Tech: NASA’s first image of Mars from a CubeSat — (Report)
NASA's MarCO mission was designed to find out if briefcase-sized spacecraft called CubeSats could survive the journey to deep space. Now, MarCO --...
Tech: Oxygen-rich, life-supporting liquid water? Model describing conditions under which oxygenated water could exist...
A team led by scientists at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for NASA, has calculated that if liquid...
Tech: Nanosized ferroelectrics become a reality — (Report)
Using ferroelectricity instead of magnetism in computer memory saves energy. If ferroelectric bits were nanosized, this would also save space. But conventional wisdom...
Tech: Fracking wastewater accumulation found in freshwater mussels’ shells — (Report)
Elevated concentrations of strontium, an element associated with oil and gas wastewaters, have accumulated in the shells of freshwater mussels downstream from fracking...
Tech: New data science method makes charts easier to read at a glance —...
Doctors reading EEGs in emergency rooms, first responders looking at multiple screens showing live data feeds from sensors in a disaster zone, brokers...
Tech: Molecular memory can be used to increase the memory capacity of hard disks...
Single-molecule magnets are molecules capable of remembering the direction of a magnetic field that has been applied to them over relatively long periods...
Tech: Gravitational waves could shed light on dark matter — (Report)
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable astrophysicists to observe gravitational waves emitted by black holes as they collide with or capture...
Tech: Understanding the building blocks for an electronic brain — (Report)
Computer bits are binary, with a value of 0 or 1. By contrast, neurons in the brain can have all kinds of different...
Tech: Origami, 3D printing merge to make complex structures in one shot — ...
By merging the ancient art of origami with 21st century technology, researchers have created a one-step approach to fabricating complex origami structures whose...
Tech: Prototype design uses ultracold trapped atoms to measure pressure — (Report)
Many semiconductor fabricators and research labs are under increasing pressure from, of all things, vacuum. These facilities need to remove greater amounts of...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...