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You Can Now Play 100 Revamped Classic Atari Games on xBox

Nov 8, 2016

If you're missing out on some retro gaming action on your Xbox One, Atari's new classic bundles will be right up your street and give you the choice of more than 100 different games from the Atari 2600 and arcade. The 100 games are split ...

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e2v to Be Global Strategic Re-Seller of Peregrine's High-Reliability RF Products for Space Market

Feb 14, 2016

e2v inc of Milpitas, CA, USA (which provides solutions, sub-systems and components to the medical & science, aerospace & defense and commercial & industrial markets) has signed a strategic re-seller agreement to be the sole provider to the ...

Tags: RF Products, integrated circuits

Prince of a Film

Oct 28, 2015

A screen capture from film The Little Prince. One of the most translated novellas globally, The Little Prince has reportedly found its way into 253 languages and dialects, selling as many as 200 million copies, but has rarely been made ...

Tags: film, the little prince, novellas

Noise in a Microwave Amplifier Is Limited by Self-Heating at Very Low Temperatures

Nov 17, 2014

Researchers have demonstrated how noise in a microwave amplifier is limited by self-heating at very low temperatures (J Schleeh et al, ‘Phonon black-body radiation limit for heat dissipation in electronics’, Nature Materials, 10 ...

Tags: Microwave Amplifier, transistor

2014 Marked The One-Year Point Since NEOSSat Was Successfully Launched Into Outer Space

Aug 13, 2014

Boyd Coatings Research Co., Inc. was selected to strategically coat and laminate a suitcase-sized microsatellite that orbits the Earth searching for near-earth asteroids and “space junk" that are difficult to spot using ground-based ...

Tags: NEOSSat, success, Construction

Astronomers Using ALMA Telescope Have Discovered Splattered Remains of Comets Colliding

Mar 11, 2014

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have discovered the splattered remains of comets colliding together around a nearby star; the researchers believe they are witnessing the total destruction ...

Tags: Consumer Electronics

Asteroids Can Have a Highly Varied Internal Structure

Feb 14, 2014

ESO's New Technology Telescope has been used to find the first evidence that asteroids can have a highly varied internal structure. By making measurements astronomers have found that different parts of the asteroid Itokawa have different ...

Tags: density measurements

A New Map Developed by Researchers From MIT and The Paris Observatory Charts The Size

Feb 8, 2014

To get an idea of how the early solar system may have formed, scientists often look to asteroids. These relics of rock and dust represent what today's planets may have been before they differentiated into bodies of core, mantle, and crust. ...

Tags: solar system, Jupiter, migration, Goldilocks

Scientists Using The Herschel Space Observatory Have Made The First Definitive Detection

Jan 22, 2014

Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Plumes of water vapor are thought to shoot up periodically from Ceres ...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Telescope

Europe's Rosetta Probe Is Due to Wake up From Years of Hibernation Monday

Jan 20, 2014

Europe's Rosetta probe is due to wake up from years of hibernation Monday, but scientists face an agonizing wait of several hours until the first signal reaches Earth and they can celebrate a new milestone in their unprecedented mission to ...

Tags: Spacecraft, Electronics

Not All Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) Play Nicely with The Nice Model

Jan 18, 2014

The Kuiper belt—the region beyond the orbit of Neptune inhabited by a number of small bodies of rock and ice—hides many clues about the early days of the Solar System. According to the standard picture of Solar System formation, ...

Tags: Consumer Electronics

Asteroid Mining Firms Have Begun Launching a Counterattack on The Academic Findings

Jan 16, 2014

Asteroid mining's prospects as a trillion-dollar industry could be mildly tarnished by a new Harvard study that found few space rocks near Earth worth mining. But asteroid mining firms have already begun launching a counterattack on the ...

Tags: asteroid mining, space rocks, space mining

Gemini Planet Imager's First Light Image of Beta Pictoris B

Jan 8, 2014

Gemini Planet Imager's first light image of Beta Pictoris b, a planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The star, Beta Pictoris, is blocked in this image by a mask so its light doesn't interfere with the light of the planet. In addition to ...

Tags: Gemini Planet Imager, image faint planets, exoplanet camera

NASA Engineers Like Kinect 2 as They Continue to Work on Spacer Robots

Jan 2, 2014

NASA engineers like what they see in Microsoft Kinect 2 as they continue to work on space robots. A NASA video released earlier this month shows how it is leveraging a combination of Kinect 2 along with Oculus Rift, the virtual reality ...

Tags: Kinect 2, space robots, NASA, Oculus Rift, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Asteroids Whose Orbits Bring Them Close to The Earth's Orbit Are Called Near Earth Objects

Dec 30, 2013

Asteroids (or comets) whose orbits bring them close to the earth's orbit are called near Earth objects. Some of them are old, dating from the origins of the solar system about four and one-half billion years ago, and expected to be rich in ...

Tags: Asteroid, primitive materials, young solar system, mineral

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