Sunday morning written After the Saturday morning update: Comes out this weekend, by the middle of the week, Disney/20th Century Studios/Lightstorm’s Avatar: Water Road You will easily overtake The Avengers as the 10th highest-grossing film of all time in the US/Canada with $623.3 million. Pic made by James Cameron $15.7 million at the streak for …
You may have heard some hype about a bright green comet that will sweep across our sector of the solar system over the next few weeks. It’s gotten a lot of attention, because this particular comet hasn’t visited Earth’s general neighborhood since the last ice age — tens of thousands of years ago. If you’re …
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On January 15th, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket took off for the second time in 75 days to launch another batch of US military payloads into orbits tens of thousands of kilometers above the Earth’s surface. Six and a half hours later, the US Space Systems Command (SSC) confirmed that the Falcon Heavy had once again …
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I read a lot of press releases about new scientific papers of my work. Sometimes the art that accompanies them is funny, like this preposterous fuchsia rendering of the microscopic creature Saccorhytus. Sometimes they evoke a world from the past, like the reconstruction of a 100-million-year-old crab. Sometimes these images are ambitious graphs or disturbing …
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