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A US military space-plane, the X-37B orbital test vehicle, is due to embark on its eighth flight into space on August 21, 2025. Much of what the X-37B does in space is secret. But it serves partly as a platform for cutting-edge experiments. One of these experiments is a potential alternative to GPS that makes use of quantum science as …

“Imagine a life spent riding currents, never touching solid earth,” says Schmidt Ocean Institute on Instagram alongside a captivating video of a pelagic octopus drifting along. “You’d have to be different than others of your kind so you can easily hide in plain sight.”  The octopus was gliding along 1,047 metres deep when pilots of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) caught it on camera during the …

Origami Bloom Patterns Could Help Build Folding Structures in Space  The New York Times Source link

By Corinne BeckingerWhen Artemis astronauts land on the Moon’s South Pole in a commercial human landing system, they will encounter a landscape pockmarked with deep craters, sloped connecting ridges, and harsh lighting conditions. The Moon’s lack of contrast, combined with its rolling terrain, will also pose a challenge, making it difficult for astronauts to overcome visual illusions on the lunar …

Scientists just measured something that sounds impossible. When light passes through atoms, it can spend what appears to be less than zero time interacting with them. Yes, negative time. And no, this isn’t science fiction. Picture a stadium crowd doing the wave. People stand and sit in sequence, but somehow the wave moves faster than any single person. …

IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 Venus Aerospace’s test of the Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine marks a breakthrough in propulsion technology. 💥 The engine uses supersonic explosions for thrust, offering greater efficiency and thrust-to-weight ratios. 🌐 The combination with the VDR2 air-breathing ramjet could enable hypersonic vehicles to operate like conventional aircraft. ✈️ The advancements aim to make high-speed travel more accessible …

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A spatiotemporally resolved atlas of the Arabidopsis life cycle To generate a comprehensive atlas of Arabidopsis development, we collected six distinct organ systems that encompass diverse tissues as well as whole organisms at ten discrete developmental time points throughout the Arabidopsis life cycle corresponding to established developmental road maps28,29,30. This includes imbibed and germinating seeds, three stages of seedling development, …

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More About Psyche The Psyche mission is led by ASU. Lindy Elkins-Tanton of the University of California, Berkeley is the principal investigator. A division of Caltech in Pasadena, JPL is responsible for the mission’s overall management, system engineering, integration and test, and mission operations. Maxar Technologies in Palo Alto, California, provided the high-power solar electric propulsion spacecraft chassis. ASU leads …