The funding will continue, until the atoms fuse The US Department of Energy is handing out more fusion power funding, this time doling out $47 million to 38 projects that explore the feasibility of tokamak reactors. …
Lees meerNever mind, still plenty of time to that 2023 orbital test Scottish space startup Skyrora's first attempt to launch its Skylark L rocket ended in failure after it unexpectedly came crashing down into the Norwegian sea.…
Lees meerHow can Elon mess up geopolitics today? The Starlink-Ukraine honeymoon period appears to be at an end: SpaceX reportedly wants the US to begin picking up the tab for more of its war-zone services, while CEO Musk's tweets have only served to upset th…
Lees meerNow let’s see what happens when we get it drunk, say researchers Researchers have succeeded in growing brain cells in a lab and hooking them up to electronic connectors proving they can learn to play the seminal console game Pong.…
Lees meerAnd by worse, we mean: The endless casinos Scientists have successfully launched a prototype aerial robotic balloon 4,000 feet high over a desert in Nevada to test whether it could one day be sent on a space mission to roam Venus' clouds.…
Lees meerThis is not why this mission was dubbed the 'Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration' The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is in damage control mode after a launch of its Epsilon rocket was terminated with a self-destruct command on W…
Lees meer1.41GW, in fact – enough to power around one million homes There is a wealth of untapped hydroelectric potential in the United States – around 1.41GW of energy flowing through pipes, irrigation channels, and aqueducts.…
Lees meerHeh, prove us wrong, kids. Prove us wrong NASA now hopes to blast an unmanned Orion capsule atop a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to the Moon on November 14 after suffering, among other delays, a setback due to Hurricane Ian smashing up Florida. …
Lees meerGah, for a few milliseconds there, we were willing a cold, faceless corporation to succeed General Motors' newest endeavor is a business unit dedicated to producing energy storage systems – and the automaker left no doubts about who it sees as its t…
Lees meerEnergy granddad wants in on the next generation of atomic tech Uranium fuel producer Cameco Corp and investment firm Brookfield Renewable Partners intend to buy Westinghouse Electric Company in a bid to accelerate a nuclear power resurgence. …
Lees meerWill work from Earth orbit, as opposed to the Sun-grazing paths of US and EU solar probes China has placed a solar observation satellite in orbit, to conduct a four-year mission staring at Sol to understand its secrets.…
Lees meerStand down Bruce Willis, 'first planetary defense test' a success NASA's DART spacecraft successfully smashed into asteroid Dimorphos with enough impact to alter the rock's orbit, scientists confirmed on Tuesday.…
Lees meerHungry microbes blamed for chilling out the party too much Microbial life may have flourished on early Mars but those early Martians may have been the cause of potentially life-ending climate change on the Red Planet.…
Lees meerPinging something missing on a network is frustrating enough, imagine if it's out in space NASA is back in control of its CAPSTONE spacecraft after the lunar orbiter lost power and communications and spent weeks powered down in safe mode while tumbl…
Lees meerPosture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, mushroom, mushroom Four researchers at the Unconventional Computing Laboratory at the University of West England have enlisted fungi to measure how people walk.…
Lees meerProbe takes highest resolution surface shot yet while citizen scientists get busy with their coloring pencils NASA's Juno probe had a close encounter with the Jovian moon Europa on September 29 and this week the space agency released the highest res…
Lees meerTwo Americans, a Japanese bloke and a Russian float into a lab. The bartender says... SpaceX has dropped off another four astronauts at the International Space Station, their Dragon capsule successfully docking just now with the orbiting lab.…
Lees meerMaybe finally a good use for DRM, eh? Preventing armed modifications Boston Dynamics and five other robot makers have promised in an open letter they won't allow their machines to be weaponized by either themselves or their customers. …
Lees meerCOVID hiccups be damned, work on instruments and connectivity is under way and space agency JAXA is determined to hit launch window The world’s first mission to collect samples from Phobos, one of two moons orbiting Mars, has progressed to testing i…
Lees meerSmall, safer vessels could be 'silicon chip' that ushers in new nuclear age As the US Department of Energy (DoE) continues to look for ways to improve molten salt nuclear reactors (MSRs), a team from Brigham Young University in Utah has designed one…
Lees meerWell, yeah, when the batteries and power supplies can handle it, too Experimental tech designed to cool NASA equipment in space has an Earth-bound use as well: slashing electric vehicle charging times to five minutes or less.…
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