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Mitochondria are often described as the powerhouses of the cell because they produce much of the energy our…
Portugal’s Omnidea Acquires Orbex Assets, Plans PrimeNEO Rocket
Credit: Orbex Portuguese space technology group Omnidea has acquired most of Orbex’s intellectual property and UK assets after…
Eight rope bridges over an Amazon road recorded 15,000 wildlife crossings in Brazil; not a single roadkill was recorded | World News
Image: Programa Alta Floresta Não Atropela In Alta Floresta, a small Amazon town in northern Mato Grosso, eight…
It’s bigger than Central Park, is 24 metres down in the ocean – and contains hundreds of subway cars – and a few tanks
Bearing in mind that there could be around three million sunken vessels lurking at the bottom of the ocean, it…
Saturn at Opposition on October 4, Brightest of 2026
How bright is Saturn, and where do you look? At opposition the planet shines at magnitude +0.3, its…
Botswana approves killing of 23 elephants this week for celebrations
Botswana’s government authorised the killing of 23 elephants for its independence day celebrations this week, drawing criticism from…
How NASA Saved Boeing’s Space Program With a New Contract and $359 Million
So long, Falcon 9, we hardly knew ye. Space Exploration Technologies (SPCX +7.36%) plans to phase out its…
Falcon Heavy Flies First NRO Mission, X Report 3 Oct 2026
Latest Developments SpaceX closed out October 1 with a midnight Falcon Heavy launch from Kennedy Space Center, carrying…
Protons ride moving waves to reach record energy with long-pulse lasers
image: Schematic setup of the experiment. (a) Multilayer (4-, 8-, and 16-layer) LSG is irradiated with (b) the…
Rare-earth compound shows strange liquid crystal-like magnetism
A strange magnetic state inside a compound called YbMnBi₂ could help explain one of its most unusual electrical…
Here’s How Fast SpaceX Must Grow to Be a $5 Trillion Company by 2030
Space Exploration Technologies’ (NASDAQ: SPCX) market cap is currently hovering around $2 trillion. So, for it to reach…
Helmut Katzgraber (55North): Why materials simulation beats optimization for near-term quantum
Yuval Boger interviews Helmut Katzgraber, general partner at 55North and former quantum leader at AWS. They discuss Helmut’s…