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Mars Science Laboratory – interactive graphic | Science | guardian.co.uk
The most sophisticated space probe ever built, the Mars Science Laboratory, is on its way to discover whether conditions on the red planet are suitable for life – or have been in the past. The Curiosity rover will deploy an extraordinary array of scientific instruments and cameras
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory lifted off from the launch pad at 10:02 a.m. EST today. The one-ton Mini Cooper-sized rover, which is the largest machine NASA can currently put down on the Martian surface, will now look forward to an eight-month cruise to the Red Planet, arriving in August 2012. The probe will survey the Martian landscape with HD cameras, search for signs of habitability and life past or present, and drill inside rocks to examine the planet’s composition.
NASA’s New Mars Rover Launches Successfully | Wired Science | Wired.com
STAR WARS Fan Builds Incredible LEGO Millennium Falcon Docking Bay Scene - News - GeekTyrant
German LEGO builder David Wagner has created this awesomely impressive LEGO sculpture showing us a classic scene from Star Wars. He built the scene that takes place at the Millennium Falcon parking spot on Docking Bay 327 where Obi-Wan and Darth Vader face off with each other. The detailed LEGO sculpture measures 90cm x 100cm, and required roughly 10,500 bricks, four months, and 1,000 € to complete it.
s Lab-Tested, Muppet-Vetted Formulas for Smartifying Your Life | Magazine
Flies are like little ninjas, dodging even the most skillfully wielded rolled-up magazine. Michael Dickinson, a neurobiologist at the University of Washington, wanted to know how they pull this off. He got flies to climb through a tiny tube ending at a 5-millimeter-wide stage. Over it loomed a black disc that would descend from various angles when triggered. Meanwhile, a video camera recorded the encounter at thousands of frames per second.
The city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, is dangling wads of cash in front of nerdy innovators everywhere. A mix of local and national investors have partnered to launch the Gig City Gig Tank and are offering $300,000 of cold, hard, start-up cash and prizes to be split among entrepreneurs and students with the best ideas for how to create the fastest internet in the world. The catch: To claim the prize, you have to go to Chattanooga. When we think of American tech innovation, places like the Silicon Valley and Seattle tend to come to mind more readily than Chattanooga. But maybe we should give Tennessee’s fourth largest city a bit more credit.
Silicon Valley, Seattle … Chattanooga? Tennessee’s ‘Gig City’ Woos Geeks | Epicenter | Wired.com
Des scientifiques viennent de mettre au point le matériau le plus léger au monde. Il s’agirait d’un métal composé à 99.99% d’air. Sa particularité : sa structure est comparable à celle de la tour Eiffel. La masse volumique du micro lattice serait de 0.9mg/cm 3 (ou 0.9kg/m 3 ). A titre de comparaison, celle de l’aluminium est de 2 700 kg/m 3 .
Des chercheurs ont mis au point le matériau le plus léger au monde | Gizmodo
It’s the time for giving and, even better, the time for receiving. Here are 86 objects of desire we’re hoping to get this holiday season. And you could win 19 of them!
The Fifth Annual Wired Wish List | Product Reviews | Wired.com | Wired.com
Results from a second experiment uphold the observation that neutrinos are moving faster than the speed of light. The OPERA collaboration, which first reported the superluminal neutrinos in September, has rerun the experiment and detected 20 new neutrinos breaking Einstein’s theoretical limit. The findings are heartening to anyone hoping to see a major physics revolution in their lifetime. But scientists, as ever, are being cautious, and it will take an independent replication of the results by another team to even begin convincing many of them. “This eliminates one major class of systematic errors, and it’s impressive for the OPERA team to have mounted in a short period of time,” said physicist Robert Plunkett of Fermilab National Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.
How Many Neutrinos Does It Take to Screw Up Einstein? | Wired Science | Wired.com
À l’occasion de l’exposition Game Story, au Grand Palais, OWNI s’associe au magazine Trois Couleurs pour vous proposer cette infographie retraçant l’histoire du jeu vidéo. Issue du hors-série concocté par la rédaction de Trois Couleurs, “Games Stories”, et augmentée de quelques vidéos savamment choisies, elle vous permettra de goûter quelques-unes de ces madeleines, que sont devenus, pour certains, les jeux vidéo vintage. Infographie: Marion Dorel et Etienne Rouillon pour Trois Couleurs Retrouvez cette infographie sous la forme d’un poster dans le hors-série Games Stories . Télécharger l’infographie.
Généalogie des jeux vidéos[Infographie] » OWNI, News, Augmented
The early adopter: Part trailblazer, part pollyanna, he’s never met an unproven technology he didn’t like. He doesn’t just want the best gear, he wants to believe. He wants to believe that new tech is the best tech, and that products simply wouldn’t be released if they weren’t ready for prime time.
