About Space Exploration

Space exploration is the use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space. Physical exploration of space is conducted both by human spaceflights and by robotic spacecraft. After the first 20 years of exploration, focus shifted from one-off flights to renewable hardware, such as the Space Shuttle program, and from competition to cooperation as with the International Space Station. Fr ...

Date added: 27 February '08

Digging Up the Past

by Cristina Nuta - Have you ever felt curiosity to find out some interesting facts about what a tomb and a skeleton can tell us about the person buried there? Well, the eye of an archeologist can tell us enough clues about the person buried there by just looking at the tomb carefully for a couple of minutes or even at a photo of the tomb. We can take as an example the case of a tomb in the ...

Date added: 05 February '07

Exploring The World

by Cristina Nuta - Science has learnt a great deal from polar expeditions. For instance, we now know a lot more about the effects polar expeditions have on a person’s mind and body. In the early days, explorers often went mad. One cause of this madness was later discovered: when people aren’t used to living in extreme cold, their body uses a lot of energy to keep warm and this gets rid of ...

Date added: 10 February '07

It Is Useless to Explore the Past

by Herminne Tonita - Every one of us has a secret in his past he wants to remain there forever. It really doesn't matter what it is all about, but there are things you don't want others to know about you. So why is that you want to know everything about your boyfriend, how many girfriends he had, if he had cheated on them or if he had broken the law? If you don't want others to know everyth ...

Date added: 18 February '07