Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut
Finding additional launch facilities … The policy document supports more efficient range scheduling criteria at federally owned spaceports,…
$37.5M NSF award aims to define new quantum frontiers, take technology from lab to field | CU Boulder Today
A scientific quest to build more accurate clocks, faster computers and new sensors to detect the faintest signs…
In 1999, a caretaker moved to an Australian island holding one of the world’s largest little penguin colonies; he stayed 25 years protecting its wildlife and lighthouse | World News
Gabo Island, Victoria, Australia. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons In 1999, Leo op den Brouw began what became a…
BioCryst is profitable. Now it wants to buy more rare disease drugs
CNBC Cures is proudly underwritten by Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease, whose support enables our journalism to elevate stories…
Gong Zizheng, who led China’s planetary defence project, dies at 61
Gong Zizheng, a pioneer of space debris research and a key figure in China’s planned asteroid defence mission,…
India Surpasses 300 GW of Non-Fossil Power Capacity
India is comfortably on track to meet its goal to have 500 gigawatts (GW) of non-fossil-fuel power capacity…
Shanghai starts work on wharf for its “Rocket City”
HELSINKI — Shanghai has begun construction on a wharf intended to connect a planned commercial rocket manufacturing hub…
Types of Quantum Computers: 6 Major Quantum Computing Approaches
Insider Brief Quantum computing hardware approaches vary widely, with superconducting, trapped-ion, photonic, neutral-atom, topological and annealing systems making…
In 2016, a New Zealand ranger became the only human living on a predator-free island; he stayed to guard the last refuge of the world’s heaviest parrot | World News
Kakapo Pounamu, showing how the bird’s plumage acts as camouflage in vegetation. Credits – Wikimedia Commons Off the…
Microbes are living at pH 12 — roughly the alkalinity of bleach — inside mud volcanoes on the Mariana forearc, and there are so few of them that DNA testing fails to find them at all; researchers had to identify them by the fats they left behind
Deep in the Mariana forearc, the stretch of seafloor west of the Mariana Trench, mud volcanoes vent fluid…
Why poetry is a powerful form of climate communication
For too long, climate communication has relied on the belief that if we stick with the science and…
In pictures – the Blood Moon lunar eclipse wows stargazers across America and Europe
The 28 August 2026 partial lunar eclipse was visible over North and South America, the UK and Europe…