IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 GE Aerospace has released a video teasing a potential hypersonic aircraft as a successor to the SR-71 Blackbird. 💡 The video highlights a concept powered by dual-mode ramjet engines, capable of surpassing Mach 10 using rotating detonation combustion. ✈️ The SR-71 Blackbird, known for…

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Copernicus Sentinel-2 captured wildfires burning in northern Portugal on Wednesday, 30 July.

The fifth Test finale between England and India at The Oval was the most intense, dramatic and emotional sport you could see, says chief cricket reporter Stephan Shemilt.

The U.S. government has deployed the National Guard and the Marines to brutalize communities trying to stand up for their neighbors. But across the nation, people are bravely standing strong and showing the power in community organizing.
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The new RISC-V chip is a stepping stone for European technological sovereignty.
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NSW sovereign investor TCorp has invested in a joint venture rolling out wind, solar and battery hybrid projects in Spain.
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After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture. The post At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Bengaluru-based QpiAI envisions a roadmap spanning 1,000 qubits and is building what it calls the world’s first commercially viable quantum-AI stack.
The post QpiAI Raises $32M to Build India’s First Full-Stack Quantum-AI Platform appeared first on EE Times.

In celebration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in Earth orbit, an assortment of compelling images have been released today that were recently taken by Hubble. This stretches from the planet Mars to dramatic images of stellar birth and death, to a magnificent neighbouring galaxy. Af…

Nestled in the woods near North Liberty, Iowa, this antenna can’t be seen from the road, but is occasionally...
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By proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse.

Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering Fermi America has enlisted South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction (Hyundai E&C) to design and build the nuclear heart of a vast private power...

Melco Resorts & Entertainment Ltd. is in talks to expand its brand beyond Macau, with plans to ramp up an asset-light strategy by teaming up with local partners to co-run multi-billion-dollar casino projects, Chief Executive Officer Lawrence Ho said.

The Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) is the largest artificial intelligence (AI) conference in the world. NeurIPS 2023 will be taking place December 10-16 in New Orleans, USA.Teams from across Google DeepMind are presenting more than 150 papers at the main conference and workshops.

SAN FRANCISCO – Earth-observation startup Albedo won a National Reconnaissance Office Stage 2 contract, clearing the way for the intelligence agency to begin purchasing imagery. “This award gives us a critical opportunity to demonstrate what [Very Low Earth Orbit] VLEO can offer in terms of performa…

Colorado Springs, CO — July 31, 2025 — Frontgrade Technologies, a leading provider of high-reliability electronic solutions for space and national security missions, has released its new PSM28 Power Supply […]
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Labour minister calls Michael Croft’s behaviour ‘despicable’ and says at least one other friend was targeted sexuallyThe MP Chris Bryant has said he was sexually abused as a teenager by the head of the National Youth Theatre, Michael Croft.The Labour MP, who is an arts and telecoms minister, said he…

British police have arrested a 76-year-old man suspected of poisoning eight children at a summer camp.

A 76-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of administering poison after children fell ill at a summer camp in central England, police said in a statement.

Officials say the workers were conducting an emergency inspection of sewage pipes when the accident took place.

Blue Origin is targeting Sunday (Aug. 3) for the launch of its next suborbital tourism mission, which will send crypto billionaire Justin Sun and five other people to the final frontier.

The next sea-level monitoring satellite, Copernicus Sentinel-6B, has begun its journey from Europe to the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, where it is scheduled to launch in November. Carefully packed into a climate-controlled container, the satellite is currently crossing the Atlantic Oce…

Japan’s main bourse is seeking to capitalize on the growth of strategies that enhance yield.

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What if we could look at the Sun from a whole new angle, one we've never seen before? From Earth, we always look towards the Sun's equator. This year, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission broke free of this ‘standard’ viewpoint by tilting its orbit to 17° – out of the ecliptic p…

SpaceX delivered a fresh crew to the International Space Station on Saturday, making the trip in a quick 15 hours.

A team from the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Hokkaido University, and Osaka University has discovered that subtle differences in molecular structure can have a major impact on the performance of mRNA-based drugs. Their findings, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, …

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will launch Justin Sun, the billionaire founder of the blockchain platform Tron, and five other people to space today. Here's how to watch it live.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 19 Starlink satellites from California's central coast today (July 31), then came back to Earth for a landing on a ship at sea.

The U.S. star and world record-holder confirmed her intention to compete for a world title in Tokyo in September.

An iron-air battery in the Netherlands, which can store energy for 100 hours or more to make renewable power sources more consistent, has become the world’s first “rust” battery to connect with an electricity grid

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission arrived at the International Space Station early Saturday morning (Aug. 2), less than 15 hours after lifting off.

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This stunning time-lapse of the Moon was captured by ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from the International Space Station during the Ignis mission.
Sławosz was launched to the ISS aboard the Dragon spacecraft as part of Axiom Mission 4 on 25 June 2025. The …

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rare, retrograde-orbiting planet in a tight binary star system. Most stars throughout the Universe are part of binary or multiple star systems. In these systems, a nearby companion star can make it difficult for planets to form and remain in stable orbit…

Stanford neuroscientist Sergiu Pasca is pioneering technology to recreate human brain tissue and neural circuits in the lab – giving scientists unprecedented access to human brain development and opening new possibilities for treating disorders from psychiatric disease to chronic pain.

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Highlights and liftoff of Vega-C flight VV27 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, at 23:03 local time on 25 July (03:03 BST/04:03 CEST on 26 July).Flight VV27 was operated by Arianespace and launched Airbus’s four CO3D satellites and the French space agency CNES MicroCar…

“We’re so fortunate,” Sheridan told Fortune, reflecting on Brooks’ status as a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. “Our ownership structure may be the greatest in the world, right?"

Shares in Robinhood Markets Inc. fell a fraction of a point in late trading today after the financial services company reported strong results but reported a slight shortfall in cryptocurrency revenue in its fiscal 2025 second quarter. For the quarter that ended on June 30, Robinhood reported adjust…

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The instrument will enable nonprofit organization Carbon Mapper to pinpoint and measure methane and carbon dioxide sources from space.





A state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer, which will measure the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide from space, moved closer to launch this …

Kenny Bednarek claims his first national title, winning 100-meter at the 2025 U.S. Track and Field Championships.

NASA/Lori Losey The best way to solve a mystery is by gathering evidence and building a case. That’s exactly what NASA researchers are doing with a series of research flights aimed at advancing a sensor for supersonic parachutes. The clues they find could help make these parachutes more reliable and…

In a lengthy report, federal government officials set out a roadmap for delivering on President Donald Trump’s promise to turn the US into the “crypto capital of the planet.”

The grid is becoming cleaner thanks to projects that have been in the works for years.

Middle-income Americans have accelerated their car-buying timelines amid worries about rising prices, according to new research shared first with Axios.Why it matters: On-again, off-again tariffs, along with other policy shifts in Washington, are confounding not just auto companies, but car buyers, …

We’ve known for a long time that improving the built environment’s energy efficiency is good for the planet. A recent report by McKinsey Sustainability makes it clear how good it can be for business, too. And with nearly one-quarter of human-produced greenhouse gases tied to making, transporting and…

Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot of the Gemini IV four-day Earth-orbital mission, floats in the zero gravity of space outside the Gemini IV spacecraft.

Katie Ledecky stubbornly refused to give up her 800-meter freestyle crown Saturday at the world championships in Singapore, winning that race for a seventh consecutive time and fending off Canada's Summer McIntosh who led a field of talented young, would-be usurpers

It’s often said that a single moment can spark a lifelong journey. For me the moment happened in 2011, when I was a graduate student—not in a lab or a classroom but rather in a conference hall in Rome. I was presenting my graduate research on a helix antenna for wideband terrestrial and GPS L2 commu…

Researchers at Kumamoto University and Nagoya University have developed a new class of two-dimensional (2D) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) using triptycene-based molecules, marking a breakthrough in the quest to understand and enhance the physical properties of these promising materials. The work i…

Deep in the heart of our galaxy lies one of the most chaotic and mysterious regions in space. Now, scientists have created the first detailed map of magnetic fields in this turbulent zone, providing crucial insights into how stars form and evolve in extreme environments.

The Adirondack Mountains are home to a remarkable diversity of plant species. Situated in northern New York, these mountains are harsh enough that they foster a thriving alpine community. Despite their ability to handle some of the worst weather conditions, alpine plants can be quite sensitive to hu…

Shares of Microsoft Corp. gained more than 9% in extended trading today after the company delivered solid earnings and revenue that came in above expectations. The after-hours increase lifted the company’s market capitalization above the $4 trillion milestone, trailing in the wake of Nvidia Corp., w…

The latest mission on NASA's Commercial Crew Program successfully launched on Friday.

We’ve long known that trees, parks and other green spaces can sequester carbon dioxide. But it turns out that’s just the tip of the iceberg as far as their ability to make the world a better place. When urban planners consider and work to maximize all effects on greenhouse gas emissions, the potenti…

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Andrew Dessler, The Climate Brink We've been posting a lot recently about how renewables lower...

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ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski operates one of ESA’s space freezers, known as MELFI (Minus Eighty-Degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS), during his stay aboard the International Space Station.
The European space freezers are used to store biological samples s…

A new theory suggests that Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be inside a giant void, possibly providing a surprising solution to an unsolved mystery, known as the “Hubble tension”, about the expansion of the universe. The universe has been expanding since it came into existence due to the …

From 2014 to 2024, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been studying the outer planets under a program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) to obtain long-time baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in order to understand their atmospheric dynamics and evolution. …

More than a dozen Democratic attorneys general announced a lawsuit challenging recent moves by President Trump’s administration to severely restrict access to gender-affirming health care for anyone under 19, including in states where treatment is legal and protected by law.  The lawsuit filed Frida…

For the past decade and a half, a team led by Cambridge University conservation biologist William Sutherland has engaged scientists and practitioners from around the world in a unique annual activity: conducting a horizon scan to identify the top emerging technological, political, economic and relat…

Ralph Hendry and Kathy Brandel were sailing their catamaran last year when they were attacked and killedThree men from the eastern Caribbean island of Grenada who were convicted of killing an elderly US couple last year after hijacking their catamaran have been sentenced to decades in prison. They h…

The MIT community celebrates their fellow staff members’ talent and dedication to the Institute.

Colorado Springs, CO — July 29, 2025 — Frontgrade Technologies, a leading provider of high-reliability electronic solutions for space and national security missions, has launched its operationally resilient SpaceStor™ Mass […]
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China launched a remote sensing satellite for Pakistan late Wednesday as space sector collaboration between the countries continues to grow.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Kongsberg Satellite Services and Amazon Web Services are expanding their alliance to speed up the flow of satellite data to customers. KSAT announced plans July 30 to integrate AWS Ground Station capabilities into its network, which will include more than 200 antennas at 40 locations…

The mysterious cosmic explosion has been traced to a massive stellar explosion. A global team of astrophysicists, led by researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Leicester (England), may have identified the origin of fast X-ray transients (FXTs), mysterious, fleeting bursts of …

Groundbreaking MIT concert, featuring electronic and computer-generated music, was a part of the 2025 International Computer Music Conference.

The band's five gigs at Heaton Park, as well as other concerts from the likes of Billie Eilish and Charli XCX, have brought around 1.3 million music tourists to Manchester.
Oasis Reunion Shows Generate £250K Fund for Manchester’s Grassroots Music Venues
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Two meteorological missions – Meteosat Third Generation Sounder-1 (MTG-S1) and the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission – have launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US.Both are world-class Earth observation missions developed with European partners to a…

Rosan Roselani, Danatara CEO and ally of president Prabowo Subianto, needs to streamline Indonesia's lumbering state-owned giants.

“Apple is proud to report a June quarter revenue record with double-digit growth in iPhone, Mac and Services and growth around the world, in every geographic segment," CEO Tim Cook said.

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.RO-MAN 2025: 25–29 August 2025, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDSCL…

Spica and the moon will appear over the southwestern horizon at sunset

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NISAR will help researchers explore how changes in Earth’s forest and wetland ecosystems are affecting the global carbon cycle and influencing climate change.





Once it launches in early 2024, the NISAR radar satellite mission will offer detailed insights into two types of ecosystems …

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Smile is a brand-new space mission currently in the making. It will study how Earth responds to the solar wind and solar storms.At the European Space Agency’s technical heart in the Netherlands, engineers have spent the last four months carrying out ‘spacecraft environment te…

Australian police have arrested a man suspected of setting fire to a Melbourne synagogue in December

The annual death toll remains low but has risen 500% since 2010, a new study shows.

Clinton David Brink, 43, and Cristen Amanda Brink, 41, were found dead Saturday at the park in Washington County, police said. They were hiking with their daughters, ages 7 and 9.

NASA/Jacob Shaw NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft has officially begun taxi tests, marking the first time this one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft has moved under its own power. NASA test pilot Nils Larson and the X-59 team, made up of NASA and contractor Lockheed Martin personnel, comp…

NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey have been mapping the planets since Apollo. One team is searching closer to home for minerals critical to national security and the economy. If not for the Joshua trees, the tan hills of Cuprite, Nevada, would resemble Mars. Scalded and chemically altered by water…

Astronomers have seen a rare, extremely energetic explosion when stars at least 3 times bigger than the Sun wandered too close to a supermassive black hole. The result was an unprecedented cosmic explosion. This type of event has been observed for the first time, leading to a new class of cosmic phe…

The event in London will begin along The Mall and end with a ceremony in front of Buckingham Palace.

The National Park Service has announced another ancient shark discovery at Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. The latest find, named Macadens olsoni, had a unique curved row of teeth and lived around 340 million years ago.

We praised both the Ruko F11PRO 2 and U11MINI 4K drones in our reviews and they're now nearly half price and at their lowest-ever cost.

The Canadian Space Agency awarded initial study contracts July 29 for a lunar utility rover as part of the country’s push to deepen its role in the U.S.-led Artemis program.
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The technology can simulate adversary spacecraft behaviors in physics-accurate orbital environments
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SAN FRANCISCO – EraDrive, a Stanford spinoff, won a $1 million NASA contract to detect, identify and track space objects. It was the first contract for the Palo Alto, California, startup founded earlier this year by Space Rendezvous Laboratory (SLAB) director Simone D’Amico, Justin Kruger, SLAB post…

Retail buyers snapped up Carvana’s used vehicles, and there’s more to come, company says.

The lithium iron phosphate cells will be made in Michigan.

Accelerating its momentum, Aurora recently grew its driverless fleet to three trucks, validated driverless nighttime capabilities, and opened its Phoenix terminal.

The Wharf is Washington, D.C.’s bustling waterfront district, filled with renowned restaurants, fashionable hotels, and a variety of fun things to see and do.

Here's how to watch the July 31 launch of SpaceX's Crew‑11 mission, which will send NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov to the ISS.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink internet broadband satellites launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, July 26, 2025.

UBS shares gained after the Swiss lender posted higher than expected profit in the second quarter, with net income of $2.4 billion dollars.
Bloomberg's Swiss Finance Reporter Noele Illien joined Francine Lacqua to discuss the bank's earnings. (Source: Bloomberg)

The Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund has unveiled the full program of its 53rd edition running over Aug.16-22.
 Ahead of Venice where she will be in the running for the Golden Lion with her third pic as a helmer, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” the Norwegian-born writer-director Mona F…

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ESA’s state-of-the-art Biomass satellite has launched aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 29 April 2025 at 11:15 CEST (06:15 local time).In orbit, this latest Earth Explorer mission will provide vital insights into the hea…

What does a tax professional look like? Meet Brad Garland, who reminds us that in addition to the work, there are many opportunities to be involved in your community.

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Danielle Rowland, Senior Broadening Participation Programs Manager, was recently appointed as Native Nations Engagement Lead of the U.S. National...
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