Tag: ROCKETSCIENCE

Some are calling NASA's failed launch of a pair of telescopes using a balloon a "debacle" and "calamitous," but we think these outlets aren't giving the space agency the credit it deserves. These are rocket scientists after all. Perhaps, and bear with us here, turning millions of dollars in research equipment into an ad hoc wrecking ball was actually a calculated marketing ploy to capture the ...

Seriously, is there anything a laser can't do? A team of mad scientists in Washington have concocted a system that could essentially eliminate malaria-carrying mosquitoes with lasers, and the whole thing can be built from parts sourced on eBay. The so-called mosquito laser is credited to an idea from Lowell Wood, an astrophysicist who worked with Edward Teller, the "architect of the original plan ...