Category Science and Technology

(Image courtesy of China Huaneng Group/Distributed by Xinhua) Engineers in China have developed a prototype floating wind turbine that they claim has set new records for electricity production, which could lead to a new generation of renewable energy. The turbine…

United Launch Alliance successfully launched one of its Vulcan Centaur rockets into orbit on Tuesday, demonstrating the viability of new technology developed for the U.S. military’s space missions. The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida…

(Image credit: Boris Zhitkov/Getty Images) Scientists at Meta said they had noticed how the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) systems were improving without human intervention. “In recent months, we have begun to see glimmers of self-improvement in our AI systems,” Meta…

A new study warns that the rise of “fake” science poses a significant threat to the integrity of academic research. A widespread underground network of fraudsters is increasingly producing fake scientific results, scientists report in the Proceedings of the National…

Rocket Lab launched a synthetic aperture radar satellite, known as QPS-SAR-12, on Tuesday morning for Japan’s IQS as part of a mission to build a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit. The Harvest Goddess Thrives mission launched from Rocket…

Sean Duffy, acting NASA administrator and transportation secretary, is pushing to speed up the installation of a nuclear reactor on the moon, according to a directive he issued Thursday. As Politico, The New York Times and The Independent report, NASA…

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission to the Moon ended in failure after the agency lost contact with the spacecraft just a day after its launch in February and was unable to re-establish contact despite best efforts. The mission was finally concluded…

Team Aoki’s RaceBird glides on hydrofoils during free practice in Doha on February 21. (Photo: Dan Baty/Spacesuit Media)

(Image credit: CHRISTOPH BURGSTEDT/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images) Researchers from IBM and Moderna have successfully used a quantum simulation algorithm to predict the complex secondary structure of a 60-nucleotide-long mRNA protein—the longest ever simulated on a quantum computer. Messenger…

Astronaut Jim Lovell, who led the Apollo 13 moon mission, died Thursday in Illinois, his family said. He was 97. Lovell also flew on three other missions: Gemini 7, Gemini 12, and Apollo 8 in the 1960s, becoming the first…