Japan backs fusion, recycling startups in $125m public-private funding
Startups GX Acceleration Agency’s investment in Kyoto Fusioneering, JEPLAN, is part of $2.3tn plan Auxiliary equipment for nuclear…
SpaceX test-fires Starship Super Heavy booster ahead of critical Flight 14
SpaceX just took another step toward the highly anticipated next test flight of its Starship megarocket. The company…
Measuring the Mass of the Universe Isn’t As Simple as Astronomers Thought
How do scientists know the mass of the Universe? Measuring it has traditionally relied on knowing how many…
A wood frog in North America can freeze through winter — its heart stops, it does not breathe and as much as 65% of its body water turns to ice — then thaw in spring and hop away, a feat scientists are studying for clues to preserving human organs
Pick up a wood frog in the middle of a Canadian January and it feels like a rock.…
Nancy Grace Roman Telescope live updates: Roman and Falcon Heavy delivered to launch pad
2026-08-29T12:47:32.093Z Roman and Falcon Heavy standing on the launch pad A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket stands at lc-39a…
Australia’s red soil may be hiding a massive clean energy source
Researchers at Edith Cowan University (ECU) have identified a potentially important source of low-emission energy beneath Western Australia,…
In 1965, two radio engineers at Bell Labs spent months scraping pigeon droppings out of a giant horn antenna trying to eliminate a faint background hiss they couldn’t explain, only to discover the noise was the leftover heat of the Big Bang itself, arriving from every direction at once
A twenty foot horn antenna built to bounce satellite signals across an ocean, and two grown men standing…
One Tiny Chemical Difference in RNA Could Help Explain the Origins of Life
Researchers found that RNA droplets can shift from fluid structures into more rigid, gel-like networks. That behavior could…
Turkiye: 51% New Vehicles are Electric, 60% Power from Renewables, amid Hormuz Energy Shock
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli-US war on Iran, initiated six months ago, cost consumers around the…
On this day in space! Aug. 29, 1965: NASA’s Gemini 5 breaks spaceflight duration record after 2 astronauts spent ‘8 days in a garbage can’
On Aug. 29, 1965, two NASA astronauts returned from their record-breaking Gemini 5 mission. Astronauts Gordon Cooper and…
‘He’s still there’: How the Irwin family honours Steve’s memory 20 years on – The Courier Mail
‘He’s still there’: How the Irwin family honours Steve’s memory 20 years on The Courier MailSteve Irwin Remembered: How…
On January 27, 2025, asteroid 2024 YR4 crossed the 1% impact-probability threshold; two days later, the International Asteroid Warning Network sent its first-ever formal asteroid warning to the UN’s space office—activating a planetary-defence protocol created more than a decade earlier but never previously used.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 did not hit Earth, and it will not do so in 2032. Its importance lies…