Google Loon: Internet Access for Rural Areas via Balloon
By Victoria Nicks | Decoded Science Google’s latest far-out (and up) project involves the use of hot air balloons to provide Internet access to rural areas. As ‘flighty’ as the project may sound, Google’s combination of computing power, extensive testing, and a high equipment recovery rate means that Project Loon soars higher with every test. [...]
Read More →We are all made of comet dust
By Robert Matthews | The National Man owes a lot to chunks of rock and ice floating through space. From ancient jewellery to water and possibly even the beginnings of life itself, scientists are discovering that comets have contributed in many ways to the development of life on the planet, Robert Matthews writes Since their discovery [...]
Read More →Faroe Islands wants to sequence its entire population’s genome
By Mihai Andrei | ZMEscience Located in the North Atlantic, right in between Greenland and Scotland, Faroe Islands is one of the smallest countries in the world. At the same time, however, it has also remained fairly isolated for many centuries, which in time has led to the formation of a distinct language and population. You [...]
Read More →US data surveillance report hits Russian technology
News Yaps Data technology developed by Russia is fighting suspicion to compete in US markets, developers said, amid mushrooming revelations about secret US government data surveillance programmes. But that drive to win contracts has no motives other than making money in a free market and is not rooted in Russia’s track record of monitoring the [...]
Read More →India developing robotic soldiers to replace humans in warfare
With futuristic warfare in mind, India is working to develop robotic soldiers as part of efforts to boost unmanned fighting capabilities, joining a select group of countries in this endeavour.
Read More →Iran Opens New Space-Tracking Center
RFERL Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has opened a new center for monitoring space and tracking objects passing near the Earth. Ahmadinejad visited the center in the town of Delijan, some 200 kilometers south of Tehran, on June 9, accompanied by Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi and other officials. The IRNA news agency reported that the center [...]
Read More →The Wi-Fi in your home will be able to track your moves
WNT “WISEE” Developed by a team of computer science students at the University of Washington, a new form of technology called WiSee uses Wi-Fi signals within a home to detect human movement. Conceptually similar to Micrsoft’s Xbox Kinect, someone living within the home could raise and lower the volume of music playing in another room [...]
Read More →World’s fastest comp: China unveils new top-ranking supercomputer
RT China has developed a new supercomputer, which is twice as fast as US and Japanese systems, early tests show. The new Tianhe-2 (Milkyway-2) is said to be even speedier in theory, and is likely to top the world ranks for years. The worldwide supercomputer race may again be led by China, and this time [...]
Read More →A giant hole in the Sun
By Tibi Puiu | ZMEscience If you’re a regular follower of NASA’s updates, you may have caught glimpses of some of the X-ray photos they report showing the surface of the sun. In these photos, dark specks of various sizes can be seen, which are actually what astronomers refer to as coronal holes. They may extend from the [...]
Read More →Are smartphones turning kids into zombies?
The debate continues about whether mobile technology is creating the most advanced generation ever or a society of unlearned and uncultured automatons.
Read More →NASA to launch sun-watching satellite this month
The probe’s orbit will grant it a nearly continuous looks at the sun’s corona
Read More →Saturn-Like Alien Planet Found by Little Telescope
By Miriam Kramer | Space.com Tiny telescopes in Arizona and South Africa have spotted a Saturn-like planet in orbit around a star about 700 light-years from Earth. Scientists using the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) and other ground-based tools spied the alien planet as it passed in front of its star, a process called transiting. The planet, [...]
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