Engineer Details Plans to Build a Real, Burj-Dubai-Sized Starship Enterprise in 20 Years

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-05/build-real-starship-enterprise-make-it-so-ambitious-engineer-says By Rebecca Boyle Posted 05.14.2012 at 2:25 pm   Real Starship Enterprise BuildTheEnterprise.org The year 2245 is just too distant — we should build and commission a real USS Enterprise right now, cracking the champagne across her hull within 20 years, according to an enterprising engineer. The gigantic ship would use ion propulsion, powered […]

Chinese Physicists Teleport Photons Over 100 Kilometers

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-05/chinese-physicists-teleport-protons-over-100-kilometers By Dan Nosowitz Posted 05.11.2012 at 11:45 am   Beam Us Up Teleportation doesn’t work for humans — yet — but it works over long distances, a new study reports. Time Magazine Teleportation, sci-fi-y as it sounds, is actually not fictional or even new; two years ago, Chinese physicists broke the then-current record for […]

Star Trek’s ‘tricorder’ medical scanners could become reality after breakthrough in T-ray technology

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2090243/Star-Treks-Tricorder-medical-scanners-reality-breakthrough-T-ray-technology.html Developement could lead to medical tests becoming quicker and more convenient for patients By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 6:52 PM on 22nd January 2012 Star Trek-style hand held medical scanners are a step closer thanks to a new breakthrough in technology. Scientists have developed a new way to create electromagnetic Terahertz (THz) […]