NASA and SETI researchers will fly in a Gulfstream V aircraft that will
take off from San Jose, Calif., and fly 14 scientists and their
instruments for 10 continuous hours at 47,000ft., over the Arctic and
back to San Jose.
Dazzling Event from an Extinct Constellation
Published in March 6th, 2008
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Telescope in Chile’s Atacama Desert Compliments of Bill Gates
Published in March 6th, 2008
LSST is truly an Internet telescope, which
will put terabytes of data each night into the hands of any person that
wants to explore it. The 8.4-metre LSST telescope and the 3-gigapixel
camera are thus a shared resource for all humanity — the ultimate
network peripheral device to explore the world.
New Way to Make Water?
Published in March 6th, 2008
Scientists have found a radical new way of making water that could substantially lower costs for green technology. The University of Illinois researchers have unlocked the trick to making water from unlikely starting materials, such as alcohols. They are expecting their discovery to lead to better catalysts and less expensive fuel cells.
Spaceship Earth and the Gaia Theory
Published in March 5th, 2008
“Any economic downturn or planned cutback in fossil fuel
use, which lessened aerosol density, would intensify the heating,”
Lovelock will say, in a lecture to the Royal Society today. “If there
were a 100 per cent cut in fossil fuel combustion it might get hotter
not cooler. We live in a fool’s climate. We are damned if we continue
to burn fuel and damned if we stop too suddenly.”
How to Make a Mobile Movie Blockbuster
Published in March 5th, 2008
The ubiquity of cell phones has created a whole new distribution channel for video content but if you’ve tried watching a cinematic Hollywood epic on a tiny handheld screen, you know that a blockbuster doesn’t necessarily translate into a compelling mobile experience.
Just as the limitations of television forced filmmakers to change
the way they created content […]
Course Correction Sets Phoenix on Target for Mars - Cosmic-Ray Strike Triggers Delay
Published in March 5th, 2008
A cosmic ray strike is planned for by mission control, and everything
went smoothly. The strike occurred on October the 6th, and caused a
disruption in one of the memory chips. As per programming, the Phoenix
reverted to a precautionary standby, allowing mission controllers to
work through a step by step procedure to understand and deal with the
incident.
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