NASA’s X-59 Aircraft Flies Supersonic for First Time

NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft marked a major milestone Friday, June 5, when it flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, setting the stage for demonstrating its quiet supersonic capabilities later this year.  NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less took off and landed at Edwards...

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The Splinternet Comes for European Supply Chains Why Fragmentation Is Now a Boardroom Problem

For a brief period in the early 2010s, it seemed that digital globalisation would conquer what geography could not. A logistics manager in Rotterdam...

I watched Artemis II lift off — and witnessed the first humans venture to the Moon since 1972

Gordon Osinski, Western University Even from a distance of several kilometres, the Artemis II rocket looked huge. Then, there was a moment that felt like an...

NASA’s Artemis II Mission Leaves Earth Orbit for Flight around Moon

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Tracking Ocean Microplastics From Space

The Pacific Ocean New information about an emerging technique that could track microplastics from space has been uncovered by researchers at the University of Michigan....

A Message To Meteorite Hunters: Put Down Your Magnets!

Black Beauty, or NWA 7034, is thought to have formed at a time when the Red Planet harbored a magnetic field, much like the...

Why Go Back To The Moon?

In a new book, Joseph Silk explores what the moon can offer humans over the next half century. As our nearest celestial neighbor, the moon...

Apple Supercharges 24‑inch iMac With New M3 Chip

October 30, 2023PRESS RELEASEApple supercharges 24‑inch iMac with new M3 chip The world’s best all-in-one gets even better, featuring the M3 chip and up to 2x...

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes 50th Flight

This image of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was taken at “Airfield D” by the Mastcam-Z instrument on the Perseverance rover on June 15, 2021,...

Heat-Resistant Drones To Support Firefighters

A new heat-resistant drone could support firefighters and minimise the risk of dangerous operations by analysing the source of danger at close range during...

Deploying a practical solution to space debris

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Safely Returns to Earth Near Florida Coast

After splashing down safely in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida early Monday morning, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 completed the agency’s sixth commercial crew rotation mission to the...