World Solar Challenge 2009 underway: 1,864-mile solar car race across...
(quote)The leading cars in this year’s Global Green Challenge solar car race have passed the halfway point in their epic 1,864-mile (3,000-kilometre) race across some of Australia's harshest terrain...
View ArticleNASA reveals secrets Moon's been holding for billions of years. Moon is not a...
(quote)NASA scientists have been outlining their preliminary results after crashing two unmanned spacecraft into the Moon in a bid to detect water-ice. A rocket stage slammed into the Moon's south pole...
View ArticleSolar plane, 1st of its kind, Airbus-sized, around the world without fuel &...
(quote)The prototype of a solar-powered plane, the size of an Airbus and the weight of a mid-sized car, destined for a record round-the-world journey has made its 1st trip across a runway. The plane...
View ArticleBomb-dumb body scanner, blind to hazards, make airlines more secure, or less?...
German scientist gets a lot of explosives through a body scanner
View ArticleSolar brings light & hope to Haiti after earthquake catastrophically...
(quote)Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, was catastrophically affected by the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake read more »
View ArticleEU voted down body scanners in 2008: "degrading measure". Concerns:...
Craziness is not rare, neither is Crime. Else, there would be no need for law, law enforcement, etc. etc.. Does Fear lead to solutions, or to panic, shutting out common sense and wisdom? EU Justice...
View ArticleSolar powered 1st nonstop 26hr night flight, longest distance, highest...
(quote) Aviation News [July 8, 2010] Swiss Plane Completes First Solar-Powered Overnight Flight The Solar Impulse HB-SIA, a Swiss solar-powered plane, completed the first non-stop night flight on solar...
View ArticleZephyr, unmanned plane doubled 30-hour record set in 2001 - significance:...
(quote)Bertrand Piccard - "The pioneer is not always the one who succeeds, but the one who is not scared to fail."'Zephyr is the world's first and only truly persistent aeroplane,' said Neville...
View ArticleNature runs away from human pollution into deep sea to sustain its mysterious...
Spectacular deep-sea species: newly discovered purple octopus and species of vase sponge was one of the bottom dwellers. Australia's dragonfish uses many fangs to hook hard-to-find prey in the cold,...
View ArticleScottish scientists develop whisky biofuel: more environmentally sustainable...
(quote)Scottish scientists develop whisky biofuel - By-products from distilling process could be used to power cars and even aviation, according to researchers in EdinburghIt gives a whole new meaning...
View ArticleOceans give life, cover 72% of Earth, but less than 1% of Ocean protected....
(quote) Every second breath we take comes from the ocean. Every drop of water we drink connects us to Nature, especially the ocean. The ocean is not just water, it’s alive, and it’s our life support...
View ArticleVisionary, innovator, inventor, business giant Steve Jobs: "think...
Steve Jobs in his Los Angeles office in 1981, five years after he co-founded Apple. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976, when they founded Apple. Jobs sold his Volkswagen minibus and Wozniak his two...
View ArticleYoungest Planet: newborn gas giant may be up to six times the mass of...
(quote)Youngest Planet Picture: Gas Giant Seen in Throes of Creation... Baby world likely "deep red" to human eyes due to heat of formation. A new picture of a Jupiter-like world swaddled in gas and...
View ArticleFirst space dockings: US Gemini 8, March 16, 1966; Russia Cosmos 186, Oct....
(quote)China has joined two space vehicles together in orbit for the first time. The unmanned Shenzhou 8 craft made contact with the Tiangong-1 space lab at 1729 GMT.[2 November 2011] The unmanned...
View ArticleDiscoveries Dec 5'11: biggest blackholes (10+20 billionx mass of our sun);...
(quote) Astrophysicists find biggest black holes yet - two monsters, one of which may be about 20 billion times the mass of our sun, could provide important clues to the formation of galaxies. read more »
View ArticleStrongest solar storm in years, bombarding Earth w/ radiation... aurora...
(quote) Jan. 22, 2012 - Solar storm sparks dazzling northern lights NASA observed a flare Sunday night at 11 p.m. EST Jan. 22, 2012, shows a solar flare erupting on the Sun's northeastern hemisphere,...
View ArticleMagnificent Planet. 2012 version of Nasa's 'Blue Marble' - Earth space images...
(quote) Last week, NASA released its 2012 version of the famous "Blue Marble" image. By using a planet-pointing satellite, Suomi NPP, the space agency created an extremely high-resolution photograph of...
View ArticleHubble celebrates 22nd anniversary in orbit with stunning mosaic space image...
(quote) Happy Birthday, Hubble! A Stunning New Picture for a Special Day Things didn't look too bright for the Hubble Space Telescope when it first went into orbit back in 1989: the $1.5 billion eye on...
View ArticleDiscovery, unofficial! Higgs boson, 'God particle': new subatomic particle,...
A typical ‘candidate event’ in the Higgs-hunting CMS experiment. Red lines represent high-energy proton beams while yellow lines show the tracks of particles produced in the collision.(quote)The Higgs...
View ArticleSea otters eat sea urchins, protect kelp forests that trap CO2 from...
Smart Sea Otter Stacks Cups Sea Otter Pup(quote)"Nature does nothing uselessly. " - AristotleGlobal warming? Sea otters to the rescue! Global warming is reaching new records, ice caps continue to melt...
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