According to ScienceDaily there is a new type of rocket propellant made of a frozen mixture of water and “nanoscale aluminum” powder that is more environmentally friendly than conventional propellants and could be manufactured on the moon, Mars and other water-bearing bodies. The aluminum-ice, or ALICE, propellant might be used to launch rockets into orbit [...]
Category Archives: Technology
The Smallest Robot in the World
Bruce Donald and his colleagues, engineers and computer scientists from Dartmouth College have built the smallest robot in the world which is the thickness of human hair and shorter than the sharp point of a thumb tack, integrated in a small package, wireless powered and controlled. However, the robot takes over ten thousand steps a [...]
LCROSS reached the Moon
On Tuesday, June 23, Toda LCROSS executed a swingby of the Moon, NASA reports. LCROSS reached periselene, its closest approach, at 10:30:33 UT, with the spacecraft passing 1,988 miles (3200 km) from the Moon. The flyby resulted in a gravity assist from the Moon which put LCROSS into its cruise Lunar Gravity Assist Lunar Return [...]
Super Computer Jaguar
According to Oak Ridge (TN) National Laboratory has increased computing power of its Cray supercomputing system (shown here) to 54 teraflops, or 54 trillion mathematical calculations per second, placing it among the most powerful open scientific systems in the world. The computer, dubbed Jaguar, is the largest in the Department of Energy’s Office of Science [...]
X-RAY machines in Airports
Are you ready for AN X-RAY machine seeing you through your clothes in airports? London’s Heathrow airport has started the experiment but there can be no doubt that in the future all airports will be equipped with such equipment. The device at Terminal 4 produces a “naked” image of passengers by bouncing X-rays off their [...]
Chinese Super Space Drive
Chinese are in the process of “impossible” space drive, world press agencies report and going to release a demonstration version soon. As Chinese researchers say, they found the value that will open the new possibilities for space exploration. If they’re right, it will give the Chinese a decisive military advantage in space. As it is [...]
Our Children, Our Future
Our kids are our future in full sense of the word. Giving birth to a child is truly a miraculous event changing not only your lives but also the world forever and it’s the truth. Nowadays rapid scientific development of egg donation technology can help to make pregnancy possible for all those women who may [...]
Large Hadron Collider
The gigantic scientific instrument called Large Hadron Collider has to be started up today in a world’s largest and most respected centre for scientific research near Geneva at the border Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. This grand scientist experiment will help physicists to learn more about the laws of Nature. What is the [...]
ATLAS and CMS
While the discussion about ATLAS and CMS, general-purpose particle physics experiments is continuing scientists do their work. The ambition project called for help to see a wide range of particles and phenomena produced in LHC collisions has involved approximately 2,000 physicists from some 35 countries. They will use the data collected from the complex ATLAS [...]
Facts and Myths about Brains.
Recently The Daily Mail has published very fascinating facts and common myths about our grey matter, I mean our brains of course. These facts and myths have been taken from a new book by two leading neuroscientists Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang. The information is interesting and sometimes really surprised. FACT: You can’t tickle yourself [...]