Today on New Scientist: 30 November 2012
Updated: 2012-11-30 18:00:00
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This is the first time the station's attitude has been changed to allow a scientific instrument uninterrupted observations of the sun.
Why does the solitary night fighter call out for a nickname?
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A new interactive graphic highlights the space agency's plans.
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In 1948, Idaho decided the best way to move beavers was to airdrop them.
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Sometimes passengers and crew are downright inhuman.
Find yourself in a hostile environment? The Air Force knows what to do.
Suitably clad in a custom-made flying suit and sporting a pair of goggles, President Warren G. Harding’s 1921 Thanksgiving turkey, the gift of the Harding Girls’ Club of Chicago, arrives at the College Park (Maryland) airport on a DH-4 mailplane. Note the rifle at the left of the photograph – why an armed escort [...]
On the western edge of the Mojave desert in Kern County, California, there is a place like nowhere else on Earth. In the skies over Mojave airport the first private enterprise space ship showed the world that a small, talented team could put a man into space. Amazing things happen here. (Carl Ingram, Mojave [...]
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Driving a drone is (apparently) nothing like playing World of Warcraft.
An experiment to study bone density in space uses transparent "fishonauts."
It appears to have, uh, gone missing.