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NASA to fly a football stadium-sized high-altitude balloon to study light from newborn stars — TechCrunch

July 24, 2020

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NASA’s latest mission won’t actually reach space – but it will come very close, with a massive observation craft made up of a football stadium-sized high-altitude balloon, along with a special stratospheric telescope instrument that can observe wavelengths of light blocked by Earth’s atmosphere, cast from newly-formed stars. The mission is called the ‘Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths,’ but shortened to ASTHROS.

Video Tech: Popcorn Robot, Time Hacks, Siri Beatboxing and a UFO Drone

April 27, 2016

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Robotic Glockenspiel plays Popcorn Canadian James Cochrane created a beautiful prototype for this robotic glockenspiel player built out of solenoids, wooden dowels, paperclips and elastic bands. But this is a completely different bag of computer chips, using servos, an Arduino Uno, MIDI shield and Adafruit’s 16 channel I2C servo driver. “My next project is to […]

Tales From 2015: City in the Sky, China

December 24, 2015

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One of my favourite stories of 2015 was the report from two Chinese cities of a mirage, a mysterious ‘city in the sky’ that appeared out of nowhere. Residents of Foshan, near Hong Kong, and Jiangxi – 500 miles to the north – spoke of a surreal sky city that suddenly appeared above the clouds. […]

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