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How can communities prepare for the adverse conditions that climate change is bringing our way? A recent report from the Regional Plan Association, a nonprofit research organization working to enhance quality of life in the New York City area, has taken a whack at answering that question. By analyzi…
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The Meteosat Third Generation sounder satellite, hosting the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission, has reached its orbit and has been placed under the control of Eumetsat. It is now ready to start commissioning before beginning operations to monitor Earth’s atmosphere from a distance of 36 000 km.
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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…
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Data: Financial Modeling Prep; Chart: Axios VisualsMeme stocks are back, with GoPro, Opendoor and Krispy Kreme rallying double digits this week thanks to retail investors and Reddit threads.Why it matters: The retail resurgence is the latest signal that investors are willing to take on more risk, as…
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These are the highlights of the launch on Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) of ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland to the International Space Station. The mission is called Ignis.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Ce…
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In the wake of the Trump administration’s trade deal with the European Union, investors have turned to watching for other agreements ahead a deadline at the end of this week — and they’re looking for progress in talks with China, as that country faces an Aug. 12 deadline.
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ESA’s state-of-the-art Biomass satellite launched aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, 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…
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Space is huge and essential to humankind, fuelling knowledge, supporting our economies and driving global prosperity. None of this would be possible without reliable access to space. Since 1979, Europe has relied on the Ariane rockets and Vega series to launch its missions. T…
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Scientists studying the brightest gamma ray burst ever recorded have discovered evidence that these explosions produce complex, layered jets rather than simple uniform beams. This remarkable finding helps solve a long standing puzzle about how the universe's most powerful explosions work and opens n…
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Scientists have long wondered if Betelgeuse, one of the brightest and most enigmatic stars in the sky, is not alone. Astronomers have finally confirmed that it does indeed have a companion star. A paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters presents new observations from the Gemini North Te…
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In this week’s special episode of Space Minds coming to you a day early, host Mike Gruss speaks with Heather Pringle, CEO of the Space Foundation on the just released Space Report 2025 Q2 edition and the top three takeaways including the news that the global space economy hit a new record in 2024.
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More than 500 students with 75 teams from around the world participated in the 31st year of NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) on April 11 and April 12, 2025, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Participating teams represented 35 colleges and universities, 3…
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In June, a fuel delivery to a Johns Hopkins Hospital campus went terribly awry, spilling 2,000 gallons of diesel into Baltimore’s harbor. As the Maryland capital raced to contain the mess, responders discovered a problem: They didn’t have access to reliable power at the waterfront site. Usually in t…
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In 1963, Captain Engle was assigned as one of two Air Force test pilots to fly the X-15 Research Rocket aircraft. In 1965, he flew the X-15 to an altitude of 280,600 feet, and became the youngest pilot ever to qualify as an astronaut. Three of his sixteen flights in the X-15 exceeded the 50-mile (26…
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Eight children in the UK have been born from a pioneering IVF technique designed to reduce the risk of mitochondrial diseases – severe and often fatal conditions which affect about 1 in 5,000 births. The 4 girls and 4 boys – including one set of identical twins – were born to 7 women at high […]
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We’ve published our joint paper with Google Research in Nature Medicine, which proposes CoDoC (Complementarity-driven Deferral-to-Clinical Workflow), an AI system that learns when to rely on predictive AI tools or defer to a clinician for the most accurate interpretation of medical images.
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The journey to launch is picking up pace for Europe’s MetOp Second Generation weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package. Specialists at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou have completed the critical and hazardous task of fuelling the satellite, marking a m…
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The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which has also captured a smaller companion star in the upper left of this image. Both stars lie in the Orion Nebula, a colossal region of star formation roughly 1450 light years from Ea…
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Gen V has a new Season 2 trailer fresh from San Diego Comic-Con 2025. The Boys spinoff premieres September 17 on Prime Video with the first three episodes, and this new trailer includes a number of characters fans of the over-the-top anti-hero show will know and love.
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Cosmos has published below some of the first images released by the Rubin Observatory. Astronomy experts and enthusiasts around the world are watching on with glee as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory today releases its first images of space, heralding new discoveries about the universe. The giant teles…
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Turin, Italy – July 24, 2025 – Tyvak International, a subsidiary of Terran Orbital, is proud to announce the successful launch of the 5G-LIDE (Live Demonstration) mission, which took place […]
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On 26 June 2025 ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland and his crewmates arrived to the International Space Station on the Axiom-4 mission (Ax-4).
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The result points to a significant advance in computing power, prompting researchers to replicate the groundbreaking measurement. On July 8, 2025, researchers at Aalto University in Finland reported a transmon qubit coherence time that significantly exceeds all previously published scientific benchm…
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S. Somanath, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, announced in August 2023 that "India is on the moon." The announcement meant India had joined the short list of countries to have visited the moon, and the applause and shouts of joy that followed signified that this achievement wasn't…
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IEEE and Pixar Animation Studios’ collaboration on the RenderMan SciTech Art Challenge last year broke entry records for the annual competition, tripling the usual number of submissions. Nearly 200 artists, engineers, and enthusiasts competed to demonstrate shading, lighting, rendering, and composit…
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ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot’s first mission to the International Space Station now has a name: εpsilon. The mission name and patch were announced today at the Paris Air Show by ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Sophie Adenot, who joined remotely f…
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An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made new measurements of Uranus' interior rotation rate with a novel technique, achieving a level of accuracy 1000 times greater than previous estimates. By analysing more than a decade of Hubble observations of Uran…
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In a cosmic breakthrough, scientists using the James Webb and ALMA telescopes have caught a rare glimpse of a planetary system in its earliest moments — as hot mineral crystals first begin to solidify around a young star called HOPS-315, 1300 light-years from Earth. This is the first time astronomer…
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We’re getting better views of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, as it makes its speedy passage through the inner solar system. This week, astronomers at the Gemini North observatory located on Mauna Kea in Hawai’i turned the facility’s enormous 8.1-meter telescope on the object, with amazing results.