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Is the US Out of the ISS?

By Stuart Fox Posted on 9.9.2008 5 Comments
The International Space Station maybe not be international for much longer. According to an NASA email leaked (by an undetermined source) to the Orlando Sentinel, the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2010 will cede de facto control of the ISS to Russia. That control will come just as NASA finishes assembling the ISS in 2011.

9.23.2008 at 04:58pm - Comment by Strangedayz26

I am hoping that private space companies will be able and ready to transport people into space within the next 5 years. Companies like Virgin Galactic may be able to do the space shuttle's job much more efficiently and much cheaper. This is what will happen soon and our government knows this. The Space shuttle is getting old and like I read above its equipment is dangerously old. Don/t worry it won't take much longer now for space to be open to the general public. BLAST OFF!
Science

Readers Ask: Where Are Our Mechs?

By Posted on 8.29.2008 19 Comments
Reader Nathan asks: "Do you think we'll ever be able to build robot mecha like the Gundams from the Japanese anime series Gundam or the Valkyries from the Japanese anime series Macross?" The comment box is open. Practical? Plausible? What are the obstacles? Submit your science and technology questions to fyi@popsci.com.

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9.23.2008 at 04:35pm - Comment by Strangedayz26

OK I see a great way for the use of mech technology. Soon we will have Ultra capacitors that will be able to store 100s of times more electricity than our current Li-Ion Batteries. \\\\ This will make it possible to operate many very neat robots and lead us further out of physical labor that wrecks our bodies. I would personally build a hovering robot that could read body language and predict if an enemy is about to become hostile. And then have the ability to take evasive maneuvers. Has anyone seen the new flying R/c helicopters? what a great tool these would be for doing in house and in city surveillance. Hey If they need to recharge the battery the mech would simply unfold a piece of solar thin-film and rest somewhere! Then when it is fully charged it could resume it's reconnaissance. It could even be fitted with weapons.
Gadgets

Will Cellphones Save the World?

By Posted on 9.22.2008 6 Comments
If you live in the United States it can be difficult to understand the role mobile phone technology plays across the globe. Here, you may use your phone for calls and messaging, perhaps for some computing lite, but likely little more. In Senegal, however, farmers are using phones to track crop prices, in Japan, writers are SMSing whole novels, and in Sweden, they're texting to apply for instant loans. An app that lets you kill time on the subway, this is not. Within a year and a half, half the world will use cellphones, predict analysts, and with the bulk of new users emerging from developing nations, the question of what phones can do for their owners has never before had such potentially world-changing answers. Enter Nokia and Dean Kamen.

9.21.2008 at 05:53pm - Comment by Strangedayz26

Very good article! Did anyone see the speech translation on an I-phone commercial? Amazing! Oh and I want all of my medical records immediately uploaded to my cell phone as soon as they are available... ANd also a program that checks symptoms with diseases and ijuries. Simply because my life has had a major set back due to the incompetence of our health care system. Well one we can design robots to do most of our physical labor we can truely foucus on world peace and escapeing this death trap of a Planet! Muhahah
Science

DNA from Scratch

By Posted on 6.9.2008 1 Comments
DNA provides the genetic code for everything from bacteria to blue whales through combinations of just four DNA units, or bases. Now chemist Floyd Romesberg of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego hopes to expand biology’s potential by adding more bases to the mix.

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6.12.2008 at 05:09pm - Comment by Strangedayz26

Ahhh hurry up my back is killing me!
Science

Future Human: The Evolution of Immediate Emotion

By Posted on 5.5.2008 6 Comments
In my Science Confirms the Obvious post today, I discussed the first psychological proof (so say the authors) that humans can indeed experience emotions without immediately knowing why. We do this, they say, because we evolved that way. True, scientists love that explanation, but here its quite intriguing. Say youre walking through the woods and encounter a grizzly bear. You see it and freeze that instant—even before your stomach drops with fear.

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6.4.2008 at 12:29pm - Comment by Strangedayz26

well put maddeneddsc. Humans have had to adapt to out enviroments and stimuli for quite a long time. But it seems that when a society gives larger amounts of people the ability to be proactive in problem solving. Which The U.S.is helping to spread world wide. The ability for the world to communicate instantaniously. And keep records of almost every cause and effect is about to propel us all forward faster than most Are willing to accept. GW is just a catalyst in this movement of enlightement. The world changes and we need more people to embrace this challenge.
Cars

Poise and Luxury on the Track

By Posted on 5.30.2008 3 Comments
The business of cars, like that of pop music, is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately proposition. Take Audi, which has moved scores of A4s since the mid-1990s. Like any other automotive hitmaker, every so often it must turn out a fresh one that reads like a John Grisham novel, a force multiplier that reacts to trends and keeps things moving forward. This can get tricky, as Ford found out when it tried to update the popular Taurus in 1996 and wound up, as Britney Spears did with Britney (the one where she tried to write her own songs), on the losing end of a pivotal moment.

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5.30.2008 at 08:24pm - Comment by Strangedayz26

I have always liked Audi especially the TT. And I'm glad to know they fixed the weight distro.
Technology

Japanese Brewery Introduces "Space Beer"

By Posted on 5.30.2008 13 Comments
Taking beer-making to a whole new sphere, Japan's famous Sapporo Holdings Ltd. plans to launch a beer in November that's literally from out of this world. The brewery will collaborate with scientists at the Okayama University in Japan to concoct this unearthly beverage from a third generation of barley grains that spent five months on the International Space Station in 2006.

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5.30.2008 at 07:45pm - Comment by Strangedayz26

growing barley in space thank goodness they are using the ISS to make money! we should all promote this
Cars

The Race to 100 MPG

By Posted on 2.11.2008 12 Comments
Over the past several decades, the promise of the "car of tomorrow" has remained unfulfilled, while the problems it was supposed to solve have only intensified. The average price of a gallon of gas is higher than at any time since the early 1980s. The Middle East seems more volatile than ever. And even climate skeptics are starting to admit that the carbon we´re pumping into the atmosphere might have disastrous consequences. To these circumstances, automakers have responded with a fleet of cars that averages 21 miles per gallon, about four miles per gallon worse than the Model T.

5.29.2008 at 12:18pm - Comment by Strangedayz26

The people in the U.S. are the most innovative and hardworking chaps in the world. Most of us are just too greedy and selfcentered to channel that energy. into somthing that might help us all. Most people are reactive instead of proactive. I thank the powers that be for the tool of the internet to combat this shameful state of denial most are living in. And Popular Science is the most proactive publication I have ever come accross. Maybe that is why I have subscribed since I was old enough to read.