Part of Wright brothers' 1st airplane on NASA's Mars chopper
A piece of the Wright brothers' first airplane is on Mars.
Space Exploration
Mar 24, 2021
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'7 minutes of terror': Perseverance rover's nail-biting landing phase
Seven months after blast-off, NASA's Mars 2020 mission will have to negotiate its shortest and most intense phase on Thursday: the "seven minutes of terror" it takes to slam on the brakes and land the Perseverance rover on ...
Space Exploration
Feb 18, 2021
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Was there ever life on Mars? NASA's Perseverance rover wants to find out
Seven months traveling through space, a mission that was decades in the making and cost billions of dollars, all to answer the question: was there ever life on Mars?
Space Exploration
Feb 18, 2021
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Perceptions of police using PPE during the pandemic
A Simon Fraser University study on public perceptions of police officers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) during the current pandemic finds that most PPE renders positive perceptions of police, while some equipment, ...
Social Sciences
Jan 13, 2021
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Face shields no match for sneeze vortex rings
Do face shields provide enough protection to the wearers against COVID-19 if they don't also wear a mask? Spoiler alert: no. But researchers at Fukuoka University in Japan are working to create face shields safe enough to ...
Soft Matter
Dec 08, 2020
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Japan awaits capsule's return with asteroid soil samples
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully released a small capsule on Saturday and sent it toward Earth to deliver samples from a distant asteroid that could provide clues to the origin of the solar system and life on our ...
Space Exploration
Dec 05, 2020
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Research leads to better modeling of hypersonic flow
Hypersonic flight is conventionally referred to as the ability to fly at speeds significantly faster than the speed of sound and presents an extraordinary set of technical challenges. As an example, when a space capsule re-enters ...
General Physics
Dec 03, 2020
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Japan spacecraft carrying asteroid soil samples nears home
A Japanese spacecraft is nearing Earth after a yearlong journey home from a distant asteroid with soil samples and data that could provide clues to the origins of the solar system, a space agency official said Friday.
Space Exploration
Nov 27, 2020
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Face shields, masks with valves ineffective against COVID-19 spread: study
If the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines aren't enough to convince you that face shields alone shouldn't be used to stop the spread of COVID-19, then maybe a new visualization study ...
General Physics
Sep 01, 2020
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Testing Chernobyl fungi as a radiation shield for astronauts
A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Stanford University has tested the viability of using a type of fungus found growing in some of the destroyed nuclear reactors at the former Chernobyl ...
