Data from the Cassini probe has led the team working with the images to conclude that Saturn’s inner moons are not ice-balls as previously thought, but accretions of rubble and rocky debris held together by their own mass.
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“Rainbows End”
by Vernor Vinge
Forthcoming near-future dystopia – a wired world in 2025 has many hidden hazards.
Another Reworking Of Gravity Laws
A Chinese astronomer has reworked Einstein’s gravitational theories in another attempt to explain the motion of stars within galaxies without recourse to the spectre of Dark Matter.
A Giant Leap Forward For Nanotech
A new semiconductor lithography method developed ot the Rochester Institute of Technology has leapfrogged the development roadmap by five years, offering image rendering down to a resolution of only 26 nanometers.
Philip K. Dick Is Missing
In a bizarre situation worthy of one of the man’s stories, an android replica of Philip K. Dick has gone AWOL while being transported to California by plane.