Category: Science
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NASA testing next generation spacecraft heat exchangers
The crew members inside the International Space Station (ISS) have started to receive a unique hardware discovery, which can be used to plan the upcoming manned mission by NASA beyond Earth and into deep space. With the help of the Phase Change Material Heat Exchanger (PCM HX), scientists successfully performed a ride to the space…
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Asteroid cause of cosmic collision dates back to 3.7 billion years
According to a new study, the right eye of the “Man on the Moon” is the most probably the cause of a cosmic collision that occurred 3.8 billion years ago. The report revealed the stunning fact that an asteroid approximately 150 miles (241.4 kilometers), dubbed to be the length of New Jersey may have hit the…
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NASA Kepler K2 mission confirms existence of 100+ Exoplanets
According to latest reports, an international team of astronomers comprising of researchers and scientists with the assistance of NASA’s Kepler K2 mission have discovered a treasure trove, which confirms the existence of 100+ Exoplanets. Even though the Kepler K2 mission unraveled 197 initial planets, the scientists who participated in the discovery confirmed the presence of…
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NASA continues to explore solar system in depth
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is currently exploring the behavior of our solar system to fetch answers to basic questions such as how humans came to the earth, where humans are going. Moreover, the US-based space agency is also gearing up to find whether humans are alone in the universe. These experiments are reportedly…
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NASA’s Mars rover mission to hunt alien life in 2020
NASA is gearing up to proceed with the final design, development, and construction of its upcoming Mars rover mission scheduled to launch in 2020. The vehicle will analyze the existence of past life on the red planet, human presence and also prepare for the future manned missions after 2020. According to reports, the Mars rover…
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Newly discovered smart pressure sensors are inspired by octopus
A team of researchers based in Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) has reportedly developed a flexible pressure smart adhesive sensor by imitating the suction cups on octopus’s tentacles. They explained the various techniques used to study the adhesive mechanism of octopus suckers, which are used…
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NASA shots images of Moon photobombing earth
NASA has released pictures which showed the Moon photobombing Earth as it rotates. The photos were taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a 4 MP CCD camera and telescope carried by the Deep Space Climate Observatory. The photographs were taken when the moon transverse across the Earth on July 4 and five which…
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New Obama Initiative – Computer Science for ALL
President Barack Obama announced in his final State of the Union address that more “hands-on” computer science training classes were coming to our schools. A new initiative announced Saturday will send $4 billion in grants to states and $100 million in competitive grants to school districts to create a new era of fully trained students…
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Ancient Babylonians Traced Jupiter With Complex Geometry
Ancient Babylonians are now credited for using geometry to trace the planets 1400 years before the technique was to be invented in Europe. Who Tracked Jupiter First? It has been widely accepted that Europeans had traced the night sky for us using complex mathematics in the fourteenth century…until today. It now been discovered that ancient…
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AEREO – Here to WiFi Your City with Starry
Chet Kanojia, founder of AERO, announces new start-up – called Starry – that will WiFi our entire cities, faster than wired broadband, at fractions of the cost. The company announced that it is ready to take on the country’s biggest Internet providers and convert our cities to a faster wireless connection that will be available…