Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the widow of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, has died, AP reports. She was 76. Roddenberry, an actress who appeared in numerous “Star Trek” TV shows and movies, died Thursday of leukemia at her home in Bel-Air, California.

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The space elevator is absolutely dependent on a strong tether cable, currently aimed at 100,000 km long, but it could be shortened considerably with a larger mass as the counter-weight. Carbon nanotubes are meant to be the way forward, providing the huge strengths needed for such a cable, but this is problematic and it will [...]

In an arXiv physics preprint, Timothy Heckman of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, explains how supermassive black holes at the center of certain types of galaxy generate and spread energy to the outer reaches of the galaxy that has an impact on regulating star formation in the galaxy’s outer reaches.

We’ve certainly seen good evidence [...]

In a great example of how technology is transforming the independent film world, BLAST is opening itself up, via ArtistShare (the first film to do so on ArtistShare), to interested participants on several levels. If you want to be Executive Producer, $150k gets you there. Want to participate on other levels, from $50k down to [...]