"A globular cluster might be the first place in which intelligent life is identified in our galaxy," says Rosanne DiStefano…
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.…
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,…
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…
ESA in 2016
Looks like ESA has busy year ahead. I like how they always seem to push the limits of technology. Good…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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