Introducing The ‘Space Liner’, A Hypersonic Space Plane That Will Go From London To Sydney in 90 Minutes Traveling at 24x The Speed of Sound

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2268335/London-Sydney-90-minutes-Hypersonic-SpaceLiner-travels-24-times-speed-sound-built-2050.html London to Sydney in 90 minutes: Hypersonic SpaceLiner that travels at 24 times the speed of sound ‘to be built by 2050’ SpaceLiner would reach 24 times the speed of sound Will launch with the help of a liquid oxygen and hydrogen-fuelled rocket It would take eight minutes to climb 50 miles to upper […]

One giant leap for civilian space travel: Scientists successfully test engine for Skylon craft that can fly anywhere on earth in just four hours

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2136611/Civilian-space-travel-just-got-step-closer-scientists-test-engine-spaceplane-fly-earth-just-hours.html By Suzannah Hills UPDATED:18:17 EST, 28 April 2012 Tests have begun on a new engine that could launch a plane into space and revolutionise the way we travel – making it possible to reach anywhere on Earth in just four hours. The 270ft Skylon spaceplane would take off and land from a conventional runway […]

New hi-tech scanners could mean end to airline liquid ban within a year

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126476/End-airline-liquid-ban-New-scanners-mean-ban-carrying-toiletries-sun-tan-lotion-hand-luggage-lifted-year.html Liquid restrictions have been in place since 2006 Regulations could be eased by April 2013 By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 06:11 EST, 7 April 2012 | UPDATED: 08:29 EST, 7 April 2012 Newly approved airport scanners will allow passengers to carry toiletries and bottles of liquid in their hand luggage within the next 12 […]

Chilean UFO travelling at 4,000mph ‘captured on film from seven angles’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2115951/Chilean-UFO-sighting-captured-seven-angles-divides-sceptics-believers.html By Eddie Wrenn PUBLISHED: 09:44 EST, 16 March 2012 | UPDATED: 10:06 EST, 16 March 2012 Video from Chile is stirring up the UFO debate after an unusual object took a fly-by during an air-show. The footage, from 2010, appears to show a ‘spot’ moving quickly from frame to frame, causing the engineer who […]

U.S. Starts to Close Bases in Afghanistan

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/base-close-afghanistan/ By Spencer Ackerman Email Author March 15, 2012 | 6:30 am | Categories: Af/Pak U.S. troops from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division build a base in Parwan Province, Afghanistan in 2010. Photo: U.S. Army Here’s how you know the Afghan surge really is coming to an end: The U.S. Army is starting to […]

Exclusive: U.S., Britain to agree emergency oil stocks release

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/15/us-oil-reserves-idUSBRE82E0UM20120315 By Richard Mably LONDON | Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:15pm EDT (Reuters) – Britain has decided to cooperate with the United States in a bilateral agreement to release strategic oil stocks, two British sources said, in an effort to prevent high fuel prices derailing economic growth in a U.S. election year. A formal request […]

Clear to land: NASA new ‘augmented reality’ goggles will let airline pilots ‘see’ through fog

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2114367/Clear-land-NASA-new-augmented-reality-goggles-let-airline-pilots-fog.html By Eddie Wrenn PUBLISHED: 08:16 EST, 13 March 2012 | UPDATED: 14:43 EST, 13 March 2012 NASA has created augmented reality goggles which could soon be available to airline pilots and help them ‘see’ through fog. The goggles can track a pilot’s head-movements and overlay runways, towers and potentially other airplanes over their view […]

Is long-term space travel really possible? Scans on astonauts reveal serious damage to eyes and brains

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2114320/Can-humanity-cope-long-term-space-travel-Scans-reveal-damage-brains-eyes-astronauts.html MRI tests on travellers to International Space Station uncover effects on eyeballs and brain connections Mission to Mars may not be possible Humanity’s ability to get to and settle on another planet may also be a non-runner By Eddie Wrenn PUBLISHED: 05:57 EST, 13 March 2012 | UPDATED: 11:20 EST, 13 March 2012 Brain […]

‘Startram’ magnetic space train could deliver four million people a year into orbit by 2032, say designers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2113785/The-11-09-Venus-leaving-platform-9-Startram-magnetic-space-train-deliver-million-people-year-orbit-2030-say-designers.html By Rob Waugh PUBLISHED: 05:16 EST, 12 March 2012 | UPDATED: 06:02 EST, 12 March 2012 A proposed ‘space train’ could make travel beyond Earth’s atmosphere far cheaper – and allow four million people a year to travel to space in just 20 years time. Startram – designed by by one of the inventors […]

U.S. military unveil latest weapon … a ray beam that makes the enemy feel ‘quite hot’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2113529/U-S-military-unveil-latest-weapon–A-ray-beam-makes-enemy-feel-quite-hot.html The nonlethal weapon, which can be mounted on a military vehicle, is primarily designed for crowd control Weapon has been tested on more than 11,000 people, and in just two of those cases, it caused second-degree burns By Jill Reilly PUBLISHED: 15:35 EST, 11 March 2012 | UPDATED: 20:56 EST, 11 March 2012 The […]