Note:
they do cite

A. Mereta, D. Izzo, and A. Wittig, "Machine learning of optimal low-thrust transfers between near-Earth objects", 2017

and

D. Izzo, C. I. Sprague, and D. V. Tailor, "Machine learning and evolutionary techniques in interplanetarytrajectory design", 2019.

Applications might be of interest to some: https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/blog/2019/3/1/application-deadline-extended-cftt4?fbclid=IwAR0gqMsHJCJx5DeoObv0GSESaP6VGjNKnHCPfmzKuvhFLDpkLSrcaCwmY_c

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http://uopnews.port.ac.uk/2018/04/16/engineering-a-plastic-eating-enzyme/

Scientists have engineered an enzyme which can digest some of our most commonly polluting plastics, providing a potential solution to one of the world's biggest environmental problems.

The discovery could result in a recycling solution for millions of tonnes of plastic bottles, made of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, which currently persists for hundreds of years in the environment.

JPL is also developing a crucial new landing technology called terrain-relative navigation. As the descent stage approaches the Martian surface, it will use computer vision to compare the landscape with pre-loaded terrain maps. This technology will guide the descent stage to safe landing sites, correcting its course along the way.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7011

A habitable settlement will be waiting for the settlers when they land. The settlement will support them while they live and work on Mars the rest of their lives

The only extraterrestrial life detection experiments ever conducted were the three which were components of the 1976 Viking Mission to Mars. Of these, only the Labeled Release experiment obtained a clearly positive response. [...] These analyses support the interpretation that the Viking LR experiment did detect extant microbial life on Mars.

The scale of Universe Interactive,

HIRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) images show flows lengthen and darken on rocky equator-facing slopes from late spring to early fall. The seasonality, latitude distribution and brightness changes suggest a volatile material is involved, but there is no direct detection of one.

Scientists have entered a new path for regenerative medicine by altering age-worn cells in people over 90 into rejuvenated stem cells.

The Space Launch System will be NASA's first exploration-class vehicle since the Saturn V took American astronauts to the moon over 40 years ago. With its superior lift capability, the SLS will allow us to explore cis-lunar space, near-Earth asteroids, Mars and its moons and beyond.

"The MIT-built robots will each connect with a Nexus S smartphone - the first commercial smartphone certified by NASA for use on the space shuttle and space station."

First smartphones control our lives, now they control robots behaviour. Watch out! After all, there must be a good reason for calling it smartphone...

In a surprise announcement earlier today (July 13), the European Southern Observatory said that monster black holes - those giants of millions or billions of solar masses, thought to lurk at the hearts of most galaxies - have a mechanism to become active other than galaxy collisions.

NASA scientists are seeing new evidence that suggests traces of water on Mars are under a thin varnish of iron oxide, or rust, similar to conditions found on desert rocks in California's Mojave Desert.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-nasa-prospect-mars.html

This month, some 30 minutes before the sunrise, look to the East, and if the sky is not too cloudy you will see Mercure, Venus, Mars and Jupiter very close, so close that it will be possible to hide them with an outstretched hand.

This will be happening from May the 11th and during the whole month, just changing the shape of this four planets group.

On May the 13th for example, Mercure, Venus and Jupiter are expected to form a nearly perfect equilateral triangle.
Geometrical lesson before breakfast!

Advice for the observation : Mars might be no so shiny as the other ones. Maybe It will be necesarry to use binoculars.

The phenomene will end on May the 30th, when the Moon will join the other planets : 5 celestial points in the East sky.

So, as Gandalf the White said : "look to [their] coming on the first light of the day, at dawn, look to the east."