Scientists Just Engineered Human Heart Tissue That Beats Like The Real Thing
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Scientists Just Engineered Human Heart Tissue That Beats Like The Real Thing
Haunting.
The Definition of The Kilogram Is About to Change. Here's What That Really Means
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The Definition of The Kilogram Is About to Change. Here's What That Really Means
We'll be witnessing history this week.
Scientists Have Grown 'Mini Brains' Resembling Those of Premature Babies, So We Have Controversy
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Scientists Have Grown 'Mini Brains' Resembling Those of Premature Babies, Inciting Controversy
For the first time, brain tissue grown in a lab has spontaneously exhibited electrical activity, and it looks startlingly similar to human brain activity. More specifically, it resembles the brain activity of premature babies.
A Hidden, Radioactive Heat Source Seems to Be Melting East Antarctica From Below
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A Hidden, Radioactive Heat Source Seems to Be Melting East Antarctica From Below
When it comes to measuring ice loss at the poles, and predicting what might happen next, scientists need as much accurate data as they can get – and a new study suggests there's a big source of geothermal heat underneath East Antarctica that we h
Scientists at MIT Have Flown The First-Ever Solid-State Plane Powered by an Ion Drive
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Scientists at MIT Have Flown The First-Ever Solid-State Plane Powered by an Ion Drive
Welcome to the freaking future.
NASA's About to Attempt a Harrowing Mars Landing - Here's a Second-by-Second Timeline of The Plan
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NASA's About to Attempt a Harrowing Mars Landing - Here's a Second-by-Second Timeline of The Plan
If you aren't nervous for NASA's InSight Mars probe, you probably should be.
Mars InSight Entry, Descent, and Landing - 19:47 UTC
Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have completed the final adjustments for landing NASA's InSight spacecraft on Mars. Atmospheric entry is expected around 11:47 a.m. PST (2:47 p.m. EST) and touchdown, about seven minutes later.
The entry, descent, and landing (EDL) begins when the spacecraft reaches the Martian atmosphere, about 80 miles (about 128 kilometers) above the surface, and ends with the lander safe and sound on the surface of Mars six minutes later.
For InSight, this phase includes a combination of technologies inherited from past NASA Mars missions such as NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander. This landing system weighs less than the airbags used for the twin rovers or the skycrane used by the Mars Science Laboratory. The lean landing hardware helps InSight place a higher ratio of science instruments to total launch mass on the surface of Mars.
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Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have completed the final adjustments for landing NASA's InSight spacecraft on Mars. Atmospheric entry is expected around 11:47 a.m. PST (2:47 p.m. EST) and touchdown, about seven minutes later.
The entry, descent, and landing (EDL) begins when the spacecraft reaches the Martian atmosphere, about 80 miles (about 128 kilometers) above the surface, and ends with the lander safe and sound on the surface of Mars six minutes later.
For InSight, this phase includes a combination of technologies inherited from past NASA Mars missions such as NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander. This landing system weighs less than the airbags used for the twin rovers or the skycrane used by the Mars Science Laboratory. The lean landing hardware helps InSight place a higher ratio of science instruments to total launch mass on the surface of Mars.
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Timeline of events
Landing status
Mars InSight page
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Mission Control Live: NASA InSight Mars Landing
Original air date: November 26, 2018 11 a.m. PT (2 p.m. ET)
See inside mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as signals return from the InSight mission as it lands on Mars. Landing commentary includes interviews with team members. https://…
See inside mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as signals return from the InSight mission as it lands on Mars. Landing commentary includes interviews with team members. https://…