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Space: Animated Aurora from Orbit
Astronaut Don Pettit created an astounding video using a sequence of still images he shot of the aurora borealis from the International Space Station.
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Science: A Fish-Like Airship
A research team around Silvain Michel at the Swiss EMPA has created a blimp that moves and steers around like a fish. The airship uses artificial muscles based on electro-active polymers for its propulsion similar to the way fish swim through water.
Here’s a video of the blimp from a competition at the airship convention last week in Germany.
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Humor: The 18th Ig Nobel Prizes awarded
It’s early October again and for some that means the highlight of the scientific calendar have just happened and for others that some at Harvard have again celebrated the silliest science around the globe.
What we are talking about are the 18th Annual Ig Nobel Prize Awards that took place this Thursday at Sanders Theater, Harvard University and informal lectures by the prize winners this afternoon at the MIT Building.
The annual prizes are awarded for…
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Science: Water on Mars
No this is not a continuation of or “April’s Fools post”, Nasa today “officially released” information that they found water on Mars.
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Space: Gaja calling
f “Contact” with Jodie Foster was your kind of movie then you should have a look at the real-life version of sounds and noises recorded in space.
Watch the video for the sounds Gaja sends out into space that might be heard by other “aliens” on their planets…
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NASA: ISS 360 Virtual tours
If you always wanted to have a look around inside the International Space Station and your uncle is not the new president of a former communist country or a Billionaire – here’s your chance:
The NASA has put up a web site dedicated to the ISS with introduction videos, external and internal 360 tours and much more…
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