NASA Images of Moons Polar Region

Over the last four years NASA have assembled 10,581 images of the northern polar region of the moon. This amounts to about 680 gigapixels of valid image data
They have now stitched them together to provide a google earth type map of the polar region

The images can be viewed like google maps  at http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/gigapan/

Project Morpheus The Planetary Lander

Morpheus the prototype lander has flown again and gone high than before at 580 feet and travelling 827 feet and landed on target. The next  step is to install the ALHAT Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology sensor
More can be read about this project on the NASA project Morpheus web site

Scoot Across the Crossings.

London is to trail a new Intelligent pedestrian crossing Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique (SCOOT).

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The new system counts the number of people inside a virtual box on the crossing using a CCTV camera. The time of the light change is then altered with the number of people crossing the road. If the push to cross button is activated and the person then walks off or cross before the lights turn, the wait signal is then cancelled.

More on this story at  GIZMAG

Australian National University (ANU) has been given a £10.8 million grant to look at infra red lasers to burn space debris Reports the Independant. Scientists say that  work on destroying some of the pieces could be in progress by in the next 10 Years. The university that is made up of a number of  universities and space agencies was given the grant by NASA who has long warned about the amount of junk in low orbit.

Cancer Detector

It is a well documented fact that Animals can sniff out cancer now a company called Menssana has developed a machine to detect breast cancer from a persons breath, The machine tests the air in the room then deducts that from the persons breath then analyses what is left.
Full story at Menssana  and BBC

Automated Ships,

Rolls Royce are working on a design for a unmanned ship, even though at the moment such ships are against some maritime law. More on this at  Gizmag