We already knew that this year’s Doernbecher Freestyle Collection was going to be something special, but the more we see, the more we’re convinced that it’s one of the best Doernbecher arrays yet.
Daily Archives: November 16, 2015
This Gorgeous Starburst Nebula Will Make You Wish You Had a Spaceship
Sometimes (often) I think about how great our distant descendants are going to have it; whizzing about the Milky Way in sleek, FTL-enabled spacecraft. Some of those lucky future humans may even get to glimpse wonders like this with their own eyes.
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A Satellite Mishap Is Letting Physicists Test Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, right? That, at least, is the motto the European Space Agency seems to have embraced with respect to two wayward satellites, which are being repurposed to provide the most accurate assessment yet of how gravity affects the passage of time.
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THE END OF MANNING?
Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning’s record-breaking day ended in ignominy on Sunday watching from the sidelines as his side were beaten 29-13 by the Kansas City Chiefs.
This New Hadrosaur Species Is A Classic Missing Link
A new dinosaur species sheds some light on how duck-billed dinosaurs got their crests. Paleontologists say Probrachylophosaurus bergei is a missing link between two other species, and it fills in vital pieces of the story of how crests evolved.
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