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As Cassini Makes 1st 'Grand Finale' Dive, More Saturn Mysteries Remain

2017-04-26T14:12:00.000+01:00

Running low on fuel, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has begun the final — and most daring — phase of its epic mission to Saturn.

After using a final flyby of the moon Titan on Friday to boost its speed, Cassini was flung by the moon's gravity to a trajectory that sent it diving through the 1,200-mile (1,930 kilometers) gap between the planet's upper atmosphere and innermost rings, NASA officials said.

Cassini completed the first crossing of the ring plane at about 2 a.m. PDT (5 a.m. EDT, or 0900 GMT) Wednesday, the space agency said in a statement.

As Cassini Makes 1st 'Grand Finale' Dive, More Saturn Mysteries Remain

Will circular runways ever take off?

2017-04-25T16:03:00.000+01:00

Could circular runways be the future of air travel? Aviation expert Henk Hesselink of the Netherlands Aerospace Centre believes so. A film for BBC World Hacks by Dougal Shaw.

Will circular runways ever take off? BBC News - YouTube

NASA's Apollo 13 Mission of Survival in Pictures

2017-04-25T08:08:00.000+01:00

In April 1970, NASA launched three Apollo 13 astronauts to land on the moon. But disaster struck on the way to the moon, and the lunar landing was scrapped. See Apollo 13's epic mission of survival from start to finish in this slideshow.

NASA's Apollo 13 Mission of Survival in Pictures

“Strange” Signal From Star Triggers SETI Investigation—Much To Scientists’ Dismay | The Next Generation

2016-08-31T17:13:00.001+01:00

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“Strange” Signal From Star Triggers SETI Investigation—Much To Scientists’ Dismay | The Next Generation

Paralyzed Man Regains Hand Movement, Thanks to First-Ever Nerve-Transfer Surgery | The Next Generation

2016-08-24T06:59:00.001+01:00

Paralyzed Man Regains Hand Movement, Thanks to First-Ever Nerve-Transfer Surgery | The Next Generation

A guide to the nanotechnology used in the average home | The Next Generation

2016-07-08T09:24:00.003+01:00

A guide to the nanotechnology used in the average home | The Next Generation

Scientists have invented a new glass coating for omnidirectional solar panels | The Next Generation

2016-01-18T12:20:00.000+00:00

Scientists have invented a new glass coating for omnidirectional solar panels | The Next Generation

Galactic ‘burp’ shows black holes can also create, not just destroy | The Next Generation

2016-01-13T13:37:00.003+00:00

Excuse you.
Scientists have discovered evidence of a powerful galactic blast produced by a comparatively nearby supermassive black hole located some 26 million light-years away from Earth. The black hole, centred in a small galaxy called NGC 5195, is the nearest of its kind to Earth undergoing such violent outbursts, which the researchers have likened […]

Galactic ‘burp’ shows black holes can also create, not just destroy | The Next Generation

New material converts CO2 into clean fuel with unprecedented efficiency | The Next Generation

2016-01-11T13:40:00.001+00:00

We need this!

A new material made from microscopic layers of cobalt can convert carbon dioxide gas into formate – a fuel that can be burned with no toxic byproducts and used as a clean energy source.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Replies to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

2016-01-01T17:07:00.001+00:00

Your 2015 year in blogging

2015-12-29T21:59:00.001+00:00

Your 2015 year in blogging

A new symmetry underlies the search for new materials

2015-11-23T10:48:00.001+00:00

A new type of symmetry operation developed by Penn State researchers has the potential to quicken the search for new advanced materials that range from tougher steels to new types of electronic, magnetic, and thermal materials. With further developments, this technique could also impact the fields of computational materials design. “In the physical sciences, making […]

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Jan Allen Plans to Turn Everyone’s Food Waste into Renewable Energy with This Machine | IHS Electronics360

2015-11-22T21:06:00.001+00:00

Jan Allen Plans to Turn Everyone’s Food Waste into Renewable Energy with This Machine | IHS Electronics360

Black Hole Has Major Flare

2015-11-16T20:40:00.001+00:00

The baffling and strange behaviors of black holes have become somewhat less mysterious recently, with new observations from NASA’s Explorer missions Swift and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. The two space telescopes caught a supermassive black hole in the midst of a giant eruption of X-ray light, helping astronomers address an ongoing puzzle: […]

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Space Station Live: Top Benefits from the First 15 Years

2015-11-03T13:30:00.001+00:00

Has NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovered an Alien Megastructure?

2015-11-02T12:10:00.001+00:00

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope is tasked with finding small, rocky worlds orbiting distant stars. However, exoplanets aren’t the only thing Kepler can detect — stellar flares, star spots and dusty planetary rings can also pop up in the mission’s observations. But there’s also been speculation that Kepler may have the ability to detect more than […]

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Theory of everything

2015-10-30T15:43:00.001+00:00

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Introduction of theory of everything Theory of everything is just a conception and hopeful topics of physics to establish. But till now such kind of theory is not discovered. But only given a name that is theory of everything. theory of everything is a conceptual basis of physics that says once…

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Paralyzed Man’s Arm Wired to Receive Brain Signals

2015-10-28T09:52:00.001+00:00

After doctors bridge his spinal injury with electronics, a paralyzed man can control his arm with his thoughts. Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio say they’ve used electronics to get around a paralyzed man’s spinal injury, permitting him to use an implant in his brain to move his arm and hand. The test […]

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New crystal captures carbon from humid gas

2015-10-27T10:30:00.001+00:00

A new material with micropores might be a way to fight climate change. Scientists have created crystals that capture carbon dioxide much more efficiently than previously known materials, even in the presence of water. The research was recently published in a report in the scientific journal Science. One way to mitigate climate change could be […]

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Metamaterial absorbers for infrared inspection technologies

2015-10-26T10:39:00.001+00:00

Plasmonic metamaterials are man-made substances whose structure can be manipulated to influence the way they interact with light. As such, metamaterials offer an attractive platform for sensing applications, including infrared (IR) absorption spectroscopy – a technique used to uncover details of the chemical make-up and structure of substances. Now, Atsushi Ishikawa at Okayama University and […]

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Light goes infinitely fast with new on-chip zero-index metamaterial

2015-10-23T09:30:00.001+01:00

Electrons are so 20th century. In the 21st century, photonic devices, which use light to transport large amounts of information quickly, will enhance or even replace the electronic devices that are ubiquitous in our lives today. But there’s a step needed before optical connections can be integrated into telecommunications systems and computers: researchers need to […]

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Ferroelectricity discovered on the nanoscale

2015-10-13T10:12:00.001+01:00

Ferroelectricity can exist in a sheet of material just a few nanometres thick. This new and unexpected discovery by researchers in the US and South Korea could help in the development of new materials for nanoscale electronics. Ferroelectric materials have permanent electric dipole moments – much like their ferromagnetic counterparts, which have permanent magnetic dipole […]

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Dark matter may power supernovae

2015-10-09T07:00:00.001+01:00

Stellar explosions known as type Ia supernovae could be triggered by dark matter. So says a physicist in the US, who has worked out how certain burnt-out stars can explode even though they lack the mass to generate fusion reactions. According to the new research, the stars ignite because they accumulate so-called asymmetric dark matter, […]

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A Shocking Way to Fix the Brain

2015-10-08T17:26:00.001+01:00

Neurosurgeons hope to treat some of the most intractable mental disorders by putting advanced arrays of electrodes into patients’ brains. When Emad Eskandar talks about one of his neurosurgery patients with obsessive compulsive disorder, he’s not talking about someone who arranges his record collection by color, size, and name. Or someone who ritualistically touches the […]

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Black Phosphorous Might Beat Graphene

2015-10-08T12:59:00.001+01:00

Can a material be too good at conducting electricity? Scientists developing a new one-atom-thick material to rival graphene, the carbon-based darling of the 2D world, think so. This new 2D material is known as black phosphorous, and a new report in the journal Science shows that it can solve a problem that has plagued graphene: […]

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