SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Subjects
• Chemistry
• Genetics
• Area of reseach
• Current scientific advances
• a breakthrough
• A natural source
• A science related job
• Technology
• Advances in technology
• A gadget, a device, an appliance, a tool
• To swithc on /off  / to turn on  / off
• to plug in  sth
• To turn up / down  volume
• the alarm  goes off
• A back-up
• To back your  work up
• to replay, to play  it back
• To zoom in  (enlarge) and out ( less detail)
• State-of-art technology
• a save-labour device
• Astronomical research
• Spacecraft (more formal than spaceship)
• a probe / to probe (una sonda)
• Orbit / orbital
• In orbit things are weithless
• free-fall, gravity
• a shuttle
• sace-station
• atmospheric pressure
• A spacecraft flies at  17 mph
• a nearby star
• Alien civilisation (sivilaiseishen)
• Expressions
• It is not rocket science
• Prices are rocketing
• To be spaced out
• I feel  as if  I'm from another planet
• Thats any moons ago
• Once in a blue moon