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NASA InSight’s ‘Mole’ Ends Its Journey on Mars

“The heat probe hasn’t been able to gain the friction it needs to dig, but the mission has been granted an extension to carry on with its other science. The heat probe developed and built by the German Aerospace …

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Reaches Its 3,000th Day on Mars

“As the rover has continued to ascend Mount Sharp, it’s found distinctive benchlike rock formations. It’s been 3,000 Martian days, or sols, since Curiosity touched down on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, and the rover keeps making …

NASA’s Juno Mission Expands Into the Future

“The spacecraft, which has been gathering data on the gas giant since July 2016, will become an explorer of the full Jovian system – Jupiter and its rings and moons. NASA has authorized a mission extension for its Juno spacecraft exploring …

Neuroscientists identify brain circuit that encodes timing of events

“When we experience a new event, our brain records a memory of not only what happened, but also the context, including the time and location of the event. A new study from MIT neuroscientists sheds light on how the timing …

New strategies for designing electroluminescent materials

“A collaborative team of materials scientists and theoretical chemists provide hybrid perovskite nanoparticles that are high-efficiency light emitters by using a comprehensive defect-suppression strategy. New research details how a class of electroluminescent materials, key components of devices such as LED …

New way to control electrical charge in 2D materials: Put a flake on it

“Physicists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered how to locally add electrical charge to an atomically thin graphene device by layering flakes of another thin material, alpha-RuCl3, on top of it. A paper published in the journal Nano …

NVIDIA Introduces GeForce RTX 3060, Next Generation of the World’s Most Popular GPU

“NVIDIA today announced that it is bringing the NVIDIA Ampere architecture to millions more PC gamers with the new GeForce® RTX™ 3060 GPU. With its efficient, high-performance architecture and the second generation of NVIDIA RTX™, the RTX 3060 brings amazing …

NXP Announces the BlueBox 3.0 Development Platform for Safe Automotive High-Performance Computing

“Embedded NXP Layerscape processor delivers 2x increase in processing performance over previous platform to meet new vehicle architecture demands S32G processors support ASIL D level functional safety to enable advanced safety architectures 8x increase in I/O and PCIe ports …

Qualcomm to Acquire NUVIA

“Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NUVIA for approximately $1.4 billion before working capital and other adjustments. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions …

Researchers Develop Laser-Based Process to 3D Print Detailed Glass Objects

“Multiphoton polymerization approach might one day be used to print complex optics Researchers have developed a new laser-based process for 3D printing intricate parts made of glass. With further development, the new method could be useful for making complex optics …