Can NASA’s Artemis Moon Missions Count on Using Lunar Water Ice?
We are on the cusp of learning far more about the projected icy situation of the moon's permanently shadowed regions, or PSRs. Multiple nations are eying the moon's south pole with research teams plotting out how and where to explore the bottoms of the sun-shy features. In some circles, however, there are suggestions of placing
Soft ‘Electronic Skin’ Mimics Our Sense of Touch
A flexible, conductive membrane that can pass sensory information to the brain and muscles is a step towards artificial skinThe ‘e-skin’ is a soft, flexible sensor with integrated circuits. Credit: Jiancheng Lai and Weichen Wang of Bao Research Group at Stanford UniversityResearchers have developed an electronic skin that can mimic the same process that causes
JWST Spots Biggest Water Plume Yet Spewing from a Moon of Saturn
The huge watery cloud spurting from Enceladus could carry the ingredients for life farther into space than previously knownThe Cassini spacecraft swoops through plumes issuing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus (artist’s impression). Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted Saturn’s moon Enceladus spraying out a huge plume of water vapour, much bigger than any previously seen
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Isn’t What You Think It Is
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. John Cleese, the British comedian, once summed up the idea of the Dunning–Kruger effect as, “If you are really, really stupid, then it’s impossible for you to know you are really, really stupid.” A quick search of the news brings
One Planet, Two Crises: Tackling Climate Change and Biodiversity in the Fight for Our Future
When you hear the word nature, what comes to mind? For me, it’s the lakes of Southern Ontario, where I spent my childhood summers among its pink and gray granite rocks and shadowed pine forests. I picture the rock bass darting through the sunbeams in the water and hear the cicadas humming in the trees.
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