False alarm! on CNET New proof of life on Mars? Sadly, no A stunning new image taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter creates an optical illusion.
Category: Science
From good to bad!
Originally it was thought it could give you brain cancer, now it might protect your from Alzheimer’s. this is according to a study published by Gary Arendash, a research professor with the Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Check this article : Could Your Cell Phone Help Shield You From Alzheimer’s?
NASA’s Scrubbed Escape Pod Glides to New Home
To the future and ……. …… The museum? NASA’s Scrubbed Escape Pod Glides to New Home NASA’s cute, wingless escape pod for the International Space Station, which was in development until 2002, finally has a home. Sadly, it’s not in space, but in Ashland, Nebraska at the Strategic Air and Space Museum.
astronomers
And one day it’s going to be us! Andromeda galaxy devouring its neighbours: astronomers The Andromeda galaxy, the closest neighbour to our own Milky Way, has been growing by scooping up stars from smaller surrounding galaxies, a Canadian-led team of astronomers has found.
Comet carries a building block of life
This news resurface all the time! Comet carries a building block of lifeLife on earth came, if not from ancient astronauts, in part from outer space. NASA astronauts have discovered an amino acid, glycine, essential for life on earth, on a comet, confirming a long-held theory that the building blocks for life came from outer…
Canadian astronaut Thirsk bound for International Space Station
That’s going to be interesting! http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/22/space-robert-thirsk-space-station-astronaut.html?ref=rss Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk is a member of a six-person crew that will live on the International Space Station for six months. On May 27, he and two other crewmates are scheduled to launch from Kazhakstan to join the other three already aboard the station.
Water
Thirsty? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090520/ap_on_sc/us_space_urine
Zune phone again!
Again again and again! http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-301177.html A Microsoft promotional Twitter account tells fans that a new product launch is coming and hold off from buying a Palm Pre. The idea that Microsoft may release a Zune-phone, based on its portable music player, has once again resurfaced. Although the likelihood of a…
We need more nuke. Please
Why do I feel we are going backward sometime! http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/b5zKGZ73loo/nasa-running-out-of-fuel-for-deep-space-missions-because-nobody-makes-nukes-anymore Supplies of NASA’s go-to fuel for space exploration , plutonium-238, are dwindling. The U.S. stopped making it 20 years ago and now NASA’s Russian suppliers are running out after production shut down. The problem? Nobody makes nukes anymore. Deep space probes beyond Jupiter can’t use…
From the Space Shutte to this :
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/N03JnxMKYGc/the-next-space-shuttles 500 days