In 1849, British inventor Charles Babbage completed designs for a difference engine, a very early mechanical computer. Due to cost and complexity the machine was never built in his lifetime and for 150 years nobody knew… Read More »The Babbage Difference Engine – Sci-Advent – Day 3
The image shows the flow of hot air passing through the piping in a cooler for a new engine that is able to lower the temperature of the air lower than -140C in just… Read More »Skylon – Sci-advent – Day 2
In the tradition of Advent Calendars, I will be posting some science related entries from today up until Dec 24th… So, here’s the first entry: Panoramic View From ‘Rocknest’ Position of Curiosity Mars Rover… Read More »Rocknest – Sci-advent – Day 1
David Martin, a retired British civil servant was cleaning the chimney of his house in Bletchingley (Surrey), 35 miles south of London, when he found the remains of a pigeon. But this was not any… Read More »The most secret of messages…
Earlier this week I had the great opportunity of attending the Opening Gala of the London Film Festival at the IMAX in London. The film that had the honour of opening the 2012 edition was… Read More »This country likes what science gives it, but doesn’t like the questions science raises – Frankenweenie
Muchas gracias por sus enseñanzas Dr Leopoldo García-Colín Scherer. Todo un honor haber sido su estudiante.
Finalmente un poco de tiempo para escribir algo para el blog, y en esta ocasión una gran oportunidad para contestar una pregunta que a inicio de la semana Jorge Soto, si de Moenia, me envió.… Read More »Un universo sin centro…
While visiting the city that never sleeps I finally had the chance to visit the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. The main attraction for me was the prospect of seeing and… Read More »The Shuttle Enterprise
A few posts ago I wrote about the Great Uncomformity, and I was quite interested when I got to hear about Curiosity, the rover, photographing unconformities on Mars. As I explained in the aforementioned post,… Read More »Martian Unconformity