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Texas Instruments and NASAhas launched 'The Search for STEMnauts', a virtual scavenger hunt designed to ignite students' interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). Each week, for the next six weeks, students in sixth through 12th grade are challenged to solve space-related puzzles for a chance to unlock virtual reward points.

Want to go ice fishing on Jupiter's moon Europa? There's no promising you'll catch anything, but a new set of robotic prototypes could help.Since 2015, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has been developing technologies for use on future missions to ocean worlds. That includes a subsurface probe that could burrow through miles of ice, taking samples along the way; robotic arms that unfold to reach faraway objects; and a pro...

Researchers are using crash test dummies, with Diversified Technical Systems (DTS) data recorders, to test American football helmets in the lab to improve player safety on the field.

Effects of human behaviour are not limited to Earth's climate or atmosphere; they are also seen in the natural space weather surrounding our planet. 'Space weather' in this context includes conditions in the space surrounding Earth, including the magnetosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere.A recent survey by a team of scientists including Phil Erickson, assistant director of MIT Haystack Observatory, has resulted in an article in the journalSpace...

The latest generation of Eaton's Micro-Military Circular Connector Series with shell diameters as small as 0.43in (11 mm) is now available at CDM Electronics. The series consists of fast-mating M1 (dual-start) and M5 (triple-start) connectors optimised for harsh environment applications ranging from C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) to space flight.

NewMed has offered customers a nifty gadget that connects to your smartphone and helps to improve your mental wellbeing. The ELF emmit is worn as a headband and connects to the earphone port of your phone, offering 5 programmes to boost mentality: improve sleep, deepen meditation, reduce stress, improve focus and fast learning.

One of the UK’s leading stem cell storage and diagnostics companies has claimed that stem cell technology could mean the difference between life and death in any attempt to travel beyond the planet Earth to Mars, claiming that advanced medical techniques will be required to cope with the rigours of interplanetary space.

Finding derelict spacecraft and space debris in Earth's orbit can be a technological challenge. Detecting these objects in orbit around Earth's moon is even more difficult. Optical telescopes are unable to search for small objects hidden in the bright glare of the moon. However, a new technological application of interplanetary radar pioneered by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has successfully located spac...

The Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER) in development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, was inspired by origami. Its lightweight design is capable of flattening itself, tucking in its wheels and crawling into places rovers can't fit.Over the past year and a half, PUFFER has been tested in a range of rugged terrains, from the Mojave Desert in California to the snowy hills of Antarctica.

European astronomers have found that an X-ray pulsar designated AX J1910.7+0917 has the slowest spin period among other objects in this class. The research team, led by Lara Sidoli of the National Institute for Astrophysics and Space Physics (INAF) in Milan, Italy, presented the new findings in a paper published onarXiv.org.X-ray pulsars are sources displaying strict periodic variations in X-ray intensity, consisting of a magnetised neutron star ...