[ad_1] There is water on Mars, but much of it is frozen and the rest joins the salt, making it useless for future astronauts landing on the planet by 2033. Now, a team from Washington University in St. Louise has developed a system that turns unusable water into fuel and …
Read More »The new technology can obtain oxygen, fuel from the salt water of Mars
[ad_1] When it comes to water and Mars, there is good news and not so good news. The good news: there is water on Mars! The not so good news? There is water on Mars. The red planet is very cold; the non-frozen water is almost certainly full of salt …
Read More »Quantum tunneling pushes the limits of self-powered sensors
[ad_1] Shantanu Chakrabartty’s laboratory has worked to create sensors that can operate with the least amount of energy. His lab has been so successful in building smaller, more efficient sensors, that they have encountered an obstacle in the form of a fundamental law of physics. Sometimes, however, when you encounter …
Read More »The skull sheds light on human evolution
[ad_1] Paleoanthropologists have discovered a two-million-year-old adult hominid skull – the first known and best-preserved specimen of Paranthropus robustus ever found. Researchers from the Department of Archeology at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, led the excavation, reconstruction and analysis of the rare male fossil from the main Drimolen quarry …
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