earth mystery news

Porter plane narrowly avoids collision with mystery object 1
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- November 23, 2016
Investigators puzzled by what was in sky that forced pilots to take evasive action on way into Toronto.

By David Aragorn
Mars ice deposit holds as much water as Lake Superior 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 23, 2016
Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what’s in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, a team of scientists led by The University of Texas at Austin has determined using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

By David Aragorn
Tech would use drones and insect biobots to map disaster areas 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 23, 2016
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a combination of software and hardware that will allow them to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and insect cyborgs, or biobots, to map large, unfamiliar areas — such as collapsed buildings after a disaster.

By David Aragorn
UK ‘space junk’ project highlights threat to missions 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 23, 2016
The mass of “space junk” orbiting the Earth poses a serious threat to future exploration, a British scientist said on Friday at the launch of a project to raise awareness of the issue.

By David Aragorn
Robotic exoskeleton to help rehabilitate disabled people passes safety tests – paving the way for it to go on sale in the UK 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 23, 2016
The Hybrid Assisted Limb (HAL) robotic suit has passed German safety tests, increasingly the chances of it being sold in other parts of Europe.

By David Aragorn
WTF: This Wearable Turns Your Skin into a Touchscreen 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 22, 2016
With this new device, you can now have your touch screen displayed right on your arm.

By David Aragorn
Bright radio bursts probe universe’s hidden matter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2016
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are mysterious flashes of radio waves originating outside our Milky Way galaxy. A team of scientists, jointly led by Caltech postdoctoral scholar Vikram Ravi and Curtin University research fellow Ryan Shannon, has now observed the most luminous FRB to date, called FRB 150807.

By David Aragorn
NASA Hints About Asteroid It Plans To Pluck And Place In Moon’s Orbit? ‘2008 EV5’ Could Be Part Of Asteroid Redirect Mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2016
NASA appears to be serious about its ambitious Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) that was being discussed last year.

By David Aragorn
How scientists will use artificial intelligence to find aliens 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- November 22, 2016
To find habitable worlds in a sea of space data, we need computers that can think fast

By David Aragorn
EMDrive Peer-Reviewed Essay May Prove NASA’s ‘Impossible’ Rocket Thruster Really Works 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 22, 2016
The Journal of Propulsion and Power, a peer-reviewed journal published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), published a paper this week asserting that radio frequency cavity thrusters such as the electromagnetic thruster, or EmDrive, are theoretically viable.

By David Aragorn