Revealed: Elon Musk Explains the Hyperloop, the Solar-Powered High-Speed Future of Inter-City Transportation - Businessweek
So, science, or science fiction? About a dozen people at Tesla and SpaceX have helped Musk with the design and checked the physics behind the Hyperloop. Again Video: Conard: Musk's Hyperloop Tempered By Technology Story: With SolarCity IPO, Elon Musk May Get Clean Tech Right Vance is a technology writer for Bloomberg Businessweek in Palo Alto, Calif
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The grant, Synergies among Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture: An integrated research and training model, awarded to the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) and co-directed by the Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy (Center for Synergy) and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), will support a faculty project director, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and staff in ARHU and the University Libraries. Specific research projects will be undertaken in collaboration with The Center for the History of the New America, which houses the Archive of Immigrant Voices; The David C
About Space and Astronomy: A Closer Look at Our Universe
Learn more about it! Share Meet the James Webb Space Telescope The James Webb Space Telescope is the successor to the wildly successful Hubble Space Telescope. Share Astronomers Discover a Ring of Rocks around a Star The latest look at how planets form around young stars, provided by a radio astronomy installation that stretches across England
Voyager - The Interstellar Mission
In August 2012, Voyager 1 made the historic entry into interstellar space, the region between stars, filled with material ejected by the death of nearby stars millions of years ago. If the outside particles show a sudden increase and the inside particles a sudden decrease, and these levels hold steady, the spacecraft are closing in on the edge of interstellar space
NOAA satellite sends back view of planet Earth Fulfilling an idea dreamed up by former Vice President Al Gore more than 17 years ago, NASA has released the first in a daily series of Earth snapshots from a newly-launched spacecraft stationed a million miles away. Live coverage: Stormy forecast delays Delta 4 launch to Thursday The launch of the seventh Wideband Global SATCOM military communications satellite aboard a Delta 4 rocket booster has been rescheduled for Thursday at 8:07 p.m
Share This Page Photo An artist's impression showing GJ 436b at the beginning of its transit across the surface of its parent star, a red dwarf that is half the diameter of our sun. After recording the birds in high-speed videos, researchers at Stanford University and elsewhere found that lovebirds turn their heads precisely at the moment their wings cover their eyes, minimizing the time that their vision is obscured
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The Energy Story - Chapter 7: Electricity Transmission System
From these substations (like in the photo to the right), electricity in different power levels is used to run factories, streetcars and mass transit, light street lights and stop lights, and is sent to your neighborhood. The voltage is eventually reduced to 220 volts for larger appliances, like stoves and clothes dryers, and 110 volts for lights, TVs and other smaller appliances
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The sun is about 26,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is about 80,000 to 120,000 light-years across (and less than 7,000 light-years thick). The Planets The nine planets that orbit the sun are (in order from the Sun): Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter (the biggest planet in our Solar System), Saturn (with large, orbiting rings), Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto (a dwarf planet or plutoid)
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California Leads the Nation In 2006, California made a major long-term commitment to solar power by passing the California Solar Initiative, a ten-year incentive program with the goal of installing 3,000 megawatts of solar panels on the equivalent of one million rooftops. Vanguard I, the first solar-powered satellite celebrated its 53rd birthday this year, setting mileage records and holding the title of being the oldest artificial satellite still in orbit
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The highly rarefied region above the chromosphere, called the corona, extends millions of kilometers into space but is visible only during a total solar eclipse (left). (Exactly which bodies should be classified as planets and which as "smaller objects" has been the source of some controversy, but in the end it is really only a matter of definition
Pluto Not a Planet, Astronomers Rule
How to Use XML or RSS National Geographic Daily News To-Go Listen to your favorite National Geographic news daily, anytime, anywhere from your mobile phone. "There are finally, officially, eight planets in the solar system." In a move that's already generating controversy and will force textbooks to be rewritten, Pluto will now be dubbed a dwarf planet
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Search for Other Earths In an astronomical breakthrough, scientists have begun discovering planet after planet circling around distant stars as the search narrows for a world like our own. When Pluto is near the sun, it has a thin atmosphere, but when Pluto travels to the outer regions of its orbit, the atmosphere freezes and collapses to the planet's surface
The Nine Planets Astronomy for Kids
Click on the portal to explore the planets! Yikes! The astronomers have demoted Pluto so there are now only eight planets; Pluto is no longer officially a planet. To create a simpler, more focused atmosphere, I've eliminated the more advanced concepts, emphasized the more basic concepts, and given it more of a 'kid-friendly' look-and-feel
Be prepared for a long walk! If you build your solar system on a roll of toilet paper, you can make the Sun about .4 inches (10 mm) across and still fit the entire solar system on the roll. I made my first scale model on a roll of teletype paper tape (anyone remember that stuff?) On this 1-inch tape, my Sun was the size of the tape - 1 inch in diameter
Similar in structure and size to Earth, Venus' thick, toxic atmosphere traps heat in a runaway 'greenhouse effect.' The scorched world has temperatures hot enough to melt lead. Like Earth, Mars has seasons, polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons and weather, but its atmosphere is too thin for liquid water to exist for long on the surface
Planet Order from the Sun; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune Our knowledge of our solar system is extensive but it is far from complete. Please visit our Astronomy news section which gives news, notes and general observations, we also have an interactive tour of the solar system (loads in a new window) All planets can be seen with a small telescope or binoculars and private observatories continue to provide useful information
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