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Livio Vacchini - Koerfer House, Ascona 2005. Prev, 2, photos (C) Alessandra Chemollo.
NASA buys into 'quantum' computer →
A $15m computer that uses “quantum physics” effects to boost its speed is to be installed at a Nasa facility.
Ábaton Architectes - Conversion of a former stable to a home, Cáceres 2008.
Scientists create human stem cells through cloning →
After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted genetic material from an adult cell into an egg whose own DNA had been removed.
Video: Grasshopper rocket hovers 820 feet in the air.
The 10 story SpaceX Grasshopper rocket is designed to test the technologies needed to return a rocket back to Earth intact. While most rockets are designed to burn up in the atmosphere during reentry, SpaceX’s rockets are being designed to return to the launch pad for a vertical landing.
The test here shows the rocket hovering at 250 metres, while holding against the winds to land perfectly on the same spot it took off. The test was filmed from SpaceX’s own hexacopter.
