Not content with simply blasting civilians into the stratosphere, Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, is now aiming his sights towards starting a Mars colony of up to 80,000 people. Once the infrastructure is in place, Musk intends to ferry people to Mars at a cost of $500,000 per…
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Quiet Revolution – China to become world’s large nuclear energy producer by 2020
Chinese officials have publicly stated that they intend to become the world’s largest producer of nuclear generated electricity by 2020. Within 8 years, they intend to produce 100 gigawatts of power putting them ahead of the United States as the world’s largest producer of nuclear power. By 2050, they intend to move even further ahead…
New smell discovered – nasal equivalent of “white noise” sound
In a recent study, scientists have discovered a new smell dubbed “olfactory white” because it’s the nasal equivalent of “white noise” (which sounds like a whooshing hum). Just as white noise is a mixture of many different sound frequencies and white light is a mixture of many different wavelengths, olfactory white is a mixture of…
Scientists discover planet 13 times larger than Jupiter – may be bridge between planet and star
Kappa Andromedae b (or ‘Kappa And b,’ for short) is 170 light-years away and orbits its sun, which is a mere 30 million years old (compared to Earth’s 5 billion year old sun), about 1.8 times farther than Neptune’s orbit. It glows red due to radiation from the heat that’s left over from its formation.…
Chinese company set to build world’s tallest building – in only 90 days [UPDATE]
Designed by the same engineers that created the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa that currently stands 2,722 feet over Dubai, Broad Sustainable Building (BSB) will be building a 220-story building in the Chinese city of Changsha in March 2013. The 220-story Sky City building will be the world’s tallest and will be built in only…
Ancient Roman Giant found – first complete ancient skeleton of person suffering from gigantism
Leonid meteor shower will have an unusual two separate peaks this week – November 17 and November 20
The annual Leonid meteor shower, one of the best annual meteor showers, will be reaching its peak this week although the showing is not expected to be spectacular with only 10-15 meteors per hour projected. This year the shower is a bit unusual with two peaks expected – one on Saturday morning (11/17/2012) and the…
Computer generated simulation provides stunning visualization of the half million pieces of “space junk” orbiting Earth
95% of the objects in this computer generated simulation of low-Earth orbit objects is “orbital debris”, not satellites. “Space junk” consist of everything from spent rocket stages, lost equipment and defunct satellites to erosion, explosion and collision fragments. NASA estimates there are more than 500,000 pieces of space junk orbiting the Earth (“tens of millions”…
Cool animated .gif shows MRI of head (and brain) slice by slice
New ultra-small carbon-fiber electrode material allows for better connections in the human brain
When it comes to implanting material in the brain, smaller is better as small contaminants are essentially “ignored” by the body’s immune system. As such, researchers have developed a new “stealthy neural interface” made from a single carbon fiber thread only 7 micrometers wide and coated with chemicals to make it resistant to proteins in…








