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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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Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have identified a new type of qubit — the CN center — that lives inside ordinary silicon. It's hydrogen-free, tel…
March 3, 2026Researchers have compressed a 60-million-variable AI vision model down to just 10,000 variables — small enough to send in a tweet — by reverse-en…
March 3, 2026
Researchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Basel have achieved a breakthrough in spintronics: using a laser beam to flip the polarity of a s…
March 9, 2026
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have genetically engineered E. coli bacteria to convert PET plastic — the material in drinks bottles —…
March 20, 2026 · plastic recycling · Parkinson's disease
GJ 887 d, a super-Earth at least 6 times Earth's mass, has been confirmed orbiting within the habitable zone of the star GJ 887 — making it the s…
March 20, 2026 · exoplanet · GJ 887 d
UK biotech company Tropic has raised $105 million to deploy the first commercial gene-edited Cavendish bananas resistant to the TR4 fungus that t…
March 21, 2026 · banana · TR4
Researchers have uncovered extraordinarily complex topological structures hidden within entangled light beams — structures existing in 48 dimensi…
March 21, 2026 · quantum computing · quantum entanglement
The World Register of Marine Species has published its annual Top 10 list of newly described marine creatures from 2025, featuring a giant deep-s…
March 21, 2026 · marine biology · new speciesResearchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have presented compelling evidence that an alloy of niobium and rhenium (NbRe) …
March 22, 2026 · quantum computing · superconductorNASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere surrounding a rocky exoplanet. TOI-561b — a scorching …
March 22, 2026 · James Webb Space Telescope · exoplanetA six-year study of 184 bull sharks in Fiji has revealed that the famously solitary species actually forms stable social bonds and has preferred …
March 22, 2026 · bull sharks · sharksA research team in Australia has created a mechanical process to extract almost all the silver from end-of-life solar panels in minutes without u…
April 7, 2026 · solar · recyclingA 'genetic blueprint' approach developed at Melbourne's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre has shown a reported 95% long-term remission rate in early-…
April 8, 2026 · health · scienceA promising new approach uses photocatalysis to break down plastic pollution while simultaneously creating a useful, value-added chemical product…
April 8, 2026 · science · plastic pollutionNASA says Artemis II completed a crucial crewed lunar flyby phase, a major step toward future Moon landings.
April 9, 2026 · nasa · artemisNASA says Artemis II has successfully completed its around-the-Moon mission, marking humanity’s first crewed deep-space return since Apollo.
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