Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 1132
Dec 28, 2015
Faster entanglement of distant quantum dots
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, quantum physics
Entanglement between distant quantum objects is an important ingredient for future information technologies. Researchers at the ETH have now developed a method with which such states can be created a thousand times faster than before.
Dec 27, 2015
NASA’s next Mars mission has been called off
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in categories: futurism, space travel
A U.S. science satellite slated to launch to Mars in March has been grounded due to a leak in a key research instrument, NASA said on Tuesday, creating uncertainty about the future of a widely anticipated effort to study the interior of the planet.
The spacecraft, known as InSight, was designed to help scientists learn more about the formation of rocky planets, including Earth.
The cancellation raises questions about the future of the research effort, as it will be another two years before Earth and Mars are favourably aligned for a launch. NASA has not said if it will have funding for the program, which was capped at $425 million US.
Dec 25, 2015
ArcaBoard: The first real hoverboard?
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, transportation
For decades now we’ve been teased with hoverboard concepts, either from science fiction or highly limited real-life versions, but now aerospace company Arca is taking orders for what it claims is the real deal. The ArcaBoard appears to be the closest thing to the technology from Back to the Future: Part II that we’ve seen so far.
Dec 25, 2015
Large machines for Ocean floor mining will begin field tests in 2016
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: futurism
Nextbigfuture wrote about Nautilus Minerals several times since 2010. Nautilus Minerals is the first company to commercially explore the seafloor for massive sulphide systems, a potential source of high grade copper, gold, zinc and silver. Nautilus is developing a production system using existing technologies adapted from the offshore oil and gas industry, dredging and mining industries to enable the extraction of these high grade Seafloor Massive Sulphide (SMS) systems on a commercial scale.
Nautilus’ copper-gold project, Solwara 1, is under development in the territorial waters of Papua New Guinea.
Here is an update based on a presentation on August 2015.
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