According NASA
officials the next generation spacesuits are going to be developed by a company
called Oceaneering International Inc.
It is interesting to note that Oceaneering is famous for creating products for oil
and gas industry and providing services for deep water operations.
NASA beat out Exploration
Systems and Technology, which is a company owned by ILC and Hamilton Sundstrand. The later is a subsidiary of United Technologies and it has been the
main contractor for creating spacesuits for Houston-based company since 1960s.
According to a report in New Scientist, Nicola Pugno of the Polytechnic
of Turin in
When held 5 micrometres apart, to keep them invisible, they would form a cable only 1 centimetre in diameter weighing a mere 10 milligrams per kilometre.
Today NASA's Glast mission is
going to launch a space telescope
the goal of which is to spot the most violent events that take place in the universe. The telescope will be launched
from Cape Canaveral air force
station, located in
NASA hopes its new mission will help search the universe for gamma rays. It is worth mentioning that the gamma rays are emitted by the black holes, as well as amalgamation of neutron stars and streams of hot gas that travel through the universe at enormous speeds.
The new observatory costs $690 million and it is expected to take images
of the gamma rays, thus providing answers about the source of cosmic rays, as well as the answer to
how black holes are able to accelerate huge jets of material to a speed that is
close to the speed of light.
A number of tasks for the newest laboratory on the international space station were to be
performed today by the astronauts from space
shuttle Discovery. They had to fully extend the 33-foot robotic arm (the cost of which is about
$1 billion). It is worth mentioning that the robotic arm has already been moved
on Saturday, but only a little.
"They will do a series of motions. It will
practically extend all the way out," mentioned flight director Annette
Hasbrook.
Dramatic photographs have emerged of one of the few
remaining peoples on earth who are thought to have had no contact with the
outside world.
Indians are photographed during an over flight in May
2008, as they react to the over flight at their camp.
Made from tiny tubes of carbon standing on end, this
material is almost 30 times darker than a carbon substance used by the US
National Institute of Standards and Technology as the current benchmark of
blackness.
Willis E.
Lamb Jr., a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose work on the electron structure
of the hydrogen atom revolutionized the quantum theory of matter, has died. He
was 94.
Lamb died
in a
Lamb worked
as a physicist at various universities from the late 1930s until retiring from
the
Blood cholesterol is a risk factor for coronary artery
disease and heart attack, so reducing your risk of high cholesterol is a worthy
goal.
A smarter way of looking at cholesterol risk is by
component.
The first thing you notice about this small town in
In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film,
voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship
are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical
boxes and messing up computers.
The hairy, reddish-brown creatures are known as
"crazy rasberry ants" — crazy, because they wander erratically
instead of marching in regimented lines, and "rasberry" after Tom
Rasberry, an exterminator who did battle against them early on.
