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Kenyan Professor Who Skipped High School
He defied odds and engraved his name among the notable people, going on to be appointed...
Threat triggers security measures at three Nanaimo schools
An unspecified threat led to security measures being put in place at three Nanaimo schools Friday morning. Dover Bay Secondary was placed in lockdown while nearby Nanaimo and District Secondary . . .
Get Yourself a Robotic Slave/Housekeeper With This £240 Roomba Discount
Nobody likes vacuuming, which is why we developed robots to help that burden. Sure they're not as efficient as doing it ourselves with a proper vacuum, but in our increasingly busy society most of us are two busy woking three jobs to afford the rent on our London broom cupboards.
Ukraine successfully completes development of Neptun anti-ship missile complex (Video)
The complex was developed by Ukraine's Luch Design Bureau.
"A Stroke Of Bad Luck" Pushed Neanderthals Into Extinction, Says New Study
What killed off the Neanderthals? It’s often posed that the Neanderthals, our heavy-browed cousins that stomped around Europe and western Asia until 40,000
These female African scientists have changed the world in various ways
Women have been responsible for some of the most important scientific revolutions that shaped the modern world. From Marie Curie’s discoveries about radiation to Grace Hopper’s groundbreaking work on computer programming, and Barbara McClintock’s pioneering approach to genetics. But too often their stories aren’t just about the difficulties they faced in cracking some of the toughest problems in science, but also...
Sale on the Voyager Golden Record LP and CD sets and The Family Acid: California photobook!
After producing the Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition, my buddy Tim Daly and I launched a record/publishing label, Ozma Records, to publish creative works at the intersection of scien…
NASA Special Missions to Find Out What Makes Gadgets Work Strangely at Earth's Poles
For years, researchers have been puzzled by a mysterious phenomenon occurring above the North and South Poles, as something interferes with devices using radio or satellite connections. Scientists suggest that the answer to this has to do with the polar cusps – funnel-like entrances for solar winds.
Unqualified teachers’ll be flushed out December ending — FG
THE Federal Government has given directives that all teachers who do not possess the relevant qualifications should be flushed out of classrooms...
Here Is What It Would Take To Steal Elon Musk's Space Car
Whether you’re an evil international billionaire supervillain, seeking a new plot for your next Fast And Furious In Space script, or investigating a murder that has you wondering who exactly is in that “Starman” suit, you’ve likely thought about orchestrating an interstellar automobile heist to get your hands...
Binoculars for Christmas - Skywatching
The range of things available to backyard astronomers is now, er, astronomical.
NASA to Buy Two Seats for its Astronauts Aboard Russian Soyuz Spacecraft
The US space agency intends to buy two seats for its astronauts aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft for a flight to the International Space Station (ISS), TASS reported. “NASA’s purchase of a seat on a future private astronaut mission of no more than four total crew members helps both foster the low Earth orbit economy as well as provides NASA an additional way to meet its needs for research aboard the International Space Station,” the agency said in a Nov.
Check it out: NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft delivers the Orion spacecraft
NASA's Orion Spacecraft for the Artemis 1 mission to the moon has arrived in Ohio in the space agency's Super Guppy aircraft. The spacecraft arrived at Mansfield Lahm Airport and a crowd of nearly 1500 had gathered at the flight line to await the aircraft.
Do You Have the Smarts to Pass Harvard’s Entrance Exam—From 1869?
Harvard University’s acceptance rate may have been higher in 1869, but that doesn’t mean getting in was easy.