Lifeboat Foundation

China decided not to guide the booster back through the atmosphere and it’s not clear exactly when or where it will come down to Earth. While it will largely burn up on return, there remains a slight risk of fragments causing damage or casualties.

According to researchers at The Aerospace Corporation “there is a non-zero probability of the surviving debris landing in a populated area—over 88 percent of the world’s population lives under the reentry’s potential debris footprint.”

While China is not alone in such practices, the size of the Long March rocket stage has drawn particular scrutiny.

Medics are on alert for cases of the rare infection that cause can be serious and even deadly to some people.

Project Mosquito barely got underway before it hit a dead end, with potential overseas designs waiting in the wings.

Scientists have just found that using cubic boron arsenide in semiconductors could prove to be much better than silicon. Is silicon on its way out the door?

A staggering 8 bytes of ferrite-core memory can be yours with the Core64 kit.

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The Swiss company called K-Team invented a new kind of robot! The engineering team took as a basis the swarm intelligence of ants and created the kilobot swarm. Each of the devices follows a small set of rules, but when placed together, they mold into some sort of a universal mind clever enough to solve complex tasks. In the future, this system will be able to unify not only kilobots but other robots too, the ones we can see only at exhibitions for now.

What will happen if they start swarming around cities of the future all at once? Which robots would come to our aid during the worst disasters? Why is this piece of magnetic slime learning how to sneak into your intestines? And how will robots change our lives in a real city of the future?

Get the low down on the main differences between the Robertson and Phillips screw. Perhaps, just perhaps, you’ll never use a Phillips screw ever again.

World’s most successful research submersible reaches 6,453 meters, its deepest dive ever.