131 articles
Explore the universe and the lab. Breaking news on space missions, physics discoveries, and the scientific breakthroughs changing humanity.
Astronomy & Earth
NASA's Artemis II mission has successfully concluded, with early data revealing that the Orion spacecraft and SLS rocket performed exceptionally well....
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Energy Sources
To meet the massive energy demands of AI data centers, fusion startup Zap Energy is adding a 10MW underground fission microreactor to its clean energy lineup....
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Inventions Discoveries
A groundbreaking quantum-inspired algorithm from Aalto University is rapidly analyzing complex materials that previously overwhelmed supercomputers....
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Astronomy & Earth
SpaceX's Starship Flight 12 is likely delayed to late May following a methalox gas generator explosion during a deluge system test at Orbital Launch Pad 2....
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Physics Chemistry
The surge of quantum computing startups is shrinking the timeline for fault-tolerant commercial systems by up to ten years....
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Inventions Discoveries
Researchers at the University of Oxford have successfully demonstrated quadsqueezing in quantum physics, unlocking a fourth-order interaction that was previously considered too weak to isolate....
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Astronomy & Earth
The upcoming NASA STORIE mission will track Earth's ring current to protect critical satellite infrastructure from destructive space weather....
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Energy Sources
Researchers have developed FusionMAE, a self-supervised AI model that simplifies complex plasma diagnostics to accelerate nuclear fusion energy development....
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Physics Chemistry
The race to build fault-tolerant quantum computers just bypassed a major hardware bottleneck thanks to a new partnership between Monarch Quantum and Oratomic....
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Inventions Discoveries
The newly observed quantum behavior in superconductors reveals that paired particles coordinate their movements, challenging decades of established physics....
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Astronomy & Earth
The Voyager 1 spacecraft has officially powered down its Low-energy Charged Particles instrument to conserve its rapidly depleting energy....
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Physics Chemistry
The creation of microscopic optical tornadoes is set to solve one of the biggest hardware bottlenecks in quantum communication....
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Astronomy & Earth
SpaceX is rapidly scaling its Starlink dish production to 50,000 units per day, while a strategic xAI deal with Cursor aims to dominate the AI coding market....
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Inventions Discoveries
The development of Paterna Biosciences lab-grown sperm could soon offer a revolutionary solution for millions of men struggling with infertility....
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Physics Chemistry
Artificial intelligence has officially moved beyond data analysis, as physicists successfully used a custom neural network to discover new physics within dusty plasma....
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Energy Sources
Millimeter-wave drilling is shattering the geographic limitations of traditional geothermal energy, unlocking a path to clean, baseload power anywhere on Earth....
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Physics Chemistry
The quantum nature of time may soon be observable, challenging our fundamental understanding of reality as a rigid, unidirectional arrow....
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Astronomy & Earth
A NASA lunar fire test is officially in development to prevent catastrophic habitat fires during future crewed missions....
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Physics Chemistry
Quantum-informed AI is officially breaking the computational bottleneck that has long plagued the prediction of chaotic physical systems and fluid dynamics....
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Astronomy & Earth
SpaceX positioned itself to complete its historic 600th Falcon booster landing during the Starlink 17-22 mission, expanding its massive low Earth orbit constellation....
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Physics Chemistry
The discovery of a graphene Dirac fluid has officially shattered a fundamental law of physics, revealing that electrons can flow like a nearly frictionless liquid....
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