As NASA prepares to establish the Moon Base, advancing surface mobility will be key to helping crews and robotic systems travel farther across the lunar surface. To help advance that capability, the Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge invited public innovators to design and build next-generation lunar rover wheels. Five teams from 128 submissions and 49 countries advanced to the final phase of the
Seema Patel, an associate professor of law at UC Law San Francisco, also stays up late at night to try to finish her work so she doesn’t have to miss moments with her children. “The reality is that these years in your kids’ lives are so fleeting, and I’m super aware of the time,” she
NASA is asking U.S.-based collegiate teams to submit bold, original concepts to the 2027 edition of a student challenge focused on aerospace innovation that could help the agency envision a future on the Moon shaped by new technology. The latest NASA Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition invites student teams to explore new operations paradigms and advance the technologies needed to
“My Father’s Kora” (“La Kora de Mon Père”), a Benin-Switzerland-Germany production, will have its world premiere Aug. 9 at Locarno’s Open Doors section, which has focused on 42 countries of the African continent since 2025. The film follows Souleymane Everston Adowo Freudenreich, an Afro-German trans man who travels to Dakar, Senegal, to repair his father’s
A rescue team helps Hernán Gil, a survivor of Venezuela’s two earthquakes, on July 2, eight days after the earthquake. In addition to caring for survivors, the country’s medical workers face a series of problems in the state of La Guaira, which was devastated by the disaster. Federico Parra/AFP/via Getty Images hide title toggle title
Some of the 16 children discovered in an Ohio home in deplorable conditions could not speak and one, an 18-year-old girl with an intellectual disability, could not even write her name. After being rescued Tuesday, seven were taken to hospitals, including one who was in critical condition, investigators said. His current conditions were not immediately
