4+ week, 18+ hour ago   (56+ words) Honestly, this is a pretty good example of one fairly simple way that facts can change. That Pluto was a planet was a fact until we decided / learned / discovered that there were too many similar bodies in the solar system…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (550+ words) If you ask most satellite companies aside from SpaceX, they will tell you the world doesn’t have enough capacity for launching payloads into orbit. This is despite the blistering launch cadence we’ve seen around the world in recent years, led…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (179+ words) Simple games gain rich strategies in the face of noise. Similar dynamics can be found in games of chicken, rock-paper-scissors, and more. The evolution of strategies can lead to stable populations, bistable populations (where the population flips between two stable…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (617+ words) Europe is looking inward, and perhaps to China, as the White House tries to cancel some NASA partnerships. The European Space Agency is moving “full steam ahead” with development of a robotic mission to Venus after NASA officials determined they…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (426+ words) The trick from Next Generation would be even more effective in real life. Níckolas de Aguiar Alves, a physicist at the Federal University of ABC in Brazil, had first watched Next Generation as a Master’s student. When he got to…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (436+ words) “We will not be relevant without a massive rocket at a massive cadence.” All of a sudden, French entrepreneur Hèlene Huby is seemingly everywhere. This week she is serving as one of two envoys, alongside astronaut Thomas Pesquet, at a high-profile…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (339+ words) Most one-base changes to the human genome do nothing, but a few are significant. On Tuesday, Google announced AlphaGenome Atlas, a resource that attempts to predict the consequences of every possible single-base variant in the human genome. The human genome…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (580+ words) Ars Technica Late last week, word started leaking that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had reached an agreement with the Department of Defense that would see part of the NIH’s budget used to fund research at the Department of…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (178+ words) 3D-printed aluminum eggshell arrays filled with water proved more effective at impact resistance. Another popular demonstration is the classic egg-drop challenge, in which students must figure out how best to protect a single egg from breaking when dropped from a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (765+ words) “Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is.” The BepiColombo mission cleared a major milestone this week in the final stretch of an eight-year interplanetary voyage to Mercury,…...