The European Space Agency has been working for almost 14 years on a rocket that is capable to launch small payloads between 300 kg and 2 tons. It will help to lift (small) satellites into polar or low Earth orbits,…

The Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert is an even that is broadcasted all over the world and which attracts several million of music fans in front of their TVs. A few people are lucky to get tickets (mostly those from…

Today I checked the USD/Yen exchange rate on XE and was surprised to see that it has reached the lowest level over the last 10 years (more than 10 years can’t displayed there). Although it was falling since approximately 2007,…

The graph on the left (click to enlarge) shows foreign language skills for various European countries, whereas in most of the cases students learn more than one foreign language. As pointed out by the authors of this statistics, knowledge of…

Tornadoes cross the US, leaving behind devastation and cause hundreds of casualties every year. Recently an Earth observation satellite (Landsat 5) documented the scar of destruction by showing the ground trace of one tornado as it made its way through…

Yesterday I was awarded with the Tsuboi Award of the Geodetic Society of Japan, which is an incredible honour. Thus, I’d like to use this platform to thank all people who supported my research as well as helped me with…

Each commercial movie has end titles, but when broadcasted on TV they are often cut out or shortened. In cinemas they are still displayed in full length, but  every time in went to a movie theater in Europe I noticed…

Have you ever wondered what exactly happens when bullets penetrate various objects? A few people around the world have started to take ultra-high speed pictures of such scenes just before, during or after the bullet hits the target. Thereby, Alan…