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We, robot: What real-life machines can and can’t do
As director of the Maryland Robotics Center, Satyandra Gupta oversees 25 faculty members working on all things robotic: snake-inspired robots, robotic swarms, minirobots for medicine and robots for exploring extreme environments on land, under the sea and in outer space. In September the Center hosted its first Robotics Day; afterward, Gupta talked robots with Science […]
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- Planetary Science
Up close and personal with an asteroid
The Rosetta orbiter makes its second swing past a relic of the early solar system.
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- Astronomy
The Star That Ate a Mars
COVER STORY: Scientists probe debris trapped by white dwarfs to learn more about what faraway Earthlike planets are made of.
- Space
Brines on Mars
Unusually high concentration of perchlorate salts found in Martian soil suggests that the Red Planet may harbor shallow, extremely briny oceans just below its surface. The existence of these brines may explain a host of puzzles on Mars.
- Life
Missing chemicals on Titan could signal life
Methane-based organisms on one of Saturn’s moons might be consuming the materials.
- Space
Panel reports on human spaceflight
Panel suggests how to get human spaceflight program off the ground.
- Space
Heat-seeking WISE spacecraft to scan the skies
The new instrument promises to discover millions of infrared-bright galaxies and thousands of previously unknown asteroids and brown dwarfs.
- Space
2009 Science News of the Year: Atom & Cosmos
A post-crash plume kicked up from the moon contained vapor and ice. NASA crashed an unmanned spacecraft into the lunar surface on October 9 in order to analyze the resulting debris for signs of water. Image Credit: NASA Water on the moonThe moon isn’t bone dry: Although planetary scientists had suspected as much for years, […]
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Science Future for January 31, 2009
February 7–15 Wonders of Physics annual show at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Visit sprott.physics.wisc.edu/wop.htm February 12 A global celebration of Charles Darwin’s birthday. Visit www.darwinday.org February 14–15 Take your valentine on a simulated Mars mission at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, Calif. Visit www.chabotspace.org
- Science & Society
A modest proposal for federal science spending
President’s proposed FY 2011 budget outlines 5.9 percent increase in nondefense-related research and development funding.
