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The Future of Clean Energy Could Be Beamed Down from Space

The idea has been around for decades, but space-based solar power is closer to reality now than ever, and could alleviate some pollution.

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We could soon be getting energy from solar power harvested in space

The idea of space-based solar power (SBSP) – using satellites to collect energy from the sun and “beam” it to collection points on Earth – has been around since at least the late 1960s. Despite its huge potential, the concept has not gained sufficient traction due to cost and technological…

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Janus: The Strange White Dwarf With Dual Elemental Composition

Astronomers Discover Two-Faced Star: Hydrogen on One Side, Helium on the Other

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Astronomers Find a Strange Two-Faced Zombie Star

The white dwarf, nicknamed Janus, has one side helium, one side hydrogen.

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Morphing NASA robot could someday walk, fly and drive over alien planets (video)

A team from Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has designed something that goes way beyond your typical rover, and may be the next step in robotic planetary exploration.

Space

How can we get electricity from space?

The UK government has given the go-ahead for a £4.3 million project to harness the Sun’s rays via a “Bond-style” floating solar power station that could supply up to a quarter of the country’s electricity.

The Week

UK innovators get £4.3m to develop space-based solar power

Minister says technology to collect energy and beam it to Earth could help boost UK’s energy security

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Scientists beam solar power to Earth from space for 1st time ever

Researchers have demonstrated a first for the wireless transmission of near-limitless solar energy through space by delivering a measurable amount of energy back to Earth.

Space

NASA Spaceship Plans To Study $10 Quadrillion Asteroid

The craft will journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

Zenger

Mind-Reading Machines Could Lead to a Major Neuroscience Breakthrough

Brain-computer interfaces could give sufferers of ALS, locked-in syndrome, and other disorders the ability to convert thought to speech.

Inverse

The mystery of how Mars meteorites reach Earth may finally be solved

The mystery of how meteorites from Mars can reach Earth may have been solved, as scientists discover rocks can be hurled far from the Martian surface by giant impacts.

Space

Scientists have watched the end of the world

Scientists have watched what the end of the Earth could look like, reported The Telegraph. The fate of planet Earth is “sealed”, said the paper - in five billion years it will be “engulfed by our own Sun and devoured by a stellar inferno”. Experts from Harvard, Caltech and MIT…

The Week

With a Gulp and Burp, a Bloated Star Swallows a Jupiter-Sized Planet

In a glimpse of the dismal fate awaiting Earth, scientists for the first time have observed a star, bloated in its old age, swallowing a Jupiter-like planet, then expelling some material into space in an energetic belch. Researchers said on Wednesday the star was in the early stages of what…

Asharq Al-Awsat

This star ate its own planet. Earth may share the same fate

For the first time, astronomers have caught a star in the act of swallowing a planet, providing a glimpse into how the sun may eventually eat up Earth.

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Lab-grown solar flares reveal secrets of the sun's coronal loops

Mini solar flares created in the lab could improve our understanding of coronal loops and the high-energy emissions from the sun that can threaten communication and power systems on Earth.

Inverse

Jupiter’s Radiation Creates a Spectacle 15 Times Brighter Than the Northern Lights

Jupiter is well known for its spectacular aurorae. But Ganymede, Io, Callisto, and Europa get quite the lightshows, too.

Inverse

This Pill Sensor Could Track Digestive Conditions In Never-Before-Seen Detail

A new pill-sized ingestible device uses an electromagnetic field to offer real-time updates on the digestive system to doctors.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Vibrating Pill, Ingestible Sensor: Mini Robots Tackle Gut Disorders

A pill that vibrates to relieve constipation, a sensor that can be tracked in the gut -- medical researchers are turning to tiny robots to treat or diagnose gastrointestinal disorders. "This is a very booming field," said Saransh Sharma, a doctoral student at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) involved…

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Leonardo Da Vinci’s understanding of gravity was ‘centuries ahead of his time’, study says

Italian polymath modeled gravitational constant to around 97 per cent accuracy, scientists say

Inverse

40 years ago, NASA launched the space telescope that proved JWST could work

IRAS is a sometimes forgotten spacecraft that proved that infrared astronomy had a bright future.

Inverse

This bold new mission will try beaming solar power down from space

While the technology behind solar cells has existed since the late 19th century, generating solar power in space presents some serious challenges.

Inverse

New super-Earth study solves a baffling exoplanet mystery

A new model suggests why some solar systems collect remarkably similar large, rocky worlds.

Inverse

This tiny 2D wormhole could finally solve the biggest problem in physics

The experiment may eventually help tie together two contentious sides of physics, general relativity and quantum mechanics.

Inverse

Machine learning could translate thoughts to speech in near real-time

Scientists have used deep learning to decode thoughts into speech, which can benefit people who lost their ability to talk.

The Guardian - UK

Astronomer Virginia Trimble: ‘There were 14 women on the Caltech campus when I arrived in 1964’

The veteran scientist reflects on her career as an astronomy prodigy, the face of the Twilight Zone and Richard Feynman’s life model

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