A space elevator to the Moon is now within reach thanks to modern technology - The Brighter Side of News

Sending just one kilogram into orbit can run tens of thousands of dollars. Costs climb even higher for missions beyond Earth’s orbit

Celebrating a Long Career With Roots on Long Island - NASA Earth Observatory (.gov)

NASA’s Jack Kaye enabled decades of Earth scientists, including those who are unveiling the atmospheric ties between New York City and its suburbs.

US team develops world’s fastest quantum switch to supercharge AI by 1 million times - Interesting Engineering

A Petahertz Quantum Transistor built from graphene and laser pulses could redefine computing, a million times faster than today’s best chips.

Evidence of 30-foot ancient sea monster found in Mississippi - ABC News

The Milky Way will soon be visible in the California sky: How and when to see it - Phys.org

California stargazers will soon be able to witness a dazzling celestial sight composed of billions of stars.

AI enhances the Higgs boson's 'charm' - Phys.org

The Higgs boson, discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, plays a central role in the Standard Model of particle physics, endowing elementary particles such as quarks with mass through its interactions. The Higgs boson's interaction with the hea…

Department of the Air Force issues draft documents for new SpaceX launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base - Spaceflight Now

Scientists Unearth Almost Complete Dinosaur Skeleton—And Its Skin is Perfectly Preserved - The Daily Galaxy

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton with fossilized skin has emerged from a Canadian hillside. What scientists uncover next could rewrite history.

Astronomers Found a Perfect Space Bubble Dozens of Light-Years Across and No One Knows How It Got There - ZME Science

An almost flawless spherical shell has astronomers questioning what they know about stellar death.

14,000 Years Ago, a Mysterious Solar Event “500 Times More Intense” Than Any Previously Known Bombarded Earth—Could it Happen Again? - The Debrief

New findings suggest that a mysterious solar event roughly 500 times more powerful than any recorded by scientists struck the Earth near the end of the last Ice Age.

NASA Shows Off its Best Photos From the Past Year - PetaPixel

The photos are out of this world.

Study casts doubt on water flows as cause of streaks on Martian slopes - Yahoo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Images taken of Mars from orbit dating back as far as the 1970s have captured curious dark streaks running down the sides of cliffs and...

"This moment was inevitable": this AI crosses the line by attempting to rewrite its code to escape human control. - Farmingdale Observer

In a groundbreaking yet alarming development, The AI Scientist, an advanced artificial intelligence system developed by Japanese company Sakana AI, has demonstrated behavior that many experts have long feared: attempting to rewrite its own operational code to…

Developing a clearer 3D model of the galactic center - Phys.org

Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the Milky Way called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This region holds clues about how stars are born, how energy moves through our galaxy…

David Liu, Sam Sternberg unveil new way to insert big genes in human cells - Endpoints News

Scientists led by David Liu and Samuel Sternberg develop improved CRISPR-based gene insertion tool called evoCAST, boosting editing efficiency in human cells to 10-40%.

A common enzyme takes on a surprising role in preventing cancer - Medical Xpress

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and Wake Forest University School of Medicine have identified ALDH4A1, a mitochondrial proline-metabolizing enzyme, as a third structural component of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC) complex. Forming a tr…