Sailing Through Space

 

Ever since ancient Mesopotamia, mankind has been cruising the seas using one of mother nature's richest source of energy on earth: wind. It's been a few years since these pioneers of energy free loading came up with the revolutionary idea of sailing, but we still use it, and now in ways the Mesopotamian never even imagine.

The Planetary Society's light sail has deployed! Sorry, I couldn't built on this any longer. I am too excited to think about anything else. DEPLOYMENT!!
Great job, guys!

Come on, follow the great news here, and if you want to learn more about light sail, get to it!

A Bit Of A Deep Thought

To give spiritual meaning to our lives, we often turn to a deity. There is something deep about it that makes us feel helplessly small and somehow gives us comfort. Personally, I can't think of anything bigger, deeper and for lack of another word, more hypnotic than the universe itself.

If we disregard deities, the very existence of the human being takes a deeper spiritual meaning, as the part of the universe that has evolved to be able to try to understand itself.

On Our way To Europa

Oh yeah! With a budget of $18.5 billion for 2016, what means an increase of $519 million more than in 2015, it is on! We are basically on our way to Europa.

Click the image to see all the information, including a video update from Casey Dreier, Director of Advocacy of The Planetary Society, more details about the mission and the comparative budget.

Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech

Gold As Cancer Killer

This Thing Will Teach You How To Draw

Image credit: Saurabh Datta

New Fossil May Recast History Of First Europeans

Via: sciencenews.org

Image credit: Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority

3 Super Bowl Fun Facts

Via: quickanddirtytips.com

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What If Humans Disappeared?

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Hidden Miracles Of The Natural World

What Larry Has To Say About Anti-Vaxxers

Blind Woman Sees Her Son For The Very First Time

Kepler Telescope Identifies Ancient Solar System

Image credit: University of Birmingham

An Underwater Volcano Just Created A New Island

Image Credit: Pleiades © CNES 2015

Stomach Acid-Powered Micromotors

Image credit: Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego

Private Space Taxi Coming Soon

Space Taxi: the responsible thing to do when it's time to go home, but you already had 10 too many drinks.

The Asteroid That Pass By Us Today Has Its Own Moon

Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Here Is A Yummy Way To Use Science

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Farmers Importing Food for $50 billion annually

Canadian Space Technology to Help Sick Children

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NASA Planning Mars Helicopter To Assist Future Rovers

Via mashable.com

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Water World

Credit: www.startalkradio.net

The Beauty Of Science

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Magnetic Field Lines in Time-Lapse Video

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The Real Story Of The Periodic Table

Credit: http://chemicalengineeringnews.org/

Stem Cell Transplantation Shows Potential For Reducing Disability In Patients With MS

Image credit: erikasmsblog.com

ESA Euronew: IXV: Facing The Challenge Of Reentry

Image credit: www.esa.int

The Dynamic Future of Neuroscience

TEDx Talks

Cool Games For The Little Scientists

http://pbskids.org/games/science/

Why Should We Trust Scientists?

Is Ceres Going To Be The New Addition To The Solar System Planet's Club?

Ceres NASA/ESA/J. Parker (SWRI), P. Thomas (Cornell U.), L. McFadden (U-Md., College Park), and M. Mutchler and Z. Levay (STScI)

Six Ways To Prepare A Coelacanth

Thanks to the American Museum of Natural History

NASA Data Used to Build 3-D Maps of Greenland Ice

Precision Medicine Will Revolutionize Healthcare

Image credit: io9

Death By Boiling Air

Credit: Don Davis

By Claire Belcher, University of Exeterand Rory Hadden, University of Edinburgh

Climate scientists rebuff skeptics' arguments against 2014 'warmest year' claim

Global average surface temperature anomalies during 2014.
Image credit: NASA

Live Stream HD Images Of The Earth

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The Origin Of Quantum Mechanics

Whatever You Do, Do Not Try This At Home!

Image credit: Ladybird Books

Microsoft HoloLens To Help NASA Scientists Explore Mars

NASA's OnSight tool, which it developed with Microsoft creates a simulation of Mars' surfaces scientists can use in their research. Image Credit: NASA JPL

Could A Wormhole In Our Galaxy Take Us To Another Universe?

I Am Going To Call This Reincarnation

Image credit: urnabios.com

Sex In The Future

So there goes a juicy one!




Virtual sex has moved on since 1992 sci-fi film The Lawnmower Man Photo: New Line Cinema

The Future Of Energy

I just love learning about graphene. I have no idea how it works, but just the thought of FREE ENERGY is enough to get my attention.



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Looking For A New Home? How About Another Planet?

From our friends of IFLScience

Image credit:  NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T Pyle

Spectacular Trip To The Horizon Of The Known Universe

Just in case you wonder about how small we really are.
This is an amazing video. I don't get tired of watching it.

Top Hacker Shares His Secrets

Check out the cool invention at the end of the video.

The Power Of Poison

Deadly creepy!

Gravity Explained

In John Wheeler's words: "Matter tells spacetime how to curve, spacetime tells matter how to move"

Deep-Fried Graphene Spheres Could Make Good Battery Materials

"Deep-fried" and ''Batteries" in the same sentence may not sound like a good idea at first.



Credit: Chem. Mater.

A 3D Martian Tour

Amazing 3D video of the surface of Mars.



Image credit: www.esa.int

The Pale Blue Dot. Never Gets Old

The Pale Blue Dot

I can't think of a better way to open than with this inspirational video of Carl Sagan.