NASA announced its astronauts on the ISS space station will in near future be equipped with smart glasses that have been designed by Osterhout Design Group (ODG). The ODG has been awarded a contract by NASA to provide the space agency’s astronauts with electronic, smart glasses. The glasses will be …
Read More »Oregan State University built much efficient robot
A better, faster and much efficient robot has been created by a team of researchers at Oregon State University. They have named it Atrias. It’s able to do all that because it is modeled after not a human, but a bird. Which makes sense when you consider birds are probably …
Read More »Carrot will lose Taste due to Climate Change: Scientists
Australian scientists fear climate change will also have great impact on consumers similar to problems faced by farm lands. They believe carrots will lose its taste and steaks will be of poor quality. In the recent report – “Appetite for Change” – leading scientists from the University of Melbourne, Professors …
Read More »Bigelow, NASA debuts Expandable Space Station
The future of spacecraft is to feature expandable systems. A project launched by Bigelow Aerospace in association with NASA for $17.8 on March 12 is the first example. It is dubbed as Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) Since it is inflatable, the module is manufactured to expand like air mattresses; …
Read More »White House okays more protection to California’s ‘Blue Serengeti’
Several federal marine sanctuaries will be getting more protection that the existing policies. White House reveals such plans for the “blue Serengeti” located off the north-central coast of California. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has recently announced the expansion of the current size of the Gulf of …
Read More »California may face megadrought after a year: Scientists
Californians need to worry more than earlier thought in terms of megadrought. Scientists say only one year of water reserves is left. “The state has only about one year of water supply left in its reservoirs, and our strategic backup supply, groundwater, is rapidly disappearing,” Jay Famiglietti, senior water scientist …
Read More »Anti-robots protest rise at SXSW to protect human roles
‘Stop the Robots’ organization protested over the weekend at South by Southwest against the emergence of AI and intelligent robots so that such technologies don’t take over human roles. The group’s goal isn’t to stop all robots and AI. Rather, the group is trying to further the message that some …
Read More »Himalayan Yeti is species of brown bear: Study
It is claimed the mystery of legendary shaggy, bipedal beast yeti living in remote Himalayas has been solved as its hair samples revealed to come from Himalayan brown bear. “There is essentially no reason to believe that they [the hairs] belong to a species other than the brown bear,” said …
Read More »University of New Hampshire Hosting Robotics Competition for Students
FIRST Robotics Competition is to be held later this month at University of New Hampshire with around 2,000 high school students participating from Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut as well. The competition pits teams of high school students — mentored by professional engineers — against each other for a …
Read More »NASA launches mission to Study Magnetic Reconnection
NASA’s four satellites successfully launched to study magnetic reconnection phenomenon. It is now reported the satellites have been positioned perfectly in the Earth’s orbit as aimed. In orbit, each of the four satellites will unfurl several antennae—as long as 196 feet—and eventually extend to a 94-feet tall and 396 feet …
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