SpaceX's Falcon 9 Boosts into space

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched from Florida Wednesday morning, marking what could become a significant step in commercial space travel.The craft lifted off from Kennedy Space Center at 10:43 a.m. ET.The launch and a successful re-entry would be steps toward commercial space ventures that could eventually ferry astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station. NASA's shuttle fleet is set to retire in the coming year.After breaking off from the earth's atmosphere the craft deposited a mock-up of its Dragon space capsule in orbit.One of the objectives of the SpaceX is to to make flying space crafts cheaper and with more efficiency than what NASA has been doing for the past 30 years.

XM-25 THE GAME CHANGER

Throughout the history of modern warfare, one of the best ways to survive incoming enemy fire has been to take cover behind a wall or large impenetrable object. Until now. Say hello to my little friend, the US Army’s game-changing ‘revolutionary‘ rifle that guarantees you’ll win at ‘hide-and-seek‘ every time you play.The XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System, a high-tech rifle that can be programmed so that its 25-mm ammunition detonates either in front of or behind a target, meaning it can be fired just above a wall before it explodes and kills the enemy.

It also has a range of roughly 2,300 feet — nearly the length of eight football fields — making it possible to fire at targets well past the range of the rifles and carbines that most soldiers carry today.

Supercomputer en route to becoming super hero

With the help of their 1.8 petaflop supercomputer, Jaguar, researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee are sifting through internet traffic in search of suspicions patterns that will lead police to the perpetrators of child pornography.

In standard police work, checking a suspect's hard drive will show whether they have been downloading illegal content such as child pornography. But catching the criminals that produce such material in the first place is even more important, because they can often lead police to the children who are being abused. It is far from easy, since you can't necessarily tell who took the illicit images stored on a hard drive.

The problem with policing child pornography online is that there is simply too much of it, says Grier Weeks, executive director of the National Association to Protect Children. "We could quadruple our law enforcement dedicated to this problem overnight, and they'd still be overwhelmed," he says.

He approached the computer scientists at Oak Ridge in search of a solution, "They were genuinely stunned and moved by what they'd heard," he told New Scientist. "And within a week they were making a visit to the Knoxville Internet Crimes Against Children task force".

A RENEWED EFFORT

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BREAKTHROUGH IN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY

WASHINGTON: An Indian-American rocket scientist has invented a little power plant, which is being hailed as an important breakthrough in the energy sector as it is believed to replace the big power plants and transmission lines.Christened 'Bloom Box', it was be unveiled by K R Sridhar in the Silicon Valley , a preview of the product was given at the CBS's popular show '60 Minutes' before the launch of the machine.It is just like a laptop of the power sector, the CBS reported.Sridhar has formed the company Bloom Energy, which has raised some USD 400 million from venture capitalists of the Silicon Valley at a time when it is extremely difficult to churn out money due to the extreme grip of economic recession.Among its board of directors is the former Secretary of State Collin Powell, who became part of the effort last year.Formerly a rocket scientist and served as advisor to NASA, Sridhar says in a span of 10 years or so 'Bloom Box' will be available for residential areas at a nominal rate USD 3,000 to produce electricity in a small home round the clock year after year.Having earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Madras, earlier he was a professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering as well as Director of the Space Technologies Laboratory (STL) at the University of Arizona.The key to this unique Bloom Box is the "fuel cell device" which consists of a stack of ceramic disks coated with secret green and black "inks." These disks are separated by cheap metal plates.
for more info on the company visit www.bloomenergy.com