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An astrobiologist and sci-fi author recommends seven books blending real science with storytelling, including Hyperion for hard sci-fi spacecraft mechanics and This Is How You Lose The Time War for its accurate portrayal of quantum many-worlds theory.
Italian scientists have road-transported their new Circular Slit Spectrometer (CISS) to a Spanish observatory to test it during tomorrow's solar eclipse. CISS captures the full solar corona spectrum in one shot, reducing hours of...
Rocket Lab's GHOST is a portable, containerized launch system for Electron and HASTE rockets, deployable from anywhere on Earth. Backed by a $190M Pentagon contract, it targets national security missions and debuts in Alaska in...
China's Donghu Laboratory broke a world record—and their third in six months—when a 2,447-lb maglev vehicle hit 497 mph in 5.3 seconds. The tech could also revolutionize rocket and fighter jet launch systems.
Astronomers have released the largest 2D sky map ever, charting 4 billion objects—stars, galaxies, and black holes—across 75% of the night sky using 13 years of visible and near-infrared data from three telescopes.
OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor have released a Cadence-compatible PDK for their photonics platform, enabling engineers to design 400G and 1.6T optical chips that integrate lasers, modulators, and amplifiers for data center...
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Anthropic's unreleased AI model made notable progress on the 150-year-old Riemann hypothesis, autonomously testing 650 ideas via 60 subagents over 36 hours, fueling debate about AI's role in mathematical discovery.
Elemental Nuclear Energy and Sandia National Laboratories are developing supercritical CO₂ generators for data centers and military sites, with a 1 MW natural gas/waste heat system due by 2027 and a 10 MW nuclear-compatible...
Researchers from China's Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics developed a lithium-metal battery delivering 447Wh/kg at -40°F and 750Wh/kg at room temperature, with under 1% annual self-discharge, targeting drones, spacecraft, and...
Kyoto Fusioneering received DOE and Tennessee grants to build Unity-3, a prototype fuel breeding blanket at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with several fusion startups planning to use its experimental data for reactor design.
Drilled from 1970, the Soviet Kola Superdeep Borehole reached over 40,000 feet—the deepest ever dug—revealing the deep crust was hotter, wetter, and more chemically active than previously thought.
Kreios Space is testing an air-breathing thruster on a 200 kg satellite that collects atmospheric gases for propulsion, enabling fuel-tankless operation below 200 km for seven-plus years.
Despite its orderly appearance, our Solar System harbors strange anomalies: Uranus rotates sideways, Venus outheats Mercury, Io erupts from Jupiter's gravity, Saturn has a hexagonal storm, and Neptune's winds exceed 2,000 km/h.
Researchers used light to probe electron movement in a Wigner crystal—a rare quantum state—by cooling tungsten diselenide and observing hybrid particles called polarons, which revealed the crystal's internal behavior.
IC 1101, the largest known galaxy at 1.7 million light-years wide, grew by repeatedly absorbing smaller galaxies—a process called galactic cannibalism—and continues expanding, offering insight into extreme galactic evolution.
Quantinuum's 98-qubit Helios quantum computer is now hosted inside an Oracle Cloud data center, giving OCI customers managed access to quantum computing alongside existing GPU resources.
The Einstein Probe telescope captured a rare stellar explosion 500 million light-years away, detecting the shock breakout of supernova SN 2026gzf. Surprisingly, the massive star's death was unusually faint, with its expected...
Unitree Robotics launched a $900M Shanghai IPO on August 10, attracting subscriptions 2,761 times the offering size. Funds will support robot R&D and manufacturing, though U.S.-China trade tensions may impact overseas expansion.
During REM sleep, the brain prioritizes internal heartbeat signals over external sounds, even more than when awake. Swiss researchers believe this inward focus drives vivid, emotional dreams while still allowing wake-up responses...
The TI-84 Evo launches at $86, featuring a 3x faster processor, larger display, USB-C charging, and Python support. It's SAT/AP approved and includes a free 4-year online calculator license.
China's Long March 7A rocket exploded 85 seconds after launch, destroying the ChinaSat-4B satellite—its second failure in 18 missions since 2020. The satellite had potential military communications applications.
Whyte and Lo's 10-parameter economic framework goes beyond energy output to track costs, efficiency, and market factors, helping ensure fusion power plants can be profitable and competitive in real energy markets.
Gravitics received a NASA SBIR award to develop an orbital hangar capable of housing multiple return vehicles, enabling more flexible and cost-effective material return from space. A six-month feasibility study begins in 2026.
DYNA-2 was trained on 1M+ hours of human video instead of traditional robot data, boosting manufacturing task success from 20% to 80–90% and doubling instruction-following performance—potentially solving robotics' long-standing...