Asking “Why?” may be a favorite technique of your 3-year-old child in driving you crazy, but it could teach you a valuable Six Sigma quality lesson. The 5 Whys is a technique used in the Analyze phase ...

Think about a toolbox for a moment. You have different tools for different jobs. A screwdriver makes a poor hammer, for ...

Venn and his successors believed that ellipses couldn’t portray all 32 regions required for a five-set diagram. Not until 1975 did mathematician Branko Grünbaum prove them wrong by example ...

Fishbone threads, made of polydioxanone (PDO) absorbable sutures, feature barbed structures that anchor into the skin to provide an immediate lifting effect. These barbs stimulate collagen production, ...

This project addresses Crocs' sizing issues, leading to high return rates and financial losses. Fitting problems account for 83% of returns, costing around $10,000. Adjusting sizing and improving ...

The question now is: will they? And if the Trump administration moves forward with Mars Sample Return (MSR), what will it look like? Could it involve a human mission to Mars instead of a series of ...

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, a smaller sample collection spacecraft, a smaller rocket to boost the samples ...

The goal of the Mars Sample Return Program, which is being planned jointly with the European Space Agency (ESA), is to retrieve samples of rock, gas and loose surface material that were collected ...

NASA leadership announced Jan. 7 that it would pursue studies of two architectures for its Mars Sample Return effort that would take samples currently being collected by the Perseverance rover and ...

Following months of deliberation, NASA has decided to pursue two alternative routes for its Mars Sample Return program, one of which elicits the help of the private industry. During a media ...