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Solar Powered Plane Soars Over the Golden Gate Bridge

April 23, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The world’s first solar-powered plane is stretching its wings over the US. Today it took off from Moffett Field in Mountain View, California — the home of NASA’s Ames Research Center – and flew to San Fransisco, soaring over the Golden [...]

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Scientist Invents a Time Machine (*Wink*)

April 12, 2013

An interesting news item from Iran’s Entkhab news agency: Iranian scientist Ali Razeghi – who is also the managing director of Iran’s Center for Strategic Inventions — has registered a new invention of his own making: a time machine. It’s doesn’t actually take anyone to the past or future, but produces printed reports with details [...]

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New Meme Puts Space Robots in Their Place

April 3, 2013

Oh, those space robots. They don’t always do what we want them to do, but we love them anyway. If you need a fun diversion in your day, a new Tumblr site has arisen to call out the robots who have made mistakes. Called “Shaming Robots” it started innocently with an image posted of the [...]

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Solar Powered Plane to Fly Across the US

March 29, 2013

On May 1, the world’s first solar-powered plane will take off from Moffett Field in Mountain View, California — the home of NASA’s Ames Research Center – and fly across the US to New York. Even though the Solar Impulse plane could probably fly non-stop, day and night with no fuel, instead it will make [...]

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White House Petition: Could we Build the Starship Enterprise?

December 27, 2012

Could we build a version of the Starship Enterprise over the next 20 years? Credit: BuildTheEnterprise.org Earlier this year, an engineer who goes by the name of BTE Dan proposed building a full-sized, ion-powered version of a Constitution-Class Enterprise – from the original Star Trek – saying it could be built with current technology and [...]

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