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[ad_1] NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has been augmented with the Mastcam-Z instrument which will be the rover’s most advanced set of “eyes” to explore the Red Planet. With the sharp eyes they’ve given me, I will approach Mars with clarity like never before. My main camera, Mastcam-Z, will even allow …

[ad_1] Noctiluca flourishes in the Arabian Sea, seen from space. Credit: Norman Kuring / NASA An exceptionally resistant organism, almost unknown in the Arabian Sea 20 years ago, has been proliferating and spreading at an alarming rate, forming swirling and thick, smelly green filaments that are visible even from space. …

[ad_1] What if the “big ocean trash patches” were just the tip of the iceberg? While more than ten million tons of plastic waste enters the sea each year, we actually only see 1%, the portion that floats on the ocean surface. What happens to the 99% lost has not …

[ad_1] The Moon may look like a piece of cold, dead rock floating in space, but there could still be life in the old one. Geologists have found indications of tectonic activity on the near side of the Moon that they believe is recent, and may even be ongoing today. …

[ad_1] The 3D printer developed at TU Graz melts metal powder using high-performance LED light sources and then processes it into components in additive manufacturing. Credit: © TU Graz LED instead of laser or electron beam. LED-based Selective Fusion (SLEDM), that is, selective fusion of metal dust using high-power LED …

[ad_1] NASA appointed three private companies to develop the next lunar landers that will rise to the surface of the Moon in 2024, and beyond. The three respected contracts include those of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. “This is the first time since the Apollo era that NASA has direct …

[ad_1] While some countries are reducing their blockades, many people around the world are still staying at home and distancing themselves socially to curb the spread of COVID-19. This can be a struggle, with confinement and uncertainty fueling anxiety, stress and loneliness. But some people have spent long periods of …

[ad_1] Paolo Pirjanian is an Armenian born in Iran and fled to Denmark as a teenager. Since he was young, he was fascinated by computers and started coding in his room. After earning his doctorate in robotics, Paolo became one of the first leaders in the field of consumer robotics …

[ad_1] Bianca Ferland was deeply concerned about her daughter, Tiffany. The three-year-old boy, like most three-year-olds, was a happy little pre-pandemic, filled with smiles, laughter, and light. But when schools closed, social distancing became the norm, and families withdrew themselves, Tiffany began to struggle. He didn’t understand why he couldn’t …

[ad_1] A father of three children who survived COVID-19 revealed how nurses gave him 15 minutes to call loved ones in case he never left intensive care. Darren Buttrick of Coven in Staffordshire said listening Boris Johnson’s account of overcoming the disease he had given it all back. He told …