Table Personified by Bunpei Yorifuji (book review).
The ‘Wonderful Life With The Elements’ is a clever book with a sophisticated premise. Each of the 103 elements described
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Bullspotting: Finding Facts In The Age Of Misinformation by Loren Collins (book review).
Author Loren Collins hails from Atlanta, Georgia and as he admits in the introduction to this book, ‘Bullspotting: Finding Facts
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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird: Owners’ Workshop Manual by Steve Davies and Paul Crickmore (book review).
If there’s one aircraft that has always been a favourite amongst SF fans, it is the SR-71 Blackbird. A larger
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Second That Emotion by Jeremy D. Holden (book review).
I should point out from the start that this book, despite its title, ‘Second That Emotion’, has less to do
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The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters by Mark Henderson (book review).
With our move at SFC to looking more geeky than we already were, spotting a book called ‘The Geek Manifesto’
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Sir Patrick Moore, 1923–2012 (obituary).
an obituary by David A. Hardy A supergiant that has shone brightly in the sky at night for so
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DARPA build air-robot based on Star Wars droid.
Here’s a nice video of the US defence tech organisation DARPA playing with their hovering V-bat robot – a droid
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From the Earth to the Moon, as long as you’re a billionaire.
The private space tourism business just racked up a notch, with the announcement that the Golden Spike Company will be
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