Five ways artificial intelligence can help space exploration Artificial intelligence has been making waves in recent years, enabling us to solve problems faster than traditional computing could ever allow. Recently, for example, Google’s artificial intelligence […]
Spiders in space: Without gravity, light becomes key to orientation Humans have taken spiders into space more than once to study the importance of gravity to their web-building. What originally began as a somewhat unsuccessful […]
Gravity affects genes are revealed by space worms experiments Living at low gravity affects cells at the genetic level, according to a study of worms in space. Genetic analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans worms on the […]
New evidence our neighborhood in space is stuffed with hydrogen Only the two Voyager spacecraft have ever been there, and it took than more than 30 years of supersonic travel. It lies well past the […]
A method to study extreme space weather events Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), together with international colleagues, have developed a method to study fast coronal mass ejections, powerful bursts of magnetized […]
Space bricks for lunar habitation In what could be a significant step forward in space exploration, a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has […]