Key tests for spaceplane project
UK engineers have begun critical tests on a new engine technology designed to lift a spaceplane into orbit.
The proposed Skylon vehicle would operate like an airliner, taking off and landing at a conventional runway.
Its major innovation is [...]
Nasa launches super-size rover to Mars: ‘Go, Go!’
A super-size roverzoomed toward Mars on an 8 1/2 month, 354 million-mile (570 million-kilometer) journey on Saturday, the biggest, best equipped robot ever sent to explore another planet.Nasa’s six-wheeled, one-armed wonder, Curiosity, [...]
LISA Pathfinder:LISA Pathfinder takes major step in hunt for gravitational waves
Sensors destined for ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission in 2014 have far exceeded expectations, paving the way for a mission to detect one of the most elusive forces permeating through space – gravitational waves.
Final preparation [...]
Young scientists work together and win
Broadcom MASTERS, Robert Heckman, Justin Barber, Adriana Monzon, Alicia D’Souza, and Valerie Ding, finalists work together on a team challenge. Credit: Broadcom Foundation
Guests checking into the posh Palomar Hotel in Washington, D.C., [...]
South Pole Worker Stranded After Stroke
Renee-Nicole Douceur, the winter manager at the Amundsen-Scott research station at the South Pole, was sitting at her desk on Aug. 27 when she suffered a stroke.
“I looked at the screen and was like, ‘Oh my God, half the screen is missing,’ ” [...]
‘Aakash’ tablet – The world’s cheapest tablet
India’s very own low-cost tablet, named Aakash, was launched amidst much fanfare, in October 2011 in the national capital. This move by the government earned it a lot of admiration from tech enthusiasts and the layman alike, since it looked [...]
Profiles in Science | Michael S. Gazzaniga: Telling the Story of the Brain’s Cacophony of Competing Voices
Michael Gazzaniga: An interview with the neuroscientist and professor of psychology known for his studies, and stories, about the brain’s split personality.
The scientists exchanged one last look and held their breath.
Everything was [...]
‘Broadband giant’ set for launch
Viasat-1′s antennas undergoing testing during its construction at Space Systems/LoralOne of the most powerful satellites ever built is about to go into orbit on a Russian Proton rocket.
The Viasat-1 spacecraft will deliver broadband services [...]
Introducing the 2011 Nobel Prize winners
If you win a Nobel Prize in physics or chemistry, you’ll receive a medallion just like this one, in addition to fame and money. Credit: Registered trademark of the Nobel Foundation
It’s an annual tradition: Every fall, the Nobel Foundation [...]
The day Buddha smiled at Pokhran
Former Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chairman and one of the guiding lights behind India’s first nuclear test, Homi Nusserwanji Sethna, helped India conduct its first nuclear test way back in 1974.
A pillar of Indias nuclear programme, Sethna’s [...]
