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  • Bidder pays $1.5M for space trip with Leonardo DiCaprio

    One fan of Leonardo DiCaprio has paid 1.5 million dollars for a trip into space with the actor, during a charity auction at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the winning bidder will get the chance to travel into space orbit on a Virgin Galactic spaceship in a seat next to DiCaprio, Us magazine reported. A portion of the proceeds from the auction will go ...

  • Hubble reveals Ring Nebulas true shape

    New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the real shape of the Ring Nebula. The glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, Sun-like star is like a doughnut, scientists suggested. "The nebula is not like a bagel, but rather, it's like a jelly doughnut, because it's filled with material in the middle," said C. Robert O'Dell of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. ...

  • Ecuadorian satellite escapes collision with Russian rocket

    Ecuador's first satellite avoided a direct collision with the remains of a Russian rocket, but whether the device is still operating remains unclear, the head of the country's EXA space agency told EFE. The US-based Joint Space Operations Center, which had alerted EXA to the possible threat to Pegaso, informed the Ecuadorian agency Thursday that the Russian wreckage did not hit the satellite ...

  • Rare birth of mega-galaxy captured by space telescope

    Researchers in the US have captured rare images of the creation of a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way that was formed when two young galaxies collided 11 billion years ago, a study said. "Capturing the creation of this type of large, short-lived star body is extremely rare - the equivalent of discovering a missing link between winged dinosaurs and early birds," scientists ...

  • New Russian spacecraft reusable for up to five flights

    Russia's new reusable spacecraft being developed by the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will be able to make up to five space flights, the rocket maker said. The spacecraft's technical design has been finalised but is yet to be officially approved, Energia deputy general designer Alexander Chernyavsky said. The new reusable craft is to replace the Soyuz carrier rocket and is expected to ...


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A Generation (Pokolenie) [DVD]

A Generation (Pokolenie) [DVD]

A Generation (Pokolenie) was Andrzej Wajda's directorial debut, the first of an unintended trilogy of films made in the late 1950s (including 1957's Kanal and 1958's Ashes and Diamonds) about the Polish resistance against the German occupiers during World War II ... ...

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  • UAE issues stamp to commemorate satellite

    Emirates Post has issued a stamp to showcase the UAE's achievement in the field of science and technology, and to commemorate the "Y1A", the first multipurpose satellite by Yahsat. The satellite, a milestone for the nation, is designed to provide advanced satellite services to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Central and South West Asia. The stamp is available in a denomination of four ...

  • Baby sham Can trying alcohol during puberty lead to addiction

    young people in a German cohort study, and 20 Wistar rats. The study authors wanted to investigate the often-seen relationship between a child's age at first drink and subsequent alcohol abuse problems, or harm from alcohol. They state that they are interested in what neurobiological mechanisms underlie the association, so look at the relationship between puberty stage when the child (or ...

  • Germanys Einstein Tower Is Relatively Important

    Connecticut Sun . And like any casino worth its chips, the Sun brings in aging rockers like Megadeth, Styx, and REO Speedwagon. It's not just that you can gamble away your pennies at a resort tucked in a riverside woodland; the 34-story hotel tower juts out of the landscape like a crystal mountain. But casinos tend to want people to stay in the gambling halls, so conveniently, it also has a ...

  • Space’s final frontier Recovery

    return was fraught with things that I found fascinating as a neurologist and space medicine researcher, such as being unable to do a sit-up or protect myself from a sudden fall.The nervous system is quite adaptable to space flight and we cannot will these gravity-related reflexes to remain when they are not needed. The light-headedness and heavy bed cover during recovery were as interesting as ...

  • Courageous science policy thinking we might all live to regret | Kieron Flanagan

    Duncan Hull The latest in a long line of government spending reviews, this one covering the period 2015-16, is looming - and many in the science community are getting worried. In the last such review, in 2010, ...

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