Recycling a space antenna
A decommissioned ESA ground station from Australia will be returned to service in the Azores, highlighting an innovative reuse that benefits both the Agency and European industry.
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'Star Trek' 50-year mission: to show the best of humanity
It launched with a five-year mission "to boldly go where no man has gone before," but half a century on "Star Trek" has become a visionary blueprint of humanity at its very best. ... more
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Using MRI, engineers have found a way to detect light deep in the brain
AI systems are already deceiving us -- and that's a problem, experts warn
How the brain is flexible enough for a complex world without going crazy
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Towards the workplace of the future - with virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) does not just help companies save money when it comes to testing new technologies; it also enables trainees and students to quickly and intensively learn on-the-job skills (e.g. ... more
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Researchers design solids that control heat with spinning superatoms
Researchers found that the thermal conductivity of superatom crystals is directly related to the rotational disorder within those structures. The findings were published in an article in Nature Mate ... more
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Asteroid Mission Will Carry Student X-Ray Experiment
At 7:05pm (EDT), Thursday, Sept. 8, NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu. Among that spacecraft's five instruments is a student experiment that will use X-rays to h ... more
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NASA Searches for Big Idea from Students for In-Space Assembly of Spacecraft
In the 2017 Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge, NASA is engaging university-level students in its quest to reduce the cost of deep space exploration. NASA's Game Changi ... more
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Astronaut returns home after logging record-breaking 534 days in space
NASA astronaut Jeff Williams returned to Earth on Wednesday with a new record. Williams' latest mission puts his days-in-space total at 534, the most by an American astronaut. ... more
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