Solving the Flying Submarine
It's a project that has been unsuccessful for over 70 years, but the Pentagon has renewed hopes of creating a craft that can operate in both the air and underwater...
It's a project that has been unsuccessful for over 70 years, but the Pentagon has renewed hopes of creating a craft that can operate in both the air and underwater...
Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence has replaced his own false eye with a miniature, battery-powered video camera. The bionic eye, built with the help of an MIT cyborg expert, can record everything it sees in real time by transmitting wirelessly to a computer. Spence hopes to use the camera-eye to capture people engaged in "truer" conversations than traditional handheld camera work allows. More details and video at Telegraph.co.uk.
A flying car that takes to both the road and the air is set to go into commercial production. Called the Terrafugia Transition, an aircraft license for the vehicle will require only 20 hours of flying time...
Despite the tremendous difference in size, these two salmon are actually the same age. The larger one, however, had its growth accelerated via genetic engineering...
After an accident took the lower half of his hind legs, a cat named Oscar had his mobility restored thanks to a groundbreaking surgery...
A mysterious cave on Mars was discovered by a group of 7th graders as part of the Mars Student Imaging Program. The students found a hole or "skylight" in the roof of a cave (pictured) where a lava tube might have collapsed...
Check out some of the items that have recently caught George Knapp's attention, including articles on an approaching asteroid that may be artificial (graphic by P. Chodas NASA/JPL), the wish lists of top scientists, and Bigelow Aerospace & lethal UFOs...
Astronomers at the University of Sheffield in England have recorded music generated by the Sun. The eerie sounding harmonies are produced by the coiling magnetic fields from the star's outer atmosphere, which vibrate like strings in a piano. Using satellite data, scientists converted the visible vibrations into sound and sped up the frequency so humans could hear it. Listen to the solar music at Telegraph.co.uk.
NASA's new Kepler space telescope has found more than 700 objects that could turn out to be planets in a distant region of our galaxy. The candidates range in size to that of Earth to larger than Jupiter, and some are part of multi-planet systems...
In a fiery return to Earth, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa lit up the sky on Sunday night. After releasing a sample return capsule from its trip to the asteroid Itokowa, the craft burned up in a spectacular display over southern Australia...
Phil Plait, the bad astronomer himself, has posted an extraordinarily cool photo of a group of skydivers falling in formation as the Space Shuttle Discovery rockets into space in the background (on its mission to place the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit). The Discovery will launch for its last time on September 16, 2010. More at the Bad Astronomy Blog.
Now that the Space Shuttle era is coming to end, you can keep their memory alive with a full size replica of the Orbiter-- yours for a mere $2,200,000 from the company Space Toys...
Check out a profile of Stanton Friedman which has just been published on AOL News. Written by Lee Speigel, the article features comments by Friedman about his decades-long work in ufology, as well as photos of some of the most credible UFO sightings (pictured is a Saturn-shaped object...
Scientists reveal they've found evidence of life on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. New data from the Cassini spacecraft show hydrogen depletion near the moon's surface and an unexpected lack of the organic molecule acetylene in the atmosphere, leading researchers to believe microbes may be consuming them. NASA's Chris McKay proposed such a theory in 2005. Still, scientists emphasize the findings are not proof of life... yet. More at New Scientist.
David Sereda sent us his comparison of two unidentified objects photographed within days of each other...
Howard Bloom and Jason Louv share a graphic which depicts Buzz Aldrin's Unified Space Vision, which was recently discussed on our Space Roundtable Show...
Check out some of the links that have recently caught George Knapp's attention, including a photo essay of the Gulf oil spill, an editorial on skepticism, an article about a crop circle (pictured, photo by Lucy Pringle/PIN) based on a mathematical formula, and a survey on trucker UFO sightings...
A new photograph of the Mars lander Phoenix indicates the robotic device has broken down over the harsh Martian winter. NASA's comparison images from 2008 and 2010, show how the lander's outline has greatly diminished...
The first living synthetic cell has been created by scientists, in what some are calling "a defining moment in biology"...
Fifty years ago Sunday, Hughes Labs researcher Theodore Maiman changed the world when he built the first working laser. Today, lasers can be found almost everywhere and are integral in many industries, from information technology (fiber optic networks) to health care (LASIK eye surgery) to home entertainment (CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs). In fact, it is estimated that half of America's gross domestic product is somehow connected to lasers. More at InsideScience.org.
Researchers at New York's Columbia University have created a molecular robot, dubbed a 'spider,' that can crawl along DNA molecules. The spider bot measures a mere four nanometers across -- 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Such microscopic devices could one day be used to clear clogged human arteries or build computer components. More at Mail Online.
Scientists are perplexed as to why Jupiter has lost one of its trademark dark bands that stretch across its atmosphere. Known as the Southern Equatorial Belt, its disappearance is possibly related to storm activity.
Charles Shults shares two images from his new book, The Living Galaxy: The first depicts 'Roche Worlds'-- double planets so close together that they deform each other through gravity into egg shapes...
A number of items have caught George Knapp's attention recently including, Jill Tarter's TED speech on the search for extraterrestrial life (pictured), psychedelics being used to help the terminally ill...
Stephen Hawking has warned against trying to make contact with extraterrestrials. The world-renowned physicist believes a few alien species could be both intelligent and dangerous...
The world's first full face transplant has been successfully performed by a team of doctors in Barcelona, Spain...
NASA's new space telescope WISE recently photographed a hidden spiral galaxy that is usually shrouded behind our own Milky Way...
Researcher Chris Harrison has developed a system called "Skinput," which turns a person's hand and forearm into a keyboard and screen...
Residents in five Midwestern states were shaken by the sight of an enormous fireball that streaked across the night sky on Wednesday evening. While the National Weather Service is uncertain as to what exactly caused the phenomena, they suspect it may have been a meteoroid entering the atmosphere, since the Gamma Virginids meteor shower is in the midst of a 48 hour window of peak activity. More on the story, including video of the fireball from a number of different angles, at CNN.com.
Joshua P. Warren, provides this photo of a "microwave plasma" hovering inside a glass jar. He believes this kind of energy applies to many paranormal phenomena. For free image analysis and hi-def videos on how to create this, plus the groundbreaking, colorful "ball lightning-type" plasma that earned Warren's team a science journal cover, see his website.
