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The Science Behind Saturday’s Leap Second
The slight slowing of Earth’s rotation is causing an extra second experience this weekend.
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Black Hole Powered Jets Plow Into Galaxy
This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to generate immense power. The image...
The Starman falls to earth. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, whose David Bowie cover captured the imagination of Earthlings yesterday, landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of ...
Col. Chris Hadfield: “Safely home - back on Earth, happily readapting to the heavy pull of gravity. Wonderful to smell and feel Spring.”
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How appropriate that at the height of the Cold War, in which the United States was attempting to spend the Soviet Union into collapse (a task at which they...
The Science Behind Saturday’s Leap Second
The slight slowing of Earth’s rotation is causing an extra second experience this weekend.