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India Today
22-05-2025
- Science
- India Today
Historic selfie: Perseverance rover completes 1,500 days on Mars
Historic selfie: Perseverance rover completes 1,500 days on Mars 22 May, 2028 Credit: Nasa A Martian dust devil photobombed NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as it took a selfie on May 10 to mark its 1,500th sol (Martian day) exploring the Red Planet. 1500 days on Mars NASA's Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars on February 18, 2021, inside the Jezero Crater, an area believed to be an ancient lakebed. Landed in 2021 Search for Ancient Life – Its primary goal is to search for signs of past microbial life, helping scientists understand if life ever existed on Mars. Mission Perseverance is drilling into Martian rocks and storing samples in sealed tubes, which NASA plans to bring back to Earth in a future mission for deeper study. Collecting Mars Samples Ingenuity – It brought along Ingenuity, a small robotic helicopter that made history as the first powered flight on another planet, testing aerial mobility in Mars' thin atmosphere. Flying Partner The rover has 19 cameras, a rock-zapping laser, a weather station, ground-penetrating radar, and instruments to study Mars' geology and climate. Loaded with High-Tech Tools Perseverance is also testing new technologies, like a device that makes oxygen from Martian air — crucial for future human exploration of the Red Planet. Prep for Human Missions
CBS News
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Nonprofit Ingenuity hosting tapestry event honoring programs catering to Chicago's youth
The Chicago nonprofit Ingenuity is on a mission to ensure every student in every grade and school has access to the arts. Ingenuity's goal is to transform and elevate education in Chicago Public Schools. This year, the organization is holding its Tapestry event honoring the Chicago Public Education Fund and Guitars Over Guns, two programs that help young people in the city. The event will also include live performances. Ingenuity's Tapestry event takes place on Wednesday, May 14, at the Four Seasons Hotel. Tickets can be purchased for the event at CBS News Chicago's Suzanne Le Mignot will serve as emcee for the evening.
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Supreme Group Appoints Healthtech Innovator Dr. Ramon Felciano to Board to Guide AI Innovation in Life Sciences Marketing
With a proven history of building and scaling AI businesses, Felciano will help guide Supreme Group's proprietary AI platform and data strategy. WEST CHESTER, Pa., May 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Supreme Group, a next-generation platform for healthcare and life sciences marketing and communications, today announced the appointment of Ramon Felciano, Ph.D., as an independent board member to the company's board of directors. Dr. Felciano is a visionary founder, operator, and AI strategist with more than two decades of experience driving innovation at the intersection of data, technology, and life sciences. He founded Ingenuity, a pioneer in AI-driven genome interpretation and precision medicine, which played an industry-leading role in advancing data-driven systems biology for biopharma R&D. Ingenuity was acquired by QIAGEN in 2013 as the cornerstone for their AI efforts. At QIAGEN, Dr. Felciano launched and led the strategy for QIAGEN Digital Insights (QDI)—the company's global AI and data science business unit—guiding it through five acquisitions and scaling it to nearly $100M in revenue over five years, helping transform QIAGEN into a recognized leader in digital solutions for life sciences. This experience mirrors the ambitious growth and market leadership path now underway at Supreme Group. He is the founder and CEO of Digital Alchemy, a strategy consultancy that helps organizations unlock AI, digital transformation, and data innovation. As a board member and strategic advisor to biotech, digital health, and life sciences companies, Dr. Felciano brings a unique combination of technical depth, commercial acumen, and platform-scale leadership. His experience will be instrumental in guiding Supreme Group's proprietary AI development and scaling intelligence-driven capabilities across its agencies. He holds a Ph.D. in biomedical data science from Stanford University. "Dr. Felciano brings a rare blend of scientific depth, software fluency, and strategic vision," said Tom Donnelly, CEO of Supreme Group. "As we continue building Supreme Intelligence—our proprietary AI platform designed specifically for healthcare and life sciences—his guidance will help us move faster, make smarter decisions, and deliver greater impact for our clients, agencies, and platform as a whole." Supreme Group is embedding AI into the fabric of its operations—not as a standalone tool, but as a foundational capability that shapes how its agencies work, deliver value for clients, and drive measurable outcomes. At the center of this strategy is Supreme Intelligence, the company's proprietary AI platform built specifically for healthcare and life sciences. This intelligence-driven approach reflects Supreme Group's commitment to scaling smarter, faster, and more impactfully. "We're at a pivotal moment where responsible AI application can be a strong differentiator for agencies supporting healthcare clients," said Dr. Felciano. "Supreme Group has built its business by embracing innovative technologies in service of creativity, efficiency, and client impact, while also investing in professional development for its people. I'm excited about the opportunity to support its agencies in elevating their creative and strategic capabilities to better connect visionary life sciences companies with researchers and clinicians around the world." About Supreme Group Supreme Group is a next-generation platform for healthcare and life sciences marketing and communications. Backed by Trinity Hunt Partners, the company connects Performance Digital, PR & Communications, and Brand & Creative through an integrated, intelligence-driven model that delivers smarter strategies, faster outcomes, and measurable growth. Its agency brands include Supreme Optimization, Clarity Quest, Health+Commerce, BioStrata, Amendola, Curator24, and Kadiko. For more information visit About Trinity Hunt PartnersTrinity Hunt Partners is a growth-oriented private equity firm with over $2 billion of assets under management focused on building leading business, healthcare, and consumer services companies. Trinity Hunt's mission is to provide the talent and strategic, operational, and financial capabilities needed to build entrepreneurial services companies into market leaders. For more information, visit Media Contact:Grace VintonAmendola, part of Supreme Groupgvinton@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Supreme Group Sign in to access your portfolio
CBS News
06-04-2025
- Science
- CBS News
'Their Tesla': Pioneering brothers' Wright Flyer III is designated Ohio's official state plane
Ohio has adopted the 1905 Wright Flyer III as its official state airplane. Described as Orville and Wilbur Wright's crowning achievement, the world's first practical fixed-wing aircraft made its seminal sustained flight in an Ohio cow pasture called Huffman Prairie, outside Dayton. A grandniece to the pioneering Ohio brothers, Amanda Wright Lane, testified in February that the 1905 plane was "their Tesla," and represented the beginning of a human flight plan to Mars. Wright Lane noted that NASA's experimental Martian helicopter, Ingenuity, succeeded using what officials called Wright-like flights. The space agency subsequently named its air strip on Mars "Wright Brothers Field." "Present-day Ohio engineering ingenuity was a part of that Ingenuity mission. Why wouldn't we adopt the Wright Flyer III as an inspiring symbol of the genesis of human flight?" she said. "Ohioans lessened the distances between world peoples 125 years ago, and currently, Ohioans are lessening the distances in space." The Wright Flyer III featured a host of improvements to the Wright Flyer I, the plane in which the Wrights pioneered powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on Dec. 17, 1903. Those included a larger rudder, a vertical stabilizer relocated rearward and separate yaw and roll controls, the Ohio History Connection's Kevin Boehner told the committee. Choosing the plane as Ohio's designee glances past the state's long-running dispute with North Carolina over which can rightly call itself the "birthplace of aviation": the one where the Wrights did their inventing, or the one where they flew. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed its new state designation into law Wednesday. The plane, designated a historic landmark, can be seen at Dayton's Carillion Historical Park .
Yahoo
05-04-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Meet 'Nighthawk': Mars helicopter mission could be big leap for exploration
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The little Ingenuity drone proved that helicopters can play a revolutionary role in Mars exploration. Now, NASA is thinking ahead to bigger and better things. On the back of the success of Ingenuity, which opened up the skies of the Red Planet with 72 flights, the agency is developing a larger drone — the SUV-sized Mars Chopper, which would use six rotors, each with six blades, to propel it through the thin Martian atmosphere. And scientists are already cooking up proposals to make the most of the cutting edge craft. An intriguing new proposal is Nighthawk, detailed in a pair of papers presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference at the Woodlands, Texas, which was held from March 10 to March 14. Nighthawk would task Mars Chopper — which does not require support from a rover, as was the case with Ingenuity and the Perseverance rover — with swooping through the deep, interconnected canyons and across dune fields and lava flows of Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus, a fascinating and scientifically rich region located at the transition between the canyon system of Valles Marineris and the vast volcanic plateau of Tharsis. Related: How NASA's Ingenuity helicopter opened the Mars skies to exploration Among key aims of Nighthawk are studying key areas of Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus — thought to be a deeply eroded and glaciated giant volcano — for potential biomarkers and even suitability for future human exploration. Notably, within this region is Noctis Landing, considered a candidate site for a future crewed touchdown. The mission would also characterize water features and their evolution and volcanic features and their histories, and explore the area's now deeply eroded giant volcano, Noctis Volcano, and its expected massive amounts of glacier ice. To achieve this, Nighthawk would be equipped with three science payloads, using just 6.6 pounds (3.0 kilograms) of the available 11 lbs (5 kg) of payload mass on Mars Chopper. This would allow it to fly significantly higher and reach a ceiling of 4,920 feet (1,500 meters) above the global average Mars altitude and thus carry out its science goals. By contrast, Ingenuity was flying within Jezero Crater, at around 1.6 miles (2.6 kilometers) below the global average, where the atmosphere is thicker. The payloads are OCCAM (Omni-directional Color CAMera system), an eight-camera color imager for navigation and geological context, the NIRAC spectrometer and context camera, and PMWS (Puli Mars Water Snooper), a neutron detector for assessing water abundance in the near subsurface. RELATED STORIES: — NASA is mapping out plans for bigger, more capable Mars helicopters — The Mars helicopter Ingenuity is an amazing success. NASA's already testing tech for the next generation (video) — Facts about NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter Nighthawk would operate for at least 240 sols (Mars days) on the Red Planet, conducting 100 flights of up to 1.86 miles (3.0 km) each. "Nighthawk's science mission would not be achievable with an Ingenuity-class helicopter, but could be accomplished with the larger, more capable NASA Mars Chopper currently under design," the paper, led by Pascal Lee of NASA's Ames Research Center in California, concluded. "The Mars Chopper's expected flight range, flight altitude AGL (above ground level), and payload capacity would allow Nighthawk to accomplish its vast range of science." There is currently no indication of when proposals for using Mars Chopper will enter a selection phase, but the possibilities, as suggested by Nighthawk, are tantalizing.
