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NASA's Mars 2020 rover gets robotic arm to search for life on the Red Planet

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The Mars 2020 rover getting its robotic arm at JPL

Having recently received its wheels, NASA’s Mars 2020 rover now has its arm. On June 21, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, began attaching the intricate robotic arm and hand that the unmanned explorer will use to search for signs of past and present life on the Red Planet.

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ISS is home to super-tough molds that laugh in the face of deadly radiation

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Mold spores commonly found aboard the International Space Station (ISS) turn out to be radiation resistant enough to survive 200 times the X-ray dose needed to kill a human being. Based on experiments by a team of researchers led by Marta Cor… Continue reading ISS is home to super-tough molds that laugh in the face of deadly radiation→

NASA announces new mission to explore Titan with flying rover

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NASA has chosen its next planetary mission, which will send a flying rover called Dragonfly to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The size of the Curiosity Mars rover, the unmanned, nuclear-powered explorer will not have wheels, but will fly throu… Continue reading NASA announces new mission to explore Titan with flying rover→

Volcanologists model latest flame-resistant lava suit fashions

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A team of volcanologists at the University of Missouri turned fashion models recently as they showed off prototype lava suits that are designed as comfortable, hard-wearing field outfits for scientists bound for the slopes of Vesuvius and the… Continue reading Volcanologists model latest flame-resistant lava suit fashions→

Automated Antarctic station works on through the winter darkness

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It’s winter in Antarctica, but a temporarily unoccupied British research station is still operating using a new autonomous system. Using new technology developed by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) engineers, the Halley Research Station is stil… Continue reading Automated Antarctic station works on through the winter darkness→

Breakthrough forensic ID method can be applied to any strand of hair on the body

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A team of scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Forensic Science Center (FSC) and Michigan State University are developing a method to identify a person from a single hair taken from anywhere on the human body. Based… Continue reading Breakthrough forensic ID method can be applied to any strand of hair on the body→