For over half a century, scientists have contemplated the potential existence of life within the clouds of Venus. Unknown chemistry leaves open the possibility that certain regions of the Venusian […]
Tricorders & Sensors
Tricorder Tech: Remote-Controlled Drug Delivery Implant To Launch On SpaceX CRS-26
A new remotely controlled drug delivery implant could one day provide extended, adjustable medication for patients who need daily medicine but lack medical access—even those on spacecraft headed for Mars.
Tricorder Tech: The Moon Microscope Is Headed For Space
SpaceX’s 26th commercial resupply mission (CRS) is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 21.
Tricorder Tech: The Tiniest Ever Ancient Seawater Pockets Ever Revealed
Trapped for millennia, the tiniest liquid remnants of an ancient inland sea have now been revealed.
Dale Andersen’s Astrobiology Antarctic Status Report: 14 November 2022: Water Quality Profiles
Keith The winds calmed last night around 9-10 pm. The more destructive gusts we had been experiencing the previous 18 hrs or diminished substantially to levels our tents can easily […]
Tricorder Tech: Miniaturized Infrared Detectors
Miniaturization of infrared spectrometers will lead to their wider use in consumer electronics, such as smartphones enabling food control, the detection of hazardous chemicals, air pollution monitoring and wearable electronics. […]
Away Team Tricorder Tech: Draper Multi-Environment Navigation (DMEN)
NASA astronauts tried out their moon exploration gear recently in the Arizona desert.
Tricorder Tech: Deep Learning Tool Identifies Bacteria In Micrographs
Omnipose, a deep learning software, is helping to solve the challenge of identifying varied and miniscule bacteria in microscopy images. It has gone beyond this initial goal to identify several […]
Tricorder Tech: A Universal Sequencing Read Interpreter – INTERSTELLAR (interpretation, scalable transformation, and emulation of large-scale sequencing reads)
Massively parallel DNA sequencing has led to the rapid growth of highly multiplexed experiments in biology. Such experiments produce unique sequencing results that require specific analysis pipelines to decode highly […]
Tricorder Tech: OWLS – New NASA Astrobiology Tools
A team at NASA JPL has invented new technologies that could be used by future missions to analyze liquid samples from watery worlds and look for signs of alien life.
