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Lees meerThere's more than warm power supplies and wonky capacitors Opinion The Voyager space probes are dear to the hearts of every geek who can remember the 1980s.…
Lees meerThere's more than warm power supplies and wonky capacitors Opinion The Voyager space probes are dear to the hearts of every geek who can remember the 1980s.…
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Lees meerYou don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out the reasons why NASA has barred Chinese nationals from accessing its premises and assets, even those who hold visas that permit them to reside in the USA.…
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Lees meerGood for solving finance and clinical problems... and AI Microsoft researchers in Cambridge have unveiled its latest iteration of an Analog Optical Computer (AOC) and have inevitably incorporated AI into the technology's capabilities.…
Lees meerBut what goes up will also have to come down SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft has successfully reboosted the International Space Station (ISS), raising the perigee of its orbit by approximately one mile and further eroding the complex's reliance on Russia…
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Lees meerARIA spent £16.5M, has £600M in the tank, and no one asked for it back ARIA – the UK science and technology agency inspired by DARPA in the US – was not asked to make savings leading up to the Spending Review, unlike other government departments.…
Lees meerNew Alabama HQ to be named the Donald J. Trump Space Command Center, says local Senator The US President, Donald Trump, has announced his intention to relocate the US Space Command headquarters from its current location in Colorado to Huntsville, Al…
Lees meer"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" About 1,000 of a set of 15,000 open access scientific journals appear to exist mainly to extract fees from naive academics.…
Lees meerExecutive order adds space agency to National Security Exclusions, voiding collective bargaining rights for staff Happy Labor Day. The US administration has removed union recognition from NASA as budget cuts and layoffs loom.…
Lees meerOracle billionaire funds project to predict immunity and develop treatments for hard-to-prevent diseases A research group funded by tech billionaire Larry Ellison is set to invest £118 million ($169.6 million) in applying AI to vaccine research with…
Lees meerSuperfast electrons traced back to the Sun The European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter probe has pinpointed the source of electrons expelled by the Sun, with implications for forecasting space weather.…
Lees meer700 meters under a mountain, a 20,000-tonne detector and a giant sphere await elusive particles More than a decade after construction began, China has commenced operation of what it claims is the world's most sensitive neutrino detector.…
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