TOP 100 SCIENCE SITES
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| Peter Staudhammer, Who Designed NASA Instruments, Dies at 73 Peter Staudhammer, a wide-ranging aerospace engineer and executive, helped design instruments and engines used by NASA in landings on Mars and the Moon. nytimes.com |
Analogue logic for quantum computing Alpha Galileo: Digital logic, or bits, is the only paradigm for the IT world, and up to now researchers used it almost exclusively to study quantum information processing. But European scientists, in a series of firsts, have proved that an analogue approach is far easier in the quantum world.<br /> nanoforum.org |
A Space Robot With Arms to Make R2D2 Jealous The space shuttle takes off on Tuesday with a robot named Dextre in its cargo bay, which will be assembled during three of the mission’s five scheduled spacewalks. nytimes.com |
Ride Of A Lifetime Closer Than You Think Entrepreneurs of the new commercial space age plan to start test flights in 2010 of a practical four-engine rocket ship that will take people on Mach 2 thrill rides up to 200,000 feet and which also has the interest of the Air Force. feeds.cbsnews.com |
Look! In the Sky. It’s a Rocket Racer. The Rocket Racing League, a long-promised attempt to create a kind of Nascar of the skies, will hold its first exhibition races this year. nytimes.com |