• Technology

    GOCE Harnesses Ion Propulsion to Capture First 'Gravity Map' of Earth

    By Clay Dillow Posted on 10.6.2009 3 Comments

    After six months of testing and very careful calibration, the European Space Agency’s GOCE satellite is sending back its first data sets as it now begins precisely mapping tiny variations in Earth’s magnetic field. How does one go about mapping the Earth’s fundamental force? As it turns out, very, very carefully.

    10.4.2009 at 07:29pm - Comment by kalvin baker

    Very COOL!!!! Maybe they will find something with the North and South poles?...

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    LG Announces 15-Inch OLED; Teases Massive 40-Inch Follow-Up

    By Corinne Iozzio Posted on 8.31.2009 7 Comments

    Making consumer OLED screens hasn't been easy. Sure, pocketable gadgets like the upcoming Zune HD have had them for a couple years now, but so far Sony has been the only company to get a screen on the market with a size in the double digits.

    9.3.2009 at 02:24am - Comment by kalvin baker

    If anyone can afford to buy one of these for me I would greatly appreciate it :)

  • Technology

    Is There Ice On Mars? Apparently So

    By Posted on 6.20.2008 22 Comments

    NASA spent $420 million to send the Phoenix Lander to Mars last year. Festooned with state-of-the-art detection equipment, the rover's task was to scour the red surface in search of elusive Martian ice. And today, the NASA mission finally did uncover some extraterrestrial frost, and it did it with its simplest tool, a shovel.

    6.21.2008 at 12:08pm - Comment by kalvin baker

    It's really to bad that the earth is going to burn to death in 2012, or we might have a future on mars...



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