NASA's Curiosity rover is doing an incredibly rare experiment on Mars

After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is ...

From the lab to the living room: Decoding Parkinson's patients' movements in the real world

Scientists have traditionally studied how the brain controls movement by asking patients to perform structured tasks while connected to multiple sensors in a lab. While these studies have provided ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Physicists Create Homemade Cosmic Dust, Which Could Help Them Figure Out How the Building Blocks of Life First Reached Earth

Cosmic dust normally comes from dying stars. The recipe for a lab-made version includes a few gases, vacuum tubes and ...
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Student made cosmic dust in the lab revealing life’s early chemical origins

At the University of Sydney, a Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny slice of outer space and used it to make cosmic dust from ...
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NASA’s Curiosity rover attempts an insanely rare Mars experiment

NASA’s Curiosity rover is attempting one of the rarest kinds of experiments ever tried on Mars, a painstaking chemical test that uses a limited supply of liquid reagents to hunt for traces of complex ...