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The Royal Mint Sends A Coin to Space To Honor David Bowie’s ‘Starman’
It is the first time a UK coin has gone into space, and pays homage to David Bowie’s space inspired hits including Starman, Life on Mars, and Space Oddity.
Casting Update – ‘The Lord of the Rings’ on Amazon Prime
A big list of names are added to the cast of the new J.R.R. Tolkein ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel series.
A Step Closer to True Star Trek Style Tricorders – A Handheld DNA Sequence Analyzer
An iPhone, a thousand dollar pocket DNA sequencer and some open source software makes the world’s first mobile genome sequence analyzer.
Hayabusa-2’s Asteroid Sample Returns to Earth In “Perfect” Shape
The Japanese probe, sent to the asteroid Ryugu to collect some samples, returns with the goods intact.
Electronic Music & Particle Physics Meet in “Electric Storm” (Moog Music, CERN)
Composer Dorit Chrysler and filmmaker Marie Losier give new meaning to underground art in “Electric Storm,” a short theremin-centric film shot 30+ stories below the Earth’s surface in the heart of CERN’s Large Hardon Collider.
The Streaming Wars, One Year On
We’re on the thrill ride whether we like it or not – the Streaming War defines most of how our genre of choice is brought to us.
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