Archive for the ‘innovation’ category: Page 194
Apr 12, 2016
Watch Stephen Hawking Deliver a Mysterious Announcement on Space Exploration
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: innovation, space travel
Stephen Hawking will be making a big announcement today about space exploration. What will it be? Find out at noon, EST.
Hawking and Yuri Milner of the Breakthrough Prize have been building up to an announcement on Project Starshot. So far, the only thing known about the new project is that it has to do with space exploration.
But what’s Hawking’s big reveal about the project? No one knows yet—but it’ll be streaming live right here at noon, EST. Watch along with us.
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Apr 12, 2016
$100-Million Plan Will Send Probes to the Nearest Star
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: innovation
Funded by Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner and with the blessing of Stephen Hawking, Breakthrough Starshot aims to send probes to Alpha Centauri in a generation.
By Lee Billings on April 12, 2016.
Apr 6, 2016
Canadians to develop space mining tool
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: innovation, space
Could benefit China and their own efforts in 2017.
Deltion Innovations aims to design a drill that would prospect for water, ice and resources on the moon and beyond.
Apr 5, 2016
Taiwanese research institute is wrapped in an undulating skin of 4,000 aluminum fins
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: energy, innovation
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is located at Central Taiwan Innovation and Research Park in Nantou, Taiwan. It is expected to become the central facility of the Science Park to be built in this region. Noiz Architects and Bio Architecture Formosana won the competition to design the building in 2010. During the development phase, the project site had to be relocated once during the design development phase, and the construction finally completed in September 2014.
Related: Japanese research center fuses natural design elements with energy efficiency.
Apr 5, 2016
Will this breakthrough see an electric car in every driveway?
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: innovation, transportation
Electric car batteries are getting cheaper.
Will we all drive electric cars one day? http://wef.ch/1MaNk4I
Apr 3, 2016
Tesla Unveils Model 3 | Tesla Motors
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: automation, business, Elon Musk, energy, innovation, robotics/AI, science, sustainability, transportation
Tag: Tesla
Mar 30, 2016
Reaching for the stars: How lasers could propel spacecraft to relativistic speeds
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: innovation, space travel
In a bold but scientifically sound proposal, NASA-funded research has laid out a roadmap toward spacecraft with relativistic speeds for the exploration of nearby stars (Credit: NASA). View gallery (8 images)
How do you send man-made probes to a nearby star? According to NASA-funded research at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), the answer is simple: assemble a laser array the size of Manhattan in low Earth orbit, and use it to push tiny probes to 26 percent the speed of light. Though the endeavour may raise a few eyebrows, it relies on well-established science – and recent technological breakthroughs have put it within our reach.
Mar 28, 2016
Politicisation of NBN a ‘tragedy’ that has held back innovation, ABC’s Q&A told
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: innovation
Innovations expert Sandy Plunkett joins panellists in criticising government’s controversial NBN model, but Wyatt Roy says it’s about separating ‘rhetoric and reality’.