Revista Scientific American Diciembre 2017. Inglés
ISSN: 0036-8733
Descripción
Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2017
Disruptive solutions that are poised to change the world
What if drinking water could be drawn from desert air easily, without requiring enormous amounts of electricity from a grid? What if a doctor could do a biopsy for a suspected cancer without a blade of any sort? What if we didn’t have to wait too long for the result? Technologies that make these visions a reality are expected to become increasingly commonplace in the next few years. This special report, compiled and produced in a collaboration between Scientific American and the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network, highlights 10 such emerging technologies.
Pluto’s Secrets Revealed
NASA’s New Horizons changed everything we thought we knew about this distant planet
As the clock neared 9 P.M. on July 14, 2015, I stood with then NASA administrator Charles Bolden and others in our mission control at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland. Within about a minute we were due to receive the first signals from the New Horizons spacecraft, some three billion miles away, after its daring, one-shot flyby of Pluto and its system of five moons.