March 2012

The regional winners of the YouTube SpaceLab contest (photo Bryan Rapoza www.avenfoto.com)

The partners who sponsored the YouTube Space Lab Contest have announced the winners. At its start in September 2011, YouTube, NASA, ESA and other partners such as Lenovo asked students aged between 14 and 18 years to devise an experiment to be carried out in the International Space Station. Two experiments were chosen from over one thousand finalists to be carried out on the International Space Station and broadcast through a live streaming on the Internet.

Kim Stanley Robinson at Worldcon 2005

American writer Kim Stanley Robinson was born on March 23, 1952 in Waukegan, Illinois. He’s particularly famous for his Mars trilogy: its novels: Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars wan the Hugo, Nebula and Locus prize.

Official portrait of Albert Einstein after receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has announced it has started a project that will put online more than eighty thousand documents relating to Albert Einstein on the already existing website Einstein Archives Online dedicated to the famous scientist.