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Experts say they expect investigators to look closely at the interactions of the crew aboard Asiana Airlines Flight 214 as they listen to the voice recordings and conduct interviews with the four pilots aboard the 777 that crashed in San Francisco July 6.Deborah Hersman, the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said in a press conference today that NTSB was waiting until Korean officials arrived before conducing the interviews. She said cockpit voice recorder experts are beginning to convene in Washington, where they would transcribe critical parts of the mix of Korean and English that the crew speaks on the two-hour recording....

Media Platforms Design TeamOn a rooftop bar in Brooklyn on Wednesday a group of people gathered to countdown to the start of Red Bull Creation, a 72-hour maker marathon. The event was more than just an excuse to grab a few drinks before three days of hammering, programming, and welding—it was also where this year’s challenge was unveiled.The topic for this year was revealed to be “Signal to Noise” and competitors must create a new musical instrument in 72 hours....

Media Platforms Design TeamTomorrow, 16 teams of inventors, hackers and engineers will gather in a secret laboratory in Brooklyn for the start of the ultimate DIY showdown. That’s when the teams who reached the finals of the Red Bull Creation Contest will finally find out the ultimate DIY project they’ll have to face. After that, they will have only 72 hours to create a working invention that fits that theme, with each group scavenging material from all over New York City to use in its creation....

SpaceX launched its first recycled cargo ship to the International Space Station on Saturday, yet another milestone in its bid to drive down flight costs.After a two-day delay caused by thunderstorms, the unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off carrying a Dragon capsule that made a station delivery nearly three years ago. When this refurbished Dragon reaches the orbiting lab on Monday, it will be the first returning craft since NASA’s now-retired shuttles....

No, “Air Force One” is not actually a plane, but rather the call sign assigned to the plane the President of the United States is currently on. But the two planes that don the moniker most frequently are ancient, and while replacements are on the way, they won’t arrive for a while. According to The New York Times, the Department of Defense is currently trying to button up a contract for the next iteration of Air Force One mainstays....

Billions of years ago, when the first galaxies formed, they didn’t come together just anywhere. All this matter had to clump around something. That something turns out to be dark matter, which formed giant tendrils throughout the early universe. Today, every galaxy we’ve seen has some dark matter in it. Except for one.That galaxy, called NGC1052-DF2, was just discovered by astronomers and reported in a paper published in Nature. According to the paper, the galaxy has none of the characteristics observed in other galaxies—including our own—that hint at the existence of dark matter....

Media Platforms Design TeamMartin LaksmanMedia Platforms Design TeamAirspace: Class GAltitude: 0–1200 feetThe FAA anticipates that within five years 7500 small commercial drones will be operating at these low altitudes. Current rules allow radio-control hobbyists to fly their aircraft within sight and under 400 feet. However, a new generation of small drones can go higher and follow GPS waypoints beyond a controller’s visual range, raising worries about midair collisions with helicopters. Expected FAA restrictions may limit commercial drone flights to daytime hours, keep them away from helipads, and require an operator’s license....

Approximately 13.8 billion years ago, the big bang happened, and it wasn’t long afterward that the universe settled down enough for matter to begin massing together. Just 400 to 600 million years after the big bang, the newly discovered galaxy EGS-zs8-1 formed.To date, it’s the oldest galaxy found, and it may have been born at about the earliest point galaxies could have formed, known as the Epoch of Reionization. Thus, we might be staring at one of the earliest galaxies we’ll ever find....

GTbyCITROËN ConceptMedia Platforms Design TeamThe elaborately styled GTbyCITROËN concept was first seen in the PlayStation 3 gameGran Turismo 5, and thanks to collaboration between Citroën and Polyphony, a material version of the digital vehicle was unveiled here at in Paris. With deeply sculpted scoops, contours and complex curves, the GTbyCITROËN was a crowd favorite. It may not boast the video game’s 646-hp mill hooked up to a 136-hp hydrogen engine, but this concept’s extreme sheetmetal proves that sometimes you can indeed get by on looks alone....

The Russian Defense Ministry just released the first footage of its B-2-inspired autonomous drone, named “Okhotnik-B,” aka Hunter. The drone, which was first spotted in the wild this past January, is designed support manned aircraft by striking at targets on the ground. TASS, a state-run media outlet, reported the Okhotnik’s maiden voyage on August 3, 2019, saying the flight lasted around 20 minutes.View full post on Youtube"Under the test program, a long-duration flight time UCAV Okhotnik has performed its first flight," TASS reported from a press release....

At the beginning of the year, Boeing revealed a concept design at an aerospace forum for a strike and reconaissance aircraft that could fly five times the speed of sound—a spiritual successor to the famed Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbird reconaissance plane. A model and artist’s rendering show a twin-tail, highly swept delta-wing jet in a so-called “waverider” configuration, meaning the hypersonic aircraft would use the shock waves it produces during flight to increase lift and reduce drag....

Media Platforms Design TeamPrice: $6.50Price Difference Relative to Similar Products: Roughly equal.Description: A carbide scribe may seem like an obscure tool, but it’s not. What the carpenter’s pencil is to building houses, the carbide scribe is to building with metal. As anyone who has marked metal will tell you, a pencil doesn’t work and neither do most pens. If you can get a pen to make a line, it can easily be smudged off....

A former Titan II missile complex is on sale for the low price of $395,000.The complex was once home to a nine megaton thermonuclear warhead, the most powerful ever to grace America’s nuclear arsenal. The facility needs plumbing, water, and electricity. If you’re looking for someplace different to live, and by that we mean really, really different, there’s really nothing quite like a former underground nuclear missile silo in the middle of the Arizona desert....

Media Platforms Design TeamBlind vampires with super speed. Jedi-like super warriors called Priests who can slow down time with prayer. Fights on top of a moving train. With all this action, , out May 13, presented huge challenges for its visual effects specialists. PriestIn the post-apocalyptic film, directed by Scott Stewart, vampires have always existed, and they’ve always been battling humans. The brutal vampires—more bat than human—are eventually confined to high-security reservations by the Priests, warriors for the Clergy....

Scientists in China were successful in editing the human genome for the first time, removing a gene responsible for a blood-borne disease from a non-viable embryo. They used a technique called CRISPR, which splices out bad genes utilizing an RNA messenger. But it wasn’t exactly a rousing success, with Carl Zimmer pointing out that sometimes, it cut out the wrong segments of DNA in the embryos. In other cases, it successfully edited the gene out, but haphazardly, leaving imperfect fragments behind that could have caused unforeseen new diseases....

Update: March 26, 2015: Follow our live coverage of the Germanwings crash here. Read our original report below on the new cockpit door designs was published on March 19, 2014. In the ongoing saga of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the notion that something nefarious took place in the cockpit continues to gain traction. If that is what happened aboard the Boeing 777, it could stand on its head many assumptions about aviation security that have been in place since the hijackings of September 11, 2001....

The world’s largest humanoid robot is currently being built in Yokohama, Japan. Modeled after Gundam, a humanoid robot that stars in various anime series, films, manga, and more, the robot will be almost 60 feet tall.It won’t debut until October, but there is a 64-foot-tall Gundam statue in Tokyo, in the meantime.At the Port of Yokohama, just south of Tokyo, the world’s largest humanoid robot will come to life. Modeled on Gundam, the popular fictional robot that has been the subject of some 50 TV series and movies since 1979, plus a slew of video games and manga, the bot will tower nearly 60 feet tall and feature 24 degrees of freedom....

The latest effort to clean up the planet’s growing problem of space junk, RemoveDEBRIS, has been deployed from the International Space Station (ISS). In September it will begin simulated tests of space junk removal, after which it will move on to the real thing.“After almost 5 years of development, it is exciting to finally be in a position where we can test these extremely exciting technologies in the field. If successful, the technologies found in RemoveDEBRIS could be included in other missions in the very near future,” says Guglielmo Aglietti, Director of the Surrey Space Center at the University of Surrey which has led the program since inception....

A luxury hotel in Colorado Springs has created an insane holiday display of a life-size 1918 Pierce-Arrow Touring Car—complete with a Santa behind the wheel.It took the collaborative work of 15 pastry chefs and two wood workers over the course of several months to bring the vision to fruition.Here, the executive baking and pastry chef give us a rundown of what it took to pull off such an ambitious project.Some people make gingerbread houses out of kits for the holidays....

View full post on YoutubeManned and unmanned airplanes will soar over Iraq, collecting high-def and infrared video. Transmissions will be intercepted to glean information and confirm targets. Towns and buildings will be monitored for patterns of activity.American forces are gathering all the ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) they can in Iraq, as it’s absolutely vital in their mission against Islamic State (IS or ISIS). But all this data needs to be analyzed, and no computer can do it (at least not yet)....