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NASA Project M Puts Scientists’ Avatars On the Moon

NASA can put humanoids on the Moon in just 1000 days. They would be controlled by scientists on Earth using motion capture suits, giving them the feeling of being on the lunar surface. I’d pay to use one. Imagine sending every scientist to the Moon Back in the Lunar exploration days, scientists had to tell…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Evict Bacteria With the Cleankeys Touch Sensitive Keyboard

Did you know that your run of the mill keyboard is basically a gigantic apartment complex for bacteria? Gross, no? Thankfully there’s Cleankeys, a keyboard that bulldozes that shit and replaces it with a sleek, sterile touch-sensitive slab. Wiping a standard keyboard with a disinfecting cloth kills about 5% of bacteria. Cleankeys claims the same…

Health Kyle VanHemert

Next for NASA: Inflatable Space Stations, In-Orbit Refueling, Space UAVs and More

As we’ve been hearing for months, 2010 is going to be a year of belt-tightening for NASA. But it still has some cool technologies on the way: inflatable space stations, research into mid-orbit refueling, and new autonomous space vehicles. Inflatable space station modules rank high on NASA’s wish list for an important reason: they’re cheap.…

Space & Spaceflight Kevin Lee

The Most Accurate, Highest Resolution Earth View to Date

This is the most accurate, highest resolution true color image of planet Earth to date. And at 2048 x 2048 pixels, you should put it in your desktop background now. You can get America too: Click on the images to get the high resolution version. Sounds familiar? This is why. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-why-that-amazing-nasa-earth-image-looked-so-fam-5486448 Oh, you are beautiful,…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Rocket House, Or What We Get When We Privatize the Space Program

“It’s like, you know man, you know. People like us were meant for something important, something different than this whole fucked up society. Oh, that? That’s the rocket facade left over from our last house party.” [flickr/sfist via io9] https://gizmodo.com/coolest-rocket-based-home-redesign-ever-5476798

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

Singin’ In Space

I know it’s dangerous and even smelly, but when I see these images of astronauts smiling and singing by the new ISS window, I can’t stop daydreaming about going up there one day. https://gizmodo.com/iss-and-discovery-in-debris-collision-danger-nasa-thin-5170946 He’s probably singing Bob Dylan. I will sing Bowie. [Twitpic ] https://gizmodo.com/nasa-launches-new-moonage-daydream-space-shuttle-withou-5474097

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Fake Mars Mission Befallen By Real Drama

The Mars Society is a group that prepares for man’s eventual exploration of Mars with simulations in the Utahan desert. But their mission logs, posted regularly on the group’s website, reveal a tension that is very real—and very funny. The two-week simulations, including various experiments and equipment tests, take place at the Mars Desert Research…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

NASA’s New Telescope Snaps a Comet’s 10,000,000-Mile Tail

Back in December, NASA launched the WISE, an infrared telescope that was designed to map the entire visible universe. And one of its first shots? This epic comet. https://gizmodo.com/nasa-launches-new-infrared-telescope-to-capture-hidden-5425933 This shot is one of four that NASA has processed and published after receiving the first batch of 250,000 raw images from the telescope. It shows…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci

Sound Waves Being Used to Treat Strokes

Neurologists have built an ultrasound device which uses focused sound waves to destroy stroke-causing blood clots in brains. The procedure is non-invasive—requiring no drugs or surgery—and is already being tested on patients. The machine and procedure allows doctors to “surround the head with an array of transducers that can focus ultrasound beams on a single…

Health Rosa Golijan

The Science of Sleep Tracking Gadgets and The Decision Tree

Thomas Goetz is the Executive Editor of Wired and the author of The Decision Tree, a new book about how tracking and research can better inform our own health decisions. Here, as an example, he explains sleep gadgets. Can gadgets make us healthier? Ever since the days of vibrating exercise belts in the 1950s, we’ve…

Health Thomas Goetz

NASA Launches New Moonage Daydream Space Shuttle Without Warning

Perhaps fearing more budget cuts by Obama, NASA has launched their new experimental Moonage Daydream space shuttle by surprise. It will complete a two-week mission inspired by David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust period. NASA will also launch a new Mars rover: https://gizmodo.com/obama-cancels-kennedys-dream-5461806 Called the Leper Messiah, NASA’s new rover will carry a new instrument to measure…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

NASA’s Laser Pulse ChemCam Is Destined For CSI: Mars

The best way to figure out what something’s made of? Vaporize it. With a laser. That’s NASA’s philosophy, anyway, in the form of a high-energy laser system that’s going to be mounted on the next Mars rover. PEWPEW. The laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy system (LIBS), called ChemCam, will launch next year on the Mars Curiosity. It…

Space & Spaceflight Brian Barrett

Astronauts Turn International Space Station Into TIE Fighter

Here’s the first view from the open Cupola, the huge window installed in Tranquility. And yes, it looks like the view from Darth Vader’s loft in the Death Star, overlooking Tatooine. Update: Multiple HD shots inside. https://gizmodo.com/the-last-nighttime-launch-of-the-space-shuttle-5466564 Cupola was installed in the new module recently attached to the International Space Station by the Endeavour crew,…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Calculate the Speed of Light by Melting Chocolate

You might already know that the speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second, but now you can confirm that number by playing kitchen scientist and melting chocolate. And then eating the results. The folks at Wired think that this physics experiment is ideal for all the leftover Valentine’s Day candy, but I think it’s…

Physics & Chemistry Rosa Golijan

Where Did Saturn’s Rings Go?

Oh Saturn, you keep being the prettiest planet of them all. Even while Cassini crosses your orbital plane, and your rings become proportionally thinner than a razor blade. The photograph was discovered by Spanish amateur Fernando García Navarro, from the raw stream of images sent by the Cassini spacecraft in 2005. Awesome, in the actual…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Good Morning, Sunshine

I don’t have a Valentine, so instead I woke up to this image of the Endeavour on approach to the ISS, courtesy a Facebook friend’s Wall. Bad Valentine? Nah, just a great image. Now wake up and get busy. [NASA]

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

Nanodiscs Shake Brain Cancer Into Remission

Conventional treatments are often ineffective for treating brain cancer, but scientists have developed a novel new method of destroying cancer cells in the brain: they tag them with metal nanodiscs and shake them to death with magnets. Scientists at the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy have developed a process by which…

Health Kyle VanHemert

Cat Vs. Robot Arm: Place Your Bets!

I’m loathe the side against robots, given their proven professional wrestling superiority. But this cat… this cat’s got strategy. Step one: ignore. Step two: avoid. Step three: https://gizmodo.com/worlds-first-robot-vs-human-pro-wrestling-match-ends-i-5423850 THWAP. Hellloooooo, kitty. [DVice via BotJunkie]

Biology Brian Barrett

Rare Photos of Saturn’s Aurorae Captured For The Last Time By Hubble

At first glance, I thought Mathmos has released a new mood light, but that glowing blue image is actually of Saturn, captured by the Hubble telescope. It’s a very rare photo, as both poles and rings are visible. You actually just make out the Northern Lights-like aurorae on both poles, which is apparently caused by…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford

Zeroing In On the International Space Station

The Russian Space Agency has released this speeded up video of a Soyuz spacecraft approaching and docking in the International Space Station. It’s like Battlestar Galactica, but without phasers. Or Cylons. Or Vipers. Or Starbuck. Actually, it’s nothing like BSG. I like it anyway, although it makes me sad: Soon, they will be the only…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

NASA Project M Puts Scientists’ Avatars On the Moon

Evict Bacteria With the Cleankeys Touch Sensitive Keyboard

Next for NASA: Inflatable Space Stations, In-Orbit Refueling, Space UAVs and More

The Most Accurate, Highest Resolution Earth View to Date

Rocket House, Or What We Get When We Privatize the Space Program

Singin’ In Space

Fake Mars Mission Befallen By Real Drama

NASA’s New Telescope Snaps a Comet’s 10,000,000-Mile Tail

Sound Waves Being Used to Treat Strokes

The Science of Sleep Tracking Gadgets and The Decision Tree

NASA Launches New Moonage Daydream Space Shuttle Without Warning

NASA’s Laser Pulse ChemCam Is Destined For CSI: Mars

Astronauts Turn International Space Station Into TIE Fighter

Calculate the Speed of Light by Melting Chocolate

Where Did Saturn’s Rings Go?

Good Morning, Sunshine

Nanodiscs Shake Brain Cancer Into Remission

Cat Vs. Robot Arm: Place Your Bets!

Rare Photos of Saturn’s Aurorae Captured For The Last Time By Hubble

Zeroing In On the International Space Station

Scientists Found a Weird New Way to Wash Fruits and Vegetables

White House’s Mysterious ‘Covfefe Moment’ Was Stupider Than We Imagined

Gym Bros Are Pushing Mystery Muscle Drugs Doctors Barely Recognize, Study Warns

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