Science & Technology

NASA MOXIE device will create oxygen on Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- November 27, 2020
The NASA Perseverance Rover has a device aboard called MOXIE that will convert the air available on Mars into oxygen.

By David Aragorn
Sugary droplets turn algal cells into miniature hydrogen factories 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 26, 2020
Source: New Atlas Hydrogen holds great potential as a clean energy source, largely because it produces no CO2 and only emits water vapor when used in a fuel cell. Most production, however, requires the use of fossil fuels, which has motivated much research into cleaner methods. A research team working in this area has made

By David Aragorn
Human Battles AI Fighter Jet in First Man vs. Machine Test Flight 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 24, 2020
The flight could foreshadow a future where human pilots share the skies with artificial intelligence.

By David Aragorn
Big dish of Arecibo observatory has reached the end of the line 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- November 20, 2020
With no way to safely repair it, the National Science Foundation calls it.

By David Aragorn
Supercooled water has been caught morphing between two forms 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 19, 2020
The result could help explain some of the weird properties of H20

By David Aragorn
Farming on Mars will be a lot harder than ‘The Martian’ made it seem 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- November 19, 2020
Growing plants in Red Planet soil will require adding nutrients and removing toxic chemicals

By David Aragorn
Stratolaunch starts building Talon hypersonic plane for Mach 6 flights 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 19, 2020
Stratolaunch has started construction on a prototype hypersonic vehicle designed to launch from the world’s biggest airplane.

By David Aragorn
CERN Physicists Find First Evidence for Production of Top Quarks in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 18, 2020
New results from the CMS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider demonstrate for the first time that top quarks are produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The results open the path to study in a new and unique way the extreme state of matter that is thought to have existed shortly after the Big Bang.

By David Aragorn
Does the human brain resemble the Universe?0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 17, 2020
In their paper published in Frontiers of Physics, Franco Vazza (astrophysicist at the University of Bologna) and Alberto Feletti (neurosurgeon at the University of Verona) investigated the similarities between two of the most challenging and complex systems in nature: the cosmic network of galaxies and the network of neuronal cells in the human brain.

By David Aragorn
The Air Force Is Putting Death Rays on Fighter Jets. Yes, Death Rays.0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 16, 2020
Lasers will help older fighters stay alive while flying the deadly skies.

By David Aragorn