Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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NASA Challenges Students to Design Moon-Digging Robots
NASA's Lunabotics Junior Contest offers students in grades K-12 the opportunity to design lunar-excavating robots.
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Teams Develop Code to Coordinate Robots, Win $535,000 in Space Robotics Challenge
Seven teams that competed in the NASA Space Robotics Challenge were awarded a total of $535,000.
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NASA Sends Robots to Study Climate Change in the Arctic
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration dispatched two robots to the Arctic in early July to collect sea surface temperature data.
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Meet ISAAC, Integrating Robots with Space Stations of the Future
Software designed to enable autonomous operations of a spacecraft's operating and robotic systems
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AI Helps Improve NASA's Eyes on the Sun
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists are calibrating images of the sun with artificial intelligence to enhance data for solar research....
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NASA's Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover 'Takes the Wheel'
A new auto-navigation system will allow the Perseverance rover on Mars to drive itself.
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3D View of Methane Tracks Sources, Movement Around the Globe
A new three-dimensional view of methane concentrations worldwide combines datasets from emissions inventories and simulations of wetland sources into a high-resolution...
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NASA's ARIA Maps California Wildfires from Space
California continues to be plagued by wildfires, including the Woolsey Fire near Los Angeles and the Camp Fire in Northern California, now one of the deadliest...
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All Eyes on Hurricane Michael
Hurricane Michael plowed into the Florida panhandle Wednesday, Oct. 10, as a major Category 4 storm—the strongest hurricane ever to hit that region.
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NASA Is Taking a New Look at Searching for Life Beyond Earth
Since the beginning of civilization, humanity has wondered whether we are alone in the universe.
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Ramp-p in Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Sea Level Rise
Ice losses from Antarctica have tripled since 2012, increasing global sea levels by 0.12 inch (3 millimeters) in that timeframe alone, according to a major new...
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New Study Finds Sea Level Rise Accelerating
The rate of global sea level rise has been accelerating in recent decades, rather than increasing steadily, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and...
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Nasa Space Telescopes Provide a 3D Journey Through the Orion Nebula
Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined visible and infrared vision of the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes...
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Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought
Loss of water from the rocks of California's Sierra Nevada caused the mountain range to rise nearly an inch (24 millimeters) in height during the drought years...
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Nasa Links Port-City Sea Levels to Regional Ice Melt
A new NASA tool links changes in sea level in 293 global port cities to specific regions of melting land ice, such as southern Greenland and the Antarctic Peninsula...
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Take a Walk on Mars, in Your Own Living Room
When NASA scientists want to follow the path of the Curiosity rover on Mars, they can don a mixed-reality headset and virtually explore the Martian landscape.
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Nasa Damage Map Aids Puerto Rico Hurricane Response
A NASA-produced map showing areas of eastern Puerto Rico that were likely damaged by Hurricane Maria has been provided to responding agencies, including the Federal...
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25 Years of Global Sea Level Data, and Counting
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of a revolutionary ocean research vessel—a space "ship."
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Sleuthing For Seismic Answers in the Sooner State
Oklahomans are no strangers to Mother Nature's whims.
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