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Alas, The Big Hiss just doesn’t have the same ring to it as The Big Bang. And the other option arising from this story, The Big Moan, is even worse!

Richard Branson has set a new record for crossing the English Channel in an amphibious car. There’s a record for this sort of thing?

Saturn’s moon Phoebe, as seen from the Cassini space probe.

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Saturn’s moon Phoebe, as seen from the Cassini space probe.

“The discovery of millions of ancient, ultratiny microbes 3,000 metres deep in a Greenland glacier suggests that similar hardy species may live in ice elsewhere in the solar system, researchers say.” Cool. Cold, even.

Japan’s Nippon Airship Corporation takes delivery of abrand-new Zeppelin, direct descendant of the famous Zeppelins of the ’30s. (And no relation to the even more famous Led Zeppelin of the ’70s.)

Whew! Seems we can quit worrying about the “grey goo” fear of nanotechnology. Instead, we should focus on the possibility of devastating weapons and an unstable arms race. That’s a relief!

NOAA scientists have captured the eruption of a deep-sea volcano on tape. Cool! Um, I mean, “Hot!”

This is both a test of my new photoblogging capability and a chance to show off my lovely family; my wife Margaret Anne and my darlin’ daughter Alice, who turns three on Sunday. 

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This is both a test of my new photoblogging capability and a chance to show off my lovely family; my wife Margaret Anne and my darlin’ daughter Alice, who turns three on Sunday.