SCIENCE

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover has received a key piece of equipment for the collection, containment, and eventual return to Earth of samples of the Red Planet. At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. California, engineers have installed the bit carousel of the …Read more

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TOKYO: Millions of years after the ancestors of humans evolved to lose their tails, a research team at Japan’s Keio University have built a robotic one they say could help unsteady elderly people keep their balance. Dubbed Arque, the grey one-meter device …Read more

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ABOARD A NASA RESEARCH PLANE OVER GREENLAND (AP) — The fields of rippling ice 500 feet below the NASA plane give way to the blue-green of water dotted with irregular chunks of bleached-white ice, some the size of battleships, some as tall as …Read more

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Imagine traveling hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, perhaps to Mars, when you feel a sudden tightness in your chest. There’s a shooting pain in your neck and arms. You can’t breathe. Could this be a heart attack? Time is of the essence. But there’s a …Read more

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NASA, for the first time, has observed interplanetary shock waves from the sun, that shakes the entire solar system. The United States space agency made this milestone finding with the help of its Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS). In a recent post on …Read more

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Out of all the things happening in space for the first time — like baking cookies and sliming the whole ISS — the newest thing that hadn’t been done in zero-G before might surprise you. Liquid hasn’t been boiled to create bubbles in microgravity yet. That has …Read more

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