The construction of the world’s largest optical telescope (GMT) has moved one step closer today, with the funding worth US$500 million committed from 11 international partners. The Giant Magellan Telescope, when fully operational will look further into space and further back in time than any telescope ever constructed. Astronomy Australia

Boyan Slat leads the way with a plan for the ocean to clean itself Boyan Slat is a Dutch man, barely out of his teens, with an ambitions plan to cut in half the plastic debris floating in the Pacific over the next ten years. Instead of  going from beach to beach picking up

photo via NASA/ESA/M. SHOWALTER (SETI)/G. BACON (STSCI) As with most things in the universe, we have come to expect the unexpected. Pluto’s moons are no exception. The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back amazing images of two of Pluto’s moons, Nix and Hydra, which shows that they are in a constant state of

photo credit: NASA flying saucer test flight preparations. NASA Hawaii – Thanks again to turbulent ocean conditions, NASAs “Flying Saucer”, otherwise known as the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), will be rescheduled for a June 4th launch date. Although the saucer will be dropped from high-up in a weather balloon, calmer waves are

Image by CERN GENEVA – Today is the day scientists start a who new set of experiments in the hunt for the mysterious  “dark matter”. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will run at full, record-breaking power levels, as scientists kick off a new set of experiments that will help us understand the secrets of

Facebook – The Social Networking Giant has opened a new artificial intelligence lab in Paris with an objective of enhancing the way the users associate with the world’s largest social network. This is the third such lab in the world set up by Facebook after two operating labs in the

Instagram’s advertisement business is growing quickly thanks to a boost of new technology from Facebook. Starting in June, this popular photo sharing app with more than 300 million users is opening up to conceivably a large number of advertisers with more advertisement styles and advanced targeting tools initially sharpened by

Today, Amazon announced they are offering free shipping for “small and light” products weighing 8 ounces or less and are under $10 “Fulfillment by Amazon Small and Light” is the tagline Amazon is going with for all items that cost less than $10 and weight less than 8 ozs. Unlike past free shipping promotions, this one

NASA’s saucer-shaped craft could hold the key to Mans ticket to Mars Photo via rt.com Kauai, Hawaii – Hawaiian residents will get the best view of NASA’s saucer-shaped craft this Wednesday as a test flights of a huge balloon carrying the disc-like Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator. Tuesdays flight was scrubbed due

Today, Robots are accomplishing a greater amount of the work in warehouses and factories than any time before. At Amazon’s huge warehouses, human hands are still required for packing the items for shipments that we order but not for long after the Amazon Picking Challenge. As per the MIT Technology