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A US aerospace company wants to build an inflatable propeller plane capable of flying through Venus's atmosphere in 2021. The plane will travel through the sulfurous skies of Venus for years. The mission is intended for sampling the acidic alien atmosphere directly and gain insight into the Venus surface from 50 kilometres up.

However, the plane may face constraints in its development due to problems emerging in $1 billion funding from NASA. The funding is very much required to get the plane off the ground.

Students in the age group from five to 19 can give their ideas to NASA as per its invitation to help it design 3D containers that could be used in space. A series of ‘Future Engineers’ 3D Space Challenges has been launched by NASA, along with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Foundation, for students interested in solving real-world space exploration problems.

The 3D Space Container Challenge has marked the second in the series to provide students a chance to create and submit a digital 3D model of a container that can turn out beneficial for astronauts while in space.

Amazon.com’s warehouse robotics division, based in North Reading has organized a competition.

Brian Benoit, a senior manager at Boston-based Rethink Robotics, which is supplying dual-armed manufacturing robots to many of the 31 teams competing in the challenge, said that he visited two teams participating in the competition, on Tuesday.

The teams were designing the hardware and writing software for taking a fictional customer order, find the items on a shelving unit, grab them, and put them into a box without damaging them. In the competition the best robot will win $20,000 this week at the inaugural Amazon Picking Challenge in Seattle.

Benoit said that the Amazon challenge was a big deal in the ‘small world of robotics research.

US military scientists have come up with a miniature drone that can fit in the palm of a hand, and is ready to be dropped from the sky just like a mobile phone with wings.

The ‘micro air vehicle’ has been named after the insect that inspired its invention, the Cicada, which spends years underground before appearing in great swarms, reproducing and then dropping to the ground dead.

Aaron Kahn of the Naval Research Laboratory told AFP, “The idea was why we can't make UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) that have the same sort of profile. We will put so many out there, it will be impossible for the enemy to pick them all up”.

Prehistoric creatures have been brought back to life at the Telus World Of Science's newest exhibit, Dinosaurs Unearthed. It has featured 17 life-sized animatronic dinos.

Alan Nursall, president and CEO Telus World of Science Edmonton (TWOSE), said that you will get to see everything from tiny, almost chicken sized dinosaurs, to some of the biggest sauropods like the Apatosaurus. While referring to a long-necked sauropod that is more than nine metres tall, he added that its head was almost in the rafters.

They found that the massive dinos moved and roared in a close approximation of how scientists and paleontologists believed they would have millions of years ago.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary collectively earned more than $30 million since January 2014, a financial disclosure form revealed. A Clinton campaign aide also confirmed that much of the couple's money came from their paid speeches.

A financial disclosure form provided to CNN, revealed that Hillary and Bill Clinton in total have made more than $30 million since January 2014.

The figures have been confirmed by a Clinton campaign aide. It was told that much couple's money came from paid speeches that were politically taxing for Hillary Clinton as she toured the country before running for President.

According to the form, the Clintons have given a total of 104 paid speeches since January 2014, netting the couple $25.3 million.