"A globular cluster might be the first place in which intelligent life is identified in our galaxy," says Rosanne DiStefano … More
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Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
Big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 lies some 70 million light-years away on the banks of the constellation Eridanus. … More
Happy Birthday, Roy Batty
[from here] “Blade Runner” was Ridley Scott’s reworking of Phil Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”. The original tale, … More
SEAYAC 2015 – Mary Angelie Alagao – Effective Diameter of An N+1 Mirror Segmented Telescope
Mary Angelie Alagao, BS, MS, a researcher in the Instrumentation Physics Laboratory of the National Institute of Physics, University of … More
ESA in 2016
Looks like ESA has busy year ahead. I like how they always seem to push the limits of technology. Good … More
Research for smaller and lighter hypersonic engines
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research joined forces with the National Science Foundation in awarding a $1.5 million grant … More
Gene therapy seems able to convert severe hemophilia into mild hemophilia
Dutch firm UniQure presented results from an early study of AMT-060, a gene therapy it’s developing for patients with hemophilia … More
Japan’s 5th Generation Stealth Fighter to Make Maiden Flight in Early 2016
Japan’s Ministry of Defense Technical Research and Development Institute (TRDI) announced that a prototype of Tokyo’s first indigenously-designed fifth-generation air … More
World’s First real time wearable language translator will be smaller than imagined Star Trek universal translator
A portable device has a button and a speaker. One person speaks into Ili while holding down the button; after … More
Clothes Folding Robot
Laundroid is the world’s first laundry-folding robot. It is made by Japan-based Seven Dreamers. Laundroid is about the size of … More
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