Project Blue: Private Space Telescope to Hunt for Alien Earth at Alpha Centauri
A new initiative called "Project Blue" aims to spy on our interstellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, to capture an unprecedented visible-light image of any Earth-like planets that might orbit there. The project, which hopes to launch a lightweight telescope into Earth orbit by 2019, was announced today (Oct. 11). The two stars of Alpha Centauri, along with the associated red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, are the closest stars outside our solar system — and the Alpha Centauri stars are by fa..>> view originalWhy It Takes A Big Rocket To Reach Mars
How Obama brought capitalism to outer space
President Obama tours the commercial rocket processing facility of SpaceX along with chief executive Elon Musk at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in 2010. (Photo by NASA/Bill Ingalls) In 2010, nearly 50 years after John F. Kennedy called for the United States to send a man to the moon, President Obama went to the Kennedy Space Center, to set a new course. Under George W. Bush, the agency had been working on another lunar mission. But now, with Buzz Aldrin sitting in the audience, Obama had ..>> view originalStudy: Storms Like Hurricane Sandy Could Hit Tri-State Area More Frequently
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — For many people in the Tri-State area, it’s hard to imagine a repeat of Superstorm Sandy and the flooding that followed, but a new study suggests it could happen again. From the Jersey Shore to Connecticut, few coastal communities were spared by the floodwaters in 2012, and New York City was no exception. “It was absolutely horrifying,” Tribeca resident Tara Reilly said. “We had no power, we basically had to evacuate. Having lived through 9/11, being down here..>> view originalIs the Nobel Committee Blackballing American Authors?
It’s been more than two decades since an American took home the Nobel Prize for literature, and some say the snub is no accident. The Nobel Prize committee has always had—at best—a fraught relationship with the United States when it comes to literature. It took three decades after the prize was formed before a U.S. author won the award, and that writer was Sinclair Lewis, a novelist who spent most of his ink excoriating his own country.As we are now into the third decade of a similar drought—not..>> view originalClimate change doubled size of western forest fires, study says, and it will only get worse
Wildfires in the western half of the United States, including Oregon, have been burning hotter, faster and twice as large over the last 30 years and a good heap of the blame belongs to climate change brought on by humans. That's according to researchers at the University of Idaho and Columbia University in New York, who released a study Monday showing that rising temperatures due to climate change have increased fire activity and burned an additional 16,000 square miles, an area larger than th..>> view originalDid Rush Limbaugh really say that Hurricane Matthew is liberal propaganda?
Conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh offered a bold assessment of Hurricane Matthew on Wednesday: the category 4 storm was exaggerated by the Obama administration in order to validate climate change theories.At the crux of Limbaugh’s argument was the so-called ‘hurricane drought’ in the United States, which ended when Matthew made landfall in Florida last week. After Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, former vice president Al Gore predicted that hurricane activity would increase as a re..>> view originalGraphene-fed silkworms can spin super threads
Upon closer inspection, the team found that their "super silk" can conduct electricity and has a more ordered crystal structure than typical silk. The carbon materials weren't visible in cross sections of the silk threads, probably because they only made up 0.2 percent of the aqueous solution's weight. Still, the final product can withstand 50 percent more stress than usual before breaking. The scientists still don't know how much of the the carbon materials made it to final product and how muc..>> view originalNew Dwarf Planet Found in Our Solar System
An artist's concept of a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO). A newly discovered object (2014 UZ224) located beyond Pluto's orbit may be large enough to qualify as a dwarf planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC) A new face has been added to the solar system's family portrait: Scientists have discovered a new dwarf planet looping around the sun in the region beyond Pluto. The dwarf planet, called 2014 UZ224, measures about 330 miles (530 kilometers) across and is located about 8.5 billion..>> view original
Monday, October 17, 2016
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