Boeing’s Starliner capsule will remain ground-bound for a while longer yet. Last June, Starliner launched on its first-ever crewed flight, which sent NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to…
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Clean energy giant Goldwind leads China’s global sector push
China’s wind power manufacturers are beginning to make headway overseas. China has rushed ahead in recent years as the world’s forerunner in wind energy, propelled by explosive local demand as…
Viewpoint: Why more native Africans should be included in archaeological research projects across the continent
“A lot of the evidence that comes out of Africa informs us about our origins,” says [palaeoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie]. He bridles at the exclusion of African researchers from many fossil…
3,000-year-old Bronze Age daggers discovered near Kutenholz
A pair of 3,000-year-old Bronze Age daggers have been discovered by archaeologists near Kutenholz, a municipality in the district of Stade, Lower Saxony, Germany. The site was first identified in…
Digital PCR identifies leukemia patients who can stop drug treatment
Sample inclusion and performed real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) and digital PCR (dPCR) runs. Credit: The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2024.11.003 Researchers have found that the clinical application of…
Enhanced 6D pose estimation method promises better robotic object handling
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Recent work in 6D object pose estimation holds significant promise for advancing robotics, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), as well as autonomous navigation. The research,…
NEO surveyor instrument enclosure tested inside historic chamber for Apollo spacecraft testing
Credit: NASA The instrument enclosure of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor was prepared for critical environmental tests inside the historic Chamber A at the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson…
Gene editing with adeno-associated virus vector offers hope for hereditary deafness
Credit: JCI Insight (2025). DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.185193 An R75W mutation in the gap junction β2 (GJB2) gene causes severe fragmentation of gap junction plaques, connecting adjacent cells and leading to syndromic…
Filter-free air purifier that reduces ultrafine particles being deployed in Korea’s public spaces
Dr. Hak Joon Kim, Principal Researcher, Department of Urban Environment Research at KIMM. Credit: Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) High-capacity filter-free ultrafine particle reduction technology is now being…
Liquid-crystal platform overcomes optical losses in photonic circuits
A liquid-crystal-based platform acts as an optical processor in free space, allowing for the simultaneous manipulation of hundreds of optical modes within a compact two-dimensional setup. Credit: M. G. Ammendola…
