Molto Bennu NASA's first asteroid sample return mission delivered on Sunday, when the OSIRIS-REx capsule touched down in the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City.…
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Lees meerWhy there is not a lot more of it is yet to be explained though In sci-fi, antimatter is the opposite of all the matter around us. Does that mean it should fall up? Not at all, scientists at Europe's largest sub-atomic physics lab have proved for th…
Lees meerMachine learning model touted as ideal for finding LGMs on Mars, and beyond Computer scientists have trained a machine learning model to predict whether materials contain biosignatures in the hopes that the system can be used to detect life in Marti…
Lees meerWinning spacecraft will dock with the station at least a year before go time NASA has confirmed it will ask American companies to duke it out for the opportunity to deorbit the International Space Station – quietly releasing a request for proposals …
Lees meerMachine learning model touted as ideal for finding LGMs on Mars, and beyond Computer scientists have trained a machine learning model to predict whether materials contains biosignatures in the hopes that it can be used to detect life in Martian rock…
Lees meerUnderwater comms make list of 14 techs at which Beijing hopes to do better China's Academy of Engineering has issued its annual list of technologies it wants to develop, but considers major challenges worthy of prioritization.…
Lees meerReview board: Mega project is way over budget, needs cash, and senators want it axed NASA is delaying some of the components of its ultra ambitious Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission after receiving a problem-filled report from an Independent Review B…
Lees meerMolto Bennu NASA's first asteroid sample return mission delivered on Sunday, when the OSIRIS-REx capsule touched down in the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City.…
Lees meerHave you seen orbit? There's junk everywhere The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed rules for commercial space launch companies to address orbital debris, a growing threat to spacecraft and satellites.…
Lees meerMusk company gets FDA's OK for six-year assessment of its brain implants That was fast: Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface implant company, only received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for human tests in late May, but it's …
Lees meerDouglas Adams was right! Mice may hold key to exploring the universe One of the foremost health risks for astronauts may have a cure en route. A specially-formulated medication has been shown to prevent bone loss in mice, and perhaps humans, aboard …
Lees meerAnd less than half the cost of a single F-35 – bargain! The Department of Defense has become the latest US government body to push for next-gen battery manufacturing in America, with a $30 million (£24m) investment in an energy storage systems campu…
Lees meerElectron rocket was lost when reusable first stage separated early this morning It's back to zero days without incident at Rocket Lab, whose 41st launch ended in failure this morning, breaking a streak that had been going since 2021.…
Lees meerElectron rocket was lost when reusable first stage separated early this morning It's back to zero days without incident at Rocket Lab, whose 41st launch ended in failure this morning, breaking a streak that had been going since 2021.…
Lees meerA different type of ARM - the Augmented Reality Microscope Google has contributed software to an AI-powered microscope the US Department of Defense hopes will help pathologists spot cancerous cells in tissue samples much more quickly.…
Lees meerUS DoE particle will be a 'strobe light' in atomic disco The world's most powerful publicly known X-ray laser at the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has fired its first pulses with an upgrade that could see it scan our…
Lees meerYet another attempt at a permanent takedown – but will it stick? A group of large US science and education publishers are trying to get "notorious" online database Library Genesis – known by students as LibGen – kicked offline and claw back some of …
Lees meerWe're rubbish at recycling plastic, but Singaporean scientists think they can make more of it recoverable. Even the hard cases used in electronics Researchers have developed a method to reuse plastics – including those employed in electronics, compu…
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