Use cases for smart materials in space exploration keep cropping up everywhere. They are used in everything from antenna deployments on satellites to rover deformation and reformation. One of the latest ideas is to use them to transform the solar sails that could primarily be used as a propulsion system for a mission into a heat shield when that mission reaches its final destination. A new paper from Joseph Ivarson and Davide Guzzetti, both of Auburns Department of Aerospace Engineering, and published in Acta Astronautica, describes how the idea might work and lists some potential applications exploring various parts of the solar system.

It is thought they use these dives to learn about navigation and the water conditions.

It was discovered during excavations of Oxfordshires dinosaur highway.

The "Chicago rat hole" became so famous it is now housed in the City Hall-County Building. Scientists studying it found a few surprises, and some grim news.

Holey moley!

Decades after the discovery of the Oldowan toolkit, were still waiting for the species responsible to put their hand up.

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HP nailed this League of Legends gaming laptop, with golden accents and promises of "easter eggs" A brand new golden HP Omen gaming laptop is on the way with an awesome League of Legends design. Now, while this HP Omen 16 doesn't contain any real gold, it's designed for League of Legends fans, and it includes touches such as gold rims on the default ability keys on its RGB keyboard. On...

Forget water cooling, this guy just cooled an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming CPU by spraying coolant directly onto it, and you need to see it in action You might be content to cool your CPU with a basic CPU cooler using a heatsink and fan, but master overclocker Roman "Der8auer" Hartung has just demonstrated that you can also cool an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D by spraying coolant directly onto the...