On March 28th, 2026 with 22 comments
After decades of studying, this week NASA announced "a major step forward in bringing nuclear power and propulsion from the lab to space."
NASA will launch the...
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On February 28th, 2026 with 53 comments
A start-up called Reflect Orbital "proposes to use large, mirrored satellites to redirect sunlight to Earth at night," reports the Washington Post, "with plans...
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On January 17th, 2026 with 61 comments
As 2026 begins, MIT Technology Review publishes "educated guesses" on emerging technologies that will define the future, advances "we think will drive progress...
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On September 15th, 2025 with 47 comments
"Engineers from Ohio State University are developing a new way to power rocket engines," reports Gizmodo, "using liquid uranium for a faster, more efficient...
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On January 12th, 2025 with 18 comments
"This year, superconductivity — the flow of electric current with zero resistance — was discovered in three distinct materials," reports Quanta...
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On October 8th, 2024 with 115 comments
Researchers at BitEnergy AI, Inc. have developed Linear-Complexity Multiplication (L-Mul), a technique that reduces AI model power consumption by up to 95% by...
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On March 16th, 2024 with 67 comments
The Washington Post reports:
Nearly a decade ago, Congress passed a law that allows private American space companies the rights to resources they mine on...
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On February 10th, 2024 with 61 comments
schwit1 quotes a report from Phys.Org: The Joint European Torus (JET), one of the world's largest and most powerful fusion machines, has demonstrated the...
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On December 30th, 2023 with 130 comments
"[F]or years it was written off," writes CNN. " 'The economics were just way out,' said Martin Soltau, CEO of the UK-based company Space Solar.
"That may...
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On June 26th, 2023 with 87 comments
An ancient Nevada lakebed could become a vast source of the lithium used in electric car batteries, reports the Associated Press. But "NASA says the same...
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On June 7th, 2023 with 75 comments
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have successfully demonstrated the capability of steering power in a microwave beam from a...
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On March 30th, 2023 with 50 comments
Researchers have developed a novel fuel cell implant for type 1 diabetes that can successfully produce and release insulin when triggered. New Atlas reports: ...
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On January 14th, 2023 with 49 comments
NASA's plans for a presence on the moon "will allow the program to practice how to live in space sustainably," writes the Washington Post. "It will allow...
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On December 20th, 2022 with 86 comments
A new study published in Nature Astronomy assessed the viability of turbines as an energy source for future Mars missions, and "the results hint that wind...
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On August 19th, 2022 with 166 comments
Europe is seriously considering developing space-based solar power to increase its energy independence and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the leader of the...
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On August 12th, 2022 with 223 comments
After more than 50 years, molten salt nuclear reactors might be making a comeback. The US Department of Energy (DoE) has tapped Los Alamos National Laboratory...
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On June 23rd, 2022 with 246 comments
NASA announced on Tuesday that it's contracting three suppliers to provide concept designs for nuclear fission energy systems designed for use on the moon....
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On June 19th, 2022 with 129 comments
"Practical nuclear fusion is, famously, always 10 years in the future," reports IEEE Spectrum. "Except that the Pentagon recently gave an award to a tiny...
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On May 11th, 2022 with 87 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Scientists have discovered evidence that a key rare resource, called helium-3, is potentially ten times...
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