"Self-repairing electronic chips are one step closer, according
to a team of US researchers. The group has created a circuit
that heals itself when cracked thanks to the release of liquid
metal which restores conductivity. The process takes less than
an eye blink to bring the circuit back to use. The researchers
said that their work could eventually lead to longer-lasting
gadgets as well as solving one of the big problems of
interplanetary travel..." "Looking to penetrate deep into realms
where scientists seldom explore, NASA biophysicist Tore Straume
[profile] (Ames Research Center), radiation expert and particle
physicist Steve Blattnig (Langley Research Center), and Cary
Zeitlin [profile] (Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory),
explored the lo Space... the Final Frontier. These are the
voyages of the Shuttle Discovery. Its mission: to explore
strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations;
to boldly go where no man has gone before; Into Retirement. The
already untidy mass of orbital debris