In Depth: 10 best iPad and iPhone apps for planning your holiday
CNETAnalysis: Booking a holiday used to be easy, kind of expensive and occasionally disappointing: you’d spend hours poring over brochures before popping to the travel agent and booking a fortnight in...
View ArticleNow Live: The July 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
CNETAnalysis: Skynet Researchers in Switzerland recently developed a concept to use a swarm of UAVs as a local communication network for emergency workers in disaster areas. Posted by: John Martin...
View ArticleToday’s Best Science Fiction Writers Imagine The Future
CNETAnalysis: Featured Artist: John Picacio “Even as technology reduces burdens and eases struggles, the sum of humanity’s limits-and its eternal quest to exceed them-is what defines us as humans and...
View ArticleThese Beautiful Maps Of Flights Around The World Look Like Abstract Art
CNETAnalysis: JFK, Mapped Contrailz London sure looks pretty–and busy Using data from Plane Finder , which tracks flights in real-time, Alexey Papulovskiy created Contrailz , a beautiful visualization...
View ArticleBritish Airways To Test Electronic Bag Tags
CNETAnalysis: British Airways Luggage Tag Designworks British Airways wants to finally replace paper tags, and maybe save you some time at the check-in counter. The standard paper luggage tag–the one...
View ArticleThe Future Of Flight: 3-D Printed Planes
CNETAnalysis: Custom Blades Engineers at NASA are testing functional 3-D-printed parts for a rocket engine. But printing a turbofan, as rendered below, is beyond reach-for now. Todd Detwiler NASA,...
View ArticleA Visualization Of What Went Wrong On Asiana Flight 214
CNETAnalysis: Asiana Flight 214 aviation-safety.net In short: a steep approach, short of the runway. After the crash of Asiana Flight 214 over the weekend at San Francisco International Airport killed...
View ArticleAfter 33 Years, Team Wins Human-Powered Flight Contest
CNETAnalysis: Human Powered Flight Click here to see this amazing image even larger. Ollie Bland The winners of the Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition will take home $250,000 and...
View ArticleNASA Successfully Tests First 3-D Printed Rocket Engine Injector
CNETAnalysis: Rocket Engine Injector NASA Glenn Research Center Another step toward the day when 3-D printers spit out entire spacecraft. Posted by: John Martin
View ArticleVintage Big Pic: NASA Mission Control Celebrates The Return Of Apollo 11
CNETAnalysis: Mission Control, Houston, July 24, 1969 NASA NASA partying like it’s 1969! Apollo 11 landed on the moon 44 years ago on July 20, 1969. Posted by: John Martin
View ArticleThe Future Of Flight: A Congestion-Killing Aircraft
CNETAnalysis: Cestol Aircraft Courtesy Eric Paciano/California Meet the 100-passenger plane that’ll keep your flight running on time. Aircraft design is often overlooked in discussions of the FAA’s...
View ArticleThe Three Biggest Aviation Advances From This Year
CNETAnalysis: Hover Craft Engineers are designing the first major addition to the U.S. VTOL fleet in more than two decades. The plans are mostly secret, but the craft will likely draw from tilt-rotor,...
View ArticleA Quick Primer On America’s Spaceports
CNETAnalysis: Sea Launch at Sea Here is Launch Platform Odyssey sending an Italian satellite into orbit. Wikimedia Commons Everything you need to know about U.S. Posted by: John Martin
View ArticleFollow A Queen Bee On Her Maiden Mating Flight
CNETAnalysis: Get the bees’-eye view. Queen honeybees mate just once in their lives, within weeks of emerging as an adult from the little honeycomb cells in which they grew Posted by: John Martin
View ArticleWatch A Dinosaur Fly In A Wind Tunnel
CNETAnalysis: Microraptor Emily Willoughby A five-winged dinosaur model in a wind tunnel helps scientists understand the origins of flight. The 3-foot-long Microraptor , one of the smallest dinosaurs...
View ArticleNo, Drones Are Not ‘Useless’ In Most Wars
CNETAnalysis: Reaper Drone Above Afghanistan This is uncontested airspace. At an Air Force conference near Washington DC this week, Air Force Gen Posted by: John Martin
View ArticleA Tiny Drone Crashed In Manhattan Updated
CNETAnalysis: Today in Stuff You Have To Look Out For In The Future: drones falling on your head. Apparently, one crashed in Manhattan on Monday–almost right into a businessman, an ABC affiliate...
View ArticleDrones Are Helping Make Delicious Wine
CNETAnalysis: Preparing To Launch A Drone This is some Firefly-level futuristic Old West juxtaposition. 3D Robotics, via YouTube Sometimes it’s hard to get the big picture from the ground. In a...
View ArticleScott Carpenter, The Second American To Orbit Earth, Dies At 88
CNETAnalysis: Scott Carpenter Malcolm Scott Carpenter, who used his middle name as his first, was the second American to orbit the Earth, way back in 1962, on the Mercury mission. (John Glenn was the...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Apollos 2 and 3?
CNETAnalysis: Things were looking good for NASA at the beginning of 1966. The Gemini program was halfway done and well on track to accomplish all the major program goals by the end of the year, and...
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