60 years after Arthur C Clarke wrote Sunjammer, space agency catches up NASA has successfully extended into orbit an 80 m2 (860 square foot) sail that is designed to catch emissions from the Sun and convert them into propulsion for space exploration…
Lees meer60 years since Arthur C Clarke wrote Sunjammer, space agency catches up NASA has successfully extended into orbit an 80 m2 (860 square foot) sail that is designed to catch emissions from the Sun and convert them into propulsion for space exploration…
Lees meerThe signal may not rot your mind, we can't say the same for the content Time to take off the tin foil hat: A review of 28 years of research into the health effects of radio wave exposure from cellphones has found no evidence to link the handhelds to…
Lees meerWhat was screwing with minds of US diplomats – wait, is that a black helicopt... An inquiry by the US government's National Institutes of Health (NIH) into Havana Syndrome – the seemingly mysterious illness that struck down American and Canadian dip…
Lees meerCould monopolise 24 key techs if current trends continue The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has released an update to its Critical Technology Tracker, claiming that China leads the way in 89 percent of the technologies it tracks, at le…
Lees meerTrajectory tweak means a delay of almost a year, though 165 km flyby should produce eye candy The BepiColombo spacecraft is to make a closer-than-planned flyby of Mercury this week, whizzing past the planet at approximately 165 km from the surface a…
Lees meerFusion biz wants to break superconducting tech into other sectors Brit nuclear fusion firm Tokamak Energy has formed a separate division to commercialize the superconducting magnet tech it developed for reactors in other markets including renewable …
Lees meerMeanwhile, strange noises emanate from Starliner NASA has confirmed the names of the two crew members who will be flying to the International Space Station (ISS) on the next SpaceX mission: NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr…
Lees meerPlus: Alibaba exits regulatory purgatory; India slows CBDC rollout; China creates eight new datacenter hubs ASIA IN BRIEF Chinese academics have suggested nuclear weapons are the only effective way to destroy an asteroid that threatens to collide w…
Lees meerFailure has become rare, but the FAA needs to look into it regardless Updated SpaceX's Falcon 9 has been grounded following a rare mishap during the landing of a veteran booster.…
Lees meerAn ignominious, uncrewed end to Boeing's misfire Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft is set to return to Earth just over a week from now with managers setting a date of no earlier than September 6 for undocking from the International Space Statio…
Lees meerFailure has become rare, but the FAA needs to look into it regardless SpaceX's Falcon 9 has been grounded following a rare mishap during the landing of a veteran booster.…
Lees meerWhat goes up must come down – just not always on the Moon Astrobotic has continued its policy of transparency with a report into the failings that resulted in its Peregrine lander burning up in Earth's atmosphere rather than making a soft landing on…
Lees meerClaims about much-hyped tech show flawed understanding of language and cognition, research argues In May, Sam Altman, CEO of $80-billion-or-so OpenAI, seemed unconcerned about how much it would cost to achieve the company's stated goal. "Whether we …
Lees meerCould monopolise 24 key techs if current trends continue Think Tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has released an update to its Critical Technology Tracker, revealing that China leads the way in 89 percent of the technologies it t…
Lees meerCivilizations detectable at galactic distances could harness all of a star's energy output, boffins reckon Looking for life in the Milky Way is so 20th century – today's alien-hunters are going intergalactic to look for signs of alien intelligence.…
Lees meerCivilizations detectable at galactic distances could harness all of a star's energy output, boffins say Looking for life in the Milky Way is so 20th century - today's alien-hunters are going intergalactic to look for signs of alien intelligence.…
Lees meerSpace boffins want pollution from the likes of Starlink regulated Astronomy researchers from several US universities have joined a campaign coordinated by US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG) to pause low Earth satellite launches and convince…
Lees meerMajor funding backs printer giant's microfluidics work as market waits to see if regular printing revs recover HP Inc is in line for $50 million from the US CHIPS Act fund for a microfluidics facility it operates to develop technology for applicatio…
Lees meerStop us if you've heard this one before NASA is receiving yet another Moon-related kicking. This time, it is over the Mobile Launcher 2 (ML-2) project, on which the agency plans to assemble and launch the beefier versions of its Space Launch System.…
Lees meer'Enjoy the footage. It has cost us quite some money to generate' With impressive speed and candor, Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has provided an update on the anomaly that caused last week's rocket firing at SaxaVord in Shetland, Scotland, to end ex…
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