This month the NASA space probe Juno completed its tenth science orbit around the planet Jupiter. The spacecraft came as close as 2,100 miles from the planet’s clouded surface, and sent back to Earth what must be the most beautiful images of any celestial orb ever captured. Just take a look at these images above […]
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A collection of hundreds of digitized video clips of unique research aircraft from the 1940s until this past decade is making its way to YouTube. The collection contains footage of many of the vehicles flown at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, previously known as the Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards, California. It only takes […]
Along with plenty of science fiction reviewed here at borg, we’ve covered “science fact” and making the world a better place through natural science and ecology and we love to review new cookbooks that come along, especially if tied to something we’re interested in. We also love superheroes, and it’s difficult to find a superhero […]
The truth. Truth is the only way forward. Lies and misinformation can destroy any plan, even a good one. Created by writer Daniel H. Wilson in collaboration with the Michael Crichton estate, The Andromeda Evolution arrived last year 50 years after The Andromeda Strain was first published, the book that launched Crichton’s fame as master […]
Review by Elizabeth C. Bunce I don’t know how old I was when I first heard of Jack the Ripper. I do remember being quite young when the sensationalizing and romanticizing of the serial killer started to bother me. “What’s wrong with you?” I would growl at the TV, comics, Halloween costumes, and centuries-spanning obsession […]
Creek Stewart balances the appeal, insight, intelligence, and demonstration skills of outdoorsmen like Steve Irwin and Jeff Corwin in his Weather Channel series, SOS: How to Survive. Much more than the typical reality show, Stewart takes viewers on a real outdoor how-to adventure in each hour of the series. It’s like scouting for adults (and […]
Review by C.J. Bunce If you’re thinking about how you can change the world for the better in 2019, one step in the right direction would be reading writer/artist Rachel Ignotofsky‘s latest science book, The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth: Understanding Our World and Ecosystems, an easy to understand guide to the elements of science […]
Review by C.J. Bunce RadioShack was founded 100 years ago, and for most of those decades it has been the go-to supplier for anyone interested in electronics. Not just for professionals, but it’s where students went to make things if they had even a remote interest in electronics. The new incarnation of RadioShack is little […]
Where are they now? After spending nearly 11,000 workyears on the Voyager space program so far, or one-third of the estimated effort required to build the great pyramid at Giza, the Voyager space probes are currently in the “Heliosheath” – the outermost layer of the heliosphere where the solar wind is slowed by the pressure of […]
