Indian-American Teen Syamantak Payra Wins Intel Young Scientist Award
Syamantak Payra (r), a Texas resident, won the USD 50,000 award along with 17-year-old Kathy Liu.Washington: A 15-year-old Indian-American boy has won the prestigious 'Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award' for developing a low-cost electronically-aided knee brace that allows a person with a weakened leg to walk more naturally. Syamantak Payra, a Texas resident, won the USD 50,000 award along with 17-year-old Kathy Liu. The award was given by Intel Corporation and t..>> view originalOur Solar System Could Remain Habitable Long After Earth Is Destroyed
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, photographed by the Cassini spacecraft. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech In a few billion years, the oceans will boil away and the atmosphere will burn up as our sun expands into a red giant. It’ll be game-over for life on Earth, but in the outer solar system, the party will just be getting started. Europa and Enceladus will melt into ocean moons, offering a refuge for any post humanoid life forms fleeing their lava-soaked homeland. That, at least, is one possible fate fo..>> view original100000 Orbits! International Space Station Hits Cosmic Milestone (Video)
The International Space Station (ISS) completed its 100,000th orbit of Earth early Monday morning (May 16), NASA officials said. "This is a significant milestone and is a tribute to this international partnership, made up of the European Space Agency, of Russia, Canada, Japan and the United States," NASA astronaut Jeff Williams said in a video tribute recorded aboard the orbiting lab. The first component of the ISS was launched on Nov. 20, 1998. Ever since then, the orbiting lab has ..>> view originalWhy Harvard held a 'secret' synthetic human genome meeting
At Harvard Medical School in Boston, 150 hand-picked scientists, lawyers, and entrepreneurs gathered last week – in private – to discuss how to create a genome, potentially even a human one, from scratch in a lab.Though writing an original chemical blueprint for a human being is a far-off possibility, given that the human genome has a sequence of three billion chemical pairs that make up each person’s unique DNA, the secrecy of the meeting (no tweeting, no media, invite only) alarmed some peopl..>> view originalSmall blue galaxy offers Big Bang clues
Galaxy AGC 198691 (nicknamed Leoncino, or “little lion”) taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Image via NASA; A. Hirschauer & J. Salzer, Indiana University; J. Cannon, Macalester College; and K. McQuinn, University of Texas. Most of the visible stuff of our universe – stars, galaxies, interstellar clouds – is in the form of hydrogen and helium. Astronomers use the word metals when speaking of all elements except hydrogen and helium. Astronomers at Indiana University at Bloomington say they’ve..>> view originalThis ocean organism plays important function in stabilization of earth's atmosphere
A research paper published in the journal Nature Microbiology has found that a small ocean organism plays an important role in the stabilization of earth’s atmosphere. The bacterial group Pelagibacterales is considered among the most abundant organisms on earth, having up to half a million microbial cells in every teaspoon of seawater. An international team of researchers found that the organism is likely a source of the production of dimethylsulfide (DMS), which is known to stimulate cloud for..>> view original'Three's Company': SpaceX's 3 Landed Rockets Cozy Up (Photos)
The three Falcon 9 first stages that SpaceX has successfully brought back down to Earth sit in a hangar at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on May 14, 2016. Credit: SpaceX New SpaceX photos show three big pieces of spaceflight history sitting side by side by side. The images, which were taken on Saturday (May 14), show the three Falcon 9 rockets that SpaceX has successfully brought back to Earth arrayed next to each other in a hangar at Launch Complex 39A, which is part of N..>> view originalNASA Funds Interstellar Flight System, 7 Other Wild Space Tech Ideas
Eight studies have received funding under Phase 2 of the NASA innovative Advanced Concepts program, including a proposal to blast tiny spacecraft to other star systems using powerful lasers. Credit: NASA NASA has funded eight advanced-technology concepts that agency officials believe could help transform space science and exploration. The high-risk, high-reward ideas — which received grants under Phase 2 of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program — include a possible way ..>> view original
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