NASA Discovers Kepler-37: Smallest Planet Outside Our Solar System -- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released information that it discovered yet another planet, the smallest one they named as Kepler-37. This planetary entity...
By joell lapitan on Dec 1, 2012 in:
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Thanks to the hard work and dedication of the thousands of employees in the history of NASA, the American space program has led the charge for the world over the past fifty years. Although they have been forced to scale back and cut budgets in recent...
Time magazine comes up with some pretty amazing articles every year, remarkable pieces that make us gawk in awe (Yup! You've got me... I'm obsessed with using the word gawk). One of the things I look forward to from Time is its list o...
Humanity's most plausible warp drive theory might be better at blowing up stars than getting us from point A to point B.
By ComTECHnician on Nov 15, 2012 in:
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3D printing has become popular for fabricating parts from plastic, but using the technique with metals requires equipment that is a bit more higher end. Is this part of a general trend or will these exotic fabrication technologies be viable only for...
By ComTECHnician on Nov 10, 2012 in:
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NASA recently allowed an astronaut on the ISS to remotely control a small robot on earth, the first step toward direct control of a rover from Earth. Co-creator Keith Scott compared a packet's journey from Earth to the martian surface to Frogger's jo...