Chiptuning refers to the modification of a vehicle’s electronic control unit (ECU), in order to improve the car’s performance. A car’s ECU is a small computer, which is responsible for controlling the vehicle’s engine.

The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman at Comic Con 2013

The television channel AMC, which broadcasts the TV show “The Walking Dead”, has announced the start of the production of a spinoff titled “Spread the Dead”. Robert Kirkman (photo ©Gage Skidmore), the creator of the comic book “The Walking Dead” from which the TV show was adapted, will be the executive producer of the spinoff together with Gale Anne Hurd and Dave Alpert.

The Shadow Of Heaven by Bob Shaw

The novel “The Shadow Of Heaven” by Bob Shaw was published for the first time in 1969. It was re-published in a revised edition in 1991.

Vic Stirling is a journalist who is following a crime story. The discovery of the bodies of two strangers leads him to check the list of missing people, where he also finds the name of John Considine, his half-brother. Although his contacts with his family are sporadic, he gets worried and goes to talk to their mother, who confirms that John seems to have vanished.

3552 Don Quixote seen by the Spitzer Space Telescope. On the left you can see its coma and tail. On the right an elaborate processing shows its tail (Image NASA/JPL-Caltech/DLR/NAU)

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has allowed to establish that the asteroid 3552 Don Quixote is actually a comet. Research on this celestial body belonging to the NEO (near-Earth object) class, one of those whose orbit is close to that of the Earth or crosses it, was coordinated by researchers at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona.