Visualizing the Artemis II Mission

A gruesome monument has emerged from the ground where a new railway track is to be laid in Mexico. Just a few meters below the surface, archaeologists performing salvage work ahead of construction found a momoztli – the Indigenous Nahuatl name for a small ritual altar where offerings were left by the community. But this…

SpaceX reached a milestone with its latest Starlink launch, sending the satellites into orbit on its 600th flight of a flight-proven booster. The sexacentennial launch came on the second of two Falcon 9 missions that lifted off less than eight hours apart overnight from Monday to Tuesday (July 13 to July 14). The first flight,…

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Every spice head knows that Chani doesn’t make it out of the second Dune novel, Frank Herbert’s 1969 book, Dune Messiah. But after the latest Dune: Part 3 trailer hinted at some major changes for Zendaya’s character, perhaps the movies could take Chani down a very different path. At this point, director Denis Villeneuve has…

Physicists from the University of Jyväskylä and Aalto University in Finland have successfully created a two dimensional topological crystalline insulator, marking the first experimental realization of a quantum material that scientists had predicted for more than a decade. Until now, attempts to produce it had been held back by difficulties in developing the right materials….

The lithium-ion battery is the beating heart of the modern world. It powers eight billion mobile phones, hundreds of millions of laptops and rapidly growing fleets of electric cars and energy-storage banks. But there’s a new contender breaking into the battery market. Batteries based on sodium promise to be cheaper, safer and much more environmentally…