The six-wheeled geologist spotted the twister as part of an atmospheric exploration of Jezero Crater.
The lower portion of a Martian dust devil was captured moving along the western rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater by NASA’s Perseverance rover on…
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Five MIT faculty members named 2023 Simons Investigators | MIT News
Five MIT professors have been selected to receive the 2023 Simons Investigators awards from the Simons Foundation. Virginia Vassilevska Williams and Vinod Vaikuntanathan are both professors in MIT’s Department of…
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Seen Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster? Data suggest the odds are low
Floe Foxon is a data scientist by day. But in his free time, he applies his skills to astronomy, cryptology and sightings of mythical creatures.
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3 Questions: A new PhD program from the Center for Computational Science and Engineering | MIT News
This fall, the Center for Computational Science and Engineering (CCSE), an academic unit in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, is introducing a new standalone PhD degree program that will enable students to pursue…
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School of Science welcomes new faculty in 2023 | MIT News
Last spring, the School of Science welcomed seven new faculty members.
Erin Chen PhD ’11 studies the communication between microbes that reside on the surface of the human body and the immune system. She focuses on the…
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Historic Wind Tunnel Facility Testing NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle Rocket
By Jessica Barnett
The MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle) team recently completed wind tunnel testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in a facility that has been a critical part of NASA missions going all the way back to the Apollo program.
The…
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Autonomous Systems Help NASA’s Perseverance Do More Science on Mars
A computer pilot helps NASA’s six-wheeled geologist as it searches for rock samples that could be brought to Earth for deeper investigation.
In about a third of the time it would have taken other NASA Mars rovers, Perseverance recently…
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NASA Releases Independent Review’s Mars Sample Return Report
The agency established the board in May 2023 to evaluate the technical, cost, and schedule plans prior to confirmation of the mission’s design.
An Independent Review Board (IRB) looked at NASA’s current plans and goals of the first mission…
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Australian Pink Diamonds Were Formed when Supercontinent Nuna Was Breaking Up into Fragments
While it is known that for diamonds to form there needs to be carbon deep in the Earth, and for these diamonds to turn pink they must be subjected to forces from colliding tectonic plates, Curtin University researchers have found the third…
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A catalog of all human cells reveals a mathematical pattern
The human body is made up of a complex community of trillions of cells of diverse shapes and sizes, all working together to keep you alive. The smallest of these cells, like platelets and red blood cells, are dwarfed by massive muscle…
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