Bill Nye Saves The World | Vol. 4 / No. 11.3
SAVE THE WORLD. | Photo: Netflix You guys, I love Bill Nye.
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Discovery Missions 13 and 14 Announced: Lucy and Psyche | Vol. 4 / No. 10.4
NASA announced its next two Discovery missions yesterday, Lucy and Psyche, so let’s sit down and see what they’re all about.
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No Fake News, or Better Living Through Broadcast Regulation | Vol. 4 / No. 4.2
Turn on the television in Canada, my home and native land, and you may be surprised. Not at what you do see, but at what you don’t: there is no analogue for Fox News, no Breitbart, no peddling lies to the masses as news. Why? Because it’s banned.
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That Impossible Drive Thing That’s Still Happening | Vol. 4 / No. 2.1
Periodically, I write on here about the so-called EMDrive that supposedly produces thrust without propellant, in violation of at least one important law of physics. Well, you lucky people you, I have a cold and […]
ESA Arrives at Mars! | Vol. 3 / No. 50.3
It’s been seven months since phase one of the ExoMars mission launched atop a Russian Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and today, they arrived.
Unfortunately, all does not appear to have gone to plan, and right now it seems that America remains the only country to have successfully landed an operational probe on Mars.
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SpaceX May Finally Have Some Competition | Vol. 3 / No. 46.2
Image: Blue Origin The news spread yesterday like wildfire: Jeff Bezos has announced in an e-mail that his suborbital spaceflight company, Blue Origin, has a roadmap for going orbital. The new generation of rockets will […]
Proxima b | Vol. 3 / No. 43.4
A home away from home? | Image: ESO / M. Kornmesser, CC BY 4.0 International Yesterday, scientists from the European Southern Observatory announced that the rumoured discovery of an Earth-sized planet at our closest stellar neighbour, […]
Solar Impulse Back In Europe! | Vol. 3 / No. 34.4
Solar Impulse 2 over Seville, Spain, June 23th 2016 | Photo: Solar Impulse *** Of course I could be writing about the gun control sit-in being run by the Democrats in the House, or about the […]
Lightsail 2’s “Day-In-The-Life” Test Was A Success | Vol. 3 / No. 29.3
Like this, but in California | Photo: The Planetary Society, CC-BY-NC 3.0 *** Yesterday, May 24, the Lightsail team over at the Planetary Society passed a major milestone. Lightsail 2 passed its “Day-In-The-Life” test. Last […]
More Brick-and-Mortar for Amazon | Vol. 3 / No. 28.3
Photo: Zhao!, CC BY 2.0 *** So remember back when Amazon was denying or sidestepping all the rumours that they were going to build a bunch more birck-and-mortar stores? Well, Gizmodo is now reporting that the […]