Here on Earth, we hear about the environmental problems that littering can cause. What about littering in space? The problem may not seem very important because, frankly, we don’t spend much time in space (if any) compared to on Earth. Also, space is quite a vast space, for lack of a better word, and it [...]
An interesting article from ScienceDaily reports that techniques being researched for an upcoming European mission to Mars could be directly applied to help address the energy crisis here on Earth. Basically, the process of separating organic material from space rock could be applied to purifying the large quantities of water required to refine unconventional fossil [...]
Discover Magazine recently published an article about the current state and potential future state of the GPS system (the article can be found here). From the article:
The U.S. government has announced increasing concern over the quality of its Global Positioning System (GPS), which could begin to deteriorate as early as next year, resulting in regular [...]
A recent article published by MIT’s Technology Review describes the uniquely resilient properties of carbon nanotubes and some of their applications. Carbon nanotubes is one of the main areas of today’s nanotechnology research. The structures are tube-shaped with walls made of hexagonal lattices, and can be a few nanometers in diameter, which is a miniscule [...]