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AN ASTEROID the size of a 44-tonne lorry will zip past the planet tonight, astronomers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have warned.

Japan’s space agency just made history by landing robots on an asteroid.

Stephen and Neil deGrasse Tyson take NASA’s Mars Rover for a ride around Midtown Manhattan.

Rings Shadows, and Rhea and Epimetheus, Moons of Saturn… Credit: NASA/Cassini mission.

Elon Musk has provided several new, rare, and telling glimpses into how his rocket company, SpaceX, is building a spacecraft to reach Mars.

On September 17, Musk announced that SpaceX would fly Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa around the moon on the company’s Big Falcon Rocket or BFR. During that event, Musk showed off new renderings of the launch system, along with a few photos of the work going on inside SpaceX’s spaceship-building tent at the Port of Los Angeles.

These were the first new details about SpaceX’s rocket construction we’d gotten since April, when Musk posted a photo that revealed SpaceX was building the spacecraft using a 40-foot-long, 30-foot-wide cylindrical tool.

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Quantum computing ‘will enable us to predict and improve chemical reactions, new materials and their properties, as well as provide new understandings of spacetime and the emergence of our universe,’ the White House said.

Google, IBM, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and other key U.S. companies are set to attend a White House quantum computing meeting to be held on Monday, Reuters reports.

A groundbreaking technology still in its infancy, quantum computing could have a major impact on transportation, healthcare, communications, weather forecasting, artificial intelligence, and other areas. Quantum computing could, experts claim, revolutionize our society.

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Esse é o “The Looking Glass”, que clama ser um display holográfico interativo. Apesar de achar que o mesmo é um display 3D volumétrico e não um holograma real, isso não tira a graça dele.

Esse é o “The Looking Glass”, que clama ser um display holográfico interativo.

Apesar de achar que o mesmo é um display 3D volumétrico e não um holograma real, isso não tira a graça dele.

Continue reading “The Looking Glass — Um Display Holográfico Interativo” »

We celebrate NASA’s first 60 years of achievement.

Doctors at England’s Moorfields Eye Hospital identified an outbreak of Acanthamoeba keratitis, an eye disease that can cause blindness. This team thinks that the amoeba can travel through the water supply and infect contact wearers who aren’t careful.