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Casey Rodgers/AP IMAGES FOR FUSE The Red Hot Chili Peppers are currently on tour following the release of their tenth studio album in 2011. They might need some extra socks. California funk-rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers – infamous for sometimes taking the stage with only tube socks covering their private parts – is reportedly joining headline act Bruno Mars ...

Water flows freely on the surface of Mars. Wait, what? In recent months, NASA’s Curiosity rover has confirmed that Mars, millions of years ago, used to be covered in free-flowing rivers. According to some new imagery from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and analysis by Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, however, it appears that water still flows on the ...

NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) has finally unveiled Valkyrie, its “superhero robot” entry to the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trials, which take place on December 20 in Florida. Valkyrie will compete against fellow humanoid robots, such as Atlas, on a series of eight physical tasks to test the dexterity and autonomy of the robots, with the chance of going forward ...

Mars is the planet right next door, and we’ve shot a dozen probes and rovers its way in the last few decades. However, there’s still a lot we don’t know about the Red Planet, and the MAVEN probe could help solve some of those mysteries. MAVEN stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (okay, NASA), and its goal is to ...