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Caltech’s 2500 Orbiting Solar Panels Could Provide Earth With Limitless Energy
Soaking in the Sun’s Rays One of the greatest challenges facing the 21st Century is the issue of power—how to generate enough of it, how to manufacture it cheaply and with the least amount of harmful...
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Vacations in Space? Bigelow Aerospace and ULA Announce First Commercial Space...
Space Synergy The colonization of space is about to take off—quite literally—with the recent announcement from the 32nd Space Symposium regarding an agreement between the United Launch Alliance (ULA)...
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Chinese Particle Collider Smashes Previous Luminosity Records
Smashing Records On April 5th, the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPCII) achieved a luminosity of 1×1033cm-2s-1, which is 100 times better than before its recent upgrade. Luminosity, in particle...
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NASA’s Newest Project: Sailing Into Interstellar Space
Sail Away The idea of shirking the suddenly very confining bonds of our Solar System has been much in the news of late. Just recently, Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced...
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LIGO Sets Its Sights On Fainter Gravitational Waves
Searching for Meaning in a Sea of Noise The long-awaited detection of gravitational waves was announced with a clear and unmistakable note—it was a “chirp” that noticeably rose above the welter of...
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NASA Telescope May Have Spotted The Gravitational Wave Source
A Simultaneous Detection The story, by now, is pretty well known in scientific circles. On September 14 of last year, the ultra-sensitive detectors at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave...
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Now You Can Fly to Mars…on a School Bus
Generation Beyond A big part of preparing our society to welcome and embrace the future, to accept and seek out its challenges, rather than flee from them, is education. Education—and a healthy sense...
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This Flying Saucer Zaps Fires with Sound
The Coming of the Saucers If, sometime in the near future, you hear stories of strange flying discs hovering around our national parks and forests, don’t be alarmed. It’s not a Martian invasion, or an...
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Remarkable 24-Seat Driverless Cabs Are Arriving in Singapore
Johnny Cabs are Here Remember the “Johnny Cabs” from the 1990 film Total Recall? They were autonomous cars, outfitted with a weird, animatronic cabbie torso that took directions and muttered annoying...
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New Horizons May Have Spotted Gravity Waves Rippling Across Pluto
A Rippling Haze NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been returning some pretty amazing information about the former planet, Pluto. One of its most interesting discoveries was the weird “layered”...
View ArticleEurope Planning a Billion-Euro Quest for Quantum Tech
A Quantum Manifesto As any reader of Futurism knows by now, quantum projects—especially quantum computing, that Holy Grail of information technology—are all the rage. All the big nations, geopolitical...
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Scientists Find Evidence of a Recent Nearby Supernova, And Its Remnants Are...
Tiny Iron Nuclei New data from the Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer (CRIS) onboard NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft is hinting at an unexpectedly violent past for our solar...
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Want to Know What Happens When Particles Collide? Download 300 TB of Free...
Peep Into Matter Ever wanted to catch a glimpse of the heart of matter? Want to see for yourself what happens when particles smash together at incomprehensible energies? With enough time and sufficient...
View ArticleA Major Step Forward for Digital Currency—Bitstamp Can Now Operate in the EU
The Slovenian-based bitcoin exchange Bitstamp, which was the victim of a scandalous $5 million digital theft over a year ago, has just received a license to operate as a payment institution from the...
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New Artificial Protein Makes it Possible to Manipulate Matter
Manipulating Matter The dream of nanotechnology is to harness it to control the material world at its most fundamental level—to manipulate matter at the molecular and atomic scale. It’s a dream that is...
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Alien Oceanography: Cassini Reveals a Proverbial Ocean of Organics on Titan
Exploring the Strange Seas of Titan Titan’s a weird moon. Scientists have known this for some time, ever since the Voyager series of probes returned images of an enigmatic, planet-sized world shrouded...
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Physicists Force Water Molecules Into a Strange New State of Matter
The Big Squeeze For the most part, water on Earth comes in three varieties—solid ice, gaseous vapor, and (everybody’s favorite) liquid form. We’ve all known this since basically forever. But now...
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LIGO Sets Its Sights On Fainter Gravitational Waves
Searching for Meaning in a Sea of Noise The long-awaited detection of gravitational waves was announced with a clear and unmistakable note—it was a “chirp” that noticeably rose above the welter of...
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NASA Telescope May Have Spotted The Gravitational Wave Source
A Simultaneous Detection The story, by now, is pretty well known in scientific circles. On September 14 of last year, the ultra-sensitive detectors at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave...
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Now You Can Fly to Mars…on a School Bus
Generation Beyond A big part of preparing our society to welcome and embrace the future, to accept and seek out its challenges, rather than flee from them, is education. Education—and a healthy sense...
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