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Small spiders use their silk threads to passively fly, a process called ballooning. Learning how could help atmospheric scientists.
Edible electronics, devices that can be broken down and digested, could perform many useful functions inside the body.
Da Vinci dreamed up a helicopter 400 years before they actually existed. Now, engineers have brought his design to life, but with a twist.
The big-picture physics is simple – let gravity do its job.
If you want to have foamy beer inside the comfort of your own home, you need to invest in a special nucleated glass.
A levitating vehicle might someday explore the moon, asteroids, and other airless planetary surfaces.
With advanced laser technology and an appropriate sail, we could accelerate objects to ~20% the speed of light. But would they survive?
One day, we could fly across the U.S. in half an hour. A state-of-the-art hypersonic flight testing facility at UTSA could help make that dream a reality.
With launch, deployment, calibration, and science operations about to commence, here are 10 facts that are absolutely true.
After decades of development, whether NASA's Webb succeeds or fails all comes down to five critical milestones that are only days away.
Drones have a lot to learn from the landing abilities of birds.
The paper-thin device may also someday be used to stimulate bone growth.
Battery-powered urban aircraft are well within the bounds of technological reality.
The dream of zero resistance is closer than you may think. One of the biggest physical problems in modern society is resistance. Not political or social resistance, mind you, but electrical […]
It’s last “hard” test is over. Now, we wait for its launch. Despite numerous delays, funding crises, and technical challenges, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready. The science instruments […]
In all the years of NASA, we’ve never touched the Sun before. Here’s why it’s so hard. This past weekend, NASA successfully launched the Parker Solar Probe: the first spacecraft that […]
Designed for a 90-day mission each, dust killed the overachieving Spirit and threatens to now kill Opportunity. But it didn’t have to be this way. In 2004, NASA launched two exploration […]