Private space company SpaceX is about to do something for the first time. This week the company launches its first human passengers into space, a major test for the Elon Musk-backed outfit and a stepping stone on its route to Mars.
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Time and frequency standards are a key part of technologies we have come to rely on in our daily lives, from GPS navigation and cellphone networks to the electrical power grid. The importance of these systems and the constant drive to improve their performance has led to the development of atomic clocks that keep time and measure frequency with incredible accuracy.
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With dreams of Mars on the minds of both NASA and Elon Musk, long-distance crewed missions through space are coming. But you might be surprised to learn that modern rockets don’t go all that much faster than the rockets of the past.
Everyone is responsible for slowing the spread of the disease. Every action counts. This is also the case in the fight against misinformation, which intrudes on the overabundance of news, mixing facts, rumours and fake news. The World Health Organization (WHO) has described this phenomenon as an infodemic.
Just before South Africa’s lockdown kicked off, we started up a giveaway for an Epson Ecotank L5190 printer. We’ve been…
Butts are amazing things. You can sit on them, obviously, but we’ve also made them fly, we’ve used artificial ones…
Childhood is an important time to think about myopia because myopic children tend to become more nearsighted over time. The age of myopia onset is the most significant predictor of severe myopia later in life.
You know how DC and Warner Bros. have been trying to fight the entertainment juggernaut that is the Marvel Cinematic…
Twitter’s gone and done something else (again) instead of giving us all the Edit button we so desperately want (and…