How Project Hail Mary Gets Rocky Right

Sorry, Ryan Gosling, but this is the real star of your movie.

Boeing 777X's Automated Wing-Fold Systems Prevent Takeoff Disasters For Pilots

Folding wings are not something that is often associated with commercial aviation, but the 777X breaks this norm. How do these systems work?
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Devoured, paralysed, enslaved: The alien-like horror that drills inside and turns its victim into a very sinister, nursery

Like any other barnacle, itstarts life as a plankton, but moults into a very different creature; a ‘cypris’ larva stage, when ...

This Seventies TV show was Britain’s answer to Star Trek – until it wasn’t

At the time, Space: 1999 was the most expensive series ever made, but a US producer and pulpier plots saw it lose its way ...
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NASA’s Hubble Unexpectedly Catches Comet Breaking Up

In a happy twist of fate, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just witnessed a comet in the act of breaking apart. The chance of that happening while Hubble watched is extraordinarily minuscule. The ...