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Known to the crew as an EVA (extravehicular activity), each spacewalk provides a valuable opportunity to carry out repairs, test new equipment and even perform science experiments beyond the confines of a spacecraft.

Open source digital design is by no means a new phenomenon, with projects such as the venerable OpenRISC processor having been flown aboard a NASA satellite and immortalised in silicon in Samsung digital televisions, to name just two applications. Author: Andrew Black, Treasurer and Director of the Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation and Founder of the Open Source Hardware User Group.

The microwave engineering company, Flann Microwave, is supplying vital components to the US space agency NASA for a major spaceflight mission making the first-ever global survey of Earth's surface water.

Can a new type of transparent gel, made from readily-available beer waste, help engineers build greenhouses on Mars?CU Boulder physicists have developed an insulating gel that they say could coat the windows of habitats in space, allowing the settlers inside to trap and store energy from the sun—much like a greenhouse stays warm during the winter. And unlike similar products on the market, the material is mostly see-through.

Cast your minds back to the year 2002. Brazil is winning the FIFA World Cup and the first cell phone tohave a built-in camera is releasedin the US – yes, this story is THAT old. In the world of secure and reliable systems, Wind River releases VxWorks 5.5. Fast forward 16 years, VxWorks 5.5 reaches its End-of-Life (EOL) status and the world is never going to be the same again. Guest blog written by Andreea Volosincu.

Off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island and more than 3,000 feet beneath the ocean surface lie the warm, bubbling springs of a volcano — a deep-sea location that may hold lessons for the search for extraterrestrial life.Here, NASA and its partners are blending ocean and space exploration, with a project called SUBSEA, short for Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and Exploration Analog.

The 14th International IERA Award for Robotics and Automation has three winners on the top of the podium this year:

The topic of artificial intelligence (AI) for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR) has been in the spotlight, as leading minds from academia, industry and the federal government met to discuss how modern technology can help victims of disasters around the globe.The Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Workshop—co-hosted by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Carnegie Mellon U...

It has been announced that Master Bond EP30LTE-2 has been developed for joining dissimilar substrates exposed to thermally or mechanically induced stresses. It can be used for sealing, coating and encapsulating, especially for small to medium sized castings where a very low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) is required.

A type of 'lab on a chip' developed by McGill University scientists has the potential to become a clinical tool capable of detecting very small quantities of disease-causing bacteria in just minutes.The device designed by Sara Mahshid, Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at McGill, is made of nano-sized 'islands,' about one tenth of the thickness of a single human hair, which act as bacterial traps or snares.