'Complex numbers are not needed for quantum mechanics': Physicists develop quantum model that uses only 'real' numbers for first time ever
Physicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard the...
SpaceX wants to launch 100,000 Starlink satellites to orbit
SpaceX has applied for approval to operate a 100,000-member megaconstellation of next-gen Starlink satellites in Earth o...
Trump’s Plans for Nuclear Power Lurch Ahead
Recent technological advances have brought the president’s goals a bit closer to reality.
'Reckless' space-based data centers lack environmental review, drawing criticism
"Allowing a million orbiting data centers with no environmental review isn’t just irresponsible — it’s reckless."
Wally Funk, Who Set an Age Record for Space Travel, Dies at 87
As a young woman in the 1960s, she wasn’t allowed to become a NASA astronaut. She finally realized her long-held dream o...
'Silo' season 3 showrunner Graham Yost explains the time jumps and turning half of the show into a political thriller (interview)
'We're harkening back to 'Three Days of The Condor,' 'The Parallax View,' and things like that of the '70s.'
'Astronomers have to revise estimates': The Milky Way may be larger, heavier, and more lopsided than we realized
New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought....
Scientists build tiny 'diving suit' for cockroaches, turning them into search-and rescue cyborgs
Researchers in Singapore and Japan have built a waterproof shell for cyborg cockroaches that could be deployed in disast...
These Fossils May Be the Earliest Evidence of Handedness in Animals
Scientists propose that recently uncovered fossils may be the earliest evidence of behavioral “handedness” in animals.
Quantum computing wielded to create extremely rare material critical to nuclear fusion
Nuclear fusion inches closer after scientists combine supercomputing, AI and quantum computing to blueprint a way to cre...
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New robotic heart mimics common, mysterious condition to help researchers study it
A new robotic heart can recreate different stages of heart failure, potentially giving researchers a new way to test tre...