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It’s finally here ladies and gents – for over three years we’ve been collecting the best of the best information and putting it together in an ebook; and for over six months we’ve been brushing and polishing it, and now it’s finally done.   The book is FREE, and the only thing we ask in [...]

These aren’t the most favorable times for space flight we live in. Last month space shuttle Atlantis completed its final mission, signaling the retirement of the whole three decade long program. Currently NASA is left without a means of its own to  launch astronauts into space for missions, like those to the International Space Station, [...]

We’re hosting another edition of the Carnival of Space this week, in which we’ve shared some of the most important news and events related to space and astronomy. For more, check out the Carnival’s homepage over at Universe Today. The Chandra blog posted  their latest installment in the Women in the High Energy Universe profile [...]

Brain-Art competition is an annual celebration of the beauty and creativity of artistic renderings emerging from the neuroimaging community. Last month concluded the first edition in which various artists from around the world submitted some incredible work for the competition’s galleries – 3D-rendering gallery, connectome gallery, abstract gallery and humorous gallery. Below are a few [...]

This week, we’re proud to host the 206th edition of Carnival of Space, a weekly round-up that features important news and events related to space and astronomy. For more, check out the Carnival’s homepage over at Universe Today. TheSpacewriter muses on the last shuttle launch in the first of a two-part series. A Time-lapsed View of [...]

A job can be as hard or easy as you make it to be, depending on how much you enjoy or are passionate about your work. However, it’s pretty hard to imagine how some people working particularly bizarre jobs through out history thought or felt.  Listed below are a couple of odd jobs that caught [...]

Usually, deserts are barren, arid wastelands field with sand, all kinds of lizardy creatures and a minimum amount of water – basically, death traps. Brazil’s Lençóis Maranhenses National Park may very well be the world’s most harmless desert, and if not, it’s the most stunning one for sure. Spanning a mere 1000 square kilometers, the [...]

Well the teahouse itself isn’t dangerous at all, but as in life, it’s about the journey, and not about the destination. Do you think you have what it takes to get to this amazingly dangerous place? Well, the first step is not always the hardest, and this time it’s the easiest – you just take [...]

Well, it is the best, or the worst attempt ever actually, depends on your point of view. First, a little bit on the background: the attacking force was composed of an unemployed French nuclear physicist, André “mad scientist” Gardes. The defending team was a small island south of Britain named Sark, with a population of [...]

It’s a crazy, crazy world out there people, but things like these just make you go ‘Wow!’. Or at least they had that effect on me, and pretty much everybody I showed it to. The folks over at National Geographic recreated what every children dreamed of at least once: lifting up a house just with [...]