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Space Race Roundup: The Four Latest Events

2026-11-03T19:51:31Z

Astronauts Christina Koch and Victor Glover capture images of the lunar surface during the Artemis II mission. (Image Credit: NASA) On October 7th, NASA published over 800GB of lunar science data from the Artemis II mission. It has 11,000+ full-reso...(read more)

Researchers Develop a Ring-Laser Gyroscope That Measures Rotational Speeds as Slow as 37 Degrees Per Hour

2026-10-22T19:10:52Z

Schematic of the optical ring-laser gyroscope. (Image Credit: Kerry Vahala, California Institute of Technology) Scientists recently built a chip-scale optical ring-laser gyroscope with slow-rotating measurement capabilities. It’s nearly 2,000 ...(read more)

Citizen Scientists Revived an Old Spacecraft

2026-10-16T12:17:16Z

Artist’s illustration of the ISEE-3 spacecraft. (Image Credit: NASA) In 1978, NASA’s International Sun Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3) was launched to investigate solar wind and how it interacted with the magnetic environment. Eventually, NASA...(read more)

Researchers Make Bean Plant Roots Conduct Electricity

2026-10-14T08:30:00Z

The bean plant with conductive roots (dark roots). (Image Credit: Thor Balkhed/Linköping University) Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, have found a way to turn the roots of a living plant into ele...(read more)

Astronomers Detect Radio Signals Originating From an Exoplanet

2026-10-08T08:00:00Z

An April 2010 VLT image showing Beta Pictoris b located 6.5 AU from its star. (Image Credit: ESO) A gas giant called Beta Pictoris b, located about 63 light-years from Earth, has been emitting strongly circularly polarized bursts. Astronomers recent...(read more)

NASA Moves PRIMA Into Phase B Development

2026-10-02T12:21:54Z

Artist’s illustration of the PRIMA observatory. (Image Credit: NASA/JPC-Caltech) NASA recently chose the Probe Far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) to move from Phase A to Phase B, the next development stage. This brings PRIMA c...(read more)

Audio-Technica U841A Microphone Teardown

2026-09-23T23:39:48Z

It’s not everyday I take apart a (reasonably pricey) microphone! But, I was curious, and taking things apart is sometimes how one learns. A long time ago I took apart an Echo Dot, which contains very different microphone technology (MEMS d...(read more)

Harvard Researchers Discover That Lab-Grown Organoids Can Retain Developmental Stages

2026-09-23T18:35:43Z

Harvard’s lab-grown organoids. (Image Credit: Carlos Sanchez/Harvard FAS Staff Photographer) It takes years for the human brain to develop. And this makes it difficult to experimentally study some maturation stages. Harvard University researc...(read more)

Underwater Drone Deployed in The Baltic Sea

2026-09-22T08:20:00Z

Seaber’s YUCO-PHYSCICO underwater drone. (Image Credit: Seaber) Water layers in the Baltic Sea don’t always stay in the same place. In August, researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) used an u...(read more)

Anello Photonics Introduces New Technology for Navigation

2026-09-11T20:10:19Z

Small SiPhOG chip. (Image Credit: Anello Photonics) Today’s navigation systems must be accurate, especially when GPS signals aren’t available or reliable. Although jamming blocks those signals, spoofing can send false positioning data to...(read more)

An AI System Set Course to Our Nearest Star System

2026-09-11T12:46:34Z

Alpha Centauri. (Image Credit: European Southern Observatory/Digitized Sky Survey 2; Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin/Mahdi Zamani) By the end of 2029, the nonprofit Fermi Explorer Mission is aiming to launch an interstellar spacecraft to Alpha Cent...(read more)

Love Birds and Artwork? Try Out Fugleramme!

2026-09-10T05:27:43Z

The Fugleramme device captures bird songs and draws an illustration of the species on an e-ink display. (Image Credit: arnegiacomo/GitHub) I love love love this. It’s one of those project where you lean back and say, why didn’t I think o...(read more)

Sensor Array Discovers an Underground Reservoir at Old Faithful

2026-09-04T22:28:13Z

(Image Credit JillWellington/pixabay) The Old Faithful geyser has a secret. And University of Utah scientists uncovered it. Beneath the area around the geyser lies a network of fractures and pores that forms part of its hydrothermal system. This con...(read more)

Voyager 1 Signal Detected by Amateurs

2026-08-27T21:41:11Z

Artist’s rendering of Voyager traveling through space. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) In late 2024, skilled radio amateurs with CAMRAS used the Dwingeloo Observatory to detect the carrier signal of Voyager 1 from over 15.5 billion miles away...(read more)

Engineers Develop Living Circuit Boards Using Bacteria That Work Like Transistors

2026-08-25T20:55:29Z

MIT has engineered bacteria to function like transistors for living circuit boards. (Image Credit: MIT) Transistors are used in circuitry to control electrical signal flow. But now there is a bio-inspired one. MIT engineers modified bacteria that ca...(read more)