Ingenuity’s ninth flight provided imagery that will help the Perseverance rover team develop its science plan going forward
Images snapped on July 5 by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on its ambitious ninth flight have offered scientists and engineers working with the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover an unprecedented opportunity to scout out the road ahead. Ingenuity provided new insight into where different rock layers begin and end, each layer serving as a time capsule for how conditions in the ancient climate changed at this location. The flight also revealed obstacles the rover may have to drive around as it explores Jezero Crater.
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Images snapped on July 5 by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on its ambitious ninth flight have offered scientists and engineers working with the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover an unprecedented opportunity to scout out the road ahead. Ingenuity provided new insight into where different rock layers begin and end, each layer serving as a time capsule for how conditions in the ancient climate changed at this location. The flight also revealed obstacles the rover may have to drive around as it explores Jezero Crater.
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This Brainless Slime Mold Can Decide Where to Go Without Having Already Been There
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This Brainless Slime Mold Can Decide Where to Go Without Having Already Been There
A slippery yellow slime that lives in the damp undergrowth is continuing to test our understanding of what it means to make decisions.
NASA Is About to Try a 'Risky' Maneuver to Save Hubble, Which Is Still Offline
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NASA Is About to Try a 'Risky' Maneuver to Save Hubble, Which Is Still Offline
After a month of head-scratching, NASA engineers finally think they've identified the glitch that took out the world's most powerful space telescope more than a month ago.
We May Finally Have The Location of Mysterious 'Methane Burps' Detected on Mars
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We May Finally Have The Location of Mysterious 'Alien Burps' Detected on Mars
A group of scientists may have just pinpointed the location on Mars of a mysterious source of methane, a gas most often produced by microbes - and NASA's Curiosity rover could be right on top of it.
The Biological Fireworks Sparked by Fertilization Are at Least 300 Million Years Old
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The Biological Fireworks Sparked by Fertilization Are at Least 300 Million Years Old
New life quite literally sparks into being, at least under fluorescence microscopy. That moment when sperm touches egg, billions of zinc atoms ignite across their now conjoined surfaces.
SpaceX begins assembling first orbital Starship and Super Heavy booster
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SpaceX begins assembling first orbital Starship and Super Heavy booster
SpaceX has begun rapidly assembling the first orbital Starship prototype and the Super Heavy booster set to launch it isn’t far behind. SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas rocket factory seemingly turned a corner in early July as sections of Starship 20 (S20) began…
People Report Contact with ‘Aliens’ During a Lucid Dream Experiment
Possible explanation for alien abduction stories
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114 People Report Contact with ‘Aliens’ During a Lucid Dream Experiment
Scientists publish results from an experiment, in which 152 lucid dreaming practitioners tried to contact ‘aliens’ while asleep. The most plausible reports were accompanied by fear and sleep paralysis, which are common for ‘real’ alien abduction stories.…
COVID-19 antibodies persist at least nine months after infection
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COVID-19 antibodies persist at least nine months after infection
Testing of an entire Italian town shows antibody levels remain high nine months after SARS-CoV-2 infection, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic.
Scientists Are Giving AI The Ability to Imagine Things It's Never Seen Before
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Scientists Are Giving AI The Ability to Imagine Things It's Never Seen Before
Artificial intelligence (AI) is proving very adept at certain tasks – like inventing human faces that don't actually exist, or winning games of poker – but these networks still struggle when it comes to something humans do naturally: imagine.
39-Year-Old Becomes First US Patient to Receive 'Aeson' Artificial Heart Implant
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39-Year-Old Becomes First US Patient to Receive 'Aeson' Artificial Heart Implant
In the US alone, thousands are currently waiting for organ transplants, and an average of 17 people die each day because they've run out of time – and that's why the development of artificial organs is such an important field of research.
Physicists Just Broke The Record For World's Thinnest Magnet, And It's Wild
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Physicists Just Broke The Record For World's Thinnest Magnet, And It's Wild
A slice of material just a single atom thick is breaking records.