An international team of engineers and researchers are testing a jet engine that would cut the flight time from Europe to Australia to just under two hours.

The SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket failed to get to the orbit yesterday. You launch, you learn.

A study reported in New Scientist suggests that the formation of continents was influenced by the emergence of living organisms.

Encyclopedia Britannica has, according to the BBC, hit back at the findings published in Nature last year, according to which Wikipedia is about as accurate as Encyclopedia Britannica.

I must say that when I read about the study back in December, it did seem a bit too unscientific to really be able to say anything significant at all. That said, I do like Wikipedia myself, and use it daily as a quick reference.

SpaceX is doing it again, this time launching a rocket to a low-Earth orbit. Good luck to their Falcon 1 rocket!

By the way, I didn’t know Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, was also the founder of PayPal. I stand in awe.

Apparently, and perhaps rather understandably, “people who are forced to act happy and friendly because of their jobs are more likely to be depressed“, according to psychologists at the University of Frankfurt am Main.