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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Voyager probe – finds alien life?
Well, maybe in the first Star Trek movie. In real life, though, NASA’s Voyager has just entered a new region
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Your Terminator future… the X-47B carrier flight drone.
It’s perhaps ironic in that the same week it was announced in a UK university they were going to set
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Mercury… ice planet!
A NASA spacecraft studying Mercury has provided support for the long-held hypothesis the planet harbors abundant water ice and other
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ScitechStarter… Kickstarter for mad(ish) scientists and inventors?
Are you a scientist, engineer or inventor? Do you have plans for a James Dyson-like reinvention of some field of
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Kepler… King of the Planet Hunters!
NASA is marking two milestones in the search for planets like Earth; the successful completion of the Kepler Space Telescope’s
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