Latest Articles on Space
-How Astronauts could hibernate on their voyage to Mars.
A manned trip to Mars would require astronauts to stay in a small condensed space for six to nine months. Astronauts would need a food, sleeping areas, and exercise equipment (to counter bone loss, etc). One day that has been proposed is putting astronauts into a "deep sleep" and making them hibernate while flying to the red planet. Lowering an astronauts body temperature would make them unconscious, so they wouldn't take any type of medicine to make them sleep for a long period of time. The people working with this idea propose that this hibernating technology could be used by the mid 2030s, around the same time when NASA intends to send its first manned mission to Mars.
Latest Articles on Technology
-Nissan: We'll have a self-driving car on the roads in 6 years.
The Japanese car company Nissan announced that they are working on drive-less cars and hope to have their product on the market by 2020. In the company's press release they stated, "Nissan Motor Company's willingness to question conventional thinking and to drive progress is what sets us apart. In 2007 I pledged that --- by 2010 --- Nissan would mass market a zero-emission vehicle. Today, the Nissan Leaf is the best-selling electric vehicle in history. Now I am committing to be ready to introduce a new ground-breaking technology, Autonomous Drive, by 2020, and we are on track to realize it." The automaker has one known competitor, Google, has been testing their drive-less cars for the last few years. Expect a shift towards smart vehicles and drive-less cars overtime.
Latest Articles on Health
-Minds that meld? Scientist uses his brain to control a person's finger.
Scientists have said that they have hooked up one person's brain to the internet so it could control a finger of another person. Earlier this month the man running the experiment, Rao sat in his lab with all the equipment on ready for this experiment to happen. On the other side of campus, Stocco had the same equipment on and was connected to the internet. Using this technology, Rao thought about moving his finer and Stocco's hand began to move. The next step in this process is to get it to the point of when two brains can have actual conversations with each other.
Credit to Space.com for the image.
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