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A gibbous Moon in black and white showing maria and rayed craters — the surface the NASA-IBM model was trained to map.

Science 6 min

NASA and IBM Open-Sourced a Moon Model. It Is Best at Finding Ice.

Trained on about two million tiles from 17 years of lunar orbiter data. The headline 23 per cent is really three results...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 14 Sep

A fan of green laser beams radiating from a single bright point in darkness

Science 6 min

A Thousand Control Cycles Became One. What That Buys Is Time.

Chalmers researchers compressed control of a quantum encoding into a single Floquet period. The speed matters because qu...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 12 Sep

Two hands dialling a basic keypad mobile phone against a dark background

Science 7 min

Twenty Minutes a Week on the Phone Beat the Ed-Tech, at $11 a Child

Five randomised trials, including one in the Philippines, found phone tutoring tripled the gains of the average closure-...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 12 Sep

Clusters of ripening orange areca nuts hanging from a betel palm trunk

Science 6 min

The Oldest Evidence of Habitual Drug Use Rests on Two Sets of Teeth

Arecoline in the dental calculus of two Sulawesi hunter-gatherers, 15,000 years apart. Oldest evidence is a statement ab...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 11 Sep

A hand writing trigonometric expressions in chalk on a dark blackboard.

Science 6 min

The Fluid Blowup Proofs Are Machine-Checkable. The Competing Claim Was a Press Call.

Buckmaster and Alpöge published three preprints with Lean formalisations anyone can run. The results are for forced equa...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 9 Sep

A lit tunnel deep underground, with rails running along the floor and pipes and machinery fixed along its arched roof.

Science 6 min

One Event at 2.6 Sigma Is Not a Dark Matter Discovery, and LZ Says So

A single interaction in ten tonnes of xenon that the background model cannot easily place. The collaboration's spokesper...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 7 Sep

A dense star-forming region photographed against deep space, with filaments of red and blue gas threaded through thousands of resolved stars

Science 6 min

NASA's Roman Telescope Has Hubble's Mirror and a Hundred Times the Field

Launched 30 August and en route to L2, with first images expected in early 2027. It is a survey instrument, so the outpu...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 4 Sep

An installer in work clothes tightening the mounting bracket of a satellite dish on a rooftop pole, with houses and solar panels behind

Science 7 min

China's New Reusable Rocket Reached Orbit and Skipped the Recovery Attempt

Galactic Energy's Pallas-1 flew from Jiuquan on 1 September and delivered its payload. The booster came down uncontrolle...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 4 Sep

Steel framework and insulated pipework on the exterior of an industrial process plant

Science 6 min

Fukushima Holds 880 Tons of Debris. Crews Have Removed Under a Gram.

Two trial retrievals have brought out 0.887 grams against 880 tons of fuel debris. The grams are not the project; they a...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 31 Aug

Molten metal being poured from a crucible into a mould in a darkened foundry

Science 6 min

SpaceX Is Casting Turbine Blades Because Almost Nobody Else Can

A gas turbine is mostly components any industrial economy can build. One part is not, and the queue for it has been quie...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 31 Aug

A glass prism splitting a beam of white light into a visible spectrum, illustrating a report on low-loss optical waveguides fabricated on a silicon chip.

Science 8 min

Caltech Got Fibre-Grade Optical Loss Onto A Silicon Chip

Optical loss is what has kept chip-scale photonics far behind optical fibre. A Caltech group put the fibre material itse...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 23 Aug

A long-exposure photograph of a rocket launch at night, its exhaust drawing a bright curved arc across a starfield above a coastline

Science 9 min

Vietnam's First Privately Built Satellites Have a Ride

VinSpace has booked a SpaceX Transporter rideshare for 2027. Coverage calling these Vietnam's first home-built satellite...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 13 Aug

A gibbous Moon photographed against black sky, its cratered surface picked out along the terminator — illustrative; the impact site described here is not visible at this scale.

Science 7 min

A Rocket Stage Hit the Moon. South Korea Was Overhead With a Camera.

Danuri made eight passes over the predicted impact point, starting half an hour early, with reference frames taken a mon...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 11 Aug

A spacecraft with solar arrays extended, photographed in orbit above a desert coastline — illustrative of an orbiting satellite; this is not MICHIBIKI No. 7.

Science 7 min

Japan Launched Its Seventh Navigation Satellite. It Is Flying Six.

MICHIBIKI No. 7 reached orbit on Tuesday morning, completing the launch manifest for a seven-satellite design. QZS-5 was...

Nadia Rahim

Pub. 11 Aug

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NASA and IBM Open-Sourced a Moon Model. It Is Best at Finding Ice.

A Thousand Control Cycles Became One. What That Buys Is Time.

Twenty Minutes a Week on the Phone Beat the Ed-Tech, at $11 a Child

The Oldest Evidence of Habitual Drug Use Rests on Two Sets of Teeth

The Fluid Blowup Proofs Are Machine-Checkable. The Competing Claim Was a Press Call.

One Event at 2.6 Sigma Is Not a Dark Matter Discovery, and LZ Says So

NASA's Roman Telescope Has Hubble's Mirror and a Hundred Times the Field

China's New Reusable Rocket Reached Orbit and Skipped the Recovery Attempt

Fukushima Holds 880 Tons of Debris. Crews Have Removed Under a Gram.

SpaceX Is Casting Turbine Blades Because Almost Nobody Else Can

Caltech Got Fibre-Grade Optical Loss Onto A Silicon Chip

Vietnam's First Privately Built Satellites Have a Ride

A Rocket Stage Hit the Moon. South Korea Was Overhead With a Camera.

Japan Launched Its Seventh Navigation Satellite. It Is Flying Six.