Science & Innovation

Elon Musk's SpaceX is bypassing traditional IPO pricing mechanisms, setting a fixed share price of $135 and targeting a massive retail investor allocation.

A rare encounter with a Great White shark in the Mediterranean, filmed by Healthy Seas divers, underscores the urgent need for marine protected areas and ghost net removal.

Founded by SpaceX veteran Tom Mueller, Impulse Space is using a $500M funding round to expand its workforce, arguing that LLMs cannot replace physical hardware engineering.

Former Spin founder Euwyn Poon launches Orbital, a venture-backed effort to deploy a gigawatt of AI compute in orbit, betting big on SpaceX's Starship.

NASA has named the crew for Artemis 3, which has shifted from a moon landing to a high-stakes low Earth orbit docking test with SpaceX and Blue Origin prototypes.

NASA has announced the four-person crew for Artemis III, focusing on critical docking tests with SpaceX and Blue Origin before the 2028 lunar landing.

AI pioneer Rich Sutton challenges the notion that human-centric design is necessary for machine creativity, arguing that scale and search always win over intuition.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems releases five peer-reviewed papers detailing the physics and engineering behind its ARC commercial fusion plant.

New research published in PNAS reveals that cities behave like living ecosystems with 'vital signs' that can be measured via remote sensing and satellite imagery.

Microsoft has released fixes for two critical vulnerabilities disclosed by researcher Nightmare Eclipse, capping a volatile period of public accusations and leaked PoCs.

SpaceX's Starlink is shifting away from one-time hardware sales, introducing a $10 monthly kit fee for new residential users in select markets.

NASA ordered astronauts to shelter in the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft while Roscosmos attempted emergency repairs on a leaking ISS service module.

New research from UT Austin and Stanford reveals a Russian satellite constellation in Molniya orbits has been intentionally jamming GPS and BeiDou signals since 2019.

A resurgence in semiconductor stocks and surging AI exports from China are lifting global markets, despite ongoing tensions between the U.S., Iran, and Israel.

A new study from Stony Brook and UC San Diego reveals GPT-4.5 tricked judges 73% of the time in a Turing test, but only by mimicking a specific online persona.

The FCC has granted Amazon a waiver for its Project Kuiper satellite deployment deadline, but the company faces a temporary loss of spectrum priority that could benefit SpaceX.

Utsunomiya City has shuttered nearly 100 schools following a surge in bear sightings in downtown districts, highlighting a growing national crisis in Japan.

The FCC has removed a key deployment milestone for Amazon's Leo satellite constellation, acknowledging the need for a viable Starlink competitor.

New satellite analysis and data reveal the systemic collapse of Iran's water reserves, from the vanishing Lake Urmia to the drying reservoirs surrounding Tehran.

Nonprofit Moving Health is deploying low-cost, motorcycle-powered ambulances to navigate Ghana's remotest roads, reducing emergency transport times by 64%.