NASA scientists have cut down a year of Perseverance’s audio recordings on the Martian surface to a five-hour playlist of the Red Planet’s best hits (you can listen to some here). The sounds are eerily quiet and offer a new way of exploring the Martian environment. They’ve already helped confirm some theories about the way sounds travel on the planet.
In a new lawsuit, Twitter shareholders are suing Elon Musk, alleging that he manipulated the price of the company’s stock for his own benefit in the course of agreeing to buy the company. The lawsuit represents a group of Twitter investors but would allow any shareholders to receive financial compensation. The suit was filed on Wednesday night in federal district court for Northern California and argues that Musk intentionally drove down the company’s stock to secure a better deal.
Engineers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, invented the world’s smallest remote-controlled walking robot, according to research published in the journal Science Robotics. It’s so small that it can crawl along the edge of a penny. Made of an elastic shape-memory alloy, the crab-shaped robot includes no hardware or electrical components. The research team hopes that its robotic design could be used in the future to perform tasks in extremely confined spaces.
Imagine a winged dinosaur the size of a school bus casting a massive shadow over you as it swoops down to earth. Fossils of such a beast dubbed ‘the dragon of death’, have been unearthed by scientists. A study published online detailed the findings in the scientific journal Cretaceous Research. A reconstruction of the Pterosaur (the dragon of death)-and accompanying images on social media-displayed in Mendoza, Argentina, recently drew attention to the study.
According to NASA’s database for near-earth objects, a ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid that’s more than a mile-long is headed our way and makes its closest pass by our planet in centuries on May 27, 2022. The nearest this rock will get to us is at 9:26 AM CST, Friday Morning. The asteroid is labeled ‘potentially hazardous’ because it is an Apollo asteroid meaning it crosses earth’s orbit.
President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met in Tokyo on Monday to discuss progress on collaborative lunar missions for humans and robots.
After witnessing Russia’s attempt to take back one of its old territories, Ukraine, China has decided to follow its close friend and start implementing a strategy to take back Hong Kong.
According to the regional governor of Kramatorsk in Ukraine, at least 50 people were murdered, including five children, in a Russian military strike on a railway station on Friday.
On Friday, a Russian official accused Ukraine of launching a helicopter strike on a gasoline store on Russian territory, as images of the facility engulfed in flames circulated.
Following a new round of peace negotiations with Ukrainians in Istanbul, Russia has decided to “dramatically” reduce its military activity in the Kyiv area, according to a top defense ministry official.
President Joe Biden stated on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” increasing international pressure and unifying NATO allies against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
In her appeal for the release of Morad Tahbaz, who was not part of the deal that brought her home, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said that memories
