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2022 Heinlein Society Scholarship Winners Announced

July 15, 2022 Jason P. Hunt 448 Views 0 Comments academics, education, Heinlein Society, Robert A. Heinlein, scholarships

After receiving a record number of applications, the Heinlein Society has awarded its 2022 scholarships.

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Mission Accomplished: NASA and SpaceX Put America Back in Space

May 31, 2020 Daniel C. Handley 368 Views 0 Comments Artemis, astronaut, Demo-2, dragon, Falcon 9, Falcon9, International Space Station, ISS, Launch America, NASA, SpaceX

NASA and SpaceX have successfully put humans onto the International Space Station from US soil.

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Robert Downey Jr. Announces New Environmental Cleanup Program

June 7, 2019 Gabriel Coello 336 Views 0 Comments Footprint Coalition, Iron Man, Nanomachines, Robert Downey Jr.

The Iron Avenger takes his status as a hero into a new realm, announcing a real life project with robots and nanotech.

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Science News June 2, 2019

June 2, 2019 Daniel C. Handley 346 Views 0 Comments Android OS, Ark OS, black holes, cold fusion, Google, Hawking Radiation, Huawei, Mars, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Nano memory cards, Stephen Hawking

Hawking radiation tests, ice on Mars, Huawei’s SD issues, and Google failed at cold fusion.

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Science News, May 28th, 2019

May 28, 2019 Daniel C. Handley 405 Views 0 Comments ARM, asteroid, astrobee, Falcon 9, Ford, Huawei, Mars, Martian, mutation, NASA, pmi industries, robot, robotics, SpaceX, StarLink

This week, a binary asteroid flyby, humans mutating on Mars, Astrobees, a Starlink launch, the arrest of a SpaceX contractor employee, ARM breaks with Huawei, and Ford’s robot.

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Science News May 19, 2019

May 19, 2019May 19, 2019 Daniel C. Handley 325 Views 0 Comments Beresheet, breast cancer, Colorado Springs, facial recognition, lunar lander, mining, moon, moon quakes, NASA, Saturn, SpaceX, StarLink

Protecting Saturn’s rings, Moon quakes, Beresheet’s remains, Starlink delays, a new space hub, hydrogen planes, banning facial recognition, and detecting breast cancer.

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Science News May 14, 2019

May 14, 2019 Daniel C. Handley 244 Views 0 Comments antioxidants, Blue Origin, drug addiction, Einstein, free radicals, Jeff Bezos, laser, lunar lander, moon lander, nanocenia, nanoparticles, Pokémon, quantum entanglement

A new lunar lander, slowed aging, reality is a hologram, a new super laser, electric drug treatment, and Pokémon on the brain.

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Science News May 5th, 2019

May 5, 2019 Daniel C. Handley 257 Views 0 Comments 3d printing, AI, artificial intelligence, asteroid, autism, bionic, contact lens, crispr, DARPA, International Space Station, ISS, Microsoft, NASA, satellite, SpaceX, StarLink, stem cells

This week in Science: SpaceX launch, asteroid preppers, Starlink, a new UK laser, military contact lenses, 3D printed organs, skin cells to make embryos, a fetal DNA treatment, and monkey brain imagery.

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Science News April 28, 2019

April 28, 2019 Daniel C. Handley 240 Views 0 Comments Amazon, artificial intelligence, crispr, Elon Musk, IBM, ieee, ieee spectrum, rainn wilson, SpaceX, Tesla, university of pennsylvania, watson

SpaceX has a setback, the mute can speak, Amazon employees fired by computers, Watson gets pulled, US CRISPR trials approved, and Tesla brings us tech we didn’t know we needed.

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Mars InSight Seeks New Discoveries

November 27, 2018 Daniel C. Handley 321 Views 0 Comments geology, InSight, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, jpl, Mars, NASA, probe, Red Planet, satellite, Space

Manned missions to Mars? NASA’s InSight probe, which just landed and is tasked to dig under the surface of the planet, might just be another step towards that goal.

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SciFi4Chicks: The Total Eclipse of the Sun

July 20, 2017November 22, 2018 SciFi4Me Staff 1389 Views 0 Comments Astronomical Society of Kansas City, Astronomy, Eclipse, Jackie Beucher, science, SciFi4Chicks, SciFi4Me Radio, solar eclipse, telescope

Jackie Beucher of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City joins us for a chat about the upcoming solar eclipse on August 21.

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Making Computers Smarter By Making Them Stupider

July 7, 2017December 9, 2018 Daniel C. Handley 1875 Views 0 Comments a.i., artificial intelligence, Clearly Guilty, computers, Linux, Mycroft, open source, Operating Systems, robot, robotics, technology

Advances in Artificial Intelligence have been moderate at best. But could reducing the “smartness” of a computer be the solution?

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XPRIZE Gives Awards — The Tricorder Is Real!

April 15, 2017December 9, 2018 Daniel C. Handley 1847 Views 0 Comments DxtER, Dynamical Biomarkers Group, Final Frontier Medical Devices, medical technology, Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize, Star Trek, technology, tricorder, X Prize Foundation, X-Prize, XPRIZE

The X Prize for creating a STAR TREK-like Tricorder now has its winners. And the recipients of the award have changed the world of medicine for the better.

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SciFi4Chicks Dives Into HIDDEN FIGURES and STEM

March 27, 2017November 22, 2018 SciFi4Me Staff 1628 Views 0 Comments Allison Schroeder, Janelle Monae, Jim Parsons, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Mahershala Ali, Margot Lee Shetterly, NASA, Octavia Spencer, Oscars, podcast, SciFi4Chicks, SciFi4Me Radio, STEM, Taraji P. Henson, Theodore Melfi

This month, Mindy Inlow and Ann Laabs dive into the Oscar-nominated 2016 film HIDDEN FIGURES and the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).