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The NACA: a look back
9 March 2010
In mid-1927, a Langley Laboratory researcher ponders the future of the Sperry M-1 Messenger, the first full-scale airplane tested in the Propeller Research Tunnel. more
     
 
Biochemical warfare on the reef
1 March 2010
These outwardly innocuous corals, commonly known as gorgonians, have a few tricks up their soft sleeves. They have evolved a powerful arsenal of chemical toxins that leave all who dare to consume them with a mouthful of distasteful compounds and a... more
     
 
Double rainbow
23 February 2010
When direct sunlight strikes falling rain, a rainbow is seen at a point directly opposite the Sun. more
     
 
Shuttle silhouette
15 February 2010
In a very unique setting over Earth's colourful horizon, the silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour is featured in this photo by an Expedition 22 crew member on board the International Space Station, as the shuttle approached for its docking on 9... more
     
 
Mystery of the fading star
8 February 2010
Using Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope (Spitzer), astronomers have found a likely solution to a centuries-old riddle of the night sky. more
     
 
Antelope Canyon
1 February 2010
Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. It is located on Navajo land near Page, Arizona. more
     
 
Bright layered deposits on Mars
25 January 2010
Martian landforms have been shaped by winds, water, lava flow, seasonal icing and other forces over millennia. This view shows colour variations in bright layered deposits on a plateau near Juventae Chasma in the Valles Marineris region of Mars. more
     
 
Jupiter's moons
11 January 2010
On 7 January 1610, Galileo Galilei's improvements to the telescope enabled humanity to see Jupiter's four largest moons for the first time. more
     
 
Cape Town Stadium on track for 2010 Soccer World Cup
10 December 2009
This view of the new Cape Town Stadium was taken from Signal Hill in Cape Town. more
     
 
Psychedelic water drops
8 December 2009
Here’s another image that didn’t quite make it in the Samsung Photo Contest, run in conjunction with Popular Mechanics earlier this year, but one we thought deserved acknowledgement. more
     
 
Super yolk
30 November 2009
The Samsung Photo Contest, run in conjunction with Popular Mechanics earlier this year, generated a wealth of striking images. more
     
 
Summer at the South Pole
23 November 2009
The December solstice brings the beginning of winter to Earth's Northern Hemisphere and summer time to the South! more
     
 
Hydra A: black hole pumps iron
17 November 2009
This composite image of the Hydra A galaxy cluster shows 10-million-degree gas observed by Chandra in blue and jets of radio emission observed by the more
     
 
Sarychev volcano
9 November 2009
A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev volcano (Russia’s Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) in an... more
     
 
Exoplanets bathed in deadly radiation
2 November 2009
The exoplanets PSR B1257+12 b, c and d were among the first discovered, and also happen to be three of the weirdest. The entire system is a graveyard, remnants of what used to be a normal, functional solar system before the star blew apart in a... more
     
 
Transportation on the Moon
26 October 2009
Unlike Earth, the Moon does not have air, food and water, so it would take a lot of effort for humans to live and work there, wrote Raina Huang, a student at Bexley High School in Columbus, Ohio, and finalist in the second annual more
     
 
Gecko gliding in wind tunnel
16 October 2009
This photo of a flat-tailed house gecko skydiving in a wind tunnel was selected for the cover of the 18 March 2008 issue of PNAS. more
     
 
Dramatic lightning
12 October 2009
Spectacular, powerful and sometimes deadly, lightning is one of the most common weather phenomena. It has been estimated that lightning strikes the Earth about 100 times every second. more
     
 
A day of remembrance
5 October 2009
Visible from space, a smoke plume rises from Manhattan after two planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Centre. more
     
 
Cedar Creek wind farm
28 September 2009
Turbines on the Cedar Creek wind farm are silhouetted against a dramatic sunset. more
     
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