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Astronomer Royal

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Name: Astronomer Royal

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

NASA

Space can still inspire artists and scientists

Having a tweeting, guitar-playing photographer in orbit for the past five months has been a revelation: thanks to Commander Chris Hadfield, space travel is no longer just the domain of the robotic astronaut who speaks with calm detachment. Hadfield even ... [Published London Evening Standard - May 17 2013]

Entities: Chris Hadfield, NASA, London, Space Travel

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

Guide to the universe has much to offer

Early this year, I purchased the new Smithsonian atlas, “Universe — the Definite Visual Guide” published by Dorling-Kindersley.The general editor is Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal of Great Britain. It’s ISBN number is 978-0-7566-9841-6.Unlike most large ... [Published Cumberland Times-News - May 12 2013]

Entities: Solar System, Uranus, Mercury, Saturn

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Will we ever boldly go where no man has gone?

The best science fiction, from H.G.Wells onwards, can nourish the imagination of anyone, including an astronomer - that strange breed of which I'm a member. Many of us are avid consumers of the genre - though I think we'd expect aliens, if they exist, ... [Published Canberra Times - May 11 2013]

Entities: Solar System, Big Bang, Planetoid

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Torquay Boys' Grammar School

Students crack art of codebreaking

CODEBREAKING is a skill which pupils at Torquay Boys' Grammar School are certainly cracking.Several students took part in the Alan Turing Cryptography Competition, a national competition organised by the school of mathematics at the University of Manchester ... [Published This is South Devon - May 02 2013]

Entities: Torquay Boys' Grammar School, Decrypt, Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees, Alan Turing

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Magdalen College, Oxford

University Challenge title retained

The University of Manchester has become only the second team to retain the title of University Challenge champion in the programme's history. The team beat University College London in the final 190-140 to claim its fourth title in eight years.Manchester ... [Published BBC - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Magdalen College, Oxford, Astronomer Royal, Richard Gilbert, Martin Rees, Manchester

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

Humans will become extinct, only the Maltese will survive

It doesn’t matter that millions die along the way, what matters is that enough of us are still hanging around so that we’ll keep on surviving.Not very good news last week from the high brows at Oxford University: if we get it wrong, we were told, this ... [Published Times of Malta - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Nick Bostrom, Species, Astronomer Royal

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

Six ways to infinity... and beyond

The Astronomer Royal believes humanity's future lies in the stars. But, as he tells Paul Bignell, we will first have to change our waysInterstellar travel, hyper-computers, space mining - they all sound like the stuff of Star Trek and Buck Rogers, but ... [Published Sunday Observer - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, Interstellar Travel

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Judges for the 15th Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction announced

Lord Martin Rees to chair the Prize.The judges for the 15 th annual Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction have been announced. Chaired by Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, the panel includes Director of Liberty Shami Chakrabarti, Professor of Classics ... [Published New Statesman - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Samuel Johnson, Martin Rees, judges

First reported Apr 21 2013 - Updated Apr 21 2013 - 1 reports

Sir Martin Rees: Six ways to infinity... and beyond

Interstellar travel, hypercomputers, space mining – they all sound like the stuff of Star Trek and Buck Rogers, but they're among the latest predictions from one of Britain's most eminent scientists. And the Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees, is better ... [Published The Independent - Apr 21 2013]

Entities: Martin Rees, Interstellar Travel, Big Bang, Constellation Observing System for Meteorology,...

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

Mill exhibits town’s science highlights

Belper's contribution to science and industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is the subject of a new exhibition at Strutts North Mill.Using Heritage Lottery funding, bosses at the landmark have acquired artefacts including a celestial atlas ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: John Flamsteed, John Whitehurst, Astronomer Royal

First reported Apr 09 2013 - Updated Apr 09 2013 - 1 reports

First Scots Astronomer Royal’s grave found

HE is the forgotten father of Scottish astronomy. Thomas Henderson’s observations of the heavens in 19th-century Edinburgh were so cutting-edge he was made the country’s first Astronomer Royal – yet he shunned the limelight so much that authorities at ... [Published The Scotsman - Apr 09 2013]

Entities: Astronomer Royal, Dundee (South Africa), Astronomy, Alpha Centauri

First reported Mar 22 2013 - Updated Mar 22 2013 - 1 reports

Picturing science: the eyes have it

The first of a new Friday series looking at how science was illustrated and imagined in the pastIn a series called Picturing Science, that seems appropriate to tired eyes at the end of the week, I am going to explore some images from the history of science. ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Mar 22 2013]

Entities: Optics, George Biddell Airy, Astronomer Royal, John Wilkes

Quotes

...But he is certain that human beings will shape their own "far future". This modern era, he says, is the first "when we've had the technological power to affect the whole species - starting perhaps with the H-bomb. One worries about... how new technologies could have a catastrophic effect if used unwisely." Sir Martin's predictions

Six ways to infinity... and beyond [Published Sunday Observer - Apr 28 2013]

...This is an outdated practice. "Primary and secondary teachers should, without any reservation, be encouraging all their students to be writing in the active voice" said Lord May

Dr Rupert Sheldrake: The Active Voice in Science [Published Huffington Post UK - Apr 09 2013]

George Robinson, a guide at Greyfriars Kirk, said: "I spoke to them about it and they were really enthusiastic."

First Scots Astronomer Royal’s grave found [Published The Scotsman - Apr 09 2013]

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Space can still inspire artists and scientists [Published London Evening Standard - May 17 2013]
Guide to the universe has much to offer [Published Cumberland Times-News - May 12 2013]
Will we ever boldly go where no man has gone? [Published Canberra Times - May 11 2013]
Students crack art of codebreaking [Published This is South Devon - May 02 2013]
University Challenge title retained [Published BBC - Apr 30 2013]
Humans will become extinct, only the Maltese wi... [Published Times of Malta - Apr 28 2013]
Six ways to infinity... and beyond [Published Sunday Observer - Apr 28 2013]
Judges for the 15th Samuel Johnson Prize for No... [Published New Statesman - Apr 23 2013]
Sir Martin Rees: Six ways to infinity... and be... [Published The Independent - Apr 21 2013]
Big Ben is silenced for Margaret Thatcher [Published Telegraph - Apr 17 2013]
Mill exhibits town’s science highlights [Published NewsRT.co.uk - Apr 16 2013]
Dr Rupert Sheldrake: The Active Voice in Science [Published Huffington Post UK - Apr 09 2013]
First Scots Astronomer Royal’s grave found [Published The Scotsman - Apr 09 2013]
Templeton Prize: Desmond Tutu wins a million – ... [Published The Independent - Apr 04 2013]
Picturing science: the eyes have it [Published Guardian.co.uk - Mar 22 2013]
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Sir Bernard Lovell hailed as 'great visionary l... [Published Telegraph - Aug 07 2012]
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So, 21.12.2012 is the end of the world? \| Tom H... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Dec 15 2012] No, stop panicking. The Maya were not New Age gurus – but they could still teach our leaders a thing or two There is clearly something about the combination of pyramids and ancient calendars which appeals to our inner kookiness. In the 19th century, ...