by Syed You may have seen the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch on Christmas Day 2021. It was the joint effort of NASA, the ESA (European Space Agency) and the CSA (Canadian Space Agency). It has cost $10 billion, taken over 25 years, and suffered severe delays due to budget overruns, the covid pandemic, …
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Higher, Faster, Further…
Many thanks to XanderW for this pupil post about Red Bull Stratos. There are more like it on the way, Red Bull Stratos was the mission in which the Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner would break the skydiving record, jumping from a height of 23.4 miles (38.6 km). The jump took place on the 14th October 2012 …
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DNA and Genes…
This post was written by James after his successful Radley Scholarship exams. Genes are the sub-structures of DNA. DNA is a molecule which stores the information for the making of all the proteins that a cell will need. Usually, a single gene only codes for a single protein. A DNA molecule consists of two strands …
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