The time has nearly arrived. In mere days, the first Marvel Studios project in over a year will be released when the first two episodes of WandaVision premiere on Disney+. This isn’t your run of the mill MCU movie or TV show, though. As the first entry in Phase 4, it’s setting aside Marvel’s traditional…
Artist’s concept of the Juno spacecraft at Jupiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech In a pair of mission extensions, NASA has cleared the way for more seismic observations on Mars with the robotic InSight lander and approved plans for the Juno spacecraft to alter its orbit and perform close flybys of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, Ganymede, and the…
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Airspeeder, founded in 2016, wants to be the “world’s first electric flying car race,” CEO Matt Pearson told Insider. For many forms of transportation, racing has been a venue for relatively unrestricted development — leading to both safety and…
In 1991 two hikers in the Italian Alps stumbled on a mummified body buried in the ice. The Iceman, it turned out, died more than 5,000 years ago. At first, archeologists assumed he’d fallen in a snowstorm and frozen to death. Then they discovered various cuts and bruises on his body and an arrowhead embedded…
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The flower-like set of points represents all possible shapes that the smarticle swarm can take on. In line with rattling theory, the most common shapes are also the most orderly with the lowest rattling (shown in blue). Credit: Thomas A. Berrueta Predicting when and how collections of particles, robots, or animals become orderly remains a…
WHEN I look back on my middle school days, about 10 years ago, lunch was not anything extraordinary. Ayi (domestic helper) would deliver plastic lunchboxes to the classrooms for us to eat at our desks. We didn’t have a choice of courses. But things are different today as I learned that a robotic chef is starting…
Interacting in a confined space, a swarm of ‘smarticles’ can form spontaneous choreographies.Image: Courtesy Thomas BerruetaIn January 2020, a second-floor lab at Northwestern University was filled with the mild-mannered clacking of three robots pushing each other around. The trio were in a small ring as they hit against one another, though the petite robots weren’t…
Predicting when and how collections of particles, robots, or animals become orderly remains a challenge across science and engineering. In the 19th century, scientists and engineers developed the discipline of statistical mechanics, which predicts how groups of simple particles transition between order and disorder, as when a collection of randomly colliding atoms freezes to form…
© Nintendo LifeOver the holiday season we’ll be republishing a series of Nintendo Life articles, interviews and other features from the previous twelve months that we consider to be our Best of 2020. Hopefully, this will give you a chance to catch up on pieces you missed, or simply enjoy looking back on a year…
