Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
If exploring the Universe has always been one of your dreams, you might start using what’s available right now and try one of the many simulators out there. Some are very technical and require a good understanding of cosmology, others…
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Every space lover has heard of Martin Rees, I bet. He’s (among other things) a UK Astronomer Royal and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. He also often attends SF Conventions, as he did a…
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Earlier this week I have referenced NASA’s online repository Image of the Day. What I present today is way different but impressive all the same – a man-made representation of the observable universe. That’s it, in a logarithmic scale with…
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…. or, to be more precise, to their investigators. As announced today, October 6, on the official webpage, “The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations,…
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I have recently read many articles about where life in the universe is likely to be found and what are the preconditions for it. This is a complex subject stretching over many disciplines, astrobiology first, and it is not an accident organisations like…
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It’s impossible not to celebrate these days the incredible achievements of Hubble’s Space Telescope – which has just turned 25. A joint ESA/NASA project, launched into Earth’s orbit on April, 24th, 1990, the space telescope has dramatically changed our knowledge of…
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If there’s a stellar object that’s both scaring and fascinating at the same time is the black hole. Scientists are still debating about what its nature truly is, and recent findings only add to its mystery. An accepted definition for it…
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Writing a summary of the human civilisation that spans from the Australopitecus and its peers to the moment history truly starts is a task that would scare the bravest of the scholars, no matter how confident – or reckless –…
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