by dankeelan | Jun 22, 2023 | Climate, Environment, Satellites, Space
In pockets across the U.S., communities are struggling with polluted air, often in neighborhoods where working class people and people of color live. The people who live in these communities often know the air is polluted, but they don’t always have the data to...
by dankeelan | Jun 15, 2023 | Space
The moon is a strange little world. Only about 1.2% the mass of Earth, our planet’s companion exerts a much weaker gravitational force on objects on its surface than its parent planet. As a result, an astronaut on the moon’s surface feels as if...
by dankeelan | Jun 1, 2023 | Featured, Satellites, Space
A team of researchers want to put a wooden satellite into orbit. It’s not as outrageous as you might think. Results from a recent test aboard the International Space Station (ISS), which exposed different woods to the vacuum of space, have been...
by dankeelan | May 18, 2023 | Solar, Space
Astronomers are using 100 newly found supermassive black holes as a laboratory for extreme physics experiments. These black holes are nicknamed ‘blazars’ because they are shooting explosive jets of matter and radiation directly at Earth. The...
by dankeelan | May 11, 2023 | Robots, Space
NASA is testing a snake-like robot in hopes that it could one day look for life on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. Developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the 220-pound and 13-foot-long machine is called EELS, or the Exobiology Extant Life...
by dankeelan | May 4, 2023 | Featured, Robots, Space
In the early 2010s, a new trend in robotics began to emerge. Engineers started creating robotic versions of salamanders, dragonflies, octopuses, geckos, and clams — an ecosystem of biomimicry so diverse the Economist portrayed it as “Zoobotics.” And yet...
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