Collaborate Disseminate
Although the Curiosity rover has been well out of the reach of human hands since it touched down on Mars’ surface in 2012, this doesn’t mean that it isn’t getting …read more Continue reading NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Gets a Major Software Upgrade
What if you could get vaccinated with the ease of putting on an adhesive bandage? This is the promise of microneedle patches (MNP), which are essentially what they sound like. …read more Continue reading A Microneedle Vaccine Patch Printer for Thermostable mRNA Vaccines
With the last manufacturer of 3.5″ floppy disks (FDs) having shut down in 2010, those who are still using this type of storage medium for production and/or retrocomputing purposes have …read more Continue reading Checking Out and Reviving a Batch of Used Floppy Disks
Despite the mysticism that often clouds the Mayan calendar in popular culture, fact remains that the calendar system in use by the Mayans was based on a system used throughout …read more Continue reading Solving the Mystery of the Mayan Calendar’s 819-Count Cycle
From the early days of ARPANET until the dawn of the World Wide Web (WWW), the internet was primarily the domain of researchers, teachers and students, with hobbyists running their …read more Continue reading The Modern WWW, Or: Where Do We Want To Go From Here?
Although we take a lot of scientific knowledge for granted today, each of the basics – whether it be about light, gravity, mass or the shape of the Earth – …read more Continue reading Leonardo da Vinci’s Visualization of Gravity as a Form of Acceleration
During the Middle Ages much of Ancient Greek and Roman scientific, legal and similarly significant texts written on parchment were commonly erased, mostly because of the high cost of new …read more Continue reading Reading Ptolemy’s Treatise on the Meteoroscope On Palimpsests After Centuries of Recovery Attempts
As the world of computing and communication draws ever closer to a quantum future, researchers are faced with many of the similar challenges encountered with classical computing and the associated …read more Continue reading Generating Entangled Qubits and Qudits with Fully On-Chip Photonic Quantum Source
The progress of medical science has meant increasingly more sophisticated ways to inspect and repair the body, with a shift towards ever less invasive and more effective technologies. An exciting …read more Continue reading Soft Robotic System for In Situ 3D Bioprinting and Endoscopic Surgery
While NASA’s Perseverance rover brought an array of impressive scientific equipment to the surface of Mars, certainly its most famous payload is the stowaway helicopter Ingenuity. Despite being little more …read more Continue reading NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes 50th Flight