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Starting an open source project is easy: write some code, pick a compatible license, and push it up to GitHub. Extra points awarded if you came up with a clever …read more Continue reading Telemetry Debate Rocks Audacity Community in Open Source Dustup
Particle physics is a field of extremes. Scales always have 10really big number associated. Some results from the Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment have recently been reported that are …read more Continue reading Something’s Up in Switzerland: Explaining the B Meson News from the Large Hadron Collider
You might think that particle physicists would be sad when an experiment comes up with different results than their theory would predict, but nothing brightens up a field like unexplained …read more Continue reading The Mysterious Wobble of Muons
When Paul Allen founded Stratolaunch in 2011, the hope was to make access to space cheaper and faster. The company’s massive carrier aircraft, the largest plane by wingspan ever to …read more Continue reading After Years of Uncertainty, Stratolaunch Flies Again
When Paul Allen founded Stratolaunch in 2011, the hope was to make access to space cheaper and faster. The company’s massive carrier aircraft, the largest plane by wingspan ever to …read more Continue reading After Years of Uncertainty, Stratolaunch Flies Again
Ethiopia is in the midst of a major nation-building project, constructing the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Upon completion, GERD will become the largest hydropower plant in Africa, providing much …read more Continue reading Solar And Wind Could Help Support Ethiopia’s Grand Dam Project
When computers were the sort of thing you ordered from a catalog and soldered together in your garage, swap meets were an invaluable way of exchanging not just hardware and …read more Continue reading VCF Swap Meet Takes Step Back To Move Forward
They weren’t scheduled to return to Earth until April 28th at the earliest, so why did NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration …read more Continue reading Crew Dragon’s Short Hop Begins the Era of Valet Parking at the ISS
For those who grew up watching the endless coverage of the Apollo program in the 60s and 70s, the sight of OV-102, better known as the Space Shuttle Columbia, perched …read more Continue reading Space Shuttle Program: 40th Anniversary of the First Launch of Columbia
Google giving up on one of their projects and leaving its established userbase twisting in the wind hardly counts as news anymore. In fact, it’s become something of a meme. …read more Continue reading Google Calls It Quits With VR, But Cardboard Lives On