Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Is There A Moore's Law For Science?

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The first Earth-like exoplanet discovery could be made in less than a year (Image: NASA/JPL/Caltech/R. Hurt) From New Scientist: Can the ra...

Chinese Moon Landing Gets Timetable

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From Global Times: The timetable for China's first manned moon landing, as well as the launch of a space station, lab and probes to expl...

2010 Tied With 1998 As Warmest Global Temperature On Record

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From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2010) — The first eight months of 2010 tied the same period in 1998 for the warmest combined land...

Alternative To X-Rays Makes Its First Step

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The initial object imaged through a layer of white paint (A) was a 32-pixel by 32-pixel image of a flower; the image was reconstructed with ...

Can Samsung's Tablet Hold Its Own?

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Photo: Tablet contender: Samsung's Galaxy Tab runs the Android operating system and is meant to go head to head with Apple's iPad. ...

U.S. Army Shows Renewed Interest In Zeppelins

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In demand: The U.S. Army has ordered three new airships to be built and fitted with high-tech surveillance equipment so they can be used in ...

Robots On TV: Five Glimpses Of Future Machines

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From New Scientist: Meet a talking butler robot that knows its way around the house and can even recognise a copy of New Scientist. Or watch...

Genocide Wiped Out Native American Population

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The unearthed bones and artifacts indicate that when the violence took place, men, women and children were tortured, disemboweled, killed an...

Budget Cuts Force CERN To Shut Accelerators For Year

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The Linac 2 (Linear Accelerator 2) is pictured at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva October 16, 20...

It's Good To Think - But Not Too Much, Scientists Say

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Image: People who think more about their decisions have more brain cells in their frontal lobes From The BBC: People who think more about wh...

AIDS Virus Might Be A Million Years Old

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Island-specific strains of the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which infects monkeys such as the Bioko Drill, revealed the virus has be...
Monday, September 20, 2010

Magical BEANs: New Nano-Sized Particles Could Provide Mega-Sized Data Storage

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This schematic shows enthalpy curves sketched for the liquid, crystalline and amorphous phases of a new class of nanomaterials called "...

Warming In Deep Southern Ocean Linked To Sea-Level Rise

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From Live Science: Warming waters in the deep ocean surrounding Antarctica has contributed to sea-level rise over the past two decades, scie...

The Worst Part of GoingTo Space? Your Fingernails Come Off

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Oh, It Hurts Some astronauts report losing their fingernails on spacewalks because of bulky gloves that cut off circulation and chafe agains...

British Scientists Invent 'Skylon' Spaceplane That Will Take Tourists Into Orbit At Five Times The Speed Of Sound

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The 270ft-long Skylon space plane will be able to take passengers into space at a fraction of the current cost From The Daily Mail: A space ...

What's Eating The Stars Out Of Our Galaxy's Heart?

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From The New Scientist: The centre of the Milky Way is darker than you'd expect – and not just because it's home to a supermassive b...

SETI 2060, Do We Make Contact By Then?

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From Discovery News: This month the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Green Bank Science Center is celebrating the 50th anniversary of ...

Global ‘Internet Treaty’ Proposed

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Proposals put before the Internet Governance Forum would enshrine in law the principles of free speech and net neutrality for the web Phot...

Nasa Tests Robot Hardware For Planet Missions

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A suit port allows astronauts to be on the surface within a few minutes From The BBC: Nasa is testing the next generation of human spaceflig...

Airbus Engineers' Plan For The Future Of Flying

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From Der Spiegel: What will air travel look like in the year 2050? A special team of engineers from European aircraft manufacturer Airbus ha...