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From a Roar to a Purr: Prospects for the 2015 November Leonid Meteors

3.5 hours of the 2014 Leonids. Image credit: Mike Reva A November rain hails from the Sickle of the Lion. Hot on the heels of the October Orionids and the Halloween fireballs of the Taurid meteors...

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Who was Sir Isaac Newton?

Godfrey Kneller’s 1689 portrait of Isaac Newton at age 46.Credit: Isaac Newton Institute The 17th century was an auspicious time for the sciences, with groundbreaking discoveries being made in...

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Who was Albert Einstein?

Albert Einstein in 1947. Credit: Library of Congress An end of the millennium poll, conducted by Physics World magazine, asked 100 of the world’s leading physicists were asked who they considered to be...

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Hunting Unicorns: Is an Alpha Monocerotid Outburst Due in 2015?

NOT an Alpha Moncerotid… but a fine capture of a comparable Perseid over a bristlecone pine. Image Credit: Kenneth Brandon What’s rarer than a unicorn? Perhaps, its spying a a elusive meteor outburst...

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A Brief History of Space Stations before the ISS

A century before Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon, science fiction told the public of a future with outposts on the Moon and orbiting high above the Earth. In the decades that followed, these...

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Who is Stephen Hawking?

Dr. Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University alongside illustrations of a black hole and an event horizon with Hawking Radiation. Credit: BBC/Illus.: T.Reyes When we think of major figures in the...

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Spotting Asterix: France Marks 50 Years of Space Exploration

The launch of a French Diamant rocket, circa late 1960s. All images credit and copyright of CNES unless otherwise noted. Author’s note: In the wake of the November 13th terrorist attacks, the French...

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What's The Deal With Jellied Cranberry Sauce?

Cranberry sauce Gene Ham via Flickr That wriggly jellied can-shape cranberry sauce is common on holiday tables in the United States. It’s probably hanging out on its own, shoved to a corner, on a tiny...

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The Solar Heliospheric Observatory at 20

Solar cycle #23 as seen via SOHO, and an artist’s conception of the observatory in space. All images credit of NASA/ESA/SOHO Flashback to 1995: Clinton was in the White House, Star Trek Voyager...

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Timeline of the Universe, From the Big Bang to the Death of Our Sun

A teeny, tiny, minuscule portion of Martin Vargic’s Timeline of the Universe. Don’t know much about history? How about the future? A new infographic by graphic designer Martin Vargic portrays both past...

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Was The V-2 A Nazi Weapon?

The phrase “Nazi V-2” is thrown around a lot, probably because it’s the simplest way to describe the rocket Germany launched against European cities towards the end of the Second World War. But that’s...

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Kepler and the Universe

Johannes Kepler via ESA For most of us, the name “Kepler” brings to mind the Kepler Space Telescope, NASA’s eyes into deep space. So far, it has found 4,696 candidate exoplanets, 1,031 of which have...

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Why We’re Still Talking About Gender in STEM on Ada Lovelace’s 200th Birthday

Ada Lovelace turns 200 today. In her honor, let’s talk about how the current STEM field treats women — and what we can do about it. Read more on MAKE The post Why We’re Still Talking About Gender in...

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What Is The Heliocentric Model Of The Universe?

The Scientific Revolution, which took in the 16th and 17th centuries, was a time of unprecedented learning and discovery. During this period, the foundations of […]   Read more... ©  Ageekk

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The Age of Addressable Advertising

Tweet The demise of traditional network television has been predicted for a while now. As an advertising medium for the delivery of targeted ads, the […]   Read more... ©  Ageekk

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What Is The Geocentric Model Of The Universe?

During the many thousand years that human beings have been looking up at the stars, our concept of what the Universe looks like has changed […]   Read more... ©  Ageekk

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Drones Take Flight: The Future is Here

Tweet Consumer drones are now functional enough for commercial and professional uses. Photography, delivery, research and surveillance — drones are used for a multitude of […]   Read more... ©  Ageekk

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What Is The Plum Pudding Atomic Model?

Ever since it was first proposed by Democritus in the 5th century BCE, the atomic model has gone through several refinements over the past few […]   Read more... ©  Ageekk

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Challenges We’re Overcoming Following the Challenger Accident

It was thirty years ago, January 28, 1986, that space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its flight, killing seven astronauts. This is a tough […]   Read more... ©  Ageekk

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High-Tech, Must-Have Features for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Cars

Tweet If you were lucky enough to attend January’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2016), then you probably have a pretty good feeling about how carmakers […]   Read more... ©  Ageekk

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