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NASA takes a look in the future. The American ruimteorganisatie NASA unveiled this week a futuristic Mars Rover concept for their ‘Summer of Mars’ promotional campaigns. The colossus looks like it’s straight out of a science fiction movie is picked. Unlike the other Robbers, who are built for unmanned trips to Mars, this vehicle four…

Image: Goddard Space Center, NASA The idea that a huge solar storm could wreak havoc here on Earth isn’t just a sci-fi plot, it’s a situation that countries and power grids around the world actively prepare for. But the Trump Administration’s latest 2017 budget proposal would completely eliminate the program that keeps the continental US…

Image: NIH Despite all the headway that science has made in understanding autism in recent years, knowing which children will one day develop autism is still almost impossible to predict. Children diagnosed with autism appear to behave normally until around two, and until then there is often no indication that anything is wrong. But by…

Fact: All rosé is good. (Image: Getty) There are two time-honored truths about wine: all of it is good—even at its worst—and, when it comes to appreciating wine, nobody knows what the fuck they’re talking about. The latter truth reveals itself time and again, especially in studies about wine consumption. On that point, a team…

Image: NASA The 29-year-old Washington native is a graduate of the US Naval Academy, where she studied systems engineering. She also holds a Master’s degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Cambridge. Not too shabby.

Image: Lida Xing This has been a huge year for finding specimens in amber, from bird wings to dinosaur feathers to this ugly-ass bug. But this new finding might be the best one yet: a nearly complete 99-million-year-old baby bird. Scientists found the specimen in Myanmar, where others have purchased or found plenty of other…

Wonder Woman uses an Android tablet. “No,” my colleague said when I slapped her during the movie and whispered the above. “That’s a Windows tablet.” My colleague, as kind and smart as she is, is “gadget dumb,” so I knew she was wrong. While it certainly looked like a Microsoft Surface Pro from afar, director…