Space startup Interlune just raised $18-million in seed funding to further develop and operationalize technology to extract Helium-3 as well as other natural resources from the Moon.
Photo credit: NASA | Warren Hoburg
Annual Pi Day celebrations are underway and NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen isn’t going to be left out. In this image snapped aboard the International Space Station, we can see him holding an actual pie that is festively decorated in commemoration of Pi Day.
Researchers from China’s Southern University of Science and Technology have developed a werable photoacoustic imaging watch that lets you see the blood vessels in your skin in real-time. The system consists of a watch with an imaging interface, a handheld computer and a backpack housing the laser as well as power supply.
Caltech researchers have developed biohybrid robotic jellyfish, or devices that have been augmented electronics to further enhance their swimming as well as a prosthetic “hat”. The latter is used to transport a small payload while also making the jellyfish swim in a more streamlined manner.
ESA’s Mars Express recently captured an interesting image of stacked ice on sand dunes at the Red Planet’s north pole. This region is known as Planum Boreum, while the north pole itself is covered in several layers of fine dust and water ice stacked several kilometers thick, stretching out for around 1000 km (621 mi).
Former NASA engineer turned YouTuber Mark Rober wanted to see if it was possible to blow a boat’s own sail using a giant fan and the answer is more complicated than you think. Technically speaking, when a fan is used to move air forward, you get an equal and opposite push back in the other direction.
Semi-transparent solar cells, developed by researchers at Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), could turn windows into energy harvesting devices. In early testing, these perovskite solar cells achieved a 21.68% efficiency, while over 99% of the initial efficiency was maintained for 240-hours of operation.
Now that you can hear a solar eclipse, why not see one from 30,000-feet in the sky aboard Delta flight 1218? It’s set to take off on April 8, 2024 from Austin at 12:15 p.m. CT and land in Detroit at 4:20 p.m. ET, giving passengers aboard the best chance of seeing the solar eclipse.