Category: Technology
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Stellar Collisions Lead to Showers of Treasure
Gold and silver are some of the priciest elements found on Earth. Recent space discoveries suggest that colliding neuron stars may lead to a confetti of gold and silver in their galactic neighborhood. Some scientists believe that the gold and platinum supply found on Earth may be remnants of a distant collision within the Milky…
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Solar Wind in A Lab
Scientists have finally recreated the spiralling solar wind of the Sun, within a controlled laboratory setting. The breakthrough experiment conducted through an alumininum vacuum (known as the Big Red Ball) at the Wisconsin Plasma Physics Laboratory had successfully recreated a spiral phenomenon based off the magnetic forces of the Sun. The physical sighting being mimicked…
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Smallest Movement Ever Measured in Space
Smallest Movement Ever Measured in Space While studying gravity with LISA (the Laster Interferometer Space Antenna), scientists were surprised to find that they discovered something they never imagined possible. The team found they could measure movement that was smaller than the width of an atom. While the size of the movement alone is noteworthy,…
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Lost in Space??
Space Ring of Love Charlie Duke’s voice was one many Americans heard with a southern drawl during the Apollo 11 moon landing. While he spent his time on the Earth for this mission, he would end up in space on the Apollo 16 moon landing. In 1972, the mission took him and module pilot to…
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Is it Too Late to Reduce Carbon Emissions?
Conservative estimates predict that with a global temperature increase of just 2°C, sea levels could rise by 25 meters within the next 100 years. If global warming were to reach a peak which causes the Antarctic ice sheets to melt, global sea levels will rise by almost 60 meters, submerging the habitat of more than…
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First Space Flower Blooms
For the last two years, the team on the International Space Station has been attempting to grow edible plants in microgravity. While they struggled at first, the first zinnia flowers have started to bloom. With orange blossoms, this is incredible progress that suggests certain plants could potentially be available for space growth. Dubbed the Veggie…
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Could Wormholes Cause Star Gate-Like Transport?
Wormholes – are they really the stuff of Science Fiction? We have two articles in this issue for you. The first is all about how magnetic fields may travel undetected through space, and the second is just how that might be useful. What would really get interesting is if we could create a device that…
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(Video) Self-Healing Material May Save Future Spacecraft From Disaster
A material that heals itself – think of the possibilities Think of it, a self-healing material just like something you would see in a Terminator movie. But that’s exactly what the combination of science and materials just accomplished. And it has applications that are both Earthly and beyond. It is a special liquid that is…
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Kepler Found Another Earth? Maybe?
Where in all the heavens could we look for another Earth? For as long as man looked in awe at the night sky, we have wondered what’s out there and how do we fit into all that enormity? Are we alone? As astronomers, physicists, mathematicians and other scientists proposed better theories and developed better tools…
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(Video) Kepler – Combing The Heavens For Another Earth
Can Kepler Find Us A New Earth? Unlike other missions, instead of looking to see what we can see, Kepler is looking for another planet like Earth. The French in an international effort and the USA are both looking, so the race is on! Both have found candidates, including the possibility of water. New tools…