Fifty years ago this week, a Nature paper legitimized the idea that there could be civilizations elsewhere, able to communicate and wanting to contact us. Fred Kaplan reflects on its origins, impacts and legacy.
We talked to the Spitzer Space Telescope's visualization team about the challenges and rewards of rendering the mission's reams of non-visual data into something that catches the public eye. Plus: a gallery of their all-time favorite works
As a parent, have you ever noticed how your kids starts running around early in the morning and are still running around in the late evening? It's amazing isn't it? Are they really little, "balls of energy"? Wouldn't it be even more amazing if we could harness that energy and use it to power...a flashlight?
Students at the University of Applied Arts Vienna have developed a novel powered wheelchair design that may overcome some of the limitations of contemporary models. For a start, the chair can glide over a toilet and, thanks to a hatch on the bottom, no one has to perform acrobatic tricks in the loo. The chair also articulates and provides a power lift to help reach things that are higher up. Additionally, a novel combination of treads and wheels allows riding up and down stairs, though we would like to see a final product that can actually pull this off.
Direct communication between Earth and Mars can be strongly disturbed and even blocked by the Sun for weeks at a time, cutting off any future human mission to the Red Planet. An ESA engineer working with engineers in the UK may have found a solution using a new type of orbit combined with continuous-thrust ion propulsion.
Consciousness must, it seems, be a vague phenomenon. The newly formed zygote has no conscious experience; the two-year-old child has conscious experience. I find it hard to believe that consciousness suddenly pops in, in a quantum leap. Even if it emerges fairly suddenly, it must still spread ...Mind Hacks found this 5 days ago on schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com Find more top science news, videos, and blogs on ScienceBlips: Medicine
Direct communication between Earth and Mars can be strongly disturbed and even blocked by the Sun for weeks at a time, cutting off any future human mission to the Red Planet. An ESA engineer working with engineers in the UK may have found a solution using a new type of orbit combined with continuous-thrust ion [...]
Direct communication between Earth and Mars can be strongly disturbed and even blocked by the Sun for weeks at a time, cutting off any future human mission to the Red Planet. An European Space Agency engineer working with engineers in the UK may have found a solution using a new type of orbit combined with continuous-thrust ion propulsion.
A UA Army ROTC Cadet whose performance score ranks third among nearly 5,000 undergraduate cadets, nationally, credits his achievement to those surrounding him.
GHENT, Belgium, 22 December 2009 - Ablynx [Euronext Brussels:
ABLX] announced today detailed results from the open label
extension of the Phase Ib study of its anti-thrombotic, ALX-0081,
in patients with stable angina undergoing percutaneous...
Submissions are invited from a range of fields, in particular literature, architecture,
ecocriticism, urban studies, cultural geography, the visual arts, and
film studies. On the websited it is indicated that a particular interest in responses to the idea, as expressed by Luc Lévesque, that “‘terr ...29.01.2010
Submissions are invited from a range of fields, in particular literature, architecture,
ecocriticism, urban studies, cultural geography, the visual arts, and
film studies. On the websited it is indicated that a particular interest in responses to the idea, as expressed by Luc Lévesque, that “‘terr ...29.01.2010
Not all that long ago, hybrid vehicles were still really exotic. Now, you see them more and more frequently on our roads. However, hybrid cars are not mass-produced as their production costs are still relatively high. A researcher has now developed a new concept that integrates power electronic functions and an electric motor, which could reduce the costs of producing hybrid cars.
D. St. Clair, A. Bibo, V. R. Sennakesavababu, M. F. Daqaq, and G. Li Inspired by music-playing harmonicas that create tones via oscillations of reeds when subjected to air blow, this paper entails a concept for microwind power generation using flow-induced self-excited oscillations of a piezoelectric beam embedded within a cavity. Specifically, when the volumetric fl ... [Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 144103 (2010)] published Thu Apr 8, 2010.
We cover all the bases: droolworthy visions, dramatic departures, genre-defining pioneers and true forehead-slappers (a nuclear-powered Ford sedan? Why not!).
Concept cars represent much more than flights of fancy from the minds of ambitious auto designers. They're great ways to test public reaction to a new look before committing to production; they build carefully crafted buzz around factors marketers want you to associate with their brands; they can drum up investment and, at a minimum, they'll drive foot traffic to an automaker's stand at autoshows.
Researchers unveiled a new wide-view neurostimulator concept -- a bionic eye that will be implanted into Australia's first recipient of the technology.
Researchers unveiled a new wide-view neurostimulator concept -- a bionic eye that will be implanted into Australia's first recipient of the technology.
GHENT, Belgium, 22 December 2009 - Ablynx [Euronext Brussels:
ABLX] announced today detailed results from the open label
extension of the Phase Ib study of its anti-thrombotic, ALX-0081,
in patients with stable angina undergoing percutaneous...
