Super-Black Material developed by NASA

NASA engineers have come up with a material that absorbs more than 99 per cent of all light that strikes it. The team of engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland, reported the findings recently at the SPIE Optics and Photonics conference. The material, comprised of something like a shag carpet of carbon nanotubes, boasts a ridiculously high light absorption rate of 99.5% in the visible and ultraviolet ranges. It’s not as good with far-infrared bands, dropping to a still respectable 98% or so. Plenty of other people have been working on similar materials, but NASA blows competitors out of the water. Absorbent material usually pulls in ultraviolet and visible light – but this new material also captures infrared and far infrared light. The development has even taken fellow NASA scientists by surprise, and it promises to open new frontiers in space technology.
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NASA study suggest life below the surface on Mars

For years now NASA has collected data regarding the existence of abundant liquid water on the surface of the red planet from more than 350 sites. But this water has existed only for short duration of time during the end of the period lasting for hundreds of millions of years when the warm water had interacted with the subsurface rocks.
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Nest Thermostat a New Name in the World of Technology

A new thermostat has been founded by the former apple employees which is only thermostat that improves with time. It does not require more programming. The Nest Learning Thermostat programs itself in a week to keep you comfortable and save energy. The thermostat takes about a week to start picking up on your routine, at which point it adjusts the temperature accordingly. It is designed to keep your home warm in the winter, while cooling it in the summer. It knows, for instance, that the whole families out of the house by 9am and that people start trickling back in around four in the afternoon. That’s all thanks to a collection of six sensors, which keep tabs on metrics like temperature, ambient light, humidity and motion- Whether it’s fingers about to touch the display or people passing in and out of the room.
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