Entertainment
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 1 month ago
Anne Hathaway is aiming to reunite with Christopher Nolan on the British director's forthcoming science-fiction film, Interstellar.
Entertainment
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 5 months ago
Sir Patrick Moore, who has died aged 89, had the air of a crusty, uncompromising bachelor and slightly dotty boffin who could have walked straight out of a Victorian or Edwardian novel.
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by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 7 months ago
What happened to the capsule and the balloon?
EuropeGlobal
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 7 months ago
Standing at the edge of space above the deserts of New Mexico, Felix Baumgartner paused slightly. It was a small step away from the capsule, but a 24-mile drop back down to earth.
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by Sarah Western Balzer (RSS feed) - 9 months ago
Neil Armstrong, who died on Saturday, reminds us how little we remember about space exploration in the early 1970s.
Entertainment
by Sarah Western Balzer (RSS feed) - 10 months ago
If you can get past the cheesy music, this time-lapse video of the earth from the International Space Station is pretty amazing.
Health & Living
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 2 years ago
Good news for stargazers in the Channel Islands: Sark has been named the world's first "dark sky island". No public street lighting and careful measures to limit light pollution have made it an astronomer's paradise. But where else can one get a good view of the Pleiades? Here are 10 of the darkest places to go stargazing in mainland Britain:
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by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 2 years ago
Today we celebrate the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Society. It signalled the emergence of a new breed of people – described by Francis Bacon as "merchants of light". They sought to understand the world by experiment and observation, rather than by reading ancient texts. They were motivated by curiosity, but also engaged with the practical problems of their time – improving navigation, cultivating forests, rebuilding London after the Great Fire, and so forth.