The science behind SpaceX's ambitious plan to land a spacecraft on Mars
Only the space agencies of the Soviet Union, the US and the EU have landed anything on Mars. This week Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX said it would put its Dragon spacecraft on the red planet “as soon as 2018″—making it the first private company to go interplanetary. It’s easy to get impatient with crackpot plans to head for the red planet. (I’m guilty of it, too.) But SpaceX is unique in combining its dreams of Mars with well-funded, hard-nosed engineers. And as it turns out, the company’s ..>> view originalNASA Has Picked Science Museum To Inspire The Next Generation Of Science Explorers
Maybe you saw the fascinating “SPACE” exhibition at the Science Museum last year. Supported by funding from NASA, it premiered in St. Paul and drew almost 187,000 visitors before touring science centers across the nation. (It’s currently at the California Science Center in Los Angeles through May 8.) Now NASA has picked the Science Museum to lead a national effort to inspire the next generation of science explorers. With a $14.5 million contract from NASA, one of the largest the agency has ev..>> view originalThere's a New World Record for the Furthest 'Hoverboard' Flight
A Frenchman set a new world record for “farthest ‘hoverboard’ flight,” at a little more than a mile off the coast of the South of France, Guinness World Records confirmed in a blog post Saturday. Champion jet skier Franky Zapata’s approximately 1.4-mile (2,252-meter) trek over Sausset-les-Pins soars past the record of 0.17 miles (275.9 meters) set last year by Canadian inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru. Before Zapata even achieved the feat with his creation, known as a Flyboard Air, video of a..>> view originalThis bizarre comet could totally change how we understand the solar system -- here's why
This bizarre comet could totally change how we understand the solar system — here’s why May 1, 2016 by Dan Taylor Leave a Comment A Manx comet has returned to our solar system after being gone for billions of years.As we reported recently, a strange comet with no tail has returned after perhaps billions of years — and there’s a big reason why this is exciting to scientists. This comet is the first of its kind — a tailless comet that may have been in the general vicinity when Earth was formed be..>> view originalWeasel shuts down Large Hadron Collider
The world's largest atom smasher has been taken offline by a wayward weasel.The Large Hadron Collider unexpectedly shutdown Thursday night after the critter – ahem – weaseled its way into the system's transformer, causing an electrical outage. The furry little guy did not survive the incident.The $7 billion machine has experienced a series of mishaps in the past several days, including a vacuum leak, a "weird status of some magnets," and the most recent "electrical perturbation," according to a..>> view original
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