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SpaceX Rocket Booster Landing — Close, But Not Quite
Yesterday’s landing attempt for the SpaceX Falcon-9 booster almost succeeded. The rocket came down on the robotic recovery ship, but had too much lateral velocity and tipped over. Meanwhile, the main mission to resupply the International Space Station is on track for … Continue reading
History of Camera Sales, with Smartphones Included
From Michael Zhang, writing at PetaPixel: A few months ago, we shared a chart showing how sales the camera market have changed between 1947 and 2014. The data shows that after a large spike in the late 2000s, the sales of … Continue reading
Fully Automated Airline Flights Are Already a Reality
Apparently, large commercial airline pilots already spend less than 7 minutes actually controlling their plane, according to a recent survey. Fully automated flight is pretty much already in place, including examples like the Centaur Optionally Piloted Aircraft. The military has … Continue reading
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3D-Printed Bionic Ants Work as a Terrifying Team
From Popular Mechanics, an article about 3-D printed bugs that work toward a common goal: Ants are known for their selflessness, working collectively for the greater good of the colony in order to move giant crumbs up giant anthills. That’s also … Continue reading
New version of Microsoft Office for the Mac is on the way, but will it help the bottom line much?
After a long wait, a new Mac version of Microsoft Office is on the way. There is a free downloadable preview version available from Microsoft, with the official release scheduled for some time in the second half of 2015. Faced … Continue reading
Boston breaks seasonal snowfall record
Residents in the Boston-Cambridge area can take some small comfort in the fact that this winter has in fact broken the record for most snowfall in a season. “Superbowls, World Series’, Stanley Cups, and snowfall records,” Mayor Martin J. Walsh tweeted. “We are truly … Continue reading
3-D printer for small molecules opens access to customized chemistry
As reported on the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s web site: Scientists led by Martin Burke, an HHMI early career scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, used a single automated process to synthesize 14 distinct classes of small molecules … Continue reading
New Horizons probe images a full orbit of Charon around Pluto
The images are still grainy, but NASA’s New Horizons probe is beginning to film Charon traveling in its orbit around Pluto. Follow this link to see the animated version!
Dwarfed by Big Pharma, Biotech by the numbers
From Bruce Booth’s blog, three charts that illustrate the extent to which large pharma companies dwarf small biotechs. In total, small biotech firms only spend an estimated $6 billion a year on research and development, approximately equal to Pfizer’s annual R&D budget. From … Continue reading
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