The glowing golden eyes of a Helena’s Treefrog pierce the darkness as this frog perches on a mossy tree in the Peruvian jungle of Tambopata. Image credit: Roberto Garcia Roa and British Ecological Society
or, The Hang-Glider’s Guide to the Galaxy. VESSEL, designed by Duncan Lunan for Lance McLane by Sydney Jordan, Daily Record 1982-83
The planet Mercury will reappear in the evening sky with Venus in December, at greatest elongation from the Sun on December 21st, coinciding with the winter solstice.
“Finding Palmaria decipiens at 100m depth is important for furthering our knowledge of Antarctica, a continent that is so important to understand for addressing the environmental challenges the world faces today.” Professor Frithjof Kuepper
“we can show that their root mats also bind together the underwater sand dunes, effectively reinforcing them.” Eduardo Infantes, a Marine Biologist at the University of Gothenburg
“The Waverider concept was devised in March 1957 by Prof. Terence Nonweiler of Queen’s College, Belfast, during work on a re-entry vehicle, intended for a manned spacecraft in the British space programme based on the Blue Streak missile. “
“If we do not take action to protect threatened species and avert extinctions, the functioning of ecosystems will be dramatically disrupted.” Jarome Ali,
“It is incredibly exciting to know that everything is going to be rewritten. That is one of the best parts of being a scientist.” Laura Flagg, Cornell University
A global database has been created linking linguistic and genetic data entitled GeLaTo (Genes and Languages Together).
Image: Mass driver in Low Earth Orbit (Sydney Jordan & Theyan Rich, 1987). Read about nuclear waste disposal in Space
