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NASA has been testing new autonomous driving and navigation capabilities for rovers designed to explore the Moon and Mars, bringing crewed and robotic exploration closer together.
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NASA is asking filmmakers, songwriters, poets and other storytellers to help share mission stories with the public.
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NASA shared Webb observations of Messier 51 as part of a study of nearly 9,000 star clusters in nearby galaxies.
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ETH Zurich researchers have built the world's most efficient CO₂-to-methanol catalyst using individual indium atoms — each one doing the job a wh…
March 21, 2026 · CO2 · methanol
The LHCb experiment at CERN has confirmed the discovery of a new proton-like particle made of two charm quarks and one down quark, named Ξcc⁺ (Xi…
March 21, 2026 · CERN · LHCb
In a striking proof-of-concept published in PLOS Biology, scientists at Shandong University engineered a harmless strain of gut bacteria — Escher…
March 21, 2026 · cancer treatment · bacteria
CSIRO, RMIT University, and the University of Melbourne have demonstrated the world's first proof-of-concept quantum battery capable of a full ch…
March 21, 2026 · quantum battery · CSIRO
In March 2026, Panasonic announced a 34.5% power conversion efficiency for its perovskite-silicon tandem solar panels — a landmark that breezes p…
March 20, 2026 · solar energy · perovskite
The scarlet monkeyflower faced an extinction-level drought in California. Instead of dying out, populations of the flower rapidly evolved new gen…
March 20, 2026 · evolution · scarlet monkeyflower
New research published in March 2026 has finally explained one of the most confusing phenomena in everyday physics: how two objects made of the s…
March 20, 2026 · static electricity · physics
Marine biologists exploring an uncharted seamount off Argentina have returned with specimens of 28 possible new species — including strange sea s…
March 20, 2026 · deep sea · new speciesCold Spring Harbor researchers used data from monkey neurons to compress a 60-million-variable AI vision model down to just 10,000 variables. The…
March 3, 2026First Light Fusion has validated a tritium breeding ratio of 1.8 for its FLARE power plant concept — the highest ever announced for any fusion sy…
March 2, 2026British company First Light Fusion has validated that its FLARE reactor design can breed its own fuel — tritium — at a ratio of 1.8, the highest …
March 1, 2026For the first time, researchers in Spain have converted methane directly into a complex pharmaceutical compound, using a custom iron catalyst. Th…
February 27, 2026OMI has developed a cathode material that charges batteries from zero to full in approximately three minutes, validated across thousands of cycle…
February 28, 2026Oxford-based First Light Fusion has validated that its FLARE reactor design achieves a tritium breeding ratio of 1.8 — meaning it produces nearly…
February 28, 2026Researchers at Flinders University have created a packaging film from milk protein that safely degrades in soil in just 13 weeks — offering a gen…
February 28, 2026Ty Sperle, a university student from British Columbia, has been cured of chronic granulomatous disease using a groundbreaking gene editing treatm…
February 28, 2026A Spanish research team has developed a way to transform methane — the main component of natural gas — into pharmaceutical building blocks, synth…
February 28, 2026Researchers at Fermilab and MIT Lincoln Laboratory have successfully trapped and manipulated ions using cryogenic electronics, clearing a critica…
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