2012

Doctor Who - The Mind Robber

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“The Mind Robber” is an adventure of the sixth season of “Doctor Who” classic series which aired in 1968 featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe. It follows “The Dominators” and it’s a five parts adventure written by Peter Ling and directed by David Maloney.

The Mars Rover Curiosity

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The Mars Rover Curiosity will reach Mars in six months but is already working. In fact, its job isn’t only to go to Mars to study it more thoroughly than the previous spacecrafts but also to give us an idea of ​​what dangers astronauts will face in the future if at last there will be a space mission to take humans to Mars or anyway in deep space.

Tales of the Dying Earth Omnibus by Jack Vance

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The novel “The Eyes of the Overworld”, also known as “Cugel the Clever”, by Jack Vance was published for the first time as a book in 1966 after the stories that compose it were previously published in a magazine. It’s the second novel of the cycle of the Dying Earth.

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Yesterday a rumor came out about the possible problems for the instruments used in the Opera experiment and in a few hours they spread around the world just like the result of last September. This morning, CERN issued a press release confirming that an investigation is underway to check if some instruments malfunctioned.

Artistic concept showing the planet GJ 1214b and its star (Image NASA, ESA, and D. Aguilar (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics))

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The planet GJ 1214b was discovered in December 2009 using robotic observatory MEarth Project. Now an international team of astronomers led by Zachory Berta of Harvard’s Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), confirms the theory proposed in 2010 that the planet GJ 1214b is covered by water in its vapor state.