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NEWS

NASA synthesizes RNA component in simulated space-like environment.
PAPER batteries possible with nanotechnologies.
See VIRGIN GALACTIC's Commercial Spacecraft HERE.
International Conference on Orbital Debris Removal underway now.

Someone took the time to make this.

I wonder what these sharks are up to.

FLYING technologies

The Swiss have built a cumbersome-looking solar-powered plane. 
And no, that's not how you spell the star trek one.


http://gizmodo.com/5418778/solar-impulse-plane-flies-for-first-time-in-switzerland

VOCAL technologies

Bird + Baguette + Hadron Collider = News

A bird flying over parts of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest, newest, and newsiest particle accelerator, dropped a baguette, or piece of baguette, onto exposed parts of the machine, which led to shutdown for safety purposes.