When Carv began developing the Strandbeest-inspired walking bike in 2014, it couldn’t have known the beast that it would create.
| News | April 21, 2022 |
2019 was full of big scientific news and breakthroughs, so we rounded up all of the best headlines for your perusal
| News | September 28, 2021 |
A team of researchers from Purdue University have designed a patch that can help measure radiation exposure in nearly real time for radiologists and nuclear disaster responders. They're simple, made out of little more than paper and yeast, and cost pennies on the dollar.
| News | September 28, 2021 |
Infants at risk of cerebral palsy are getting a bit of support from a skateboard, robot, and machine-learning algorithm at the University of Oklahoma
| News | May 7, 2021 |
Alleged criminals might not be the only ones who would benefit from pleading the Fifth.
| News | May 7, 2021 |
Publications like the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NBC, Yahoo News and the non-profit Pro Publica, use robot-journalists to write the news.
| News | May 7, 2021 |
In a rare news conference, Xu Dazhe, the head of the China National Space Administration, has reiterated the country's plan to land on Mars by 2020.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
NASA hopes to study this tissue in an effort to make deep space travel safer and save astronauts from extreme experimentation.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) commissioned construction company Kajima to build autonomous, extraterrestrial construction machinery.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
Close-up observations from NASA’s Curiosity rover have revealed a unique kind of wind-sculpted sand ripples on the Red Planet.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
The rover will help NASA investigate Martian surface rocks for signs of prior life, collect samples, and store them for recovery by future missions.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
NASA is developing methods to support massless exploration, beginning with resource processing plants on the Moon and Mars.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
The European Space Agency uploaded the last of its commands to the ExoMars spacecraft, telling the spacecraft what to do once it arrives at the red planet.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
President Barack Obama revisited Mars this morning in a piece published by CNN.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
The team behind the NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Obiter had too many images to analyze without a little help. So they asked volunteers to offer a hand.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
The Mars Ice Home is a lightweight shelter that can be transported ahead of time and deployed by robotics, before the crew arrives to fill the outer layer.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
To save Earth and settle Mars, two organizations have teamed up for a Kickstarter campaign with enormous implications.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
An international crew of six enter a geodesic dome atop Hawaii’s Mauna Loa to begin an eight-month experiment on isolation and confinement.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
NASA plans to study Martian soil and, hopefully, devise a way to extract metals that could then be used to 3D print a human habitat.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
Future Martians may live in brick buildings made of Martian soil, thanks to a team of engineers at the University of California, San Diego.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
NASA is developing a small scout robot called the Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER) to accompany the next generation of rovers.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
NASA collaborated with researchers to design an inflatable greenhouse that can be deployed in space to produce fresh vegetables.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
Experts are discussing and preparing for outer space medical emergencies at this year’s Euroanaesthesia Congress in Geneva.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
The cislunar habitat is made of old space shuttle cargo containers and will soon be developed as a prototype by Lockheed Martin.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
By sending bacteria to the upper part of Earth's stratosphere, scientists will be able to test what a Mars-like environment does to life.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
The domed greenhouses are designed to house 50 people, equipped with open spaces of plants and water harvested from the Martian plains.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
NASA has selected three finalists in its 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge, an ongoing competition to design sustainable shelters for the moon or Mars. The goal is to build the structures out of recourses found on-site so that missions won’t have to carry excess resources with them.
| News | April 2, 2021 |
Distance learning has created a disconnect between teachers and students. Can A.I. help fill that void?
| Features | November 10, 2020 |
Neuroscientists have found that brain images reveal whether someone committed a crime knowingly or recklessly.
| News | September 28, 2020 |
An American biotech company just received ethical approval to regenerate dead human brains in a trial that may be the first of its kind.
| News | September 28, 2020 |
The Marines Corps has announced plans to develop autonomous robot-drone teams to collaborate in combat and take to the battlefield alongside soldiers.
| News | September 28, 2020 |
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft returns to Earth from ISS, bringing with it cargo that NASA says will be critical to its Journey to Mars.
| News | September 28, 2020 |
China isn’t only interested in building artificial islands – they’re also planning construction of a sea lab some 10,000 feet underwater.
| News | September 28, 2020 |
With an estimated energy capacity of 1.8 gigawatts, the Hornsea Project Two wind farm could provide enough power for 1.6 million homes.
| News | September 25, 2020 |
Researchers from the tech giant have achieved an impressively low error rate for speech recognition software -- down to just 6.3 percent.
| News | September 25, 2020 |
The 3D models combine slices of MRI scans to reconstruct the environment of the womb, including fetus, placenta, and umbilical cord.
| News | September 25, 2020 |
Looking something like a knitted ninja turtle's mask, the smart balaclava features a patch of electric-conductive yarn that rests over the nose and mouth.
| News | September 25, 2020 |
By combining tweets with parameters, they were able to follow how the flu spread and forecast its development up to six weeks ahead of time.
| News | September 24, 2020 |