Scientific breakthroughs can happen in the strangest ways and places. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin due to mold growing in a Petri dish left while on vacation. In the 9th century, Chinese priests wanted to make an elixir of immortality; instead they discovered gunpowder. Our remarkable discovery took place on a rugged and remote coastline east… Read More »
Scientific breakthroughs can happen in the strangest ways and places. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin due to mold growing in a Petri dish left while on vacation. In the 9th century, Chinese priests wanted to make an elixir of immortality; instead they discovered gunpowder. Our remarkable discovery took place on a rugged and remote coastline east… Read More »
Saying goodbye is never easy, especially from a distant world. The Ingenuity Mars helicopter team met one last time on Tuesday, April 16, to inspect transmissions from the small rotorcraft, the first robot to explore the skies of a non-Earth world. The meeting, held in a control room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in… Read More »
Edward Courage is credited with saving the lives of two teenage brothers Three British skiers survived an avalanche after their helicopter crashed and slid down the Swiss Alps, killing three people and one falling 30 meters down a crevasse. One of the Britons, Edward Courage, is thought to have saved the lives of young brothers… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission, which completed 72 historic flights on Mars in three years, has ended. Originally designed as an experiment, Ingenuity took off on April 19, 2021, becoming the first aircraft to operate and… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission, which completed 72 historic flights on Mars in three years, has ended. Originally designed as an experiment, Ingenuity took off on April 19, 2021, becoming the first aircraft to operate and… Read More »