Entries from August 2007
Scientists have created modern space-suit
Scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created modern space-suit called BioSuit which is able to provide to astronauts mobility during their space expeditions.
Idea to create a new suit for cosmonauts belongs to the professor of aeronautics Dava Newman who considers, that old suits are excessively bulky and do not provide sufficient mobility of astronauts […]
Categories: Space
Solar batteries’ coefficient of efficiency has reached the record value
Due to the joint efforts of laboratories, the research centers and commercial enterprises, USA scientists have managed to set a new record of solar batteries’ efficiency – it has made 42,8 percents.
The previous record was 40,7 percents, but for the area where the win in 0,2 percent is a norm, and one percent is a […]
Categories: Physics
Japanese have created glasses - monitor
Japanese company Olympus has created unique wireless glasses-monitor which are designed for work with a computer.
It is informed, that the new glasses allow their owner to see the image which is usually seen on the monitor. And development, first of all, is designed for those people who have to travel often and carry their portable […]
Categories: Inventions
Japanese astronomers have discovered abnormal black holes
Japanese astronomers have managed for the first time in the world to discover black holes of unknown before shape.
Researchers have fixed in the center of two galaxies black holes, which remind spheres, instead of torus (the geometrical figure similar to a bagel), as were earlier.
For the researches the Japanese scientists have chosen two galaxies which […]
Categories: Space
Shuttle Indeavour loses air
NASA experts till now cannot find the reason of air leak from a crew compartment in shuttle Indeavour, which is to be launched on August, 7 of the current year.
As it was informed earlier, air leak was revealed during tests carried out at the end of the last week.
In the beginning experts have assumed […]
Categories: Space
The most powerful telescope ALMA will be set in Chile
Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik in German Nuremberg has successfully finished tests of the tractor which is intended for the rise on a high-mountainous plateau in Chile large-tonnage aerials of radio-telescope ALMA.
ALMA is abbreviation from English Atacama Large Millimeter Array.
Till now there was not so powerful observatory in a southern hemisphere. Scientists assume, that the new powerful telescope […]
Categories: Space
New Hewlett-Packard technology picks up colors
Company Hewlett-Packard has developed new technology of color setting which will turn mobile phones in personal shopping mobile advisers.
Company has created Color Match technology which allows to receive professional advice on selection of color spectrum of decorative cosmetics or clothes with the help of the mobile phone.
Developers inform, that the new technology works simple - […]
Categories: General