Opportunity rover finds further evidence of wet martian past.
NASA’s Mars lander Opportunity has found minerals and rock formations that help to prove that the planet was once very wet.
“Liquid water once drenched the surface of Meridiani Planum,” says Ed Weiler, NASA’s associate administrator for space science. “It would have been habitable for some time,” [...]

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A device for putting advertising into space that would be seen from Earth.
The Big Dipper and Andromeda could be joined in the heavens by ads for soft drinks and cigarettes if a Russian inventor’s device catches on.
Alexander Lavrynov, a spacecraft designer, said he has patented a device for putting advertising into space that would be [...]

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A small company based in Iowa has developed products made with a “smart” metal that can turn your walls or your head into speakers.
Five of Etrema’s top executives are sitting in a conference room listening to jock rock. The space is drab even by conference-room standards, furnished with an oversized green marble table on which [...]

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Three Concordes swooped into Heathrow Airport Friday, joining in a spectacular finale to the era of luxury supersonic jet travel.
The last regular passenger flight from New York arrived with every seat filled, a feat that had become increasingly rare for a plane that was a technological marvel but a commercial flop.
Flight 002 landed just past [...]

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It’s like Star Trek or Star Wars where the projected image shows up in the air.
An Austrian firm is developing a giant video-conferencing system that will be deployed in public spaces in London and Vienna next year, allowing people in the two cities to meet and talk eye-to-eye.
Standing in front of the 10-foot-high, cylindrical TV [...]

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Going Up, WAY Up
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers are proposing an elevator reaching 62,000 miles into the sky to launch payloads into space more cheaply than the shuttle can.
“The first country that owns the space elevator will own space,” said lab scientist Bryan Laubscher. “I believe that, and I think Los Alamos should be involved [...]

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