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The Japanese space agency JAXA successfully unfurled the solar sail on the IKAROS demonstrator back on 10 June and now they have the photos to prove it. Taken by a tiny camera module launched from IKAROS, the photo was transferred from the camera module to the probe and then on back to earth. For those not up on what's going
On the 16th May 1960, Theodore Maiman at the Hughes Research Lab in California fired up the first confirmed demonstration of a laser using a synthetic ruby. A few months later on 12th December and persuing a different line of research, Ali Javan at Bell Labs, showed the first helium-neon gas-discharge laser. One of the key differences between the two versions,
I announce a couple of contest and a new initiative that I hope will help some Ohana get started with some new projects. Today's news was dominated by the iPhone but I dug around and found the rest of the stories out there. To all of you that faithfully listen thanks for being part of the Ohana. Todd.. Sponsor: Visit
If, like me, you have always believed that you never stop learning, and that the pursuit of knowledge and understanding is part of the human condition, then I think you will love this. "In Our Time" , one of the BBC's flagship radio programmes, now has its archive online, going back to 1998. "In Our Time" is a weekly radio programme
The BBC reports that the a team of scientists from Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, Italy have found three new species of tiny creatures living over 2 miles down in the Mediterranean Sea. It's so deep and dark there's almost no oxygen whatsoever and although only 1mm in size, this is the first time that anything other than bacteria have
I think I'd better learn to knit and get a few sweaters and scarves under way. Just in case we step into a global cooling period, thanks to an Icelandic volcano with a hot temper. If you think it can't happen, it's only because your human memory is rather short. I'm reading a really interesting book called "Cold," by Bill
As we reach limits with Copper and still want data faster, the Intel Light Peak Technology will allow you to transfer a Blu-Ray movie within 30 seconds. Optical technology also allows for smaller connectors and longer, thinner, and more flexible cables than currently possible. While Intel realizes that they have to work with standards groups it will be fun to