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Virgin America: Charming, but no Eden
The "mood lighting" is nice, but the touchscreens had me switching seats
PPX: DAWNOK Pays Out
Today, the deep-space asteroid-studying spaceprobe Dawn was successfully launched on schedule, satisfying the requirements of DAWNOK. After a few false...
Sukhoi Unveils First Russian Passenger Jet Since the Fall of the USSR
Meet the Superjet 100 (in triumphant rendering form)—the newest entrant into the sub-100 passenger regional jet arena. This one’s notable,...
Caves on Mars
NASA says its Mars Odyssey spacecraft has spotted seven possible cave entrances on Mars. These dark features, several hundred feet...
Google Moon
First there was Google Earth, now there’s Google Moon, a lunar mapping platform anyone can use. The website has maps...
A Relatively Toasty South Pole on Neptune
At an average temperature of -392 degrees Fahrenheit, Neptune is a pretty chilly planet, but astronomers reported this week that...
Six Figures for a First Class Seat
Talk about an aviation buff. A passenger reportedly bid over $100,000 for a luxury seat on the first commercial flight...
Doubts About Meteorite-Induced Sickness
A large meteorite supposedly fell from the sky over the weekend, excavating a 65-foot-wide crater in a remote area of...
Europe’s Bold Entry into Space Tourism
Private space travel has long been dominated by visionary entrepreneurs. Now that the largest aerospace company in Europe has decided to build a tourist rocket, will the race to the stars finally take off?
The Hard Science of Making Videogames
See the top ten hurdles facing game designers today, and the cutting-edge tech that will soon make them relics of the past