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The unusual features of the horseshoe bat make it a master of the dark! And now a team at Virginia Tech is using the bat’s echolocation system to improve modern sonar.

As NASA’s Centennial Challenges brings a 5-year sample return robot challenge to a close this year, they open a brand new $1 million prize competition designed to push the boundaries of robotic dexterity.

A NASA technology allows the re-use of a greenhouse gas which would otherwise be released into the atmosphere, giving us all a reason to raise our glasses.

A team funded through NIAC is exploring how currently available modular systems from cubesat and commercial industries could be used to create designs with swappable components to explore new worlds.

Forty years later, NASA continues to take pride in the impressive mission that made the first successful soft landing on Mars, and set the stage for space exploration today.

A team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing WindBot, a high-mobility explorer designed to travel to gas giants.

Inside a burning building, firefighters have only their training and their five senses to rely on. But a new type of artificial intelligence could prove to be the firefighter’s guardian angel.

In the quest for solar energy, researchers seek new ways to harness the sun’s energy, something plants have been doing on Earth for thousands of years.

A see-through wall made of wood? That’s only the beginning of the story. Researchers from the University of Maryland have developed transparent wood that channels light.

Mars is about 40 million miles from Earth --- and on a trip that far, it is impossible to take everything you might need with you. But the ability to live off the Martian land would make human exploration possible.