Space

After the Cold War, Is It Time for Space War?

Russia is developing a wide range of satellites to strengthen its military dominance in a potential space war — everything from a model capable of recording objects on the ground as small as 12 inches wide to ones that can be used as anti-satellite weapons from space. The new generation satellites Moscow is reportedly replacing ...

Nspirement Staff

The Earth with the rising Sun.

Russia and China Attempting to Militarize Space

During the ongoing UN Disarmament Conference, the United States plans on bringing global attention to Russian and Chinese attempts to militarize space. The conference is scheduled to run for five weeks in New York and will cover a wide range of international security issues. Russia and China developing technologies to militarize space Both Russia and ...

Armin Auctor

Voyager 2 Inching Toward Interstellar Space

In 1977, U.S. space agency NASA launched Voyager 2 into space to explore the vastness of our universe. Now, about four decades later, the probe is reportedly nearing interstellar space. Approaching interstellar space Voyager 2 is currently about 11 billion miles away from Earth. This comes to approximately 118 times the distance between the Earth ...

Nspirement Staff

Voyager 2 is on the edge of interstellar space.

Craftsman Builds Mechanical Makeup Table for the Queen

Modern people believe living conditions in ancient times were very primitive. It may come as a surprise then that during the Tang Dynasty, the queen had a fully mechanical makeup table. Actually, ancient Chinese science and technology was quite advanced. Papermaking, gunpowder, and the compass were all invented in China. Stories of other incredible inventions ...

Nspirement Staff

Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space

NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system. Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less than 11 billion miles (about 17.7 billion kilometers) from Earth, or more than 118 times the distance from the Earth to the ...

Troy Oakes

Dark Matter and Why It Matters

If you think that the entire universe is made up of matter that can be seen or detected, you are dead wrong. In fact, almost 85 percent of the matter present in the universe is thought to be composed of “dark matter,” a form of matter that scientists are yet to directly observe. Dark matter ...

Armin Auctor

Drought Losses in China Will Soar With Continuing Global Warming

Economic losses caused by drought losses in China may double if the global temperature rises by 1.5°C to 2.0°C above pre-industrial levels, with increasing drought intensity and areal coverage across China, a new economic assessment study by Chinese scientists found. The study, which was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences based on 30 ...

Troy Oakes

Desolation in the desert.

Why Earth’s Oceanic Plates Suddenly Stop

In a study published in Nature Geoscience, the team explored the physics of “stagnant slabs.” These geophysical oddities form when huge chunks of Earth’s oceanic plates are forced deep underground at the edges of certain continental plates. The chunks sink down into the planet’s interior for hundreds of miles until they suddenly — and for reasons ...

Troy Oakes

The Exciting World Of Quantum Entanglement

Though many people would have heard about the term quantum mechanics at least in passing, very few would know about things like quantum entanglement and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steering, two concepts that have the potential to completely change the world we live in. Quantum entanglement and EPR steering Quantum entanglement is said to occur when the quantum ...

Armin Auctor

Quantum entanglement.

An Unexpected ‘Deep Creep’ Found Near San Andreas, San Jacinto Faults

A new analysis of thousands of very small earthquakes that have occurred in the San Bernardino basin near the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults suggests that the unusual deformation of some — they move in a different way than expected — may be due to “deep creep” 10 km below the Earth’s surface, say ...

Troy Oakes