deepai Gravity feels reliable — stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over the Earth’s surface. And it is weakest…
Nano-coating makes coaxial cables lighter
Rice University scientists replace metal with carbon nanotubes for aerospace use [caption id="attachment_7474" align="alignright" width="300"] Rice University research scientist Francesca Mirri holds a standard coaxial data cable (bottom) and a new cable with an outer…
Radio testing of BepiColombo orbiter
[caption id="attachment_7470" align="alignnone" width="700"] Source: ESA–G. Porter, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO[/caption] If ESA’s Mercury orbiter of the BepiColombo mission seems to stand at an unusual angle above its test chamber floor, that’s because it does…
NASA Remembers Its Fallen Heroes, 30th Anniversary of…
[caption id="attachment_7464" align="alignnone" width="985"] NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and his wife Alexis lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as part of NASA's Day of Remembrance, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, at Arlington…
UW-Madison researchers find Zika virus in Colombia, look…
[caption id="attachment_7460" align="alignnone" width="599"] Transmission electron micrograph of Zika virus. CYNTHIA GOLDSMITH/CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION - See more at: http://news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-researchers-find-zika-virus-in-colombia-look-for-ways-to-stop-it/#sthash.Z6sxI14X.dpuf[/caption] MADISON - In October 2015, a team of researchers at the University of…