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This week Jon Lomberg is attending the Starship Century conference, which brings together scientists, writers, and futurists to imagine the future of interstellar travel. Here he reports on presentations by Freeman Dyson, Peter Schwartz, Robert Zubrin, Geoff Landis, Neal Stephenson, and Patti Grace Smith.
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Dan Satterfield wrote a new post, GOES East Weather Satellite May Be Dead, on the site Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal
GOES 13 is one of two Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites used for forecasting in the Western hemisphere. Late word tonight is that an attempt to revive it has failed and the backup […]
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The first topographic map of the surface of Titan gives a fascinating new insight into Saturn's giant moon. Continue reading →
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently released a guide for filing preissuance submissions electronically via its EFS Web system. The guide is intended to make it easier for third parties to submit printed publications of potential relevance to the patentability of another’s claimed invention under the preissuance submission provision of the America Invents Act. … Continue reading »
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NASA’s plan to capture an asteroid and re-position it around the moon for an astronaut visit sounds cool, but it’s a side-show on the road to Mars.
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NASA won't be printing out pizzas on Mars anytime soon, but the space agency is paying out $125,000 to study the use of 3-D printing technology for food preparation in space.
"We will be building the components for a prototype" over the grant's six-month period, David Irwin, prin …
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Close-up imagery of Mars rover Curiosity's aluminum wheels reveal obvious wear and tear -- is such damage expected so early into the mission? Continue reading →
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The mother of all cosmic collisions has been spotted between two galaxies containing a total of 400 billion stars, igniting the birth of 2,000 new stars per year! Continue reading →
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At 3:33 a.m. on May 22, 2013 (just a few hours ago as I write this) in Hawaii, the sky was briefly lit up by a huge expanding bubble of light in the east. I got word of this event from astronomer Adam Draginda, who is a telescope operator at the Canada France Hawaii Telescope, located at the top of Mauna Kea.
An all-sky camera at the observatory monitors the sky for weather, and captured the event:
How cool is that? When Draginda emailed me, I remembered writing about a very similar event in
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Yesterday, I told you about the 1st ever crowd sourced satellite, the Skycube. I turns out however, that Sunday NASA also launched three low-cost smartphone satellites aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.’s Antares rocket. The PhoneSats are transmitting data packets on the amateur radio spectrum. You can see what data is being transmitted … Continue reading »
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It’s only 240,000 miles away, yet this high wilderness still surprises and delights with clues about the origins of the solar system, Earth’s own water, and it even supplies the occasional brilliant explosion. If you’ve been paying attention recently you’ll have noticed that the Moon is getting a lot of press. One reason is that [...]
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Now that it looks like the hunt for the Higgs boson is over (post), particles of dark matter are at the top of the physics “most wanted” list. Dozens of […]
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Last week, I wrote a post saying the Canadian National Research Council (NRC)—an agency that supports and performs scientific research and development—was “selling out science,” moving from supporting basic research to concentrating on supporting industrial, business-based research. That situation is still true, and as I’ll note in a moment, still a cause for great concern. But an official of the Canadian government has contacted me to dispute elements of the story.
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Podcaster: Nicole Gugliucci & Jake Noel-Storr Title : Learning Space talk about Family Science Organization: CosmoQuest Link : http://insight.rit.edu/ You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/uk0UbO53OCQ Description: How to engage your family into science? “The Insight Lab at the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Imaging Science involves the University, Students, and Faculty in developing, delivering, evaluating and researching cutting edge science education and […]
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Callan commented on the post, Praying for Oklahoma is worthless, on the site Mountain Beltway Thanks for chiming in.
I make no claims as to whether any prayer-makers did X, Y, or Z. I have no information about their actions beyond praying. If they did something useful as well, that's great. Nowhere do I […]
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A couple of weeks ago I found myself in a beautiful rural home that belongs to my parents’ friends, a slim and sophisticated couple who enjoys bird watching and international travel. I was meeting this pair—let’s call them George and Marsha—for the first time. I’m inherently nosy, so while the rest of the group chatted, [...]
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Callan commented on the post, Praying for Oklahoma is worthless, on the site Mountain Beltway Thanks for expressing your viewpoint. I'm sorry you found it insensitive, as I'm really pretty upset over the whole thing. You should bear in mnd that this IS a personal blog, and that in no way do I represent the […]
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Enter the 3-D printer: your all-in-one solution to habitat-building, gun-making and now space pizza preparation! Continue reading →
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“Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson Well, I guess it’s that season again. The charlatan who claims to have invented a cold fusion device — the same device whose flaws were exposed here two years ago — has just held an “independent…
