60,000 feet above Earth, NASA is hunting for the minerals that power phones, EVs and clean energy
The microwave-sized sensor detects 'spectral fingerprints' of important minerals....
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The microwave-sized sensor detects 'spectral fingerprints' of important minerals....
Iceberg A23-A has been around since the Chernobyl explosion and Space Shuttle Challenger accident...but perhaps not for much longer....
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Akhil Nagori, Evann Sun, and Lucas Shengwen Yen at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. Society for Science Three California teenagers created text-to-speech smart glasses powered...
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Bad news for those hoping interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft as technosignature search turns up empty....
Hunt for key terms that define one of the universe's most mind-bending phenomena—from event horizons to singularities....
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Researchers built autonomous robots the size of salt grains—with onboard computers, sensors, and motors that think and swim independently for months....
There are billions of dollars in it for companies able to kickstart mining operations, even if such returns are still years away....