On its third attempt, NASA has successfully launched its Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket. The orbiter is designed to take high resolution moisture maps on a global scale, mapping the entire planet in the space of only two to three days.
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NASA has created a "Global Selfie" photomosaic comprised of over 36,000 individual photographs taken on or around April 22, 2014, also known as Earth Day. Users can scan and zoom to view the individual photos that make up the 3.2-gigapixel image.
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A new "culturomics" research project has used a supercomputer to examine a dataset made up of a quarter-century of worldwide news coverage to forecast and visualize human behavior.
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During the first decade of the 21st century, information and communication technologies came within reach of most of the world's people.
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The Zero Race is a race to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days in zero emission, electric powered cars that aims to harness public interest and inspire new ways of thinking about mobility, cars and renewable energy solutions.
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The SMOS is the first ever satellite designed both to map sea surface salinity and to monitor soil moisture on a global scale and the unique radiometer it carries will play a key role in the monitoring of climate change on a global scale.
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Verizon announces the release of another USB modem, the UMW190
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An Indiana University scientist is predicts that “reality mining” will provide the means to accurately forecast the effects of phenomena like catastrophic events, mass population movements or invasions of new organisms into ecosystems.
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A mathematician and computer scientist have created a remote-sensing mechanism that examines the content of millions of blogs to measure the emotional levels of millions of people and give an indication of how people around the world are feeling.
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As soil salinity threatens world food crops, a research team has found a way to make plants more salt tolerant.
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