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Smart-1 Final Impact Caught on Film

Following on from my earlier post yesterday concerning the fate of the European Space Agency’s Smart-1 probe, which can be viewed here, it has been confirmed that the probe, which had completed over two thousand orbits during its mission as it mapped the lunar surface, successfully completed its final journey …



Farewell to Smart-1 – The End Looms

In only a matter of hours, the European Space Agency’s Smart-1 probe will end its three year mission in spectacular, if not rather undignified form as it impacts with the moon at an estimated 4,500mph.
As long as the probe misses the rims of craters on its final, shallow decent, the …



Submarines may soon have Fins

Following on from research conducted by William Megill at the Centre for Biomimetic & Natural Technologies, based at the University in Bath in the UK, it would appear that the shape of submarines may change radically over the next decade in that, rather than being propelled by propellers, they may …



Cloaking Devices Proven to be Theoretically Possible

Cloaking devices proven mathematically possible.



Robot Cameras – Development of the “Surgical Bug”

This week the New Scientist reported that pill-sized, robot cameras that will crawl through our bodies in order to give surgeons an inside view of areas of concern are soon to enter human trials.
Though cameras that can be swallowed to relay internal pictures from within a patient’s body already exist, …



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