The Esk Valley line in the North York Moors will be running the first of its new ‘Forget Me Not’ special trains for people living with dementia next Wednesday (19 March).
Discovery Alert: ‘Super-Earth’ Swings from Super-Heated to Super-Chill
The Discovery A possible “super-Earth” orbits a relatively close, Sun-like star, and could be a habitable world – but one of extreme temperature swings, from scorching heat to deep freeze. Key Facts The newly confirmed planet is the outermost of three detected so far around a star called HD 20794, just 20 light-years from Earth. […]
NASA’s Chevron Technology Quiets the Skies
Shortly after dawn on March 27, 2001, NASA pilot Bill Rieke took off from an airfield just outside of Phoenix in NASA’s blue-and-white Learjet 25 and flew low over a series of microphones for the first flight test of a groundbreaking NASA technology. On one of the plane’s engines was an experimental jagged-edged nozzle that […]