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I often believed as a young man that William Shakespeare was highly over-rated as a writer but only with time & experience did I learn that I was wrong. The magic of the master not only lies in his craft but his brilliant interpretation of human mind...
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We supposedly live in a classless society, but the velvet ropes have been spreading like weeds in recent years. How odd, then, that the power-saturated floor of the...
made popular Aug 28 2008
The asteroid, Apophis, is estimated to be perhaps 270 metres across and it will pass close to Earth in 2029, well inside the orbit of the Moon and closing in to the...
made popular Aug 25 2008
Why haven’t we met aliens yet? And why aren’t we sending rockets all over the solar system? There is only one plausible explanation. Earth is being...
made popular Aug 25 2008
Could it be too late to save the global ocean, which covers 70% of the earth’s surface?
made popular Aug 21 2008
Something beneath the surface is changing Earth’s protective magnetic field, which may leave satellites and other space assets vulnerable to high-energy...
made popular Aug 19 2008
That may seem a bit counter-intuitive; after all, the Earth is certainly central to the rhetoric, the memetic of environmentalism. Most environmental discussions focus...
made popular Aug 19 2008
For years I got blank stares when I told people that The Day the Earth Stood Still was my favorite movie.
made popular Aug 17 2008
On an arid outcropping of basalt in northwestern Australia, some of the oldest rocks on Earth lie exposed to the fierce sun. Formed at the bottom of an ancient ocean,...
made popular Aug 10 2008
A television company has joined forces with a social networking site to send a message to the nearest theoretically inhabitable planet. But can our television and radio...
made popular Aug 8 2008
The common mantra that there is nothing special about our place in the universe is questioned today by a simulation of the birth of our Solar System.
made popular Aug 8 2008
In the 21st Century, the term “flat-earther” is used to describe someone who is spectacularly - and seemingly wilfully - ignorant. But there is a group of...
made popular Aug 6 2008
AP, Los Angeles
Scientists operating the Phoenix spacecraft say the Martian soil near the north pole landing site is similar to what can be found in the Chile desert on Earth.
made popular Aug 5 2008
Time is fast running out to stop irreversible climate change, a group of global warming experts warns today. We have only 100 months to avoid disaster. Andrew Simms...
made popular Aug 1 2008
AP, Pasadena
At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn’s moon Titan studied by the international Cassini spacecraft contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the...
made popular Jul 31 2008
A total solar eclipse will darken some of Earth’s skies on Friday, but geography, weather, the economy and even the Olympics are combining to make it a hard and...
made popular Jul 29 2008
Richard Branson has triggered a new space race with the launch of a high-altitude jet name White Knight Two ‘Eve’ in the US. The jet will be used for his project to...
made popular Jul 29 2008
AP, Washington
A total solar eclipse will darken some of Earth’s skies on Friday, but geography, weather, the economy and even the Olympics are combining to make it a hard and...
made popular Jul 28 2008
AP, Los Angeles
Aerospace engineers have been holed up in a Mojave Desert hangar for four years, fashioning a commercial spaceship to loft rich tourists some 62 miles above Earth. Now...
made popular Jul 26 2008
For most of our planet’s history until fairly recently, the overall pattern has been for the Earth to be hot, with no permanent ice to be found anywhere.
made popular Jul 25 2008
Belief in aliens came to a new high when former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell claimed that aliens exist. The Apollo 14 mission veteran asserts that...
made popular Jul 25 2008
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# ‘Humanity’s very survival’ is at risk, a study involving 1,400 scientists has concluded, paying emphasis on the fact that we are fast approaching...
made popular Oct 30 2007
The Earth is entering a “fever” phase! That is what a leading scientist claims as he writes that climate change will kill billions of people this century....
made popular Jan 24 2006
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