The four-wheeled, two-armed Interact rover spent four days collecting rocks on Mount Etna. photo: THIS While working out of a hotel room in Italy, astronaut Thomas Reiter commanded a four-wheeled robot to pick up rocks from the surface of an active volcano on the Sicilian east coast, and he did so while role-playing as though …
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Taika Waititi on the set of Thor: Love and Thunder.picture: Marvel Studios Flashback to May 4, 2020. That was the day the officer starwars website announced that recent Oscar winner Taika Waititi was going to make a starwars movie, one he’d direct and co-write along with Oscar nominee Krysty Wilson-Cairns. A few months after that, …
Conceptual image of CAPSTONE in orbit around the Moon.picture: POT An important milestone has been reached in the newly launched CAPSTONE mission, as the tiny probe, moving in excess of 24,000 miles per hour, has escaped low Earth orbit and begun its four-month trek to the Moon. CAPSTONE, short for Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology …
picture: GPD Having trouble justifying the Steam Deck’s $400 price tag after dropping $300 on the Switch$219 on the Analog Pocketand $179 on the play date? There’s a lot of excellent handheld gaming systems on the market today, but the new GPD Win Max 2 hopes it can justify its $899 price tag with a …
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The new research found that human bones, like the wrist bone pictured here, suffers from accelerated loss of density as the result of long-duration missions in space. picture: L. Gabel et al., 2022 Long-term exposure to microgravity results in the loss of bone density, and New research reveals the disturbing extent to which this happens …
photo: DANIEL SLIM/AFP (Getty Images) Looking for a little bit of independence this Fourth of July weekend? Good luck. Already, passengers are experiencing packed airports and plans, canceled flights, and rough customer service trying to get from here to there. Late on Wednesday, the Heathrow airport in London — one of the world’s busiest airfields …
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photo: DANIEL SLIM/AFP (Getty Images) Looking for a little bit of independence this Fourth of July weekend? Good luck. Already, passengers are experiencing packed airports and plans, canceled flights, and rough customer service trying to get from here to there. Late on Wednesday, the Heathrow airport in London — one of the world’s busiest airfields …
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SpaceX’s massive Super Heavy booster stage is now standing (very) tall on the company’s launch pad in south Texas, as it awaits a series of tests and final checks. The company is eager to launch the fully stacked Starship rocket for a flight test as early as July, but a number of regulatory hurdles still …
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Installing a pet door can make pet ownership less of a chore by eliminating the need to constantly have to let them outside for bathroom breaks and then back in again after, and the Petvation wants to make sure it’s only your dog or cat (or naked mole rat, we don’t judge) coming back in …
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Although the sensitivity and performance of microphones has improved quite a bit since Alexander Graham Bell first patented them, they still have one big drawback that researchers from Carnegie Mellon University may have finally overcome by using a pair of run-of-the-mill video cameras. Put a microphone in a room with a bunch of musicians, and …
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