Collaborate Disseminate
An international team of scientists is conducting the experiments designed for NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover here on Earth. Led by University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney astrobiologist Bonnie Teece, the purpose is to provide a baseline with which… Continue reading Perseverance Mars rover experiments get dry run on Earth
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has received the first of three Loyal Wingman aircraft prototypes from Boeing. The unmanned combat drone being built by a Boeing-led Australian industry team for the RAAF as part of the Loyal Wingman Advanced Devel… Continue reading Boeing presents first Loyal Wingman combat drone prototype to RAAF
A small asteroid came within a cosmic hairbreadth of the ring of communications satellites circling the Earth in geosynchronous orbit this week. Passing by our planet at an altitude of about 35,000 km (22,000 mi), the object measuring four to eight met… Continue reading Asteroid has close encounter with geosynchronous satellite
Two new studies by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are shedding new light on plastic waste in the Antarctic. Based on 30 years of extensive surveys of marine debris ingested by sea birds or washed up on Bird Island at South Georgia and Signy Island … Continue reading 30-year survey assesses plastic problem in the Antarctic
The Global Position System (GPS) has turned 25 years old. Operated by the US Space Force, the constellation of navigational satellites went fully operational on April 27, 1995, though US Space Command only made the formal announcement three months late… Continue reading GPS notches up 25 years of telling us where to go
The US Army is looking into the possibility of adding electric vehicle technology to its fleet of wheeled vehicles. The subject of a draft white-paper proposal by the Army Futures and Concepts Center (FCC), the hope is to simplify maintenance while red… Continue reading US Army examines the potential of electrifying its ground vehicles
Bronze Age swords make for impressive museum displays, but how were they used? To find the answer, scientists teamed up with history enthusiasts to combine laboratory studies with staged experimental fights using replica weapons to generate marks on th… Continue reading Combat experiments reveal fighting techniques of Bronze-Age warriors
An international team of researchers has found that an exoplanet 456 light-years from Earth is so hot its atmosphere contains vaporized metals. Orbiting the blue star KELT-20 every 3.5 days in the constellation of Cygnus, MASCARA-2 b is a “hot Jupiter”… Continue reading An exoplanet so hot its atmosphere contains vaporized metals
To help cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, NASA engineers have developed an inexpensive and easy-to-build high-pressure ventilator. The Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally (VITAL) prototype was completed in only 37 days at the space age… Continue reading NASA develops VITAL COVID-19 ventilator prototype in crash program
An international team of scientists led by Takeshi Horinouchi of Hokkaido University suggests that an atmospheric equivalent of tidal waves may be responsible for the super-rotation of the atmosphere of Venus. Based on data returned by JAXA’s Akatsuki … Continue reading “Tidal waves” power super-fast rotation of Venus’ atmosphere