NASA says space station's batteries safer than 787's

NASA officials are confident lithium-ion batteries due to launch to the International Space Station in 2016 will not overheat like the batteries that grounded the Boeing 787 Dreamliner earlier this year. File photo of the International Space Station Continue reading

NASA has found 3 nice, habitable planets for us to choose from

The agency’s Kepler space telescope locates three planets — in two new planetary systems — that are the right distance from their suns to make them potentially life-supporting. Left to right: Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f, and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists’ renditions). NASA, that wily band of intergalactic peepers, says it’s spied three distant planets in two different solar systems that are the proper distance from their suns to make them potentially habitable Continue reading

Freedom Singers perform in Vulcan 0

A musical group that has experienced trials and tribulations in their steadfast devotion to their faith performed in Vulcan on Saturday. Simon Ivascu and his brother Stefan fled Romania as teenagers in the late 1990s, when they faced, upon completing high school, mandatory military service. But freedom of worship was restricted in the army, and the boys, being conscientious Christians, refused to serve Continue reading

Private SpaceX rocket launched to space station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) A commercial cargo ship rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday under a billion-dollar contract with NASA that could lead to astronaut rides in just a few years. Continue reading

Stem Cell Therapy – Arthritis Therapy – Video




Stem Cell Therapy – Arthritis Therapy Stem cell therapy for dogs, cats, and horses has been around for a few years. But as companies compete, the technology keeps improving. And today, a Hillsborough County vet clinic became only the second in the Bay Area to offer same-day procedures. Continue reading

Space Station Balloons — Literally

NASA, building the International Space Station over the last two decades, ran into ballooning costs. One solution it’s now embraced is ballooning — literally — in orbit. NASA has signed a $17.8 million contract with Bigelow Aerospace, a firm based near Las Vegas, to build an inflatable habitat that could be added to the space station by 2015 Continue reading

NASA seeks orbital broom for space junk

The most obvious sign that there is a lot of junk in space is how much of it has been falling out of the sky lately: a defunct NASA satellite last year, a failed Russian space probe this year. While the odds are tiny that anyone here on Earth will get hit, the chances that all this orbiting litter will interfere with working satellites or the International Space Station, which dodges pieces of debris with increasing frequency, are getting higher, according to a recent report by the National Research Council. Continue reading

Google hires famed futurist Ray Kurzweil as 'Director of Engineering'

Washington, Dec 15 (ANI): Internet search giant Google has hired Ray Kurzweil, the famed inventor and futurist, to work on ‘some of the hardest problems in computer science’. Kurzweil announced that he would join the tech firm officially on Monday Continue reading

World Stem Cell Summit Fuels Economy

Posted by Juan Carlos Fanjul/CBS 12 News WEST PALM BEACH, Fla– It may look like boring exhibits and the usual convention type crowds, but in this hall life-saving science is being talked about and big money will eventually make it into the local economy. “Probably injecting over a million dollars in the local economy and it’s a showcase for Palm Beach County,” said event organizer Bernard Siegel. Siegel says over 1,200 scientists from more than 40 countries are at the Palm Beach County Convention Center this week for the 8th annual World Stem Cell Summit Continue reading

Closer to Truth S01E11 – How Does Technology Transform Thinking – Video




Closer to Truth S01E11 – How Does Technology Transform Thinking Light-speed technology is accelerating, and even changing the way we think. So much so that you're irritated when there a 10-second delay in downloading a Internet site even when just a few years ago you were thrilled to a same-day fax. Today's expert panelists take on technology to discuss what it is about technology that is affecting our modes of thought, how thinking has changed, and how humans can keep up with the raging pace of technological change. Continue reading

Freeze on nanotechnology patents proposed to help grow the sector

Software patents have long been contentious things, but patents in other areas of science are also becoming frequent subjects of editorials and court cases, with biotech and genomics making it to the US Supreme Court. Now, if an editorial in Nature is to be believed, nanotechnology is set to become the latest patent battleground Continue reading

Which camera? | Guardian photography guide

Your indispensable guide to buying the right camera • Plus: click here for a gallery of Dan Chung's top ten camera recommendations There's almost no such thing as a bad digital camera these days, but the choice can be bewildering. Even a few years ago it was a relatively simple choice between a compact and a digital SLR Continue reading