The Big Mission Starts Tomorrow!

The HyperBlast Sunday Challenge happens tomorrow Cadets! One more day to train for this BIG mission! Dodge around floating space debris and defeat tough math problems while you’re on your way to building up higher scores! With less than 24 hours until this mission starts, you will be moments closer to showing off an amazing Trophy, specially designed for this out of this world event!

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Are you up for the challenge? You will have all of Sunday to start racking up those points. Earn as many points possible before the day ends. Flex those #math muscles for this ultimate test to see if you can be one of the top 25 Cadets to win the special HyperBlast Challenge Trophy!

Strength in Numbers: Join A Crew!

In Math and the business of Intergalactic space patrolling, there is no denying that there is strength found in numbers. That little fact is exactly why Max and the team have recently implemented a new Crews feature to the Space Station! Crews are a relatively new concept so if you still need some help understanding what this means for your Blaster, here’s a quick guide to joining, creating, or searching through our growing number of Blaster Crews.

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To access any one of our new crew features, locate the “Crews” icon at the top of your gaming window. It is the red button, marked with the golden badge. There, you will find a whole menu of options to get you started, so that you can team up with some of your fellow Blasters to make the most of your mat skills and knowledge!

Learn more about Crews Here!

Blast into the New Year!

Throw your hands up cadets—it’s 2014! Start celebrating with your Blaster B.F.F.’s and let the thrill of exploration bring you back to the Math Blaster Space Station. Return to some of your out-of-this-world adventures and start setting a few brand new goals for yourself and your crew around the game.

Move up in rank and power up your math skills. You can sore to greater levels with games like HyperBlast or try shaking things up by challenging your B.F.F.’s to a high score battle. Simple acts like even adding new friends have the ability to earn you a few new rewards!

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The Math Blaster Space Station is bustling with activities, so get going and gear up for a whole new year of adventure. Don’t miss out on all the excitement and let us know about some of your in-game resolutions, today!

New Development in Robotic Technology

It seems that researchers in the scientific field of robotic technology have cracked another difficulty. A new type of robotic arm created by SINTEF, the largest independent research organization in Scandinavia, is now believed to be the solution to make commercial production lines more labor and cost effective.

Photo By: Steve Jurvetson

Photo By: Steve Jurvetson

These new types of robots are equipped with a gripper tool and 3D vision, which allows it to pick up objects in different positions in consistent intervals. Why does this matter so much? Over the years, researchers have tried numerous methods to mimic the action of “bin-picking”, which is the motion of picking an object up and placing it down. With the new advancement, the robots are able to pick up a castor and place is into a box effortlessly. With the implementation of this new technique, it can relief the challenges human beings may face in the production environment. Ultimately, this new development will influence the industrial production line positively.

The researchers will continue to invest in the project in hope of creating a prototype that can bring more convenience to our lives.

Math Blaster: Morph Madness Video

Turing your B.F.Fs into crazy creatures is all part of the fun and excitement in Math Blaster! Do you want to see a transformation in motion? Check out our latest YouTube video highlighting the creation of morphs from collecting the elements in the Chem Lab, to mixing the elements, to actually morphing your galactic friends into insanely silly aliens. Watch the creation of morphs in the video below or check out the video on our official YouTube channel HERE!

Let us know if there is anything else you would like us to put up!

SPECIAL MISSION coming to Math Blaster soon!

Get hyped for a new exciting galactic adventure because Max has decided to put our cadets to a test! Next week, Max will assign a ONE-DAY ONLY special mission to each of our blasters. Completing this mission will help you earn 500 FREE credits! Check back next week for the complete list of instructions and more details!

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Reaching the stars is the limit to this mission. Are you ready for the challenge?

The Final Frontier: NASA’s Spacecraft the First to Enter the Interstellar Space

After 35 years of travelling through space, NASA’s Voyager 1 made a historical leap out of our solar system, making it the first spacecraft to venture into what is known as interstellar space. Interstellar space refers to the area between giant stars that died millions of years ago. It is a space that is dominated by plasma or ionized gas. Recent data shows that the Voyager is currently in this transitional region right outside of our solar system, which is 19 billion kilometers away from our sun.

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Although the Voyager’s plasma sensor has been ineffective since 1980, the massive burst of solar wind and magnetic field from our sun made the plasma around the spacecraft to vibrate, allowing the researchers to understand the density of the plasma. From this incident, scientists are able to determine the vibration of the plasma is 40 times denser than the measurement taken in the outer layer of the heliosphere, which is a sort of bubble of charged particles that surrounds our sun. The change in density indicates a new region in space and the new data matches very well with what the researchers expect to find in interstellar space.

The NASA engineers carefully calculated and managed the Voyager’s resources to ensure that it can still send data back to Earth at least through 2020. The signals emitted from Voyager 1 are weak, at about 23 watts, which is the power of a refrigerator light bulb. Even traveling at the speed of light, it takes about 17 hours for the signals to reach Earth.

Voyager 1 has gone beyond any probe has ever gone, and it is continuing to reach for the undisturbed part of interstellar space, where there is no influence from our sun. Although scientists are not certain whether Voyager 1’s twin, Voyager 2, can cross into interstellar space, they believe it is very close behind.

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