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Mysterious Haze of Microwaves Found in the M... The latest dataset produced by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Planck Telescope reveals the existence of a mysterious haze made up of microwaves throughout the Milky Way. The observatory also found several previously... [read more >>] Railguns Could Soon Get Pulse Power Capabil... At this point, railguns are among the most devastating long-range weapons that can be deployed to the battlefield. Experts at the US Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR) want to make them even more effective, by having them ... [read more >>] Future Hard Drives Will Feature Advanced ... Investigators at the University of York Department of Physics led an international collaboration of researchers who recently announced the development of an improved method for magnetic recording. The achievement could be u... [read more >>] Skydiving from 120,000 Feet Above the Surface The Red Bull Stratos challenge is getting ready to be on its way. Sponsored by energy drinks company Red Bull, the endeavor seeks to have extreme athlete and daredevil Felix Baumgartner, 41, from Australia, jump from a high... [read more >>] Bahamian Caves May Reveal How Life Evolved Underwater caves may hold the answer to one of the most important questions in the world – how did life evolve? A particular set of such caves, located in the Bahamas, may be especially suited to answer this question,... [read more >>] Plugging Soldiers' Minds Directly into Weapons Scientists say that the next step in modern warfare will be to augment the minds of soldiers taking the battlefield, so that they are able to interface with their weapons directly. What this means is that the warfighters wi... [read more >>] Super-Earth Found in Its Star's Habitable Zone A team of astronomers at the Carnegie Institution for Science, in Washington, DC, announces the discovery of an extrasolar planet that is potentially habitable. In fact, this particular world is the most likely to support b... [read more >>] Cell Phone Use Patterns Reveal How Men, ... [img=1]A group of investigators at the Northeastern University and the University of Oxford says that mobile phone data are an abundant gold mine for extracting data on human reproductive strategies, as well as on their rel... [read more >>] Far Side of the Moon Revealed in New Video Experts managing the Ebb lunar orbiter have just released the first video the spacecraft made of regions on the far side of the Moon. The probe arrived in orbit around Earth's natural satellite on December 31, 2011, an... [read more >>] Self-Guided Bullet Is Accurate Up to a Mil... A team of experts at the DOE Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) have announced the development of a prototype bullet that can guide itself towards a target located up to a mile (1.6 kilometers) away. The entire design is ba... [read more >>]

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