…Actually, it may well permit new types of unethical experiments, but it also may make it possible to safely pursue experiments which were considered unethical in the past, it says here

Check out Orbital Outfitters for your space travel needs: “industrial quality spacesuits and related services.”

Two recent articles have NASA talking moonbase and Hawking talking deep space. Perhaps the old dreams of the Twenty-First CenturyTM are returning.

An announcement like that waits in the future, but Columbus, Ohio has entered the preliminary race to build a spaceport that would service flights for PlanetSpace.

Ubiko, a robot-for-hire from Japan, may be a sign of things to come.

The Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium currently hosts an exhibit that features famous extra-terrestrials from popular culture.

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True invisibility may not be yet in sight, but a team of British and American researchers have developed a kind of proto-cloaking device.

chad writes, Turns out that if we dug a tunnel completely through the Earth (and removee all the air to reduce friction), a trip from one side of the planet to the other would only take 42 minutes. What an interesting coincidence.

y42 writes,
Researchers at the ETH Chair for Power Electronics have developed a matchbox-sized, 100 watts electrical generator, with an efficiency of close to 95 percent.

These ultra small gas turbines have a range of potential applications, from energy supply for portable heart-lung machines or artificial hearts to turbo compressors, which condense gas mixtures or air. This isn’t the kind of thing we normally report on, but it’s a heck of an acheivment, and (as y42 pointed out) can go a long way if you plan to build your own Iron Man armour.