Nov. 6, 2024 — Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — A new study details how climate change transforms coastal wetlands in North Carolina from forest to marshland or even open water, and how satellite imagery may help better direct ...

This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...

an artist’s impression of the LignoSat, credit Kyoto University. One might imagine the hostile environment of space as bad news for any organic molecules. However, Japanese engineers just ...

Space sustainability is attracting far more attention than in previous decades. “Historically, just getting people to think about it has been a problem,” said Marlon Sorge, executive director ...

Sony Space Communications Corp. and Astro Digital signed a contract to design, manufacture and launch two microsatellites that will demonstrate intersatellite laser communications. The satellites ...

Multiple companies are chasing the fledgling market for smaller and more efficient laser communications, including SpaceX, boosted by significant demand from the U.S. Space Development Agency.

By the 2010s, NASA was 3D printing rocket engines. Now, they are testing the viability of using laser beam welding—a technology that can achieve additive manufacturing—in space. NASA has done welding ...

All you need to do is add the road data, put all the slices into an illustrator file, clean up some of the files, and you’re ready to start laser cutting. He used 1/8th thick sheets of Baltic ...

The stunning 16K resolution prints and huge build volume should mark the GK3 Ultra out as a serious resin printer designed ...

[Andrew] got a little help from his friends to hack a laser distance meter. Using laser distance meters as sensors is one of the great quests of hackers – with good reason. Accurate distance ...

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