The promise of gadgets you can wear

Source: Scientific American magazine

Wearable tech helps you live in the moment. Next-generation wearables promise to deliver real-time information that could benefit our health and the environment.

...more information at: https://www.scientificamerican.com/

New Theory on Universe’s Origins

The ultimate solar system could contain 60 Earths without breaking the laws of physics

A red dwarf star could support 24 habitable, Earth-sized planets.
 

A star system with four gas giants could support 36 habitable worlds.

 

A binary star system supporting 60 habitable planets.

 

Source: New Scientist

 

Why settle for one habitable planet, when you can have 60? An astrophysicist has designed the ultimate star system by cramming in as many Earth-like worlds as possible without breaking the laws of physics. Such a monster cosmic neighbourhood is unlikely to exist in reality, but it could inspire future exoplanet studies.

Sean Raymond of Bordeaux Observatory in France started his game of fantasy star system with a couple of ground rules. First, the arrangement of planets must be scientifically plausible. Second, they must be gravitationally stable over billions of years: there is no point in putting planets into orbit only to watch them spiral into the sun.

...more information at: http://www.newscientist.com/







Will Facebook Make You Sad? Depends How You Use It

The General Theory of Relativity, Gravitational Effect and the Space-time Continuum

 

Source: Discover Magazine

 

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Gravity

The apple of Newton's eye and the focus of Einstein's work, gravity is weaker than you probably think and weirder than you probably imagined.

 

...more information at: http://discovermagazine.com/2013/julyaug/23-20-things-you-didnt-know-about-gravity

 

Absurd Creature of the Week

The Birth of Stars

 

Source: NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Violent birth announcement from an infant star! This Hubble space telescope image is of a young star that is cloaked in a haze of goldel gas and dust.

More information at: http://go.nasa.gov/1mS5kAF

The New Dragon Spacecraft

Research team claims to have accurately 'teleported' quantum information ten feet

This image is an electron microscope picture of one of the two devices, with a fictitious teleportation beam added. The image is about 40 micrometer wide in reality.

 

Source: Phys.org

 

A team of researchers at Delft University in the Netherlands is reporting in a paper they have had published in the journal Science, that they have successfully used entanglement as a means of communication, over a distance of ten feet (three meters). Furthermore, they note, they did so with 100 percent reliability and without altering the spin state of the quantum bits (qubits) involved.

Teleportation, is of course, a means of moving an object from one place to another without it having to travel between them. Thus far examples of it have only been seen in science fiction movies. The idea of moving information in similar fashion, however, has met with some, albeit limited success. The idea is to use the concept of entanglement of particles as a means of conveyance.

 

 

...more information at: http://phys.org/news/2014-05-team-accurately-teleported-quantum-ten.html

Reaction Engines' Skylon space plane

 

Source: Space and Astronautics News & Reaction Engines.

 

SKYLON is an unpiloted, reusable spaceplane intended to provide reliable, responsive and cost effective access to space. Currently in early development phase, the vehicle will be capable of transporting 15 tonnes of cargo into space. It is the use of SABRE's combined air-breathing and rocket cycles that enables a vehicle that can take off from a runway, fly direct to earth orbit and return for a runway landing, just like an aircraft.

 

 

...more information at: http//www.reactionengines.co.uk/space_skylon.html