Predicting the habitability of planets is closely tied to the amount of water, but understanding how water was delivered to the Earth is not well understood. Currently, we know there is a connection between the bulk composition of Earth, essentially the Earth’s major composing elements, and the total water content. A key component in explaining…

Currently, researchers believe that there are only two regimes of galaxies, delineated by whether they produce stars or not. However, using a novel machine learning technique to estimate the temperatures of galaxies, we find evidence of a distinct third regime of galaxy evolution. To demonstrate this, we studied roughly 650,000 galaxies in the publicly available…

Affordable housing is becoming a rapidly growing problem in all the major residential hubs worldwide. This problem has three major contributing factors: high population growth, limited supply of raw materials, and high transportation costs. This has led to housing becoming a luxury rather than a basic human need. Our study aims to analyse structural columns…

The ignition of flammable atmospheres due to a hot surface can cause industrial accidents. We investigate the constraints necessary to create an electrically heated hotspot capable of igniting n-hexane and air mixtures. The temperature profile of an electrically heated stainless steel disk (Ø 50.8 mm) was studied, with the requirement of reaching ignition temperatures (~1100K)…

The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover aims to explore the surface of Mars to analyze its habitability, seek biosignatures of past life, and obtain and cache rock and regolith samples (the outer rocky material of the bedrock). This article describes tools designed to aid with the processing of data to and from the Rover. The processed…