Using the cameras of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) space probe, NASA scientists have created a very high resolution map, two-meters (six-and-a-half feet) per pixel, of the region around the Moon’s North Pole. This isn’t a simple but very detailed image, it’s an interactive map like Google Earth.
On Tuesday March 18, 2014, the American writer Lucius Shepard passed away. He was appreciated in the world of science fiction, horror, and fantasy and occasionally he wrote stories of other genres. Born on August 21, 1943, in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA, he wrote mostly short fiction. Among his science fiction novels, “Green Eyes” and “Life During Wartime” are particularly famous.
The novel “The Moon Children” by Jack Williamson was published for the first time in 1971, serialized in the magazine “Galaxy”.
In the years after the first Moon landing, space missions are pushed farther and farther away carrying astronauts to other planets in the solar system. These trips find possible alien life forms but some discoveries are strange and have unpredictable consequences. The astronauts on a mission to the Moon see different things and when they return to Earth their testimonies are contradictory. As if that weren’t enough, their wives give birth to children with abnormal characteristics.
Google announced the Android Wear platform, a version of the Android operating system optimized for wearable devices. The first applications are watches, which of course will not only serve to provide the time but will be tiny portable computers. The first models to be put on the market in a few months are the Moto 360 by Motorola and the G Watch by LG.
The discovery announced by Harvard University is the one hoped for by the scientists of all the world: the BICEP2 (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) experiment has detected the gravitational wave in the perturbations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation existing in the universe. It’s a kind of echo from the period of what is called cosmic inflation, which occurred immediately after the Big Bang.
