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Five Things About Coral and CORAL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
NASA's new COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) field campaign kicks off its data-gathering phase with an operational readiness test on Oahu, Hawaii, starting the week of June 6. Over the next year, ... These data will help them answer fundamental questions about how reefs are changing globally due to the effects of climate change and human activities....

LEAF Festival (Logan City Council)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
This year's Logan Eco Action Festival will be greener and louder than ever before thanks to the addition of live bands and workshops in urban farming and recycling ... 'Sacred Earth are the one of the nation's leading ambience, spiritual and meditative music performers, and will bring their unique blend of sounds and calming vibes to LEAF for the first time,' she said....

New ‘Einstein Ring’ Discovered By Dark Energy Camera

Edit Universe Today 03 Jun 2016
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity predicted the phenomena of gravitational lensing ... Einstein's General Relativity was published in 1915, but a few years before that, in 1912, Einstein predicted the bending of light ... The objects are more than just pretty artifacts of nature ... Bettinelli was pouring over data from what's known as the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) of the 4m Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Observatory, in Chile....

Space X CEO Elon Musk Plans To Send Man To Mars By 2024

Edit Inquisitr 03 Jun 2016
“It has the interior volume of an SUV ... And it also doesn’t have the capability of getting back to earth ... SpaceX will need a huge rocket that has the capability to transport a large number of people and hardware to the said planet ... The first price list came out earlier this year, with prices for two sizes of rockets traveling into two different types of Earth orbit....

Thumbs down to CSL facility at Kandla port

Edit The Hindu 03 Jun 2016
The ministry’s move comes in the wake of a techno-economic feasibility study held at the behest of the Cochin Shipyard giving a thumbs down to the proposal. “The 320 acres of land offered at Tuna in Kandla for an off-campus shipbuilding, repair facility by the Cochin Shipyard falls in the inter-tidal region ... The yard has its hands full right now, with infrastructure expansion to the tune of Rs.3,000 crore in the offing....

Ghaziabad railway station set for a revamp

Edit The Hindu 03 Jun 2016
“Ghaziabad is one of the oldest stations in Delhi-NCR and sees a lot of freight and passenger train traffic ... “Also, encroachments outside the station adds to the lack of cleanliness,” the official said ... Four of the platforms at the railway station have now coach guidance systems to help out passengers, water vending machines, solar pumps and better flooring....

Tech moguls declare era of artificial intelligence

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 03 Jun 2016
While Musk's description of an injectable human-computer link may sound like science fiction, top tech executives repeatedly said that artificial intelligence (AI) was on the verge of changing everyday life during a discussion at a tech industry conference in California this week ... will hatch in the next few years, he said....

Winnipegger details Canada's most famous UFO sightings

Edit Toronto Sun 03 Jun 2016
The 1947 UFO incident in Roswell, New Mexico is the most famous of its kind, but Chris Rutkowski believes there are more compelling cases that have happened in Canada — they just haven't received the same attention because they happened north of the U.S ... One of the pages of RCMP documents is titled ... When he went to see the hole in the ice the object should have made, there was no sign of impact....

Transformers: Earth Wars rolls out on mobile as Backflip releases its second Hasbro game

Edit Venture Beat 03 Jun 2016
Earth Wars, a mobile base-building strategy game (think Clash of Clans, but with the iconic Optimus Prime and Megatron instead of those loony warriors from Supercell’s hit) ... In Earth Wars, you side with either Prime and the Autobots or Megatron and the Decepitcons, and the conflict apparently “decides the fate of planet Earth.” You ......

What’s new and what’s next in remote sensing (Texas A&M; AgriLife)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
Remote sensing involves sensors and recording devices-such as visual or infrared cameras platforms-ground, aerial, or space vehicles to carry the sensors equipment and methods for data storage, analysis, and interpretation a wide variety of applications beyond agriculture the possibility of tracking individual plants or animals over time....

Express comeback falls short in Nashville

Edit Austin American Statesman 03 Jun 2016
The Round Rock Express scored two runs in the ninth and had the tying run at the plate, but Doug Bernier was called out on strikes to give the Nashville Sounds an 8-5 win on Thursday night in Nashville, Tenn ... The Sounds (33-21) built a 6-2 lead by the third inning, ......

The lost (microbe) colony: bacteria make underwater 'ruins' off Greek island

Edit The Guardian 03 Jun 2016
Greek archaeologists who dove to the site near Alikanas Bay, off the island of Zakynthos, were baffled by the eerie scene they found 7-15ft (2-4 meters) down ... “The earth’s crust is a rather leaky reservoir,” Andrews said ... Natural gas is more likely to bleed out of the earth in deep water, and most undersea oil fields are found in the deep, making such formations more likely far below the range of divers....

Making bricks from regolith (because there’s no Home Depot on Mars) (College of William and Mary)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
Regolith is the Martian equivalent of what would be called dirt or soil on our planet ... Curiosity, Pathfinder and other Mars missions have analyzed the chemical composition of regolith and scientists have found that there's regolith-like rock here on earth ... The collaborators pointed out that lead, a venerable and effective earthly radiation shield, is an obvious non-starter because of the weight....
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