Scientists are eagerly anticipating the ROSETTA probe’s next pass of Earth, because they know that something they don’t know about might happen.  Probes passing by Earth to pick up a gravitational slingshot have been experiencing unexplained extra accelerations, and the reasons could reveal fundamental facts of existence – if we ever work them out. Read more from the original source:  Rosetta Space Mystery Could Be a Clue to New Laws of the Universe

After a successful touchdown of Apollo 11 on 20th July 1969, the Pope asked for a color television to be installed in his summer residence, while West Germany announced they were calling the day of the landing ‘Apollo Day’ and schoolchildren in Bavaria were given the day off. Meanwhile some 40 years later some still think the landing was filmed on a Hollywood backlot. You can lead a fool to proof, but you can’t make him think: right now six per cent of Americans believe that the moon landings, [...]

After a successful touchdown of Apollo 11 on 20th July 1969, the Pope asked for a color television to be installed in his summer residence, while West Germany announced they were calling the day of the landing ‘Apollo Day’ and schoolchildren in Bavaria were given the day off. Meanwhile some 40 years later some still think the landing was filmed on a Hollywood backlot More here:  "The Apollo 11 Conspiracy": 6% of Americans Still Believe It Was Faked (VIDEO)

“We have 20 million genes which I call the design components of the future. We are limited here only by our imagination.” Craig Venter, Geneticist Craig Venter’s company, Synthetic Genomics, announced yesterday that it has struck a deal with ExxonMobil to develop biofuels from algae that cars and planes can use without having a modified engine. Exxon officials said they decided to invest in algal biofuel over other forms of biofuels because its production does not require arable [...]

Venus is famous as a hellishly inhospitable burning world, choked with carbon dioxide and crushed under almost a hundred times Earth atmospheric pressure.  But recent data suggests that our nearest planetary neighbor might once have been a bit more like us. The European Space Agency’s ( ESA ) Venus Express mission arrived in orbit on May 7 th , 2006, and has been analyzing the world ever since.  Venus’s poisonous clouds are opaque to visible light, just like “regular” clouds, [...]

Both Robin Chase, the visionary founder of ZipCar, and San Francisco Mayor, Gavin Newsome believe that the electric car is an integral part of our future. San Francisco’s controversial mayor says America’s electric cars will soon be a viable prospect in the world’s cities as the infrastructure is put in place that allows for off-peak charging and as battery switching-stations replace gas stations. Chase says that the network we need for electricity can turn cars into nodes and [...]