From life-changing medical advancements to colorful auroras, this year has been packed with incredible science. It was hard to pick our favorite headlines from 2024, but if we needed to put five science stories in a time capsule for safekeeping, these would be our top choices. Scientists found a whopping 100 …
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NASA’s Dragonfly mission will send a rotorcraft lander to the surface of Titan in the mid-2030s. Dragonfly was officially selected for flight by NASA as the fourth New Frontiers mission on 2019 June 27. Launch is planned for 2027, with Titan arrival in the mid-2030s, during the local northern hemisphere …
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ESA Releases Solar Orbiter’s ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft, in collaboration with NASA, launched in February 2020 on its mission to study to Sun and it began collecting science data in June. Now, three of its ten instruments — the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD), the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument, …
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Live Each Day: 4 Tips From the Science of HappinessJim McCarthy is a successful Silicon Valley executive who worked for Yahoo! as employee number 258 and grew up with the industry. In 2013 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He decided right then to live each day with purpose. In …
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The phrase “art and science” of marketing gets thrown around a lot. But what does it really mean? What exactly is the art part of marketing, and what is the science? Where are the boundaries between them? Do they overlap? We’d love to hear your thoughts on this subject. Please …
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The idea of a “science toy” sort of breaks down below a certain age. A toddler who cannot yet read does not need a scientific calculator, for example, and even the most science-oriented second-grader might struggle to make it through the collected works of Stephen Hawking. If you’ve got a …
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Everybody likes getting a thoughtful, warmly intended gift, but some people are really tough to buy for. Quirky academics and hardcore sci-tech people are sometimes the worst, because they’re picky — and does anybody really need another shelf object taking up space? But have no fear: ExtremeTech is here, with …
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Photo: Twenty20 Imagine learning exactly how your muscles fire as you run. Whether one side activates more than the other — telling you the likelihood of future injuries, where they might occur and what kind. Or, think about objectively learning your strengths and weaknesses in terms of acceleration, deceleration, balance …
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Stanford researchers have hacked the Lego Mindstorms platform as a springboard to create a liquid-handling robotics kit, using inexpensive, off-the-shelf parts. They’re hoping to get the kits into classrooms and STEM-curious kids’ hands as soon as possible, to open up the “wet sciences” — biology, chemistry, and medicine — for …
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In a new report to NASA released this week, a 21-member team of scientists assess the scientific value and engineering design of a future mission to the surface of Europa. This artist’s rendering illustrates a conceptual design for a potential future mission to land a robotic probe on the surface …
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