Posts categorized under ‘Science’

Scientists at Kobe University believe there is another planet lurking in the depths of the solar system, possibly two-thirds the size of Earth. While the idea of another “Planet X” lurking around our solar system is hardly new, I’m surprised
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Thirteen months ago, China launched a missile into orbit and successfully destroyed a decommissioned satellite. This simple act of mathematical execution drew rascious international condemnation as the amount of tiny debris orbiting our world suddently increased by tens of thousands
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This past Tuesday, Iran launched a ‘research rocket’ towards the heavens in their pursuit of building a viable domestic satellite launch program.  Congratulations to them for the attempt, and kudos to the Iranian PR machine for having Ahmadinejad issue the
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It’s a topic older than science fiction itself, and it highlights our ever-present fear of technology.  We have often been suspicious of devices that make our lives easier, with some people going out of their way to call them “works
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What smell comes to mind when you read the phrase “fresh country air”?  Is it clean and refreshing oxygen?  Is it the smell of warm plants happily converting sunlight to sugar?  Is it something far less pleasant? What if you
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Do you have some spare CPU cycles we could borrow?  We can’t promise that you’ll ever get those cycles back, but we can promise that if we find anything, you’ll be one of the first to know. I am, of
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As a programmer, I would often go weeks without seeing the sun during winter.  This was often the result of getting to work before sunrise and returning home long after dark.  On weekends I’d go out for a bit, but
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We’ve seen some pretty crazy ideas over the past half-century when it comes to deflecting potentially dangerous asteroids, but it seems that one pitched by Massimiliano Vasile at the University of Glasgow is just crazy enough to work.   Having just
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People have been making fun of Chinese copies of technologies for years, with some people saying that Chinese innovation is nothing more than “waiting for the next popular thing from America”.  But would the Chinese Space Agency use a similar
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Back in August I had written an article about a rather large gap in the universe. University of Minnesota Professor Lawrence Rudnick had said that it’s been known that the universe would have gaps completely devoid of matter and energy,
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It’s a question that many of us ask from time to time, and one that has no right or wrong answer.  History tells us that we are now living two and three times longer than our ancestors did only centuries
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We have a little problem on the horizon.  We’re running out of key resources and it’s getting a little expensive to dig ever deeper into the Earth for them.  So what can we do? Well … why not take a
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These are the two unsaid taboos of space travel. With Japan and China gearing up to explore and potentially colonize the moon, space and science administrations are just beginning to tackle the questions that need to be answered sooner or
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