NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team is announcing the official designs for the mission’s three core surveys. These observation programs will investigate some of the most profound mysteries in astrophysics while enabling expansive cosmic exploration that will revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

In the realm of smart manufacturing and digital engineering, a new technology named Data-Model Fusion (DMF) is gaining traction. A review paper in Engineering details how DMF integrates model-based and data-driven methods, addresses their limitations, and finds applications across the product lifecycle. It also explores DMF’s future directions, showing its potential to reshape industrial processes.

A new research facility at Concordia University will examine the gambling industry’s embrace of the digital revolution.

Housed on the university’s Sir George Williams Campus, the Collaboratoire pour les études des jeux de hasard et d’argent numériques connectés (CHANCE) is a space for researchers to examine the social aspects of gambling behaviour — in particular, the ways in which gamblers interact with their environment and with each other. As a collaboratory, the space is designed to serve both as a laboratory where experiments can be conducted and as a collaborative area where different partners can gather to exchange information, ideas and knowledge.

If you haven’t heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: freezing temperatures, near starvation, high pressure, radiation exposure, outer space and more. Researchers reporting in ACS’ Nano Letters took advantage of the tardigrade’s nearly indestructible nature and gave the critters tiny “tattoos” to test a microfabrication technique to build microscopic, biocompatible devices.