Category Archives: Science

Orionids Meteor Shower Starts This Weekend.

At this time of year, Orion rises at about 11 p.m. local time worldwide, so the best time to view the Orionids will be after midnight.

Earth and Jupiter Captured In the Same Photograph Taken From Mars.

International Space Station Comes Together.

For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

Two noted physicists speculate that the future may be pushing back on the LHC to avert the disaster of observing the Higgs boson.

LHC Webcam

100 Billion Miles.

Out of the ordinary… out of this world.

15 Years of Discovery

The International Space Station Over Earth.

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Accelerating at around 9 metres per second per second – which would feel roughly like a comfortable 1 g – a craft could get 99 per cent of the way to the expansion “horizon”. Despite the vast distance, this would take only about 50 years in the astronaut’s reference frame, because time would pass slower than on Earth due to relativity.

In quantum theory, a single object can be doing two different things at once.

Quantum Weirdness