CSDA Selects Eight Commercial Satellite Data Providers for On-Ramp 2 Contract Awards
NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition program (CSDA) announced contract awards with eight commercial satellite data providers offering a…
IQM Says New Quantum Codes Cut Logical Error Rates by Up to 1,000 Times
Insider Brief IQM Quantum Computers reported a quantum error-correction advance using directional tile codes, a new family of…
Dead Ducks Found in Reflecting Pool Prompt Investigation, Report Says
Topline Washington, D.C.’s Department of Energy and the Environment is planning to conduct an investigation after multiple ducks…
SpaceX Launches Starfall Capsule In Push Beyond Orbital Data Centers
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) pushed deeper into the next frontier of space commercialization on…
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station can see flashes of light even with their eyes closed — not from light entering the eye, but from high-energy space particles passing through their body and triggering the retina or visual pathway directly.
Float in a darkened module on the International Space Station, close your eyes, and wait. Before long, most…
A Russian cosmonaut named Sergei Krikalev has physically travelled further into the future than almost any other human being in history — across six spaceflights and 803 cumulative days at orbital velocity, Einstein’s theory of special relativity has made him approximately 0.02 seconds younger than other people his age
Einstein’s special theory of relativity, published in 1905, made a number of strange predictions about how time and…
Listening for quantum oscillations in the Kondo insulator YbB12
image: The crystal structure of topological Kondo insulator YbB12 and its insulating-to-magnetic transition are shown. On the right,…
Rocket Lab launches US Space Force mission with less than 17 hours’ notice — a new record
Rocket Lab has successfully launched the second spacecraft for the U.S. Space Force’s Victus Haze Tactically Responsive Space…
DOE Unveils Quantum Genesis Push to Accelerate Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Insider Brief The U.S. Department of Energy launched the Quantum Genesis initiative to develop and deploy a fault-tolerant,…
Early land animals skipped the tadpole phase
Without the tadpole phase and metamorphosis, though, the transition from water to land was probably way tougher than…
This is the First Pair of Sibling Supernova Remnants
The majority of star systems in the Milky Way are binary, and the relationships between these stars can…
New polymer hydrogel contact lenses heal scratches with UV light
Contact lenses are a great vision correction option for many, but if one of them gets damaged, there is little to do other…