SpaceX was more than lucky Friday, sending its 13th full-scale Starship test flight halfway around the world from South Texas […]
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With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience
Skip to content Museums are embracing data-driven curation and a shifting technology landscape. Visitors at the Van Gogh Museum in […]
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer
Google’s AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes. A couple of decades after the […]
This is the world’s most advanced robotic servicing satellite—that we know about
“These are things that tend to be really hard.” The Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) payload resides in the […]
Rocket Report: Lightning strikes in China; Starship launch on deck
Relativity Space announced plans to build a second rocket factory near Cape Canaveral, Florida. A Long March 3B rocket carrying […]
White House report says Trump can usher in a “new golden age” of science
The resulting report is a near-random mixture of grievances and real problems. It’s a golden age, of sorts, in the […]
Orcas team up to ram sunfish until they explode
Credit: Kathryn Ayres Credit: Kathryn Ayres There have been numerous accounts in recent years of orcas ramming boats—and sometimes sinking […]
What happens when you try to chop a photon in half?
A mirror that moves mid-photon could release a shower of new photons. A photon is a single particle of light, […]
Let Tom Hiddleston be your guide to Pompeii’s final day
NatGeo’s Pompeii: Out of Time fuses historical fact and imagination to bring city’s last 24 hours to life. The sun […]
Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals
A single chemical made by mole-rat queens enforces the social order. Naked mole rats are weird. They spend their lives […]