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BEIJING – China launched its most ambitious mission on Mars on Thursday in a bold attempt to join the United States to successfully land a spacecraft on the red planet. With the engines running orange, a March 5 carrier rocket took off under a clear sky around 12:40 p.m. from …

Much of what we call hardware is actually software, firmware, which uses the underlying hardware for speed and, importantly, a stable operating environment. The engineering dilemma is a juggling act: Can we build a product faster a) by running easily updated software on a commercial processor; b) faster startup software …

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is turning to university students to solve one of the lingering problems of space exploration: moon dust. NASA’s latest invitation to students is part of its plans to make human exploration of the moon sustainable. The problem is that the moon’s native dust particles …

Credit: Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has found a way to measure how long the quantum tunnel takes to complete. In his article published in the magazine. NatureThe group describes the experiments they performed and the results they found when trying …