Dust ? often thought of as an impediment to lunar exploration ? could be put to good use to build giant telescopes on the Moon ? perhaps some large enough to fill entire craters, says a team of US researchers.
And there are a host of problems that would have to be worked out. The team has yet to determine the type of devices that might be used to spin the mirrors, and the telescopes would need detectors, actuators, steel support structures and other…
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With jam-packed schedules and a video feed to Earth, astronauts enjoy precious little privacy as it is. Soon, doctors might peek into an astronaut’s last bastion of solitude, thanks to a portable brain scanner that could one day go into orbit.Mission control could use the device to remotely monitor astronauts for signs of brain injury, […]
In lieu of a magnet, the optical scanner sends weak pulses of near-infrared light into the brain, then reads back the reflected wavelengths. That reveals how much oxygen is in the blood, a gauge of brain activity, says Gary Strangman, a…
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Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are incredible actors. Watch them act like they’re in a their own movie poster!
man, my brothers and i were better behaved for family pictures when we were pre-pubescent. plus i’m not exactly excited about a movie revolving around two 40-somethings who live at home…no man should know too much about…
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The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August.But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists’ wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth?
The safety of the collider, which will generate energies seven times higher than its most powerful rival, at Fermilab near Chicago, has been debated for years. The physicist Martin Rees has estimated the chance of an accelerator producing a global…
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Check out these hot cougars, all celebrities of course.
Cougars are middle-aged women who hit on twenty-something men. But who roars to the top of this cat kingdom? A new list separates the cougars from the cubs!
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Magnetic monopoles, strange quark matter, and miniature black holes, oh my! The final safety report on the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator set to start up this summer, says that if its collisions were capable of destroying the earth, nature would have gotten there first.
Of course, it's possible that the frequency of collisions in the LHC is so high that we might unmask an extremely low-probability event. Based on the frequency of high energy cosmic rays, however, the authors calculate that,…
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It’s lovely,” Dr. Sarah Sallon said of the date palm, whose parents may have provided food for the besieged Jews at Masada some 2,000 years ago. The little tree was sprouted in 2005 from a seed recovered from Masada.
This is a great thing. Far greater than any G.M.O. May this project and others like it recieve all the support they need. These seeds are crutial to our understanding of ourselves, our environment and the gene pool. Our gene pools are being…
A prominent computer professor says cars could be much more fuel efficient if they had kept pace with modern computer technology. Professor Steve Furber of the University of Manchester says computers are 50 billion times more energy efficient versus 60 years ago and this translates into one liter of gasoline powering all the cars in the UK.
Multi-touch display Albatron demonstrates first Windows 7 multi-touch LCD Nvidia rolls out Tegra Nvidia's open challenge for Intel: A computer on a chip. >> See all TG Daily slideshows
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A new report says the slowdown in the economy and soaring gasoline prices have finally persuaded Americans to drive fewer miles in fewer gas-guzzling vehicles.
The same situation is beginning to emerge today, according to the report, and basic home economics explains the trends. Since the 1980s, demand for gasoline has climbed fairly steadily, except in late 1990 and 1991 because of a sharp price…
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Marvel has done it again. Early this summer it was the surprise hit Iron Man that had moviegoers buzzing. The good folks over at Marvel followed up with another installment of The Incredible Hulk. A lot of people, including myself, were skeptical of this film because of the last failed attempt at this franchise.
Awesome movie, lots of action, character development, and even laughs. For a long time Hulk fan of both the comic and the Tv series, it was a real treat to recognize the little things taken from the hulk mythos that were layered in… factory…
