The Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Antares rocket lifted off to start its third resupply mission to the International Space Station, but suffered a catastrophic anomaly shortly after liftoff at 6:22 p.m. EDT. AKA the rocket exploded. It was unmanned. There was a Planetary Sciences test satellite for a small new asteroid spotting space telescope. It had …
At only 8mm thin, and weighing in at less than 400g, the 2015 IKEA Catalogue comes pre-installed with thousands of home furnishing ideas. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million …
1. Chandra Xray telescope blog – An X-ray Tapestry: Supernova Remnant Puppis A 2. Universe Today – Bumper Car Moonlets Crash and Crumble in Saturn’s F Ring 3. Carolyn Collins Petersen, space and astronomy expert for About.com, looks at the “supercluster” of galaxies modeled and named by scientists in Hawaii. 4. A Lurking Companion Star …
Axanar is the independent Star Trek film which proves that a feature-quality Star Trek film can be made on a small budget. Their 20-minute short film, Prelude to Axanar, premiered Saturday, July 26th, 2014, at San Diego Comic Con and features Richard Hatch, Tony Todd, Kate Vernon, JG Hertzler and Gary Graham, who reprises his …
NExtbigfuture covered research last year on the blood protein GDF11 from young mice which seems to rejuvenate older mice. In recent years, researchers studying mice found that giving old animals blood from young ones can reverse some signs of aging, and last year one team identified a growth factor in the blood that they think …
The Citi “Global Economic Outlook and Strategy” report is out with forecasts out to 2018 The economists expect the global economy to expand by 3.1% this year and by 3.4% in 2015 US GDP Growth Forecast 2014: 2.8% 2015: 3.1% 2016: 3.2% 2017: 2.7% 2018: 2.2% China GDP Growth Forecast 2014: 7.3% 2015: 7.0% 2016: …
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is emerging as the most habitable spot beyond Earth in the Solar System for life as we know it. “It has liquid water, organic carbon, nitrogen [in the form of ammonia], and an energy source,” says Chris McKay, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. Besides Earth, …
Facebook acquired Oculus VR—creator of the forthcoming Oculus Rift virtual reality headset—for approximately $2 billion. Following the demonstration of the Oculus Rift prototype at E3 in June 2012, on 1 August 2012 the company announced a Kickstarter campaign to further develop the product. Within four hours of the announcement, Oculus secured its intended amount of …
C Spire is using the Google Fiber plan as a blueprint for building its own fiber-to-the-home network that the company hopes will eventually blanket Mississippi. C Spire executives are hopeful that a high-speed fiber broadband network could help improve Mississippi’s credit rating and help turn things around for the Magnolia state. Google’s chief financial officer, …
High-energy lasers (HEL) have the potential to benefit a variety of military missions, particularly as weapons or as high-bandwidth communications devices. However, the massive size, weight and power requirements (SWaP) of legacy laser systems limit their use on many military platforms. Even if SWaP limitations can be overcome, turbulence manifested as density fluctuations in the …
The basic idea for this ring was to take a piece of a aluminum to make the ring out of, design it to fit the PCB and peltier, and create a heatsink that mounts on the other side of the peltier unit. Originally he had planed to make this a single finger ring but somewhere …