When environmental scientist Easkey Britton was growing up on Ireland’s northwestern coast, the sea crept into every corner of her life. To get to school every morning, she took a shortcut across a beach that could only be crossed at low tide, so she learned to read tide tables and the buoys’ […]
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015 – 16:15 Peter Gwynne, Contributor (Inside Science) – You’re eagerly waiting to try out your new set of golf clubs. But before you set out for the course, you can benefit from a lesson or two – in physics. “Knowing a few things about the fundamental […]
It sure looks like the abandoned Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will put on its re-entry light show on April Fools’ Day. The European Space Agency (ESA), which has been tracking the prototype habitat through its final days and hours, now predicts (as of March 31) it will re-enter the atmosphere within a […]