Astronauts living and working aboard the International Space Station may soon get an entirely new type of assistants, which will help them carry out work during spacewalks, and also monitor their performances from afar.
The technology used to create these assistants was tested aboard the orbital lab this November. ... |
29 December 2011
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In a interesting new research, experts were able to establish that sphere of different temperatures travel though liquids at different speeds. Such a discovery could have tremendous implications for the way submarines are built, and for how they move through water.
Using high-speed cameras, investigators were abl... |
4 June 2011
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The European Space Agency (ESA) is launching one of the most interesting competitions it ever sponsored. It is currently asking students to develop control programs for a series of miniature satellites that are already being used aboard the International Space Station (ISS).According to officials at the organization,... |
5 May 2011
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A team of researchers that arguably had too much time on its hands announces that it managed to count the number of atoms in a kilogram of silicon. They did so by dividing the quantity into smaller volumes. In science, this number is known as the Avogadro's constant, and it refers to the atoms that can be found ... |
14 October 2010
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Our planet has a long time ago been established to be round. Subsequent researches have confirmed this fact over and over again, and yet there are still those that doubt it, and claim global conspiracies to cover some mysterious thing up. But, while most educated people laugh at these lunatics, they too tend to consi... |
9 June 2010
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Obviously and admittedly inspired by the Training Remotes concept (the small droid spheres that helped Luke Skywalker perfect his lightsaber skills) from Star Wars, three autonomous spheres are roaming around the International Space Station. They're even called SPHERES, but not because of an off-moment in terms... |
8 November 2008
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