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February 19, 2017 |
brian wang |
SpaceX on Sunday successfully launched and landed its Falcon 9 rocket a day after aborting the mission seconds before launch. Falcon 9 was carrying the Dragon spacecraft, which successfully detached from Falcon 9’s second stage. Right on schedule, solar arrays …
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August 5, 2016 |
brian wang |
In May this year, IBM announced it was making such a device available for anyone to use over the internet. Its computer has five quantum bits, or qubits, so can only handle relatively small problems – but it’s programmable just …
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August 4, 2016 |
brian wang |
NASA has a proposed asteroid redirect mission which would use an ion propulsion that is 20 times bigger than the recent Dawn mission to Ceres and Vesta. NASA is developing a first-ever robotic mission to visit a large near-Earth asteroid, …
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July 12, 2016 |
brian wang |
George Church is an American geneticist, molecular engineer, and chemist. As of 2015, he is Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT, and has been a founding …
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July 6, 2016 |
brian wang |
In 2015, DARPA’s Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program developed a self-steering bullet to increase hit rates for difficult, long-distance shots, completed its most successful round of live-fire tests to date. An experienced shooter using the technology demonstration system repeatedly …
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December 11, 2015 |
Joseph |
A guest article by Joseph Friedlander What if thermonuclear power in a controlled manner is so hard to do that it is actually easier to directly annihilate matter and use that instead? In a sense it is, because if you …
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October 27, 2015 |
brian wang |
The Pentagon on Tuesday awarded the most fiercely-fought weapons contest in more than a decade to Northrop Grumman Corp., a $21.4 billion initial deal to build new long-range bombers for the U.S. Air Force. Northrop Grumman was selected over a …
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October 15, 2015 |
brian wang |
A team at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, has succeeded in launching 50 drones that were all piloted by a single person. The Zephyr drones they used are custom-made, largely from hobby parts, and cost about $2000 each. …
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September 5, 2015 |
brian wang |
Instead of engineering cells to work as tiny individuals, researchers are working on a new class of cellular machines that “talk” to each other – and behave in more sophisticated ways. Put simply, synthetic biology is going multicellular. “Initially, there …
