On Saturday at 10:02 a.m. EST an Atlas V rocket carrying its precious cargo, the Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover, took off successfully from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral. A statement from NASA Project Manager Peter Theisinger confirmed that all had gone according to plan.

The prototyped EV equipped with a wireless power feeding system is based on the electric version of Volkswagen's "Golf." IHI Corp announced Nov 22, 2011, that it has added a wireless power receiving function to an electric vehicle (EV) and begun to test it by simulating actual use conditions.

According to the company's data team, in 2008 the average amount of separation between any two given people on the network was 5.28 steps. Just three years later, it's 4.74.

A fifth giant planet was kicked out of the early solar system, according to computer simulations by a US-based planetary scientist. The sacrifice of this gas giant paved the way for the stable configuration of planets seen today, says David Nesvorný, who believes that the expulsion prevented Jupiter from migrating inwards and scattering the Earth and its fellow inner planets.

pretty impressive

Out-of-control Russian space probe may be 'most toxic falling satellite ever: A Russian space probe aiming to land on a Mars moon was stuck circling the Earth after equipment failure Wednesday, and scientists raced to fire up its engines before the whole thing came crashing down.

Last year researchers at Imperial College London proposed that along with being used to cloak physical objects metamaterials could also be used to cloak a singular event in time. A year later, researchers from Cornell University have demonstrated a working "temporal cloak" that is able to conceal a burst of light as if it had never occurred.

Greenwich could lose its place at the centre of global time if a move to "atomic time" is voted in by the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva in January 2012.

smaller and smaller...

"Switchable nanomaterials-materials that can change their properties and/or function in response to external stimuli-have potential applications in electronics,..."

Watch your head

Does ESA really want to sent 2 S/C to this rock ?

"There are few things as maddening as being in the middle of a task on a computer, and having the software freeze up on you." Microsoft's solution ;)