Emerging Tech

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No batteries? No problem. These scavenger robots ‘eat’ metal to harvest energy

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NASA is operating its Mars Curiosity rover from workers’ home offices

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See what the Hubble Space Telescope snapped on your birthday

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Sweat-analyzing patch could help spot biomarkers linked to COVID-19

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New coronavirus dashboard offers astonishingly detailed data by county

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Get your Sagan on with 60 awe-inspiring photos of the final frontier

Digital Trends Live: Apple and Google fight COVID-19; robot pizza delivery

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Even on Mars, the Curiosity rover needs to wash its hands

This image was taken by Left Navigation Camera onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 2727.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to perform an asteroid sampling rehearsal

This artist’s concept shows the trajectory and configuration of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during Checkpoint rehearsal, which is the first time the mission will practice the initial steps for collecting a sample from asteroid Bennu.

Why is Saturn’s atmosphere so warm? Cassini data could explain

This false-color composite image shows auroras (depicted in green) above the cloud tops of Saturn's south pole. The 65 observations used here were captured by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on Nov. 1, 2008.

NASA recruits gamers to help identify and map the world’s corals

A user playing the new NeMO-Net game that helps NASA classify the world's coral from their own home

The 50-year old Silicon Valley lab that practically invented modern computing

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Mercury mission BepiColoumbo takes its final glimpse of Earth

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Watch SpaceX practice an emergency escape from its Crew Dragon capsule

On Friday, April 3, 2020, NASA and SpaceX completed an end-to-end demonstration of the teams' ability to safely evacuate crew members from the Fixed Service Structure during an emergency situation at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Mark 50th anniversary of Apollo 13 launch by reliving events in real time

The crewmembers of the Apollo 13 mission

How NASA’s VIPER rover will tackle the problem of moon dust

Robotics engineer Jason Schuler performs a preliminary test to prepare for dust testing of various seals for the wheel motors on NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER

Mars Helicopter attached to Perseverance Rover ahead of launch

The Mars Helicopter and its Mars Helicopter Delivery System were attached to the Perseverance Mars rover at Kennedy Space Center on April 6, 2020. The helicopter will be deployed about two-and-a-half months after Perseverance lands.

Online school has a massive blind spot, and it’s hurting young learners the most

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Best cheap drones to get you up in the air

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NASA wants your help designing a mini payload for moon exploration

The JPL-led challenge is seeking tiny payloads no larger than a bar of soap for a miniaturized Moon rover.

Need a haircut? Professional barbers can guide you through the whole process

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Affordable exosuits are here, but they don’t look (or work) how you’d expect

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New Jersey cops use speaker-drones to help enforce pandemic lockdown

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Watch Rocket Lab’s helicopter catch a dummy rocket in midair

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Psychologists say using emojis is more important than ever right now. Seriously

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MasterClass Deal: Learn a new skill from masters like Gordon Ramsay on the cheap

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3D printing lets hospitals make ventilator substitutes with common equipment

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This spray paint lets you turn on your lights or change the TV channel with a touch

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Nuro’s driverless delivery pod greenlighted for California trial

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SpaceX Dragon spacecraft completes final mission ahead of crewed launch

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Mayo Clinic is using autonomous shuttle buses to transport COVID-19 tests

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This Borderlands 3 minigame will help map the bacteria in your gut

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How to watch the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft depart the ISS today

SpaceX's Dragon resupply ship slowly approaches the orbiting lab as both spacecraft were orbiting 258 miles above the Mediterranean Sea Dec. 9, 2019. Filled with more than 4,000 pounds of valuable scientific experiments and other cargo, Dragon is now set to leave the International Space Station Monday, April 6.

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Mysterious drone tells New Yorkers to socially distance during pandemic

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Boeing to attempt second Starliner test flight after bungled debut mission

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Pizza vending machines are coming, and they’re perfect for the pandemic era

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Tesla shows how it’s using EV parts to build ventilators

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Meet the sci-fi startup building computer chips with real biological neurons

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Joint Mission to Mercury makes a ‘goodbye flyby’ of Earth

BepiColombo cartoon characters 'hug' Earth ahead of the spacecraft's flyby, scheduled on 10 April.

Hubble may have found the ‘missing link’ in black hole formation

artist’s impression depicts a star being torn apart by an intermediate-mass black hole

The largest astronomical project on the planet shut down due to coronavirus

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Awesome Tech You Can’t Buy Yet: Ultrafast toothbrushes and a laptop/phone hybrid

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NASA wants to launch a set of six mini spacecraft to observe the sun

A new NASA mission called SunRISE will study what drives solar particle storms - giant surges of solar particles that erupt off of the Sun - as depicted in this illustration. Understanding how such storms affect interplanetary space can help protect spacecraft and astronauts.

NASA lays out plans for building a long-term moon base

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NASA’s WFIRST telescope has a new approach to the hunt for exoplanets

Artist’s illustration of the WFIRST spacecraft.

NASA’s Perseverance rover’s new wheels can grip and better withstand rocks

Three of the six flight wheels that will travel to Mars can be seen attached to NASA's Perseverance rover (which is inverted on a handling fixture) on March 30, 2020 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The protective antistatic foil covering the wheels will be removed before launch this summer.

IBM turned its Jeopardy-winning A.I. into the world’s smartest COVID-19 chatbot

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Another SpaceX Starship prototype destroyed during pressure test

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