Space & Physics

Storm-proofing 1% of power lines protects entire grid from blackouts

Storm-proofing 1% of power lines protects entire grid f...

SIN Mar 12, 2024 0 21

Researchers simulated the wind damage from seven historical hurricanes to identi...

US government wants to tax bitcoin to reduce its environmental impact

US government wants to tax bitcoin to reduce its enviro...

SIN Mar 12, 2024 0 40

The computers that secure cryptocurrencies like bitcoin consume large amounts of...

NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side

NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Fa...

SIN Mar 12, 2024 0 14

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has announced plans for an unprece...

Zero-Boil-Off Tank Experiments to Enable Long-Duration ...

SIN Mar 12, 2024 0 13

Do we have enough fuel to get to our destination? This is probably one of the fi...

How to see the incredible comet 12P/Pons-Brooks tonight

How to see the incredible comet 12P/Pons-Brooks tonight

SIN Mar 12, 2024 0 23

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks orbits the sun every 71 years and is currently making its ...

Plants send out 'distress calls' – but can other plants hear them?

Plants send out 'distress calls' – but can other plants...

SIN Mar 12, 2024 0 48

Some studies have claimed that plants emit sounds when stressed and might percei...

Understanding Risk, Artificial Intelligence, and Improving Software Quality

Understanding Risk, Artificial Intelligence, and Improv...

SIN Mar 12, 2024 0 19

The software discipline has broad involvement across each of the NASA Mission Di...

Splashdown! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Finishes Mission, Returns to Earth

Splashdown! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Finishes Mission, Retu...

SIN Mar 12, 2024 0 20

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 completed the agency’s seventh commercial crew rotation mis...

The surprising ways animals react to a total solar eclipse

The surprising ways animals react to a total solar eclipse

SIN Mar 12, 2024 0 29

When the moon hides the sun in a total solar eclipse, some animals seem to think...

Most Impactful NESC Assessments

Most Impactful NESC Assessments

SIN Mar 12, 2024 0 25

After reflecting on the more than 1,200 assessments completed by the NESC over t...

NESC Publications – Based on NESC Assessments

NESC Publications – Based on NESC Assessments

SIN Mar 12, 2024 0 17

NASA Technical Memorandums (TM), NASA Technical Publications (TP), and NASA Cont...

NESC Honor Awards

NESC Honor Awards

SIN Mar 12, 2024 0 23

NESC Honor Awards are given each year to NASA employees, industry representative...

The Next Accident: How Do We Prevent It?

The Next Accident: How Do We Prevent It?

SIN Mar 12, 2024 0 28

By Andrew Chaikin, Independent Space Historian and member of the NESC Human Fact...

Operational Modal Analysis of the Artemis I Dynamic Rollout Test

Operational Modal Analysis of the Artemis I Dynamic Rol...

SIN Mar 12, 2024 0 26

Operational modal analysis (OMA) techniques have been used to identify the modal...

Looking Back, Moving Forward

Looking Back, Moving Forward

SIN Mar 12, 2024 0 24

Interview with NESC Director, Tim Wilson Upon reaching its 20th year of operati...

Could an AI replace all music ever recorded with Taylor Swift covers?

Could an AI replace all music ever recorded with Taylor...

SIN Mar 12, 2024 0 58

A thought experiment in which all music is replaced with AI-generated "Taylor's ...

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