Astronomy & Space Science
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Clegg

PLENTY OF ROOM OUTSIDE When we consider Mars as a potential new frontier, it has a lot going for it. In terms of sheer scale, it dwarfs any new region ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science September 8,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Stuart Clark

Hidden assumptions Many astronomers are coming to rely on the existence of dark matter, but others are growing sceptical. This is because dark matter has an Achilles heel in the ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-02-01 | Author:Janette Oke [Oke, Janette]

124 roast beef sandwich, made with thick slices of homemade bread and farm butter, to set before her weary son. She poured two cups of tea and sat down to ...
( Category: Historical September 3,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:Janette Oke [Oke, Janette]

124 managed a wobbly smile. Nobody could be quite as excited at the prospect of a new baby as Clare and Kate were. Ellie's thoughts continued with her brother Luke's ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 3,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Deamer, David

CONNECTIONS The pathway to the first forms of life must have involved multiple self-assembly processes in which simple mixtures of organic compounds in solution were organized into more complex systems. ...
( Category: Geology September 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-01 | Author:David Hitt & Heather R. Smith

21. Challenger in orbit on STS-7 with the remote manipulator system arm in the shape of the number 7. Courtesy NASA. Unbeknownst to the astronauts, flipping the switches in the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight August 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-22 | Author:Carolyn Collins Petersen [Petersen, Carolyn Collins]

This is the geometry of a gravitational lens. Light travels from the distant object, but its path is distorted by the gravitational pull of a massive object along the way. ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science August 23,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-01-06 | Author:Max Tegmark [Tegmark, Max]

The traditional formulation of the law simply corresponds to ignoring the subject. When I published a technical article about this (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.3080.pdf),2 I included a mathematical proof of the second part ...
( Category: Cosmology August 22,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-22 | Author:Coles, Peter [Coles, Peter]

Turning back the clock The production of the microwave background during the epoch of recombination and the synthesis of the elements during the nuclear fireball are two major successes of ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science August 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:National Maritime Museum

His certainty came from having used thirty-four sets of lunar observations to establish its position. Fixing geographical locations accurately was a lengthy process, since the best observations could only be ...
( Category: History August 21,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-10-15 | Author:Richard Wadholm

Chapter Eight SUSAN HAD A WILD IDEA THAT SHE WOULD turn around and this Kriene, whoever he was, would be standing there, waiting to rebut Malmagden’s argument. But it wasn’t ...
( Category: Astronomy August 20,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-07-27 | Author:James Patterson

Chapter 50 I MATERIALIZED AN extra helmet and helped Judy onto the back of my motorcycle. “Where’s a good place to eat in this town?” I asked through the intercom ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction July 31,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-07-08 | Author:Jay Barbree

With the moon closer to them than Earth, the astronauts had a crater-potted lunar surface staring them in the face. (NASA) It was a splendid, epochal moment sixty-nine hours and ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight July 31,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Terry Pratchett

Like Feynman, we don’t think that there’s an ‘extra something’, an élan vital (‘life force’) that drives life. No, it’s much simpler than that. Organisms have evolved, and whereas at ...
( Category: Astronomy July 22,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:Terry Pratchett

Like Feynman, we don’t think that there’s an ‘extra something’, an élan vital (‘life force’) that drives life. No, it’s much simpler than that. Organisms have evolved, and whereas at ...
( Category: Astronomy July 22,2014 )