All airports are absolutely, positively not created equal. Case in point: the brand new Terminal 3 at Shenzhen’s Bao’an International hub, which will be inaugurated next month after five years in the making. This place is a certifiable beaut that befits the awesome act of flying that we take for granted all the dang time.
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When it comes to orbital launch positioning, the Earth has something of a sweet spot: its equator. Like a gigantic planetary baseball bat, rockets jump off the Earth’s center-line with ease and enter geostationary orbits using a fraction of the energy required anywhere else on the planet. But the problem is that there isn’t a whole lot of usable land along the equator—so one enterprising consortium has developed a means of launching rockets from the middle of the ocean.
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A weird thing happened in St. Petersburg last week. The Russian press reports that local officials …
It’s joked that duct tape can be used to fix almost anything. But a new product called …
In this modern age of tablets and e-readers, it’s always a little bit tough to decide whether to buy the hardcopy of a book or just go for the e-book. Now, you don’t have to choose with …
By Casey Chan
It’s the season of fear! Horror movies, haunted houses, spooky costumes, we find anything and use everything to scare ourselves senseless. But why? What is the science behind fear? What the hell is fear? Bytesize Science explains how fear is our anticipation of something bad happening and how it works in our brain. Spooky! […