Mark Hoffman : Science World Report

Mar 26, 2013 12:29 AM EDT

Nanocapsules as Infection Detectors Will Protect Burn Victims

Medical researchers presented a revolutionary wound dressing technology, currently in development and testing stage, which can detect infections and thus alert physicians of the infected wound by a simple color change. Infections in burn victims are hard to detect at the moment, and can be deadly.

Mar 25, 2013 09:31 PM EDT

Asteroid Mining And Space Colonization a Question of When Not If

A new age of space exploration has begun, one could say just in this current decade as several new private space companies are starting real business outside of Earth.

Mar 25, 2013 03:59 PM EDT

NASA Prepares For Solar Conjunction Blocking Mars to Earth Communications

NASA engineers are getting ready for the next Mars solar conjunction that will put two rovers and two Mars orbiting spacecraft beyond reach because all communications between Earth and Mars, with the sun in between, will be blocked for most of the month of April.

Mar 25, 2013 12:25 PM EDT

2045 Initiative Will Sponsor Research in Cybernetic Immortality

A major goal of the 2045 Initiative is to establish the world's first research center for immortality. The initiative was launched by Russian Internet mogul Dmitry Itskov who is now looking for billionaire and millionaire backers for the grand project that offers the chance of immortality as payoff:...

Mar 23, 2013 11:53 PM EDT

Unusually Low Sun Activity Expected to Give Way to Maximum And Solar Storms This Year

The 11-year cycle of solar activity was supposed to be at a maximum in these months, but our sun is instead very quiet until now, apart from the occasional CME shot towards Earth, with only light effects for the last two this week and last month.

Mar 23, 2013 07:25 PM EDT

What Is The Lawson Criteria, Or How to Make Fusion Power Viable

The magic figure to ignite a sustained fusion fire is a triple product of three crucial parameters, greater than 5 x 1021 m-3s keV . In its high power experiments of 1997 JET achieved around one fifth of that value.

Mar 23, 2013 12:52 AM EDT

Beer Is So Great, It Made Humans Settle Down To Grow More Wheat

Synthesizing dozens of studies on an ancient culture which is widely believed to be the cradle of agriculture, three researchers from Simon Fraser University say they found evidence that beer making was a major driver of this crucial cultural development.

Mar 22, 2013 06:08 PM EDT

Another 3D-Printed Moon Base Concept Uses Sintered Regolith Bricks

A team of space architects presented their concept for a 3D-printed Moon base called SinterHab near the Lunar South Pole in March, after Foster and Partners together with ESA announced that they had conducted first tests for another design and concept in January this year.

Mar 22, 2013 04:10 PM EDT

Another Secret to Longevity Unveiled: Greek Coffee

The people of the Greek island Ikaria are a phenomenon as they live on average 10 years longer than people in the rest of, also highly ranked, Western Europe and longer than anywhere else in the world.

Mar 22, 2013 03:36 PM EDT

Next Gen Rocket Engine Merlin 1D of SpaceX Achieves Flight Qualification

The next generation of SpaceX's main rocket engine, Merlin 1D, is now qualified to be used in regular Falcon 9 launches after completing a 28 test qualification program, the company announced recently.

Mar 21, 2013 05:57 PM EDT

Revolutionary Memory Prototype Combines Graphene And Molybdenite

EPFL scientists presented a flash memory prototype that could very well enable the next series of memory speed and capacity explosions.

Mar 21, 2013 04:33 PM EDT

Sapphire Blue Melting Ponds on Arctic Ice

When the air warms up and the sunlight beats down on Greenland's ice sheet each spring and summer, marvelous sapphire-colored ponds form up like swimming pools.