Archive for the ‘Cosmos’ category

July the 21st 2009,  40 years ago the man landed on the Moon becoming the top from an era of remarkable achievements, as the nuclear power and the electronic computer. We would like to make a tribute to this epic, and overview the next frontiers of space exploring in spite of the slow down of such strategic innovation. Read the rest of this entry »

A scientific team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), may be able to remotely find extraterrestrial life, (e.g. from a large telescope or spaceborne instruments), elsewhere in the Universe by looking for left (or right) handed light reflected on its home planet. Read the rest of this entry »

Seven years ago, GEO600 started to look for gravitational waves (ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as black holes). GEO600 has not detected gravitational waves so far, but it might have made the most important discovery in physics for half a century: Our Cosmos may be sourced from the boundary of Universe as a hologram. Read the rest of this entry »

A team led by MIT researchers have released the most comprehensive independent review of the future of NASA spaceflight program undertaken in many years. The report recommends setting loftier goals for humans in space, focusing research more clearly toward those goals, and increasing cooperation with other nations and private industry.

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First attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is undergoing today, 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN’s new particle accelerator reaches a successful conclusion. Television coverage of the start-up is available through Eurovision.
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Scientists from the Cardiff Center for Astrobiology have developed a model showing that our solar system goes through the plane of the galaxy every 35-40 million years. This is accompanied by comets hurtling into the inner solar system, coinciding with mass life extinctions on Earth. The researchers estimate that we are now in one of the predicted collisions’ period.
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The project is based on a controversial theory that may gain traction in light of new findings described in a leaked NASA memo about the May 12 earthquake in China’s Sichuan province, when NASA caught early signs of China quake. The researchers hope to create a global network of roughly 20 satellites that would scan for telltale activity that some scientists (and old wives) say precedes large earthquakes.
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator which is being built at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. When it will switch on in 2008, it will be the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate on particles proprieties.
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Ten questions driving the geological and planetary sciences were identified in a new report by the National Research Council.  Aimed at reflecting the major scientific issues facing earth science at the start of the 21st century, the questions represent where the field stands, how it arrived at this point, and where it may be headed.
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Is anybody else out there?  The answer to this old question is: probably yes !

If we assume that depending on the basis of life only certain window of conditions can support it (i.e. within certain range of temperature, gases composition, gravity, electromagnetic radiation, water …) it appears almost impossible to match them, but not so much if we take into account the universe scale.
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