NASA’s latest robotic mission to Mars, ESCAPADE, should perhaps have been named the Great Escape, given how many times it has eluded doom.
The data that the mission eventually collects will provide clues about why Mars, which once possessed…
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Programmable soft materials enable smarter, direction-based robotics
A new class of soft, programmable composites that can twist, stiffen, and move differently depending on direction may soon redefine how robots sense and act in the world.
A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology…
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3I/ATLAS comet update: New questions emerge; NASA maintains interstellar claims
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is on its journey to travel into deeper space, and scientists at NASA and other institutions are scrambling to get the last bit of data they can gather before it disappears.
This NASA image, obtained on… Continue Reading
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A Tiny Red Dot in Deep Space May Be a New Kind of Cosmic Monster – SciTechDaily
- A Tiny Red Dot in Deep Space May Be a New Kind of Cosmic Monster SciTechDaily
- James Webb telescope does it again: The earliest black hole in the known universe may have been found Live Science
- Webb discovers rapidly growing black hole in the very…
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Massive Computer Simulation Creates a Hyper-Realistic Model of the Milky Way
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) in Japan recently accomplished something truly unprecedented. With the help of colleagues from the University of Tokyo and the…
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Scientists detect potential ‘mini-lightning’ strikes during Mars dust storms
Researchers have detected what may be the first evidence of lightning on Mars, according to a new scientific report. A French-led team analyzing data from NASA’s Perseverance rover identified 55 brief electrical discharges over nearly four Earth…
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Man Keeps Rock For Years, Hoping It’s Gold. It Turned Out to Be Way More Valuable. : ScienceAlert
In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia.
Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary – a very heavy, reddish rock resting in some yellow clay.
He took it home and…
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No More 66°F Rule: Pro Reveals the Ideal Temp For Homes in 2025
For many years, the expert advice has been to keep your home at 66°F (19°C) but the trouble is that nowadays, many modern homes are not built for that.
It’s a number that’s been repeated from decades-old advice focused on energy savings,…
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Galaxies Struggle To Grow In Crowded Environments
The evolution of each individual galaxy is shaped by its surroundings, according to new research. The Deep Extragalactic Visible Legacy Survey (DEVILS), an endeavour of ICRAR and the University of Western Australia, has released its…
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Baikonur launch pad damaged after Russian Soyuz launch to International Space Station
MOSCOW, Nov 27 (Reuters) – A Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft with two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut on board successfully docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, Russian space agency Roscosmos said.
But the agency later…
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