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An older relative of the famous Tyrannosaurus rex with the very cool name meaning “Reaper of Death” has been identified by paleontologists from the University of Calgary and Royal Tyrrell Museum. Uncovered in the Canadian province of Alberta, Thanatoth… Continue reading “Reaper of death” tyrannosaur unearthed in Canada
At this year’s Singapore Air Show, Airbus has taken the wraps off its latest Blended Wing Body (BWB) scale model demonstrator aircraft. Called the Model Aircraft for Validation and Experimentation of Robust Innovative Controls (MAVERIC), the purpose of… Continue reading Airbus shows off MAVERIC blended-wing demonstrator aircraft
Boeing’s Loyal Wingman combat UAV has passed an important milestone with major structural assembly of the fuselage on the first prototype now complete. Being developed in partnership with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), the 38-ft (11.7-m) jet-po… Continue reading Loyal Wingman combat drone takes shape
If you’ve been wondering how to track your bats, wonder no longer. A team of researchers led by the University of Helsinki has used new miniaturized GPS tags to keep tabs on desert bats as they fly about in Sibiloi National Park, Northern Ken… Continue reading Tiny GPS backpacks shed light on nightlife of desert bats
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has provided new insights into a rocky exoplanet that may be very similar to the planet Mercury or Earth’s Moon. Orbiting an M-type dwarf star 48.6 light years from Earth in the constellation of Indus, LHS 3844b is 1.3 times the mass of our planet, probably airless, and covered with lava plains resembling the lunar maria.
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Continue Reading NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope sheds light on Moon-like exoplanet
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NASA has completed the first round of tool tests aboard the International Space Station (ISS) aimed at determining the feasibility of in-orbit refueling of satellites and deep-space missions. The space agency’s Robotic Refueling Mission 3 (RR… Continue reading NASA completes tool tests for orbital refueling project
NASA has given the official go-ahead for the Europa Clipper deep-space mission to make a detailed survey of one of Jupiter’s largest moons. Scheduled to launch in about 2025, the unmanned mission can now proceed to its final design phase ahead of the building and testing of the spacecraft and its instruments.
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Continue Reading NASA confirms Europa Clipper mission to study Jupiter’s icy moon
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A new US Air Force kit that can turn a conventional aircraft into a robotic one has completed its maiden flight. Developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and DZYNE Technologies Incorporated as part of the Robotic Pilot Unmanned C… Continue reading ROBOpilot makes maiden flight in US Air Force tests
New Zealand was not only home to prehistoric giant parrots, but monster penguins as well. A set of bones found by amateur paleontologist Leigh Love in 2018 at the Waipara Greensand fossil site in North Canterbury in 2018 have been confirmed a… Continue reading Early "monster" penguin found in New Zealand
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover has received a key piece of equipment for the collection, containment, and eventual return to Earth of samples of the Red Planet. At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. California, engineers have installed the bi… Continue reading NASA installs robotic toolkit in Mars 2020 rover