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IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 NASA is conducting tests on advanced supersonic parachutes equipped with innovative sensors to improve Mars missions. 📡 The EPIC team successfully deployed a sensor-equipped parachute using a drone, providing crucial data for future tests. 🔧 Collaboration between NASA’s research centers led to the development of commercially available sensors for these parachutes. 🤝 Potential partnerships with the …

In the spring of 2019, the six-wheeled Spirit rover was driving backwards to drag an inoperable front right wheel when it got stuck on the sandy Martian surface. Despite spending months trying to excavate its robot, NASA could not free Spirit. Now, engineers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison may have figured out a way to better prepare NASA’s robots for …

TORONTO — An expert panel convened by the Alzheimer’s Association has released the first clinical guidelines to help clinicians choose the most appropriate blood-based biomarker (BBM) test to aid in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The evidence-based guideline recommends that tests with ≥ 90% sensitivity and specificity can serve as a substitute for amyloid PET or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) …

Google DeepMind is rolling out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, which, the company says, is its most advanced AI reasoning model, able to answer questions by exploring and considering multiple ideas simultaneously and then using those outputs to choose the best answer. Subscribers to Google’s $250-per-month Ultra subscription will gain access to Gemini 2.5 Deep Think in the Gemini app starting …

How to get to the Moon … The report estimates that canceling the SLS rocket, its ground systems, Orion, and the Lunar Gateway would save NASA $5.25 billion a year. The authors posit several different architectures for a lunar lander that would be ready sooner and be compatible with existing rockets. This includes a novel plan to use Crew Dragon, …

A Townsend’s big eared bat clings onto a rock wall. Colorado is home to 19 native bat species.National Park Service/Courtesy photo Pitkin County has confirmed a bat that bit a person near the Weller Lake parking lot up Independence Pass has tested positive for rabies — the fourth confirmed county case in the last eight years and the first positive …

(Bloomberg) — Starbucks Corp., which built a loyal following in part by selling sugary candy-colored drinks, has a vision for a healthier menu that’s better suited for the MAHA era. Most Read from Bloomberg It’s testing matcha and cold brew made with coconut water. It’s exploring syrups sweetened with agave instead of sugar. It’s been piloting a protein-infused cold foam …

Athletes will be eligible to compete in the female category for world-ranking competitions such as the world championships only if they clear a one-time gene test. The test for the SRY gene, which needs to be taken only once and helps in determining biological sex, can be conducted via a cheek swab or blood test. World Athletics’ testing protocol will …

PORTLAND (WGME) — A Maine resident has tested positive for a tick-borne illness. It’s the first confirmed case identified in a person in Maine this year. The Maine CDC says an adult in Hancock County was hospitalized after becoming infected with Powassan virus. The CDC says they’ve also identified case of West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne disease, in a bird …

A major Alzheimer’s disease medical group is recommending that specialists may use certain blood tests to help diagnose patients with cognitive impairment in lieu of more complex and invasive tests, a move that could lead more people to get treated for the devastating disease. The Alzheimer’s Association, in its first clinical guidelines on blood biomarker testing, said Tuesday that tests …