Visualizing the Artemis II Mission

The World Economic Forum’s latest Top 10 Emerging Technologies report explores tech at the tipping point between scientific progress and real-world impact. From extracting essential raw materials and quantum cryptography to designing personalized drugs, technology is achieving more for less impact and moving closer to where it’s needed. Many of the Top 10 technologies have…

Spinal cord injuries have devastating consequences and impact more than 15 million people worldwide. Damage to spinal nerves can lead to pain, weakness, and even tetraplegia, where all four limbs are severely impaired. Part of the reason these injuries have no disease-modifying treatments is that nerves cannot be revived after they die – or at…

On April 15, 2024, scientists claimed a first as monitoring equipment picked up a steam explosion from Yellowstone National Park’s Norris Geyser Basin. No other explosion had ever been recorded using modern equipment, according to a report in Geophysical Research Letters. Researchers are now installing monitoring equipment across the park to track and monitor hydrothermal…

After a months-long pause, the Space Development Agency is ready to launch its next batch of satellites that will be part of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture — a network of small, low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites designed to support military operations.  A SpaceX rocket will launch 21 Tranche 1 transport satellites on July 16…

There’s a bit of a historical mystery surrounding the star Theta Eridani. Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD and al-Sufi in 964 AD both recorded Theta Eridani as one of the thirteen brightest stars in the sky. Hipparchus may have said the same. But there’s a problem. For it to be one of the thirteen…

Forget the sale of the century. The auction house Sotheby’s is gearing up for the sale of the epoch. On July 14 it will open live bidding on assorted fossils, but the pièce de résistance is lot 20, a rare 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. The specimen—dubbed Gus—is billed as one of the largest, most complete T….