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CurioCity1 April 2016

What goes up, must come down, but with rockets they don’t usually come down in one piece! On November 23, 2015, Blue Origin made a historic flight of its New Shepard rocket, sending it 100 km high into space and then successfully landing the rocket at its base. (3:13 min.)

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Richard Bloch29 February 2016

What are gravitational waves? Gravity seems like a familiar enough concept, but what exactly is waving?

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CurioCity23 February 2016

Professor Brian Cox uncovers what the sun is actually made of and how we can learn this without actually travelling there. Taken from Can We Make A Star On Earth? (3:48 min.)

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CurioCity16 February 2016

The Martian may have been one of the biggest hit movies of 2015, but what did real astronauts think of it? Read former CSA astronaut Robert Thirsk's review to find out!

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CurioCity12 February 2016

A landmark day for Einstein and our understanding of the universe: the detection of gravitational waves. Brian Greene explains the discovery. (3:10 min.)

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CurioCity12 February 2016

After a decades-long quest, The MIT-Caltech collaboration LIGO Laboratories has detected gravitational waves, opening a new era in our exploration of the universe. (5:26 min.)

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Subin Rajendran28 January 2016

Even on relatively short trips close to Earth, astronauts have regularly experienced bone loss. To better understand why, you need to know a bit about how bones are formed and maintained in your body.

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CurioCity Careers25 January 2016

I trained for and flew on two space missions: STS-78 space shuttle mission in 1996 and ISS Expedition 20/21 in 2009.

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CurioCity19 January 2016

This MinutePhysics video looks at the pros and cons of putting telescopes in space. The pros greatly outweigh the cons, particularly overcoming the distortion that our atmosphere creates when objects are viewed from earth. (2:20 min.)

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CurioCity18 December 2015

You can’t have science fiction without science, right? You can’t have movies without science and technology either! In honour of the release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, we’ve brought together CurioCity content about some of the science of Star Wars, from lasers and spaceships to clones and killer robots, as well as the magic of filmmaking.

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