Tag: Space
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Tech entrepreneur Naveen Jain fleshes out plans for BlueDot innovation factory
Entrepreneur Naveen Jain takes a zero-G airplane flight. (Credit: Naveen Jain / Zero Gravity Corp. via Twitter) Naveen Jain’s Moon Express is well along in its plans for a lunar mission next year, but the Seattle dot-com entrepreneur is also pursuing “moonshots” here on Earth through his BlueDot venture. BlueDot, based in Bellevue, Wash., came…
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Scientists say supernovae spread fallout when human ancestors walked the earth
An artist’s impression shows a supernova explosion in its prime. (Credit: Greg Stewart / SLAC) Researchers say they’ve found evidence of supernova explosions that spewed radioactive fallout over Earth during the age when humanity’s ancestors were evolving into upright-walking, big-brained creatures. One of two studies published in the journal Nature identifies deposits of radioactive iron-60 in deep-sea cores extracted…
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Washington state lawmakers pass tough new cybercrime bill — but that’s about it for tech
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Cybercrime became more of a crime. But proposed tax-breaks and gender-pay-equity bills died in committee. That’s how a few bills affecting the technology industry fared this year in the Washington Legislature. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee could still veto some bills prior to an April 2 deadline. (Credit: Office of the Governor) The main purpose…
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Alaska Airlines changes Anchorage-Honolulu flight to catch total solar eclipse
A passenger aboard a Lufthansa flight watches a solar eclipse out the window in March 2015. Passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight will have a similar opportunity on Tuesday. (Credit: Lufthansa via YouTube) Now, that’s service: Amateur astronomers persuaded Seattle-based Alaska Airlines to shift its departure time for Tuesday’s flight from Anchorage to Honolulu 25…
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Aliens and cheeseburgers: Astronaut answers questions from 5-year-olds about life in space
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren answers questions from 5-year-olds as he stands inside a mockup of the International Space Station at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. (Credit: Wired / NASA) How do you know when to get up in space? And what do you eat? Kindergartners got answers to these and other burning questions about life on…
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J.J. Abrams’ ‘Moon Shot’ online documentary series focuses on Google Lunar X Prize
“Moon Shot” focuses on the rocketeers who are aiming for the moon. (Credit: GLXP) Film director/producer J.J. Abrams has been in on two of the biggest space-movie franchises ever, “Star Trek” and “Star Wars” – so maybe it shouldn’t be that surprising that he’s also in on “Moon Shot,” an online documentary series that tracks…
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HoloLens in space: NASA astronaut Scott Kelly dons Microsoft’s holographic headset
NASA’s Scott Kelly wearing a HoloLens headset on the International Space Station. (Via Microsoft) Microsoft this morning posted an initial picture of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly wearing the company’s HoloLens holographic headset on the International Space Station — part of a collaboration between the Redmond company and the U.S. space administration. The initiative, dubbed “Sidekick,” currently uses…
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Hanford’s scientists finally spill gravitational-wave secrets – but they still can’t tell all
The beamlines for the LIGO detector site at Hanford stretch out across the desert terrain of southeastern Washington. Each arm of the L-shaped detector is 2.5 miles long. (Credit: LIGO) HANFORD, Wash. – Physicists here had to keep mum for nearly five months about the gravitational-wave breakthrough they helped make, but they made up for their…
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Gravitational waves found! LIGO experiment watches two black holes smash together
A computer simulation shows two black holes shortly before they merge into one. (Credit: SXS) WASHINGTON, D.C. – After more than a decade of looking, scientists say they’ve detected the gravitational waves given off when two black holes merged into one bigger black hole. “Ladies and gentlemen, we have detected gravitational waves. We did it!” Caltech…
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Super Thursday: LIGO schedules the big reveal about its gravitational wave quest
This 3-D visualization shows the gravitational waves produced by two orbiting black holes. (Credit: NASA) It looks as if scientists have chosen Thursday as the day to announce a potentially Nobel Prize-winning discovery: the first detection of gravitational waves, a century after they were predicted by Albert Einstein. After months of rumors, simultaneous events have…