Argonne boffinry nerve-center is building a qubit computer with x86 giant Inside Intel sees quantum computing as the next step beyond today's CPUs and GPUs, and this week took a step ahead in delivering such a system.…
Lees meerNext stop, French Guiana. Then Jupiter Feature The European Space Agency's (ESA) JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) spacecraft has kicked off electromagnetic testing in the Airbus Defence and Space cleanrooms in Toulouse.…
Lees meerThe smallest artificial spin ice ever created could be part of novel low-power HPC Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute and ETH Zurich have managed to accomplish a technological breakthrough that could lead to new forms of low-energy supercomp…
Lees meerSaturday rendezvous planned for historic commercial orbit ride A retired NASA astronaut and three space tourists are right now tucked inside a SpaceX Dragon capsule above Earth for the first-ever purely commercial mission to the International Space …
Lees meerSpecial method for production gets cash injection from govt, vendors New techniques for producing lithium could play a vital part in making batteries for applications ranging from smartphones to electric vehicles that are more environmentally friend…
Lees meerWe talk to CEO about projectile-based implosion design British outfit First Light Fusion claims it has achieved nuclear fusion with an approach that could provide cheap, clean power.…
Lees meerA new arms race emerges DARPA announced a second successful test of its hypersonic cruise missile, adding that the weapon, capable of speeds in excess of Mach 5, is ready for real-world use. …
Lees meerWho left that bit of rocket there? It's getting a bit crowded in orbit There was a sigh of relief from ESA controllers over the weekend as the Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite successfully dodged a decades-old rocket fragment.…
Lees meerWhen does this thing get to unionize? Robotics company Boston Dynamics is making one of its latest robots more generally commercially available: a mobile, autonomous arm called Stretch.…
Lees meerIt's a bug's life Video After some careful study, it turns out the brain of an insect is pretty good at separating signal from noise.…
Lees meerFerroelectric devices key for this qubit-slinging startup A Swiss quantum computing company claiming a world-first discovery has just marked what it believes is one of the largest funding rounds in the history of the quantum tech space.…
Lees meerMission launched during a pandemic, returned during... oh God, what now? NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth today aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule and accompanied by two Russian cosmonauts.…
Lees meerPrivateer to help avoid collisions and more debris around our planet Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak opened up about his space startup Privateer at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia this week.…
Lees meer'Competition is critical to our success,' says US agency boss NASA is offering a second lucrative contract to fund a lunar lander for its upcoming mission to put men and the first woman on the Moon, it announced this week.…
Lees meerThe project lives on as part of the ISS – but for how much longer? Today marks 21 years since Russia's space station, Mir, returned to Earth.…
Lees meerOne hopes this won't hike the price of Cu Scientists claim to have found a way to stop copper from oxidizing. If they're right, this could potentially allow copper to replace gold in electronics, leading to lower costs and, ultimately, cheaper compo…
Lees meerYes, the ones that don't exist yet America's National Science Foundation has signaled yet again how important it thinks quantum computing is with a six-figure grant to Penn State. …
Lees meerUsing tiny samples, too, a claim we're sure you haven't heard before Could the light detection and ranging (lidar) sensors in your future smartphone take the place of laboratory equipment in health and food safety applications? It's looking like a p…
Lees meerESA will need to source a different rocket, lander, and descent stage in time for next window in 2024 The European Space Agency (ESA) has slammed the brakes on its ExoMars rover, Rosalind Franklin.…
Lees meerBrit rocketeers get ever closer to that first launch from UK soil A space race of a sort in the UK has picked up pace in recent weeks, as aerospace company Orbex showed off its Kinloss launchpad in February and Skyrora this week opened its Midlothia…
Lees meerTo the satisfaction of the International Atomic Energy Agency, at least If you've been wondering about the fate of Ukraine's nuclear power stations amid Russia's full-on invasion of the nation, you're not alone. Here's an update from the Internation…
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