Category: 9. Sci-Tech

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Iowa State engineers…

NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is building a new subscale aircraft to support increasingly complex flight research, offering a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to crewed missions.

The aircraft…

The spacecraft that will carry astronauts to lunar realms for the first time in more than half a century now has a name.

The four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, who could launch on their trip around the moon as early as Feb. 5, announced…

Over the past decade, ECC has become a widespread group of pathogens capable of causing a range of disorders, including pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and septicaemia [1, 20]. The strains assessed in this study were…

Researchers in China have opened a new window into the deep past by blasting dinosaur eggs with a laser, dating them directly for the first time.

A micro-laser was used to vaporize small portions of an eggshell, which released a cloud of…

The mission is named for George Carruthers, an engineer and solar physicist who developed an ultraviolet camera placed on the Moon by the Apollo 16 astronauts in 1972. This camera captured the first view of the geocorona, a…

Thanks to missions that have been exploring the Red Planet since the 1970s, it has been established that Mars was once a much different place than what we see there today. Instead of an extremely cold, extremely dry, and irradiated…

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells, or capsids, around their genomes — a process that, while messy and complex, consistently results in highly symmetrical icosahedral…

Magic is in the air. No wait… MAGEQ is in the air, featuring scientists from NASA centers across the country who teamed up with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and…