New Zealand rocket caught but then dropped by helicopter
Using a helicopter to catch a falling rocket is such a complex task that Peter Beck likens it to a "supersonic ballet."
Using a helicopter to catch a falling rocket is such a complex task that Peter Beck likens it to a "supersonic ballet."
Space Exploration
May 3, 2022
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Scientists attempting to bring back the near-extinct northern white rhinoceros announced Thursday they would stop harvesting eggs from one of two remaining live specimens involved in an unprecedented breeding programme.
Plants & Animals
Oct 21, 2021
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Spatial reasoning ability in small children reflects how well they will perform in mathematics later. Researchers from the University of Basel recently came to this conclusion, making the case for better cultivation of spatial ...
Education
Jun 30, 2021
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Turns out the comic books were wrong.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 12, 2021
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The experimental investigation of ultracold quantum matter makes it possible to study quantum mechanical phenomena that are otherwise inaccessible. A team led by the Innsbruck physicist Francesca Ferlaino has now mixed quantum ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 27, 2018
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227
Crowd panics, market bubbles, and other unpredictable collective behaviors would not happen if people were smart about these things and just thought through their behavior before they acted. Right? That's the perspective ...
Social Sciences
Sep 19, 2018
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Childhood play experiences strongly shape a person's spatial skills, according to a new CIRES-led study—those skills can be critical to success in fields like science and engineering. Young adults who played with construction-based ...
Social Sciences
Feb 5, 2018
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437
New research from the University of Georgia department of psychology gives researchers a unique glimpse at how humans develop an ability to use tools in childhood while nonhuman primates—such as capuchin monkeys and chimpanzees—remain ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 7, 2015
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31
If Johnny has five apples and seven oranges, and he wants to share them with three of his friends, can a computer understand the text to figure out how many pieces of fruit each person gets?
Computer Sciences
Jan 21, 2015
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128
Crows have long been heralded for their high intelligence - they can remember faces, use tools and communicate in sophisticated ways.
Plants & Animals
Dec 18, 2014
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