Pin ItemailprintNASA rang in the New Year by placing a pair of probes into the moon’s orbit. Over the New Year’s weekend, the GRAIL probes arrived in the lunar orbit, and scientists celebrated by cheering and blowing noisemakers. “It’s a really good feeling to have not one but two of our twins in orbit,” said [...]
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The ability to see through walls is no longer limited to science fiction movies. Thanks to new radar technology developed at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, a system has been built by researchers that can see through walls from far away distances, giving a near-instantaneous picture of the activity on the other side. The researchers’ new device [...]
Sometimes, new discoveries come at the most unexpected times in the most unexpected settings. So how do you create such an environment catering to both? This infographic shows just how tech is born, highlighting MIT Media Labs, the leader in such the field. Created by: Online PhD
Well, this could be close. It sure does seem like Earth is getting a lot of fly-bys from close asteroids lately. In February, we had our closest near miss ever when asteroid 2011 CQ1 avoided impact with out little, blue planet by just 3,405 miles. Today, we will have another close call as asteroid 2011 [...]
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Adam Wheeler, the man who faked his way into Harvard, had his day in court today. Wheeler, 23, pleaded “not guilty” to charges that he lied to get into the Ivy League college. Prosecutors in Massachusetts argued that those lies enabled him to obtain $45,000 in grants, scholarship money, and even financial aid. Prosecutor John [...]
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Planets usually orbit their parents stars in the same direction that those stars rotate. In fact, all planets do this, except for one. A newly discovered planet orbits in the opposite direction. It orbits backward when compared to the rotation of its parent sun. What created the backward orbit is unknown, although researchers believe a [...]
Researchers at MIT have destroyed cancerous ovarian tumors in mice with the use of nanoparticles that deliver “killer genes” to the cancerous cells. These findings, says MIT, could lead to a new treatment for ovarian cancer, which is considered one of the deadliest forms of cancer. It claims 15,000 lives every year in the U.S. [...]
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