Tag: 2016 in review
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From startups to spaceships: Ten top books for geeks to read in 2017
What’s Bill Gates reading now? We’re taking a guess. (Gates Foundation Photo) Geeks and books go together like athletes and balls, but just as there are different sports, there are different types of geek reading. We’ve put together a top-10 list of books on a wide spectrum of geeky topics, all published over the past…
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The Year in Aerospace and Science: Why gravitational waves wowed the world
A visualization shows gravitational waves produced by two orbiting black holes. (NASA Illustration / C. Henze) The biggest science story of 2016 was a century in the making, and will surely earn someone a Nobel Prize. The first detection of gravitational waves from the crash of two black holes is important not only for the…