NASA Will Conduct An Interesting Operation This Thursday
On May 6th (at about 10:34 PM EDT) NASA will attempt to launch Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule to the ISS (a night time launch I hope to be able to see and film from my […]
On May 6th (at about 10:34 PM EDT) NASA will attempt to launch Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule to the ISS (a night time launch I hope to be able to see and film from my […]
Fast radio bursts, a mysterious type of high-energy flash emanating from deep space, have perplexed scientists for years. We’re beginning to unravel the mystery thanks to extensive study with powerful telescopes and a little bit […]
Publisher: RIVERHEAD BOOKS/PENGUIN PUTNAM Publication date: 04/27/2021 Pages: 368 ISBN: 9780735214507 Author: David Epstein Range: How Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World by David Epstein includes several real world examples […]
There are so many reasons why we ought to refuse and reject the propaganda-against-confidence, out there. A better-than-expected economy? Dropping crime rates? A working vaccine against malaria and looming extinction for both the Guinea worm […]
Ad Astra games soon to release Architect of Worlds by Jon F. Zeigler
A cosmic megastructure more than 9 billion light years away from Earth challenges what we know about the universe. A doctoral candidate at the United Kingdom’s University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has spotted a […]
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER TRADE Publication date: 04/02/1998 Pages: 256 Copyright Year: 1985 ISBN: 0-684-85394-9 Author: Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a […]
I’m avoiding politics once again this time, in order to dive into the endlessly fascinating topic of human origins. And hence first, for your holiday shopping…. Can you hunt and gather and woo and connive […]
A little more than three months ago the Indian space agency, ISRO, achieved a major success by putting its Vikram lander safely down on the surface of the Moon. In doing so India became the […]
Okay SPAAAACE-time. To the chagrin of those trying to destroy our confidence, we keep doing fine and wonderful things! Let’s begin with my own milestone… after 12 years in the funnest gig ever, I just attended (in […]
In 2026, a crew of six fully-trained aquanauts will be deployed to a new oceanic habitat system – beginning what promises to be the era of humanity’s continuous presence underwater. A cable vanishes from the […]
What is hundreds of billions of times more powerful than the Sun, flashes on repeat with intense bursts of light, and verges on defying the laws of physics? No, it’s not your neighbors’ holiday lights […]
Publisher: Picador; Reprint edition (November 4, 2014) Language: English Paperback: 304 pages ISBN-10: 125005611X ISBN-13: 978-1250056115 Author: Sendhil Mullainathan Author: Eldar Shafir Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much […]
Starship successfully launches on its second try (the booster did fail just after separation).
SpaceX will attempt the second test launch of its ginormous Starship rocket tomorrow.
Publisher: PYR Publication date: 10/03/2017 Pages: 384 ISBN13: 9781633883437 ISBN10: 1633883434 Author: David Walton The Genius Plague by David Walton is a fun sci-fi thriller. A mycology researcher (someone who studies fungus) comes […]
Doug Rushkoff’s Team Human podcast dives into an hour with me, discussing a vital Big Picture Question — perhaps the biggest – that’s applicable to the current ‘crisis’ over artificial Intelligence: What methods did people […]
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft recently conducted a flyby of its first two asteroids, with the first one being a binary asteroid named Dinkinesh. The term “Dinkinesh” means “marvelous” in the Amharic language, and it turned out […]
Publisher: Viking (December 1, 2020) Language: English ISBN-10: 1984881639 ISBN-13: 978-1984881632 Author: Camilla Pang, PhD An Outsider’s Guide To Humans: What Science Taught Me About What We Do and Who We […]
Alien life could take many different forms, but one possibility is captivating scientists: alien “plants”. What would they look like? And how could we find them? On the Orion arm of the Milky Way galaxy, […]
In June, astronomers reported a disappointing discovery: The James Webb Space Telescope failed to find a thick atmosphere around the rocky planet TRAPPIST-1 C, an exoplanet in one of the most tantalizing planetary systems in […]
Mars, our neighboring planet, has revealed several significant discoveries through space missions and scientific research. Initially thought to be a lush, life-teeming world, Mariner 4’s 1965 mission dispelled this misconception, showing that Mars is a […]
Planet formation is thought to be a messy process, as lots of growing planets end up in unstable orbits, resulting in large collisions like the one that resulted in the Moon’s formation. The messiness […]
An artist’s impression of the Parker Solar Probe near the Sun’s corona. (NASA Goddard/YouTube) NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has broken the record for the fastest human-made object, reaching speeds of 635,266 km/h (394,736 mph) during […]
The enormous, next-generation communications satellite BlueWalker 3 has become one of the brightest objects visible in the night sky, according to new research published today in the journal Nature. While BlueWalker 3 is groundbreaking for […]
Is humanity the sole inhabitant of the cosmos? This age-old question has persisted throughout our history. In the realm of modern astronomy, the inquiry delves into the search for extraterrestrial life. Are we, as a […]
Publisher : Penguin (August 20, 2020) Language : English Pages : 208 ISBN-10 : 0141983418 ISBN-13 : 978-0141983417 The Case Against Reality: How evolution hid the […]
For nearly seven decades, a plasmon known as Pines’ demon has remained a purely hypothetical feature of solid-state systems. Massless, neutral and unable to interact with light, this unusual quasiparticle is reckoned to play a […]
NASA’s endeavor to alter the trajectory of an asteroid has yielded unexpected results. Just shy of a year ago, NASA intentionally directed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft (DART) towards Dimorphos, an asteroid located approximately […]
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