Australia to withdraw staff from Macquarie Island due to ‘psychological risk’ of bird flu
The Australian Antarctic Division will launch a mission to extract personnel from Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean…
In 2026, astronomer Samantha Lawler and two colleagues modelled SpaceX’s proposal for one million orbital AI data-centre satellites and found that, if they are launched with the assumed sizes and reflectivity, naked-eye satellites could outnumber visible stars for large portions of the night and year almost everywhere on Earth.
A million satellites is difficult to picture as an orbital system. Aaron Boley, Samantha Lawler and Hanno Rein…
Ancient Lactoferrin Proteins Could Produce New Drugs
In a blast from the past that may prove to be a boon for modern drug discovery, scientists…
With 1 billion kilowatt hours now delivered to its Arctic grid, a nuclear barge finished reloading both reactors for the first time while supplying about 60 percent of its isolated region’s energy
The town of Pevek sits at the very top of Russia, far above the Arctic Circle. About 5,000…
The electronics ‘under the hood’ of space networking
In this episode, SpaceNews’ Mike Gruss interviews Jeff Janicik, founder and chairman of Innoflight. They discuss Golden Dome,…
An AI model trained on tens of thousands of simulated planetary systems achieved up to 99% precision at recognising simulations containing an Earth-mass planet in a broad temperate zone. Applied to 1,567 real systems, it identified 44 priority targets—but whether that extraordinary hit rate survives contact with the real sky remains untested.
The most important word in the reported 99% precision is simulated. The classifier was not given a group…
Central Queensland fossilised fruits discovery changes understanding of plant evolutionary history
When scientists were first handed exceptionally preserved fossils from rural central Queensland, they were stumped. “It was an…
SpaceX (SPCX) Plans $100 Billion Starbase Louisiana Spaceport
Space Exploration Technologies (NasdaqGS:SPCX) plans a US$100b investment to build its largest spaceport, Starbase Louisiana, according to an…
FDA approves Gilead HIV pill Bixlenvo designed to simplify treatment
Gilead Bixlenvo drug Courtesy: Gilead The Food and Drug Administration approved a once-daily HIV pill from Gilead that…
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Is About to Start Its Cosmic Survey
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is ready for its trip to Florida so that it can get…
Government must prioritise heat pump installation to tackle climate chaos | Environment policy
It is hardly surprising that many who were optimistic and supportive of Andy Burnham becoming prime minister, but…
Planets Hurry To Form Before the Protoplanetary Disk Dissipates
One of the JWST’s main jobs is studying planets forming in the disks around young stars. These disks…