Bacteria Grown in Space Is Thicker and Stronger Than on Earth
When/if humans ever colonize Mars, or any other far off planet in the future, we’ll have to put up with super powered mutant bacteria, according to new NASA research. The data was collected by...
View ArticleApple Planning a 137-Acre Solar Farm Near New Reno Data Center
Apple is making another huge stride to go green with an enormous solar panel array. GigaOM is reporting that the 137-acre 20 Megawatt installation will be laid out near Apple’s newest data center in...
View ArticleNew Fingerprint Tech Can Match Prints Even If They’re Wiped Away
Scientists have developed a new technology capable of identifying fingerprints no matter how thoroughly they’ve been wiped. According to Science Daily, scientists from Leicester University claim a new...
View ArticleNASA Decommissions Galaxy Hunter Spacecraft
NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer was shut down last Friday after the agency sent a decommission signal to the orbiting telescope. According to NASA, the craft will fall to Earth in the next 65 years...
View ArticlePatients Show No Sign of HIV Virus After Bone Marrow Transplants
The scientific community has reportedly made the biggest breakthrough yet for treating the HIV virus. Following a bone marrow transplant at the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center in Boston,...
View ArticleNASA Details Upcoming Mars 2020 Mission
NASA on Tuesday revealed details for its upcoming Mars 2020 Rover, saying it expects the craft to not only search for signs of past life, but collect samples and return to Earth. The agency’s current...
View ArticleHyperloop Design Coming August 12, Musk Says
Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla and the founder of fledgling space transport company SpaceX, but he’s clearly not satisfied yet. The inventor and entrepreneur previously hinted at an ultra-fast mode of...
View ArticleAstronaut’s Helmet Fills With Water During ISS Spacewalk
One of the astronaut’s participating in NASA’s planned six-hour spacewalk on Tuesday had to make an emergency return to the ISS’s airlock after water began filling his helmet. Italian astronaut Luca...
View ArticleScientists Believe Mars Once Had An Enormous Ocean
More evidence found on Mars suggests the planet didn’t just have water, but an entire ocean. Scientists compiled data collected by the Curiosity and Discovery rovers, as well as NASA’s Reconnaissance...
View ArticlePee-Powered Smartphones? Scientists Turn Urine to Electricity
Mobile technology has grown by leaps and bounds in the past few years alone, but one area still ripe for innovation is the battery. I’m a year into my current iPhone and already it won’t last a whole...
View ArticleMars Atmosphere Likely Disappeared Billions of Years Ago
Mars has largely remained unchanged for the past 4 billion years, give or take. The Martian planet is currently cold and dry, thick with carbon dioxide and thin on atmosphere—about 1 percent as thick...
View ArticleAstronaut Explains What Caused Helmet to Fill Up With Water
NASA engineers still haven’t quite figured out what caused Luca Parmitano’s—an Italian astronaut aboard the ISS—helmet to fill up like a fishbowl, but they have a pretty good idea. In a short downlink...
View ArticleNASA Pings Curiosity With Instructions to Sing Itself Happy Birthday
Check Out This Interpolated Video of NASA’s Curiosity Landing on Mars This amazing video further highlights what an incredible achievement landing Curiosity on Mars truly is. Consider, if you will,...
View ArticleResearchers Believe Russian Meteorite Part of Larger Threat
That Chelyabinsk meteorite from earlier this year might have been a warning shot from space, astronomers this week warned. Scientists studying the dramatic event from earlier this year believe the...
View ArticleFlashback Friday: Space Age Railroad
I’ve never quite understood why the United States feels the need to tear up its railways. Yes, we are a car culture, but there is something to be said for the efficiency of railways from the safety to...
View ArticleResearchers Say It’s Possible to Capture Asteroids With Existing Technology
Aerospace engineers have reportedly identified 12 different asteroid candidates they feel we can actually capture and bring back to Earth. Right now. With existing technology. Scientists are already...
View ArticleScientists Grow Human Heart Tissue Capable of Beating Autonomously
A new report in Nature Communications claims a team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh has successfully grown human heart tissue capable of beating autonomously. For anyone suffering from...
View ArticleSmartphones May Lead To Serious Eye Problems, Warns Doctor
If you’ve been holding your smartphone screen closer to your face than normal recently, or just squinting more than you used to you may be suffering from “Screen Sightedness.” The new condition,...
View ArticleScientists Think There Might Be Water Under the Moon’s Surface
Scientists claim recent evidence of water on the Moon originated from deep within the lunar interior. According to a report from Space.com, NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument detected what...
View ArticleNASA Says Voyager 1 Has Crossed Into Interstellar Space
NASA says its Voyager 1 spacecraft has officially—for real this time—ventured beyond the Sun’s magnetic highway and into interstellar space. Following 36 years and over 12 billion miles of constant...
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