Not content with dominating the mother-planet and its barren satellite, those lovable geeks at Google have now launched Google Mars, enabling the man-about-the-web to check out potential Martian real estate if he’s bored with terran and lunar landscapes. And if that’s not enough for you, PhysOrg.com are pointing to a page on the NASA site where you can watch a virtual flythrough of the Red Planet’s Valles Marineris canyon.

Hey look, it’s a tricorder. Really.

Elon Musk, former PayPal creator/owner, has the space web abuzz with his latest announcement.
Dragon, a SpaceX designed spacecraft that will be able to ride on top of the Falcon 9 rocket Musk plans to build. It can dock with the ISS, and a prototype does exist, though the prototype does not have a heat shield.

UK scientists have upped the efficiency of the tiny semiconductor devices known as ‘quantum dots’, which are now 70% effective at producing entangled photons. Applications for these devices abound in the fields of computing and communications.

The ‘Realiser’ from MCP is, essentially, a 3D printer/prototyper for metals. The von Neumann era approaches!