Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Robots, Quadrocopters and an Invisibility Cloak
Kinect’s 3D sensor is so cheap and effective that it’s getting bolted onto any robot that moves, and quadrotors are just the latest victims. UC Berkeley’s quadrotor is using the Kinect for autonomous flight and dynamic obstacle avoidance, and as long as you don’t come at it from behind, it works great.
SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft Successfully Launched
NASA’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launches the first private spaceship in orbit and brings it home safe.Video of SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon Capsule launch is uploaded in NASA and Youtube and NASA to hold a complete post-flight press conference at 3:30pm EST……
A Gigantic Looping Solar Prominence
A prominence is a large, bright feature extending outward from the Sun’s surface, often in a loop shape. Prominences are anchored to the Sun’s surface in the photosphere, and extend outwards into the Sun’s corona. While the corona consists of extremely hot ionized gases, known as plasma, which do not emit much visible light, prominences contain much cooler plasma, similar in composition to that of the chromosphere. A prominence forms over timescales of about a day, and stable prominences may persist in the corona for several months. Some prominences break apart and give rise to coronal mass ejections.
ReWalk Coming In January
We’ve had our eyes on Argo Medical Technologies ReWalk for a couple years, ever since the exoskeleton walked into view with a gait eerily reminiscent of RoboCop’s and this device weighs seven pounds and features two leg braces with motorized joints and motion sensors, a harness, and a backpack for holding the computer that controls.Now ReWalk exoskeleton on sale in January and this robotic pants help paralyzed humens walk again…….
Watch Amazing Full-Color Video Flyby of Hyperion
Flyby of Hyperion by the Cassini spacecraft from November 2010. Movie composed of 61 frames taken with the narrow angle camera (NAC) through a variety of different filters.Here’s color video of Hyperion, a very strange moon located 800 million miles from Earth.
X-37b Space Shuttle Landed Safely
On December 3, US Air Force’s X-37B has successfully landed on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California at around 1:16am PT-a successful end to the project’s first orbital mission.The US Air Force’s first unmanned space plane successfully glided to a landing after nearly 225 days in space.The Air Force is preparing to launch another X-37B in Spring 2011 aboard an Atlas V booster.
NASA Discovers Arsenic-Born Organisms
NASA discovers microorganism that uses arsenic instead of phosphorous to thrive and reproduce,Which is life built with toxic chemical.Arsenic-Born Organisms is a building block of life along with carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur, all integral to our DNA and RNA……
Have You Ever Seen Flying Snakes?
The snake dangles 49 feet (15 meters) off the ground, tail entwined around a branch. Suddenly, the animal rears up and launches, flinging its body toward the forest floor.
NASA Looks Closer To Mercury and Mars
2011 will be another tumultuous year for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.NASA’s Messenger spacecraft will finally pull into orbit around Mercury and a rover the size of an S.U.V. is expected to land on Mars and NASA is looking closer to Mercury and Mars…..
NASA Scientist Discover Huge Bubbles of Energy in Galaxy
NASA Scientists discovered two huge bubbles of gamma rays erupting from the center of the Milky Way galaxyAt 50 million light years tall together, they extend from the constellation Virgo to the constellation Grus and are among the largest such structures ever found.
NASA Extends Its TIMED Mission for Fourth Time
NASA’s Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) mission has been extended again and this times it’s been fourth.TIMED began an extended mission on Oct. 1, 2010 — its fourth extension since the original 2-year mission began in January 2002 — and will continue collecting and analyzing data through 2014.
Low Electric Brain Stimulation Can Enhance Brain’s Math Skills
According to a new study stimulating the brain with a very low electric current can enhance a person’s maths ability for up to six months.The study, done by esearchers at Britain’s Oxford University.The results of this study have exciting ramifications for the use of brain stimulation techniques in other domains
Actroid-F Robot
Kokoro, a Japanese animatronics and robot company, has unveiled the Actroid F telepresence robot, a full sized, incredibly life-like female telepresence robot designed to interact with remote participants while mimicking your facial expressions.
Scientists Develop First Ever Artificial Implantable Kidney
Scientists have announced that they have developed the first ever implantable artificial kidney that can be powered by the human body’s circulatory system. This could one day replace the current medical procedures of kidney donation and dialysis.
NASA Sending A Spacecraft To The Sun
This sounds like the plot of a science fiction movie like Sunshine, but NASA is planning to send a spacecraft to orbit the Sun, and it will go closer than any spacecraft has ever been. The craft will orbit inside the Sun’s atmosphere, four million miles from its surface.
