How Europe’s Extreme Heat Waves Have Impacted the Tour de France
If organizers do not have the flexibility to move start times or cancel stages in extreme heat, Cvijanovic…
In early 2027, a shoebox-sized CubeSat called HENON will set off for a point ten times farther from Earth than today’s solar storm sentinels, carrying a 23-gram magnetometer built in the UK that could stretch the warning before a major geomagnetic storm from about fifteen minutes to nearly three hours
The European Space Agency is preparing to push its solar storm sentinels ten times farther from Earth, a…
Electrically Charged Mars Storms Threaten Future Exploration
Martian dust storms are some of the most fascinating and mysterious planetary surface processes ever observed, as Earth,…
Report Exposes Decades of Climate Polluters Pushing the ‘Fraud of Clean Natural Gas’
Gas companies knew about the climate harms of natural gas much earlier than previously thought and downplayed them…
AST SpaceMobile Catapults 12%, SpaceX Rises 7%, Virgin Galactic and Rocket Lab Rally as Space Stock Trade Takes a Risk-on Turn
Quick Read AST SpaceMobile stock jumped 12% on a $984 million convertible note raise as SpaceX stock gained…
Human experts remain essential for checking clinical AI outputs
AI systems delivered consistent, low-cost ratings, but local clinicians still identified important concerns that automated evaluators overlooked. Study:…
Urban planning must address noise pollution to improve quality of life
Noise pollution in urban environments is on the rise but better acoustic planning could help to silence the…
NIAC 2026 Selections
Saptarshi BandyopadhyayDimming the Sun (DimSun) Using Controllable Dust Cloud to Reduce Solar InsolationNASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryPasadena, CA 91109-80012026…
Automated workflow speeds bacterial sample preparation for genetic sequencing
Biomedical engineers at Brown University have developed a fully automated workflow that simplifies and accelerates the preparation of…
One Asteroid Collision May Have Rocked Earth, Mars, and the Moon
A Southwest Research Institute-led study has connected a specific asteroid collision in the main belt to an inner-solar-system-wide…
The ISS toilet costs $23 million and separates urine into a centrifuge that recycles 98% of it back into drinking water — a closed-loop system that took NASA 40 years to perfect
Somewhere above your head, roughly 400 kilometres up, an astronaut is drinking yesterday’s urine. Not metaphorically. The water…
Crawfish soup on Mars? US fears over China’s scientific ambitions raised in Senate hearing
A Chinese researcher’s vision of serving spicy crawfish soup to astronauts on Mars became an unlikely symbol of…