In 1968, Apollo 8 realised the 2,000-year-old dream of a Roman philosopher NASA Tom McLeish, University of York Half a century of Christmases ago, the NASA space mission Apollo 8 became the first manned craft to leave low Earth orbit, atop the unprecedentedly powerful Saturn V rocket, and head out…
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Why we will probably never have a perfect clock
Why we will probably never have a perfect clock pexels photo. Daniel Brown, Nottingham Trent University The time has come again when many of us switch our clocks from summer or daylight-saving time back to winter time. And the usual confusion sets in, is it an hour forwards or back?…
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Individual action won’t achieve 1.5℃ warming – social change is needed, as history shows
Individual action won’t achieve 1.5℃ warming – social change is needed, as history shows Kubko/Shutterstock.com Matthew Adams, University of Brighton Following the 2015 Paris Agreement to hold the global increase in climate to below 2℃ above pre-industrial levels, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was asked to produce…
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Blood moon: lunar eclipse myths from around the world
Blood moon: lunar eclipse myths from around the world Shutterstock Daniel Brown, Nottingham Trent University Millions have people have the opportunity to see a lunar eclipse – an event popularly known in the media as a “blood moon” – on Friday July 27. Visible for most of the world –…
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Silicon Valley, from ‘heart’s delight’ to toxic wasteland
Silicon Valley, from ‘heart’s delight’ to toxic wasteland Once lauded for their vision and promise, Silicon Valley giants have made life so hard for locals that residents regularly protest the companies, including their amenities like charter buses to save workers from the region’s terrible traffic. AP Photo/Richard Jacobsen Andrew L.…
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Atomic age began 75 years ago with the first controlled nuclear chain reaction
Atomic age began 75 years ago with the first controlled nuclear chain reaction For the first time, human beings harnessed the power of atomic fission. Keith Ruffles, CC BY Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University and Wolfgang Mittig, Michigan State University Over Christmas vacation in 1938, physicists Lise Meitner and Otto…
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