How does a seal whisk its whiskers? That is the question a team of researchers at Professor Ajay Kottapalli’s lab in the University of Groningen in the Netherlands looked to answer — and the results could inspire a new generation of bioinspired robots. “Our group has long been interested in bioinspired sensing — especially how…
Humanity could soon return to the moon’s environs for the first time in half a century. Under a mission scheduled to launch Wednesday evening, astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen are set to trace a figure-eight around the moon aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft — an endeavor known as Artemis II —…
March 31, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm SpaceX Starlink satellite suffers mysterious ‘anomaly’ in orbit Elon Musk’s space Internet company said this satellite, which appears to have blown to pieces, did not appear to pose a risk to the ISS or the upcoming NASA moon mission By Claire Cameron edited by…
The merlin, Britain’s smallest bird of prey, is one of more than 200 species that will become extinct in the UK if action is not taken to curb emissions and unsustainable land use, a study has claimed. According to the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), there is a 20-year window in which decisions…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It’s humanity’s first flight to the moon since 1972. In a throwback to Apollo, NASA’s Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around. They’ll hurtle several thousand miles beyond the moon, hang a U-turn and then come straight back. No circling around the moon, no stopping for…
Is wittiness a kind of fitness? Ljiljana Progovac explores the idea that quick-wittedness—using and combining words in a clever and funny way—has been actively selected for in humans from the dawn of language. The findings are published in the journal PNAS Nexus. Source: Read Full Article
The Artemis II astronauts and Space Launch System rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida Bill Ingalls/NASA/Getty Images Four astronauts are preparing to see the moon as it has never been seen before. NASA’s Artemis II mission, which could launch as soon as 1 April, will send astronauts looping around the moon for the first time since…
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Refresh 2026-03-31T12:30:08.124Z So why return to the moon, anyway? NASA plans to soon begin construction of a permanent lunar base. (Image credit: NASA) This is the first time in more than 50 years that NASA is sending humans to the moon, having famously taken 12 astronauts to the lunar surface as part of the Apollo…
RAM prices have soared in the last year, and what used to be an inexpensive component to upgrade now can cost as much as a GPU used to. If your PC is running low on RAM, there are a few things you can do to mitigate the problem. Increase your virtual memory space Almost as…
