Briefing: Curiosity Blog, Sols 4825-4831: Exploring the Borderlands
Strategic angle: Curiosity is in the last stage of its exploration of the spiderweb-like boxwork unit.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: A Most Unusual Lake
Strategic angle: Lake Unter-See in Antarctica, sealed beneath thick ice, contains unusually high levels of dissolved oxygen and cone-shaped microbial reefs resembling some of Earth’s oldest fossils.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: Anduril to acquire space-tracking firm ExoAnalytic Solutions
Strategic angle: Deal adds ground-based telescope network and space surveillance data to defense tech company’s expanding space business.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: About Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools Project
Strategic angle: NASA’s Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools (SVTT) project develops technologies for various aircraft speed regimes.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: Vegans develop complex skills to navigate an omnivorous society, new research shows
Strategic angle: Going vegan is a life-changing decision that requires navigating a society dominated by omnivorous choices.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: Scientists turn scrap car aluminum into high-performance metal for new vehicles
Strategic angle: Researchers develop RidgeAlloy, a new aluminum alloy that transforms contaminated car-body scrap into durable vehicle components.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: How jagged moon dust could support future astronauts
Strategic angle: Lunar dust can be a pain—but it's also literally the ground we will have to traverse if we are ever to have a permanent human settlement on the moon.
Editorial Staff Mar 11
Briefing: Ultrafast computing: Light-driven logic tops 10 terahertz in WS₂
Strategic angle: The future for our computers will literally be at the speed of light, as new research reveals ultrafast logical operations using extremely short light pulses.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: Starlab Space Fully Books Commercial Payload Space on Planned Space Station
Strategic angle: The Starlab commercial space station has secured all available payload space as it prepares for the next phase of a NASA program.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: New African species confirms evolutionary origin of magic mushrooms
Strategic angle: A long-standing debate about the evolutionary origin of the world's most widely cultivated 'magic mushroom'—Psilocybe cubensis—may now have been settled by scientists from southern Africa and the United States.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: Thermal drones boost detection of entangled seals
Strategic angle: New research from Monash University and Phillip Island Nature Parks utilizes thermal and infrared drone technology to enhance the detection of marine debris entanglements in Australian fur seals.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: Scientists document Europe's first Jurassic lizard trackways in Asturias
Strategic angle: Research reveals two significant trackways from the Late Jurassic period, shedding light on ancient lizard behavior.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: Chemical shifts help track molecules breaking apart in real time
Strategic angle: An international team of scientists has tracked ultrafast changes in the small molecule fluoromethane as it breaks apart.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: Insights into Spallation Mechanisms of Thermal Protection System Materials
Strategic angle: A study investigates the internal pressure build-up mechanisms in thermal protection system materials using mass spectrometry and HyMETS testing.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: Scientists control 'free-flowing' electric currents with light
Strategic angle: A breakthrough in directing electric currents using light opens new possibilities in quantum materials.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: One gene makes the difference: Breeding winter-hardy faba beans
Strategic angle: An international research team has identified a crucial genetic factor that determines the winter hardiness of faba beans.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: Ancient parrot DNA reveals sophisticated, long-distance animal trade network pre-dating the Inca Empire
Strategic angle: New analysis of ancient parrot DNA highlights a complex trade network in pre-Inca times.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: Antibiotic resistance can vary depending on where the bacteria live
Strategic angle: New research reveals that antibiotic resistance measurements are influenced by environmental conditions.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: Impulse Space Expands Colorado Presence
Strategic angle: Space mobility company Impulse Space has opened a Colorado facility to support development of its spacecraft.
Editorial Staff Mar 10
Briefing: Study shows spiral sound can shift sideways
Strategic angle: A new University of Mississippi study reveals that certain sound waves can move sideways, potentially enhancing acoustic technology.
Editorial Staff Mar 10