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Earth 2.0: Bad News for God Jeff Schweitzer Become a fan Scientist and former White House Senior Policy Analyst;  Ph.D. in marine biology/neurophysiology The discovery of Kepler-452b is not likely to see the public swoon with a collective rendition of Kumbaya. But this Earth 2.0 is a huge if under-appreciated discovery, not because Kepler-452b is unique but for just the opposite reason; there are likely thousands or millions or even billions of such earth-like planets in the universe. The discovery of just one such world is good evidence for many more: after all, we know of 100 billion galaxies each with as many as 300 billion stars (big variation per galaxy). Astronomers estimate that there are about 70 billion trillion stars. Math wizardry is not necessary to conclude we did no...

IBM Just Created the World’s Smallest, Most Powerful Chip; Here’s Why You Should Care COPY FROM YAHOO NEWS Daniel Howley   Technology Reporter   July 10, 2015   You might not think about computer chips very often — if at all — but they power everything from your smartphone and TV to the freakin’ International Space Station. So it goes without saying that they are among the most important pieces of technology we have. That’s why it’s news when IBM announces — as it just did  — that it has created one of the most advanced processors on the planet, with parts that are barely bigger than a strand of DNA. The chip will reportedly be four times as powerful as today’s top-shelf processors, at roughly half the size. Here’s what we know about the latest superchip and what it’ll mean to you. Wait, what’s the big deal about a computer chip? Fair question. Computer chips are basically super-small electronic brains that perform the milli...

Aw, NASA probe spies Pluto's 'heart' as flyby begins A light heart can be seen on the lower right of this Pluto image. NASA-JHUAPL-SWRI  Pluto appears to be in love. The plucky dwarf planet was demoted from full-planet status in 2006, but that doesn't seem to have dampened its good mood. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is closing in on the space object and a new image highlights a sweet heart on Pluto's surface . The 1,200-mile-across heart-shaped area of lighter color material stands in contrast to a series of evenly sized dark spots along the equator seen in earlier images. The heart picture was taken Tuesday from a distance of 5 million miles away. The probe is moving ever closer and will soon send back higher-quality images of these intriguing surface features. Related stories NASA's New Horizons weathers trouble just days from Pluto New images reveal Pluto's mysterious spots NASA's New Horizons snaps its firs...

WHAT IS DROP SHIPPING Drop Shipping is a complete model of doing online business that permits you to purchase items exclusively from a wholesaler and boat them straightforwardly to your client. As opposed to buying or keeping a lot of stock, you essentially band together with a drop shipping supplier and list their stock of various products to make those available to be purchased. And once you get a purchase order from your client, you just have to forward it to the supplier. The supplier will ship out the requested product straightforwardly from their warehouse to your client, and charge you just at the cost of the delivered thing. Your success of drop shipping business depends on the product you selected to sell which then delivered straightforwardly from the manufacturer or supplier to your customer. Your profit of selling a product is the difference between the manufacturer's or supplier's price and the price retail price or the price at which you are selling i...

Counting stars with Gaia This image, based on housekeeping data from ESA’s Gaia satellite, is no ordinary depiction of the heavens. While the image portrays the outline of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, and of its neighbouring Magellanic Clouds, it was obtained in a rather unusual way. As Gaia scans the sky to measure positions and velocities of a billion stars with unprecedented accuracy, for some stars it also determines their speed across the camera’s sensor. This information is used in real time by the attitude and orbit control system to ensure the satellite’s orientation is maintained with the desired precision. These speed statistics are routinely sent to Earth, along with the science data, in the form of housekeeping data. They include the total number of stars, used in the attitude-control loop, that is detected every second in each of Gaia’s fields of view. It is the latter – which is basically an indication of the density of stars across the...

Dark matter map begins to reveal the universe’s early history