3D Printing in Space
A few years ago, I wrote a post about how 3D printing would be essential for any sort of colonization efforts or long distance manned missions. Next month, Made In Space, a Silicon Valley tech […]
Monster Black Hole Found
Between 25,000 and 28,000 light years away is a super-massive black hole. It weighs in at more than four million times the mass of our Sun. No matter escapes it. No light escapes it. It has […]
Is This the First Step to Curing Cancer?
Experimental treatments at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle have shown very promising results in causing supposedly incurable blood-borne cancers to go into remission. In a trial on 29 terminal leukemia patients who were […]
Cyanide for an Atmosphere and 1800 in the Shade
Scientists from London and Leuven, Belgium recently published a paper with information about the super-Earth planet 55 Cancri e. Through observations with the WFC3 camera onboard the Hubble Space Telescope, they say its likely that the planet […]
Blue Origin Getting Ready for Operations, Space Tourism
Elon Musk and SpaceX have been garnering many of the headlines in the private launch vehicle arena, but Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has been quietly achieving very positive, […]
“Ladies and gentlemen, we have detected gravitational waves”
About 1.3 billion years ago, about 1.3 billion light years away, a black hole with a mass of 39 times that of our Sun, met a slightly smaller one with 26 times the mass of […]
Ripples in Space Time – Is a Big Announcement Coming?
UPDATE: Gravitational Waves Discovered! Albert Einstein theorized that when cosmic-level events take place, such as a supernova or two massive black holes meeting, space and time actually warp, creating gravitational waves. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave […]
The Warthog Lives On – What Other Warplanes Led Long Lives?
The venerable A-10 Warthog aircraft is renowned for its ability to absorb damage, and seemingly has nine lives on the battlefield. It certainly has nine lives in the halls of Congress and within the upper echelons […]
Luxembourg Goes into the Asteroid Mining Business – Luxembourg!
Today the Luxembourg government announced it’s going into the asteroid mining business. It plans to provide incentives and a favorable regulatory climate to encourage the industry to flourish in the small country. The goal is […]
Aviation is Going Green – and It Needs to.
Planes are dirty – real dirty. In fact, according to a recent report by the Center for Biological Diversity, by 2050, carbon emissions by commercial aircraft will triple, generating 43 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide and […]
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