NASA’s next ‘Mars’ mission will include fake spacecraft, tighter quarters. Can you handle it?
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image: Cover of CBS academic journal view more Credit: Beijing Institute of Technology, Journal of Cyborg and Bionic Systems Dear Dr. Liu,We are delighted to announce that Journal of Cyborg and Bionic Systems received its Impact Factor of 20.9, ranking 2nd in the category of “Robotics”, ranking 4th in the category of “Engineering, Biomedical” in the Journal Citation Report 2025.Cyborg and Bionic…
When we think of Mars as the “Red Planet”, the image that comes to mind is just that – a lot of red. That comes from the oxidization of the dust and rocks that cover the planet’s surface, but there are some instances where the Red Planet still has a few visual tricks up its…
First on Mars – The 50th Anniversary of Viking 1 – YouTube Watch On On Episode 220 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Pascal Lee and astrobiologist Dr. Penny Boston to mark the 50th anniversary of Viking 1’s landing on Mars. This week, we cover how Starship…
After they made the atomic bomb, scientists came up with the Doomsday Clock. The symbolic clock, launched by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, warned how close humanity might be to destroying itself in the form of “minutes to midnight”. Since 1947, its hands have been moved closer and then further away from midnight in response…
When SpaceX’s Starship lifted off from the Texas coast in the summer of 2023, it marked a milestone that aerospace engineers had discussed for decades but few expected to witness so soon. The towering stainless steel rocket, standing taller than a 30 story building, ignited all 33 of its engines and climbed into the sky….
Every summer, lawns fill with colorful “silly sprinklers,” whose looping and twisting tubes send water spraying in unusual patterns. Their designs may look playful, but researchers have now used these backyard devices to investigate a serious and decades-old question in physics. The mystery is known as Feynman’s Sprinkler Problem. It asks what happens when a…