Using an iPhone, sensor chip and programming, a NASA scientist creates a limited tricorder to sense trace amounts of certain gasses.
Jing Li and his team at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffet Field, California, used a silicon-sensing chip in micro-board with sixty-four nanosectors.
The device can detect even trace amounts of ammonia, methane and chlorine gas [...]

Although not assisted by Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, scientists have been able to create transparent aluminum.
As reported by Science Daily, a transparent form of aluminium was created by Oxford scientists by bombarding aluminium with the world’s most powerful soft x-ray laser.

The astronauts of the space shuttle Atlantis woke up to a familiar theme song today.
As reported by Tech Fragments, not only have the astronauts had the latest Star Trek movie beamed up to them, but they have been awakened by Star Trek music.
The astronauts were treated to the familiar theme song from the original series [...]

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