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Supersonic tube travel (1820s style) 19 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
[Above: Elon Musk's proposed ‘Hyperloop’ transport system would travel at speeds of up to 768mph and complete a journey of 380miles in just 30minutes – a positively glacial pace when compared with ...
Skylon: Say hello to our sci-fi future 12 Aug 2013 | 11:43 am
WHEN SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS first imagined humanity’s spacefaring future, they gave their protagonists spacecraft that could take off, pop into space, land and then take off again. No sensible fut...
Doin' the black hole twist 2 Aug 2013 | 03:01 pm
SO YOU'RE LISTENING to the hit parade on the radio and bustin’ some moves on the rug-clad dance floor of your sitting room. A quick glance at your reflection in the glass of your patio doors confirms...
The lengths we go to (to measure length) 2 Aug 2013 | 02:57 pm
If you are of a certain age, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the metre was some new-fangled thing imposed on us sometime during the 1970s. Well, this week, the humble metre celebrates its 220th bi...
Gold doubloons from cosmic kabooms! 21 Jul 2013 | 10:16 pm
[Above: An artist’s impression of two neutron stars colliding. Gold bars have been added by the author (astrophysicists don’t think it likely that pre-cast bullion will emerge from such a collision). ...
I won something! 17 Jul 2013 | 12:52 pm
Well, isn't that pretty... I am massively pleased and proud to have been awarded the UK Space Agency and British Interplanetary Society's Sir Arthur Clarke Award for my space-related scribbles. This ...
Got those (burning up, molten glass rain in a hyper-hurricane, losing my atmosphere) blues 15 Jul 2013 | 11:33 am
FLUNG AROUND ITS PARENT star at 400,000km per hour, it is so close to the stellar furnace that its year lasts just 2.2 Earth-days. Flayed by solar winds, its atmosphere is stripped away and blasted...
Space, the fatal frontier 8 Jul 2013 | 11:38 am
To baldly go... Hair loss would be just one of the unfortunate side-effects suffered by space travellers exposed to extreme solar radiation SO, AFTER DECADES of careful budgeting, you finally bought....
The certainty of uncertainty 30 Jun 2013 | 03:24 pm
WHEN IT COMES TO its ability to formulate accurate explanations and make testable predictions, the science of quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories of all time. Despite its astonish...
Cosm nominated for a Sir Arthur Clarke award (again) 24 Jun 2013 | 11:53 am
I am most pleased to be a finalist once more for a Sir Arthur Clarke Award. Somehow, I have once more made it into the running for a Sir Arthur Clarke Space Achievement (Media, Broadcast and Written....
