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The Curiosity rover that was launched toward Mars over the Thanksgiving holiday includes a significant contribution from ORNL and DOE. The mobile instrument platform, which is too large to rely on solar-powered batteries, contains a plutonium oxide-powered generator, as do all of NASA’s deep-space probes such as Voyager and Cassini. Radioisotope Power Systems program manager [...]
Feature phones still dominate the world’s wireless landscape, but in the United States and parts of Europe, smartphone adoption is surging. According to figures released by VisionMobile, a “market analysis and strategy firm,” smartphone adoption has reached over 27 percent around the world. But while smartphones remain a luxury for most, mobile phones in general [...]
Russian Mission Control has dismissed NASA’s prediction that the three astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) may need to take shelter inside Russian space capsules on Wednesday morning due to a piece of a defunct Chinese weather satellite flying past. NASA expected that the 10-cm (4-inch) piece of space junk would fly perilously close [...]
It’s the dark side of success: smartphones running the popular Android operating system are being targeted by cybercriminals. The attackers use the fact that many users install apps on their phones without checking them out properly first – potentially with disastrous consequences. The mobile device game Angry Birds offers the perfect disguise for cybercriminals. Millions [...]
Scientists are trying to learn the complex flight dynamics of the dragonfly for future robots by attaching a small sensor to its body. Dragonflies are winged insects that feed on smaller insects. They hunt mid-flight and the fastest of them are believed to fly at speeds of nearly 97 km per hour. “Dragonfly wings almost [...]
Russia launched a rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) early Monday, in a mission critical to keeping the station manned and to the country’s reputation as a space power. A Soyuz-FG rocket with American Dan Burbank and Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin aboard blasted off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur space centre [...]
The 1,300-foot space rock is drawing interest from around the world as scientists hope it will help unlock the secrets of the universe’s origins. Rising from the desert scrub and pointed toward the heavens, NASA’s gargantuan radio telescope on Monday fired a beam of microwaves at the largest asteroid to pass near Earth in decades [...]