In recent days, they held the annual shareholders meeting of Tesla Motors, the electric car manufacturer founded in 2003 by Elon Musk (photo ©Dan Taylor / Heisenberg Media) along with some other entrepreneurs. Musk, who is also the CEO, stated that he intends to keep that positions for another 4 or 5 years. His idea is to manage the production of the next generation of electric cars.
An international team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escude of the Queen Mary University, London, announced that they have found two planets that orbit the Kapteyn’s star, only 13 light years from Earth. In particular, the planet Kapteyn b is interesting because it is a super-Earth, meaning a rocky planet with a mass about five times the Earth, where liquid water could exist, one of the essential requirements to host life as we know it.
A team of astronomers led by Xavier Dumusque of the Harvard-Smithsonian CFA (Center for Astrophysics) has discovered a planet different from those found so far that has been called mega- Earth. It is a rocky planet that is much larger than astronomers had expected from a planet of this type. The planet Kepler- 10c has a size that is approximately 2.3 times that of Earth , but above all has a mass about 17 times greater.
The novel “Cosmopath” by Eric Brown was published for the first time in 2010. It’s the third book in the Bengal Station trilogy and is the sequel to “Xenopath”.
Jeff Vaughan and Sukara’s daughter showed some health problem so she requires a medical examination. The diagnosis is bad because the child has a form of leukemia. The news comes at a difficult time for Jeff since recently some of the best Bengal Station’s telepaths were killed and he becomes the target of an assassination attempt.
Jeff is contacted by billionaire Rabindranath Chandrasakar, who offers a seemingly simple mission, which consists in reading the mind of a member of the crew of a spaceship on an exploratory mission. Jeff wouldn’t want to do it because the person is dead, kept in a state of stasis, but Chandrasakar offers him a high pay that includes the best care for his daughter. The journey on the planet Delta Cephei VII has dangers and surprises in store.
The Sentinel-1A satellite was launched on April 3 2014 and is still in its testing phase. However, it’s already been used to help coordinate aid in flooded areas. One of the first images of this satellite was used at the beginning of May to create a map of the flooded area in Namibia and now new images are used to create maps of the flooded areas in the Balkans.
