February 18, 2021 – Five Shouts Out

NASA’s Next Mars Rover Is Ready for the Most Precise Landing Yet

FiveFebruary 18, 2021

The aeroshell containing NASA’s Perseverance rover guides itself towards the Martian surface as it descends through the atmosphere in this illustration. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly...

Earth

The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states | Cory Doctorow

EditorFebruary 18, 2021February 18, 2021

[ecwid_product id="296609014" display="picture title price options addtobag" version="2" show_border="1" show_price_on_button="1" center_align="1"] Imagine your smartphone knew everything about the city – but the city didn’t know anything about you. Wouldn’t that...

Science

The smallest galaxies in our universe bring more about dark matter to light

Chris SyrgFebruary 18, 2021February 18, 2021

A schematic of dark matter distributions where red indicates regions with higher dark matter density. The illustration on the left indicates that dark matter distribution becomes denser in the center...

Science

THYME project discovers a sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting young star

Chris SyrgFebruary 18, 2021

Astronomers report the discovery of a new sub-Neptune exoplanet as part of the TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) program. The newly found alien world, designated HD 110082...