NASA Issues 2013 Call For Visionary Advanced Technology Concepts
NASA’s Space Technology Program is looking for visionary advanced concepts. This year’s annual call for NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts Program (NIAC) is seeking proposals for revolutionary concepts with the potential to transform future aerospace missions. Proposed concepts should enable new missions or significantly improve current approaches to achieve aerospace objectives. NIAC studies visionary aerospace architecture, [...]
NASA has revealed its first new spacesuit in 20 years, the Z-1 prototype. Not only is it packed with way more tech than its predecessor – which dates back to the pre-internet era – it also acts as an airlock. Most spacesuits you see in films are actually emergency pressure suits meant for short-term use [...]
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In the antiquities, nanoparticles were used by the Damascans to create swords with exceptionally sharp edges and the Romans to craft iridescent glassware. So were these archaic artisans also nanotechnologists? And what can today’s scientists learn from such historic artefacts? Read more about Ancient Nanotechnology. Share this:
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Doctor Who’s Sonic Screwdriver has come one step closer to reality as a new prototype built by physicists at the University of Dundee, can manipulate objects, lifting, moving and turning them using sound waves. The team behind the device are hoping that the findings can be used by the medical community to better enable surgeons [...]
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Starships, warp speed, transporters, phasers. Think Star Trek technology is only the stuff of fiction? Think again. Dr. Peter Jansen, a PhD graduate of the Cognitive Science Laboratory at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, has developed a scientific measurement device based on the tricorders used by Captain Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy and other space adventurers on [...]
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Mathematicians from Mannchester have developed a theory for a cloaking device which could protect buildings from the affects of earthquakes. Until recently the theory of invisibility cloaks has been seen as science fiction, but recent advances in the science these devices have been developed in varies contexts. This story was also reported at http://www.sciencedaily.com//releases/2012/02/120214100817.htm Share [...]
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