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Self-driving cars know the rules of the road — but not rules of humanity
When it comes to reading cues from human drivers, autonomous vehicles have a ways to go.
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A new robot bee flies like its natural counterpart, but it can't land on the ceiling
A robotic insect with four wings is the first to be able to control itself in all three axes of movement like a bee. But landing on the ceiling like a fly is still beyond its reach.
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You can help scientists discover new asteroids that might threaten Earth
Bob McDonald's blog: Astronomers are asking for the public's help to scan through thousands of images of the night sky to search for undiscovered asteroids — some of which have the potential to collide with Earth.
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NASA engineers hope to send a robot snake to explore Saturn's icy moon Enceladus
Bob McDonald's blog: Nature-inspired robots could help us get around and into extreme icy terrains to explore subsurface moon oceans.
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Future fate of the Earth seen as planet is engulfed by its parent star
Bob McDonald's blog: Humanity gets its first glimpse of what happens when an aging star overwhelms a close orbiting planet, just as our sun is expected to eventually do with Mercury, Venus and Earth.
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Black holes are messy eaters, two studies show
Bob McDonald's blog: Black holes are known to suck in anything that comes near them in spacetime, but two new studies refine our understanding of these phenomena.
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Big projects are waiting for Starship to straighten up and fly right
Bob McDonald's blog: Space projects from both public and private industries are looking to take advantage of the world's biggest reusable rocket, once SpaceX's Starship is ready to take off again.
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Europe's JUICE mission will get us closer to searching for life inside other worlds
Bob McDonald's blog: If there is life around our sun, we're more likely to find it inside other bodies in the solar system than on any surface
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Jeremy Hansen's flight around the moon is a continuation of Canada's participation in the space program
Bob McDonald's blog: Canada's role in space has been largely silent for six decades since the development of the Avro Arrow, and when we launched our first satellite. But we've been there for the whole ride.
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Some planets could support life in a narrow twilight zone, study suggests
Bob McDonald's blog: Scientists used climate models to show how planets around other stars with extreme environments could have a relatively benign twilight zone — which could mean a higher chance of life existing on these planets.