Saturday, April 12, 2014

A 'Radiation Belt' For Nuclear Emergencies

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Israeli Company Develops 'Radiation Belt' For Nuclear Emergencies -- Jerusalem Post/Reuters Called the "StemRad 360 Gamma...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Scientists Reconstruct Asteroid Impact To Have Hit Earth 3.26 Billion Years Ago

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The massive asteroid was almost as wide as Rhode Island and about three to five times larger than the rock thought to have wiped out the ...

Boeing's 'Phantom Swift' Vertical Take Off And Landing Craft

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  Boeing Going Vertical with 'Phantom Swift' Military X-Plane (Video) -- Yahoo News/Live Science  Aerospace giant Boeing is...

For One Day Only Next Week, Google Will Let Anyone In The US Buy Glass

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(Click on Image to Enlarge) For One Day, Google Will Let Anyone In The US Buy Glass -- The Verge Google is about to make its bigges...

U.S. Air Force To Test Google Glass For Combat And Intelligence Missions

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Above: Airforce test dummy wearing Google Glass. Image Credit: Rick Eldridge, 711 Human Performance Wing, U.S. Air Force U.S. Air Forc...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Astronomers Believe They May Have Found Evidence Of A Potential Exomoon

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Image Caption: Researchers have detected the first "exomoon" candidate -- a moon orbiting a planet that lies outside our solar ...

Take A 'Global Selfie' When Celebrating Earth Day

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A “Blue Marble” image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's Earth-observing satellite — Suomi NPP. This composit...

One More Step Forward To The Development Of A Quantum Computer

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Photo: In this experiment, an atom is sandwiched between mirrors, forming half of the quantum switch. Graphic: Andreas Reiserer, MPQ, Qua...

Human Organs: The The Next Frontier In 3-D Printing

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The Next Frontier In 3-D Printing: Human Organs -- CNN (CNN) -- The emerging process of 3-D printing, which uses computer-created digi...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

How To Levitate And Melt An Aluminum At The Same Time

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An Aluminum Slug Melts And Levitates At The Same Time -- io9 Run an alternating current through a coiled length of copper and you'...

What Is The Mystery Light On Mars?

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Life on Mars? In this photo taken by the Curiosity rover a light of unknown origin can be seen in the distance What Is The Mystery Lig...

The British Military Introduces Their 'Porton Man' Robot To Test Clothes

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Britain Builds Robot To Test Military Equipment, Suits For Armed Forces -- FOX News A $1.8 million robotic mannequin that can run, kne...

The Pentagon's X-37B Has Now Been In Orbit For 500 Days

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Will The Pentagon’s Secret Space Plane Ever Return To Earth? -- Kyle Mizokami, Daily Beast Nearly 500 days into its mission, the Penta...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Is This The 'End Of Days'?

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APOCALYPSE NOW: Why A Rare Astrological Event TONIGHT Could Herald The 'End Of Days' -- Express IF YOU'RE feeling out of s...

U.S. Navy To Test It's Newest Laser Weapon In The Persian Gulf This Summer

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U.S. Navy To Test Laser Weapon Aboard Ship In Persian Gulf -- L.A. Times The Navy plans to install a laser weapon prototype on a ship ...

U.S. Navy To Test It's Electromagnetic Gun Aboard A High-Speed Vessel In 2016

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U.S. Navy to Test Futuristic, Super-Fast Gun at Sea in 2016 -- Newsweek/Reuters (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy is planning sea trials for a...

Robots Getting Ready For Dull, Dirty And Dangerous Jobs (Video)

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From VOA : Robotic house helpers may still be a long way off but robots that can replace humans in hazardous environments are closer and ...
Monday, April 7, 2014

U.S. Navy Testing Drone Helicopters

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U.S. Navy Testing More Sophisticated Pilotless Helicopters -- Reuters (Reuters) - The helicopter kicked up a cloud of freshly fallen s...

Has The U.S. Navy Found A Way To Make Fuel Out Of Sea Water?

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Could You Soon Be Filling Up With SEAWATER? US Navy Reveals 'Game Changing' Fuel Created From Water -- Daily Mail * Has flown rad...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

The Future Of Surgical Robotics Is Microscopic

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The NeuroArm, a non-ferrous microsurgical robot—shown here with an electrified cutting tool and suction instrument—was used to remove a p...