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Google’s quantum computing breakthrough: 100 million times faster!
Moore’s Law just got torn up and jumped on by the future of quantum computing, as Google in partnership with NASA and the quantum computing…
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NASA
December 2015
NewsWorld getting weirder
Secret Stargate-like program found by NASA hacker.
If you are in the UK, you may remember the saga of hacker Gary McKinnon – who hacked NASA big-time in 2002 and downloaded…
November 2015
NewsScience
NASA’s Eagleworks still finding strange thrust in EM drive.
The odd saga of Roger Shawyer’s strange EM Drive space thruster continues, with more evidence from NASA that there might be something to…
October 2015
NewsScience
Mars colony soon(ish)? NASA thinks so.
NASA wants a journey to Mars, and the agency has now released an outline of that plan in its report, “NASA’s Journey to Mars: Pioneering…
July 2015
NewsScience
NASA’s Pluto success: the last planet falls.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft phoned home just before 9 p.m Tuesday 14th 2015, to tell the mission team and the world it had…
May 2015
NewsScience
Europa’s sea-life? Just became likely with NASA’s salt ocean findings.
NASA laboratory experiments suggest the dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter’s moon Europa is likely sea salt from a subsurface ocean,…
March 2015
NewsScience
Chances for life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus rise dramatically.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first clear evidence that Saturn’s moon Enceladus exhibits signs of present-day hydrothermal activity which may resemble…
NewsScience
Ceres, Ho!
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. The spacecraft was approximately 38,000 miles (61,000) kilometers…
NewsScience
Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean . . . from wet world to dead planet.
A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories, measured water signatures…
February 2015
FeatureCulture
My Favourite Picture by Andy Bollan (article).
I love this picture. I first saw it on NASA’a APOD website http://apod.nasa.gov/apod roughly 10 years ago. It looks like a candle on…
January 2015
NewsScience
NASA’s empire of a thousand worlds.
How many stars like our sun host planets like our Earth? NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our…
NewsScience
Galaxy-frying X-ray burst from Milky Way’s supermassive black hole core.
Astronomers have observed the largest X-ray flare ever detected from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This…