pkar – Page 14 – BBC Science Focus

FROM THE EDITOR It started with E.T. It’s the first film I can remember. My cousin sat me in front of a TV, slotted the tape into the VHS player and that was that: I fell in love with movies about aliens. Years later, a science teacher (who I now realise might have been feeling […]

Degrees of separation

DENVER, COLORADO, USA This is what one of the two solar arrays for NASA’s Lucy probe looked like during testing, ahead of its launch in October 2021. It’s actually similar to what one of the arrays looks like now, after it failed to fully deploy. The circular arrays were designed to open like fans, but […]

Giant’s footsteps

DINOSAUR VALLEY STATE PARK, TEXAS, USA Following a summer of excessive drought conditions, parts of the Paluxy River in the US state of Texas dried up. When the water receded, new dinosaur tracks were revealed on the now-exposed riverbed. “This area is well known for dinosaur tracks, and the first ones were found around 100 […]