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China has already "landed" on the back side of the Moon for the second time - with the Changye-6 spacecraft, which will collect soil samples

Currently, China is the only country that has landed its spacecraft on the far side of the Moon (the previous Chang'e-4 mission was in 2019). According to China's National Space Administration, the Chang'e-6 probe successfully landed at a pre-select...

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Clothing charges a smartphone: scientists have developed a fabric that turns heat into electricity

With the development of wearable devices and the Internet of Things, a sustainable solution for powering wireless devices and sensors becomes important. One option could be thermoelectric generators, which convert heat into electricity. A research gr...

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Hawaiians protest construction of seven U.S. Space Force telescopes - "negatively impact mental, emotional and spiritual health"

Many residents of Hawaii are opposed to the plans of the US Space Forces to build new telescopes designed to track satellites and prevent collisions in orbit. The US Air Force Department proposed to build up to seven new telescopes and an optical lab...

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SpaceX's Starship Raptor rocket engine exploded during testing

During the preparations for SpaceX's fourth Starship flight at its facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, at the SpaceX rocket engine test site in McGregor, also in Texas, it appears that the Starship Raptor engine caught fire. Local media reported a power...

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Electronics for Venus exploration: gallium nitride semiconductors tested at 500℃

Gallium nitride is advertised as the next-generation semiconductor that may one day replace silicon, but research on this material is still in its early stages. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other US institutions have dec...

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Euclid space telescope takes new photos in search for dark matter 2.7 billion light-years away

The Euclid telescope team has released five new images of space, showcasing numerous celestial objects in unprecedented detail. Euclid is called the "dark universe detector" because its main mission is to explore the two most mysterious elements of s...

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NASA has switched on futuristic Hall engines at the Psyche station - now the device is moving at a speed of 133.2 thousand kilometers per hour

NASA has turned on Hall electric engines on Psyche, a spacecraft that is now smoothly moving towards the rich metal celestial body of the same name in the asteroid belt beyond Mars. The agency reports that Psyche is currently in "full cruise mode," s...

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From sick to healthy. Neurostartup showed a creepy promo of the world's first head transplant system

Perhaps not everyone will feel comfortable reading on, but be that as it may, the world's first "head transplantation system" from BrainBridge is presented, which is expected to start working within eight years. The startup in the field of neuroscien...

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Blue Origin - back in the game and for the first time in 2 years delivered passengers into space (spoiler: one of the parachutes did not open)

Blue Origin is back in the space tourism business. On May 19, Jeff Bezos' space company successfully delivered six clients to the edge of space and back. The flight ended a nearly two-year hiatus in crewed missions. This was the seventh Blue Origin t...

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Quantum entangled photon "traveled" 35 km through the streets of Boston

Amazon and Harvard University have created a "quantum network" that transmitted an entangled photon from one quantum computer to another through a 35-kilometer optical fiber cable. Researchers placed a set of nodes around Boston to build a network ca...

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A 40 kg remnant of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft likely fell onto a farm in Canada

Just a month after a piece of the ISS pierced the roof of a house in Florida, we have a new case of falling space debris. This time the buildings were not damaged because the piece of space debris landed in a field on a farm in Canada. A farmer from...

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Boeing postpones 'cursed' Starliner mission - valve fixed but there was a 'small helium leak'

The Starliner launch was halted a week ago due to a faulty oxygen valve. However, it turns out that the spacecraft has other issues. On Tuesday, Boeing announced that the first manned flight of the Starliner has been postponed to May 21 - the missio...

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Monster-spot on the Sun "gave out" the most powerful flare for the last 11 years - class X8.7

A gigantic sunspot on the Sun, designated as AR3664, left us a parting gift, but this time without the bonus of the Northern Lights. On May 10, AR3664 produced a class X5.8 flare, and over the past 24 hours flares of X1.7, X1.3, and a colossal X8.7 ...

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CRISPR gene editing tool helped partially restore vision to blind patients during clinical trial

Patients with Leber's congenital amaurosis are being discussed - a rare retinal condition that affects approximately one in 40,000 newborns. A genetic mutation leads to complete blindness in about a third of patients, and there are currently no appro...

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A supercapacitor made from chicken with the smell of fried onions - scientists have turned chicken fat into an energy storage device

Some materials for energy storage devices (particularly supercapacitors) can be expensive and pollute the environment. Making alternative energy storage devices from things people usually throw away can help with this. A study published in ACS Applie...

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