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"Dubai's latest mind-boggling project will be yet another global first - a fully rotating tower powered by the sun." Well, OK. But why, exactly?

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Using parts easily available from your local stores, you can make a small solar power generator for $250 to $300. Great for power failures and life outside the power grid.

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Charlie Stross deflates the dreams of space colonisation. I know he's right on almost all points, but .... ah, damn.

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"The bottles are connected to each other [with plastic tubing] so that water flows through them.Sunlight heats the water as is passes slowly through the bottles before flowing into the bathroom a

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"This research opens up new ways of looking at both space weather and the unstable behaviour that affects the operation of fusion powered power plants."

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"This flight vehicle would integrate airfoil, propulsion, energy production, energy storage, and control into one seamless design with no conventional mechanical moving parts." Pure sensawun

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"The basic idea: build huge satellites in Earth orbit to gather sunlight, convert it to electricity, and beam the energy to Earth using microwaves." Always fun to see sf tropes being present

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"I decided instead to take advantage of the south-facing side of the garage and build a solar furnace to collect some of that sunshine just bouncing straight off my garage." Smart thinking,

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"NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellites have provided the first three-dimensional images of the sun." Very cool; much more impressive than bits of dead shark.

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"Is this a method for making the kind of lightsail Robert Forward once analyzed as a way of getting payloads and human crews to nearby stars?" I don't know, but I sure hope it is.

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"The so-called ‘electric sail’ would use fifty to one hundred 20-kilometer long charged tethers, their voltage maintained by a solar-powered electron gun aboard the vehicle."

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Does exactly what it says on the tin.

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"Hinode, a collaborative mission of the space agencies of Japan, the United States, United Kingdon and Europe, captured these very dynamic pictures of our sun's chromosphere..." Just totally

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"For the very first time, astronomers have witnessed the speeding up of an asteroid's rotation, and have shown that it is due to a theoretical effect predicted but never seen before."

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"Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural—and not a human- induced—cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory." W

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"On Feb. 25, 2007 there was a transit of the Moon across the face of the Sun - but it could not be seen from Earth." The STEREO-B probe caught it, though. Watch this video if your mind needs

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"A device called a Photonic Laser Thruster is making news since a December demonstration of the technology by its inventor, Young Bae." Potential space propulsion innovation.

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"...the possibilities of magnetic sails using a different kind of propulsion. Rather than being pushed by photons, a magsail interacts with the plasma of the solar wind."

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Does what it says on the tin; wordage about (and images from) the SOHO solar probe satellite.

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If you don't mind a wee bit of Flash, here's a guided tour of Saturn's moon Titan, and all the funky stuff that the Huygens and Cassini found out about it. Not a nice place for a holiday - especially

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"Mars is losing little water to space, according to new research, so much of its ancient abundance may still be hidden beneath the surface." Wait one month for the debunk, then another month

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"Only recently has the idea of habitable planets around red dwarf stars taken hold. But it’s a fascinating one, especially if you take a look at the potential window for life to develop on such w

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"Detailed observations from the first comet samples returned to Earth are debunking some of science's long-held beliefs on how the icy, celestial bodies form." Primordial material abounds, f

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"What got the Benfords headlines not so long ago was the speeds they were proposing. Five years or less to Pluto? That’s almost a halving of New Horizons’ travel time, and it makes for some intri

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"A major X-9 flare erupted this morning [image]. It emanated from a large sunspot, numbered 929, which is just coming into view around the eastern limb of the Sun."

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"Flickering loops of plasma above the Sun's churning surface have been captured in movies made by Japan's Hinode spacecraft, providing a preview of what the probe will do once it begins its main

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