After sensing dangerous chemicals, the carbon-nanotube-enhanced plants send an alert Date: November 1, 2016 Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Summary: Spinach is no longer just a superfood: By embedding leaves with carbon nanotubes, engineers have transformed spinach plants into sensors that can detect explosives and […]
Technology converts human waste into bio-based fuel Date: November 2, 2016 Source: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Summary: It may sound like science fiction, but wastewater treatment plants across the United States may one day turn ordinary sewage into biocrude oil, thanks to new research. The […]
Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have greater numbers of harmful mutations in their mitochondrial DNA than family members, report Zhenglong Gu of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and colleagues, in a study published October 28th, 2016 in PLOS Genetics. Increasingly, studies point […]
Relationships between the ancestors of modern humans and other archaic populations such as Neanderthals and Denisovans were likely more complex than previously thought, involving interbreeding within and outside Africa, according to a new estimator developed by geneticists. Findings were reported at the American Society of […]
A large space rock is going to come fairly close to Earth later tonight. Fortunately, it’s not going to hit Earth, something astronomers are sure of thanks in part to a new tool NASA is developing for detecting potentially dangerous asteroids. The tool is a […]
“The year has 16 months: November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, November, November, November,” writes the Danish poet Henrik Nordbrandt in a disheartening comment on the month we are about to enter. And Nordbrandt is not the only […]
On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft captured the world’s attention with the photograph above—an instantly iconic image of the Tombaugh Regio, or as it has become more commonly known, Pluto’s heart. Just after transmitting this photo back to Earth, New Horizons went into […]
Rapidly aging in orbit, US Air Force (USAF) weather satellites are dropping like flies. Since 2004, two of the USAF’s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites have broken up in orbit. On Monday, the military branch admitted that a third, identified as DMSP Flight 12, […]
Anti-satellite weaponry is possible, something which should be reckoned with when planning possible military operations, defense expert Vasily Kashin told Sputnik China. An artist’s concept of a ground / space-based hybrid laser weapon, 1984 © Photo: Wikipedia Star Wars Reboot: US Sets Stage for Space-Based […]
After several years of tests, the US Air Force Space Command assumed control of a telescope that monitors the Earth’s orbit on Tuesday. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) transferred operations of the Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) to the Air Force during a […]
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