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There are a lot of hurdles to jump before we send the first human crew to Mars. Fuel for such a long mission adds a lot of weight and expense, and the time it takes to get there leaves astronauts exp…
The world's first cyborg. It doesn't shoot laser from its eyes (yet), yet it demonstrates that we are one bit nearer to the notorious computerized reasoning portrayed in Hollywood preparatio…
This unique footage shows the SpaceX CEO and his team in mission control in the moments leading up to the historic launch. On February 6, SpaceX made history with the largely successful first launch …
"Lidar is revolutionising archaeology the way the Hubble Space Telescope revolutionised astronomy," Francisco Estrada-Belli, a Tulane University archaeologist, told National Geographic. &qu…
Inside a cramped laboratory in Shanghai, China, physicist Ruxin Li and colleagues are breaking records with the most powerful pulses of light the world has ever seen. At the heart of their laser, ca…
The irrationality of how we think has long plagued psychology. When someone asks us how we are, we usually respond with "fine" or "good." But if someone followed up about a specif…
In 1896, newspapers throughout the United States began reporting accounts of mysterious airships flying overhead. Descriptions varied, but witnesses frequently invoked the century’s great techn…
Humans were made to explore new places and learn, where in ancient times explorers traveled across the oceans to discover new lands and cultures and bring home new knowledge of how Earth's fascin…
Instead of using rocket fuel, it may be possible to develop a system that travels through space using light. Space exploration has progressed much over the last few decades, but despite all that, we …
China aims to build the largest and most powerful machine ever built by mankind, a super-collider twice the size of CERN in an effort to finally understand the universe and its composition. The reign…
For a considerable length of time, humankind has been dreadful of the idea that closures all of us. Once in a while it comes gradually with age, and different circumstances it can leave the blue by …
Charles Bombardier, is a Montreal-based innovator, has uncovered an idea for a hypothetical space train called Solar Express that can take passengers and freights between planets faster than any pres…
The bells of joyful news have begun ringing-- after quite the hiatus, the EM drive has returned! Researchers from China’s space agency have released a video through state media in which they show wh…
“Excuse me, do you have Wi-Fi?” It seems to be the most common question posed in today’s society. We’ve become accustomed to wanting this type of technology at our fingertips in every situation, whet…
China’s Chang’e-3 lander and its LUT (Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope) are still in use, almost four years after landing on the Moon. The LUT (Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope) has been watching …
Huygens touched down on Titan's frigid surface on Jan. 14, 2005, three weeks after separating from the Cassini mothership. It was a landmark moment in planetary science, mission team members sai…
Star Trek is by now said to have encouraged a whole host of current devices from the iPad to the holodeck's 'virtual reality'. Now a very famous theoretical physicist says that even its t…
