Europa Report - The new Sci-Fi Thriller Trailer

In Europa Report  an intrepid crew of astronauts leaves Earth behind for Europa, an icy moon of

Jupiter, on a private space mission to seek out alien life. As the first two-minute trailer shows, the mission does not go anywhere near as planned.

"This is really a new first step for mankind," one mission official says in the trailer.

In the trailer, we see the Europa-bound crew launch into space, then watch astronauts on spacewalks, and finally see a series of flashes showing what appears to be a space mission going from bad to worse. The anguished scream of a spacesuit-clad astronaut caps the trailer. "Europa Report" launches in theaters on Aug. 2 but will be available on iTunes and video on demand on June 27.

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Earth-like Planets discovery

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered three new "habitable zone" planets that are close to Earth's Goldilocks zone' – where it's not too hot and not too cold for liquid water. Just as important, the planets' moderate size — less than twice the mass of Earth — bolsters the chances for life on them, scientists says. So called exoplanets that orbit other stars have become a fairly routine find since the first of them were discovered in the 1992.
size, even if they're not all that close to the Earth. NPR's Joe Palca reports that the trio of worlds, orbiting the star Kepler-62, about 1,200 light years away in the constellation Lyra and are thought to lie in the so-called '

But, as The Associated Press notes, "in the past ... they haven't fit all the criteria that would make them right for life. And until now, the handful of planets astronomers found in that ideal zone, were just too big. Those are likely to be gas balls like Neptune and that's not suitable for life." Two of the three detailed in the new findings published in the journal Science are of particular interest: Kepler 62-e and Kepler 62-f. William Borucki, the chief scientist for NASA's Kepler telescope, says the planets are slightly wider than Earth, but not too big. Kepler-62-e is a bit toasty, like a Hawaiian world and Kepler-62-f is a bit nippy, more Alaskan, Borucki tells the AP. "This is the first one where I'm thinking 'Huh, Kepler-62-f really might have life on it'," said study co-author David Charbonneau of Harvard. "This is a very important barrier that's been crossed. Why wouldn't it have life?" Palca says the Kepler spacecraft detects planets orbiting distant stars by finding small dips in the light coming from those stars when an orbiting planet passes in front.

 source:npr.org

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The Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Mechanics

The Uncertainty Principle is one of the fundamental laws at the base of Quantum Mechanics. It was postulated by Heisenberg and states precise inequalities that constrain certain pairs of physical properties, such as measuring the present position while determining future momentum.

It introduces also a precise relationship between space, momentum and the Planck constant ħ.


The following video introduces in a simple way the Uncertainty Principle. Enjoy yourself on Fair Science!

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The Higgs Boson the God Particle

The Higgs Boson, called the God Particle, is described in the following video. The Higgs boson is a hypothetical massive elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics. The existence of the particle is postulated as a means of resolving inconsistencies in current theoretical physics, and attempts are being made to confirm the existence of the particle by experimentation. Also the Higgs boson is the only Standard Model particle that has not been observed in particle physics experiments. It is a consequence of the so-called Higgs mechanism which is the part of the Standard Model that explains how most of the known elementary particles become massive.

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The New Technologies Expected by 2020

The technology that awaits us in the future is amazing. In the next overview we will view, according to the website popsci.com, what are the major technological innovations that lie ahead for future. Popsci.com the year 2020 as a deadline, and innovations technology that should be ready in only 9 years old. Some of Technological innovations that we will be feasible, for others we wait a few more years. If nothing else is a great way to fantasize and imagine how it will be our future.

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The Last Shuttle Space Flight

The Shuttle will have the anticipated last launch tomorrow at 3:47 Florida time. NASA will have done all the things well for the last shuttle Endeavour that will take off into the blue.

Thirty years have a certain age for a space program. And the Shuttle that hit the Americans had cooled during the last warm rolls. Hundred and fifty thousand, two hundred thousand spectators just for traffic the last Shuttle.

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Nuclear Power Plants

The Nuclear Power Plants interest has increased with the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Nuclear power is produced by controlled nuclear reactions. Commercial and utility plants currently use nuclear fission reactions to heat water to produce steam, which is then used to generate electricity.

But how does it work a Nuclear plant?

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