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Imaginary image depicting the starship on top of its super heavy booster. Image: SpaceX Not content to keep things simple or straightforward, SpaceX plans to catch its next super heavy booster rocket at the launch launch tower, allowing it to reconnect an hour later. Don’t get confused Falcon heavy, Will …

Britain will launch a robotic ‘Space Spider’ to the moon in 2021, the first time a walking King Rover has been sent to explore the distant world. This small probe, developed by London-based robotics experts SpaceBit – is set to go to the lunar surface with summer in the next …

By interacting in a limited space, a swarm of ‘smarts’ can create spontaneous choreography.Image: Courtesy Thomas Barutta In January 2020, the second-floor laboratory at Northwestern University was filled with light-running cloaking of three pushing robots. Around each other. The three were in a small ring colliding with each other, although …

Photo: Carl Court (Getty Images) U.S. The federal government’s new dietary guidelines are out, and there are some surprising omissions. While the guidelines continue to emphasize the value of a balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables, they do not recommend that American men should abstain from alcohol, contrary to …

Imagine opening the paper of the week for Sudoku and looking for puzzle pages. You’ll spend your mornings dealing with this logic puzzle, only to realize from the last few squares that there’s no consistent way to finish it. You think, “I must have made a mistake.” So you try …