The rocket has a thrust to weight ratio of 1.25 so with one engine out, thrust and...
Astronomy
This week, another video throughput where I talk about the science of a classic Kubrick film, 2001:...
Do not read this headline and think a generation of children are damaged goods. Read this...
We are in a golden age of astronomy, with capabilities exceeding anything we've ever had before. And...
In describing the grandeur and scope of the universe, units intended for the human experience -- meters,...
I take little moments of astronomy in the films Moana and Master and Commander to talk about...
For some reason, this billionaire space race has set off a wave of hand-wringing articles about how...
The turn-of-the-century predictions of skyrocketing obesity proved incorrect and the scale we are using to judge health...
Plus, bonus panels on sobriety and astronomy research.
Activists will continue to milk the issue, but this new paper suggests we should hold off flogging...
After a year of evidence, the claim that you must choose between saving the economy and stopping...
Every 13 or 17 years, Cicadas mature to adulthood, fly around, make a hell of a lot...
Michael Collins was such a professional, he wrote a 117-page manual to deal with every possible rendezvous...
To get the giant container ship blocking the Suez Canal unstuck, engineers needed the stars to align....
What’s really amazing about The Voyagers is that not only are they functioning after 40 years, but...
To stop distribution based on a vaccine side effect that is rare, unproven, & statistically insignificant is...
This amazing feat of engineering is going to make a huge number of breakthroughs on some of...
I do think phthalates may be overstaying their welcome. But I am very dubious that they...
Republicans and editorial boards have taken to blaming alternative energy for the Texas power outages. Is this...
The Covid vaccine is not the end of the War on COVID. It's D-Day. It's...
