BERLIN – NASA plans to use cargo versions of Artemis lunar landers, being developed by Blue Origin and SpaceX, to deliver a pressurized rover and surface habitat to the moon’s surface in the early 2030s. NASA has announced that it will add work to existing contracts to develop cargo versions of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon … Read more
Professor Michael Ward, Chair of the Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety at the University of Sydney, aims to gain new insight into the interface between wild and domestic animals to enable advanced assessment of the risk of microbial spillover. You will complete an internship during the five-year Veterinary Medicine course. When I … Read more
Even if you don’t know what 3D microfluidic networks are, that doesn’t change the fact that they have some very valuable potential applications. Scientists have now come up with a much simpler method of making the things, by taking casts of plant roots. Simply put, a 3D microfluidic network is a series of microscale branching … Read more
Think about this: It’s been forty years since astronaut Owen Garriott, call sign W5LFL, pioneered amateur radio communications from space. He was a crew member of the Space Shuttle program’s STS-9 mission. During that 1983 space shuttle flight, Garriott became the first person ever in space to communicate with amateur radio operators on the ground. … Read more
A swarm of tiny robots destined to search for life on a distant moon recently began its journey in a swimming pool here on Earth. The SWIM robots – short for Sensing With Independent Microswimmers – demonstrated impressive maneuverability during recent tests in the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) pool. Propelled by propellers, the miniature, … Read more
For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a “khipu” (also spelled “quipu” and pronounced “key-poo”) to record and communicate information. Khipus were made with cords or strings with knots in them. And experts understand that many, but not all, of these buttons were used to represent numbers. In a new … Read more
SpaceX launched a new batch of its Starlink internet satellites into orbit on Sunday morning (Nov. 24). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 20 Starlink spacecraft — 13 of which can broadcast directly to smartphones — lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday at 12:25 a.m. EST (0525 GMT; 9:25 p.m. on … Read more
It’s “something that hasn’t been seen before in physics.” Everything is illuminated Be relieved, folks: a fascinating new paper has emerged that describes the shape of a single photon, the smallest possible form of energy in an electromagnetic field commonly known as light. The work, published as a study in the journal Physical Assessment Lettersgoes … Read more
A rare and potentially fatal skin infection with nightmarish consequences could soon be cured. The infection starts as a seemingly harmless rash, and before a person knows it, more than 30 percent of the skin on their body begins to blister and peel, usually starting on the face and chest, before progressing to the mouth … Read more
Determining the passage of time in our world of ticking clocks and oscillating pendulums is a simple case of counting the seconds between “then” and “now.” However, on the quantum scale of buzzing electrons, ‘then’ cannot always be expected. Worse still, “now” often fades into a haze of vagueness. In some scenarios, a stopwatch simply … Read more