On February 1, President Obama unveiled his new budget proposal. Not found in its pages was funding for a Department of Socialism. On the other hand, an increase for NASA was included. The space agency would receive an additional $6 billion over the next five years, but funding for return trips to the moon. According to [...more]
Fantastic Voyage, Innerspace, whatever analogy you like to get you in the mood for this news: scientists at UC Berkeley have created nanoprobes that could one day fly through our body, hunting down and zapping tumor cells. Sounds good, as the physical and mental costs of chemotherapy – which takes a much less targeted approach – [...more]
An earth-orbiting satellite got a front row seat for the latest solar eclipse. As the video shows, the event is very interesting and a bit unnerving when sped up so quickly. The European Space Agency’s Proba 2 satellite was designed to observe the sun with new technology, so more stunning views like this are on [...more]
A new breakthrough in spraying stuff on stuff has created what could be the next step in creating ultra-durable, easy-to-clean surfaces on most any material. The versatile spray, which forms an easy-clean coating one millionth of a millimeter thick – 500 times thinner than a human hair – can be applied to virtually any [...more]
Japanese scientists have found a novel way to make an incredibly cheap plastic substance from mostly water. According the journal Nature, the scientists created the substance with 95 percent water and a bit of clay and “appropriate organic matters.” The new material was obtained by adding about two grams of clay and a small [...more]
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is hard at work on its task of mapping the entire sky with infrared light. Why? Planet-killing asteroids, that’s why! They’re out there, and I’m terrified! And guess what? WISE’s already brought home the bacon: That red dot is WISE’s first find – a .6-mile asteroid NASA’s designated 2010 [...more]
NASA and the Obama administration says the future of space travel will depend more on private companies to do the legwork in creating new technology and building the technology for future space travelers. According to the Wall Street Journal, the move is expected to be a part of President Barack Obama’s next budget. After [...more]
The plucky master of Mars, the Spirit Rover, is hopelessly stuck in a sand trap. NASA scientists made the announcement in Washington, but made sure to say that the mission is still not over. “Spirit is not dead; it has just entered another phase of its long life,” said Doug McCuistion, director of the [...more]
I suck at making drinks — if it calls for more than two ingredients, I will probably end up sticky and holding a terrible drink. Now some engineer has made those gimlets, rusty nails and manhattans even more complicated with a huge blueprint of popular drinks. I’m not sure this will be featured above the [...more]
Tackling the concept of dark energy is pretty difficult, but that doesn’t keep video game makers from cutting some corners and trying. Bioware, the maker of Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, has turned the typical fantasy magic into science fiction by creating something that resembles dark energy. Even though physicists told Scientific American that the science [...more]
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