April 2013

Engineman by Eric Brown

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The novel “Engineman” by Eric Brown was published for the first time in 1994. In 2010 it was published in a new edition that includes eight short stories set in the same fictional universe.

For many years, enginmen, specialized pilots, drove the interstellar spaceships through the Nada-Continuum, a continuum outside our space-time that allowed to travel across many light-years away in a short time. However, a new technology has replaced that kind of propulsion replacing it with portals that allow an even faster and cheaper interstellar travel.

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At the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013, held in Vienna, Austria, some members of Mars Rover Curiosity mission team have shown some discoveries concerning Mars atmosphere. In particular, they found new evidence that in the past the red planet had a much thicker atmosphere that has been lost over time until it reduced to about 1% of the Earth’s one at sea level.

Doctor Who - Survival

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“Survival” is the last adventure of the twentysixth season and the “Doctor Who” classic series series finale which aired in 1989 with the Seventh Doctor and Ace. It follows “The Curse of Fenric” and it’s a three parts adventure written by Rona Munro and directed by Alan Wareing.

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On Tuesday april 9 the basketball Euroleague 2012/2013 quarter-finals will start. This round will be played in a playoff series to the best of five games in which the teams qualified from each group will cross path the the ones qualified from the other group. With the new Top 16 format the first classified teams of each group will lay the fourth classified ones of the other group and the second classified ones of each group will play the third classified ones of the other group.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) installed on the International Space Station (Photo NASA)

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This week the international team that runs the research carried out using the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) announced the first results in the search for dark matter. At a seminar held at CERN, Professor Samuel Ting, a spokesman for AMS and winner of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1976, presented the evidence found, in particular, an excess of positrons in the cosmic ray flux.