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  • Things You Didn’t Know About NASA’s Mars Rovers

    Things You Didn’t Know About NASA’s Mars Rovers

    On July 4, 1997, a tiny, flat robot touched down on the surface of Mars and became the first wheeled vehicle to roam around on another planet. Since then, a fleet of Martian rovers have followed in the tracks of Sojourner and they have become bigger, better, and more autonomous over the years. Sojourner was…


  • Mathematicians Have Just Reversed the Sprinkler

    Mathematicians Have Just Reversed the Sprinkler

    For 141 years, physicists like Richard Feynman have puzzled over a question of fluid flow: how would a sprinkler rotate if it were underwater, sucking in the stuff instead of spewing it? Now, a team of researchers has found an answer. Though the idea was first proposed by experimentalists in the 1880s, it was repopularised…