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Previous warp drive designs relied on a source of exotic matter unknown to physics. The new design reimagines the shape of warped spacetime to allow for normal matter and energy to be used instead. Warp drive is having a moment. Just last week, scientists dropped a bombshell when they unveiled the first physical model for a warp drive, the holy grail of space travel that would allow us to bend the fabric of space and time to their will and overcome the vast distances separating humans from the ...

Tattersalls March Sale Catalog Now Online Sponsored by: A total of 197 lots have been cataloged for the Tattersalls March Sale which takes place at Park Paddocks in Newmarket on Wednesday, March 31. The catalog for the Tattersalls March Sale can be viewed online at www.tattersalls.com and will be available from Tattersalls and Tattersalls representatives from Friday, March 12. Comprising 64 fillies and mares in/out of training, 116 colts/geldings in/out of training, 12 yearlings and 5...

Game Recap Once again, the Arizona Coyotes came out completely unprepared for the opponent they were going to face. The Minnesota Wild scored three goals in the first period, the Coyotes were garbage on the power play, and nothing else matters. Minnesota added another goal in the 2nd, and Clayton Keller scored his 8th of the season in the third. The Wild then added a fifth in the third period. The team needs to burn the tape and never speak of this again. Lines Stray Thoughts The Minnesota Wild...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Last March, when Ravi Kopparapu was still working from his desk at the Goddard Space Center in Maryland, he came across a press release from NASA’s Earth Observatory. Levels of Nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) had plummeted over China since the country of 1.4 billion instituted strict stay-at-home orders more than a month earlier. He texted his colleague Jacob Haqq Misra with the link: “Technosignature?” he wrote. “Oh interestin...

Published 4 Mar, 2021 Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Try as I might, I cannot view Sins Of A Solar Empire through anything other than the most rose-tinted glasses. Much of it is auditory. The sound of each button press, the wonderful space opera soundtrack, and the endlessly invigorating voice line, "Scouts have found a colonisable planet!"; theyre all ingrained in the memories of a 13-year-old play...

Zoom In An artist’s map of the Milky Way galaxy, with a circle 3,000 light years in radius centered on the Sun. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Robert Hurt (SSC-Caltech) / Phil Plait (annotation) Gaia is a European Space Agency mission that orbits the Sun in a stable position about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. Its mission is to measure the positions, motions, colors, and other characteristics of over nearly two billion stars in the galaxy. Thats it. It doesnt specify what kind of star to ...

Civ 2 at 25 – one of the most important 4X strategy games of all time Its legacy is a bit understated, but Civilization II offered some of the greatest contributions to 4X games Can you remember the first time you played a Civilization game, and what it was that got you hooked? Was it the exploration? Empire management? Warfare? Without a doubt this 4X series is a cornerstone of the strategy gaming world, and while Civilization VI is the most recent iteration, the mighty house of Meier has ...

Alpha Centauri is, as you know, currently the closest star system to the Solar System. It is a triple star system, comprising Alpha Centauri A (a G2 V star slightly brighter and slightly more massive than the Sun), Alpha Centauri B (a K1 V slightly dimmer and slightly less massive than the Sun), and Alpha Centauri C (a low-mass, dim red dwarf which is also known as Proxima Centauri). Proxima is strongly believed to be orbited by a world in the habitable zone. According to Wagner, K., Boehle, A....

Psychologists tell us it is the opposite of “lust,” which “takes,” while “love” is giving. A vaudeville comic in the Roaring Era of the 20s defined it as “a man’s desire to become some woman’s meal ticket.” A physicist said, “Without love, we’re worth no more than a dollar worth of chemicals walking around lonely.” And a poet proclaims that “Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.” And people in love simply proclaim, “You mean t...

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — About two and a half million years ago some photons shot out of the Andromeda galaxy, starting an unspeakably long trek through space. Their journey started hundreds of...