Technological Development

As NASA approaches a pivotal moment in its operations, the future of human activity in low-Earth orbit (LEO) hangs in the balance. The International Space Station (ISS), NASA's flagship orbital laboratory, is nearing the end of its operational life. The question looming large is whether the agency will be able to transition smoothly to a private space station, or face the possibility of a gap in human presence in orbit for the first time in decades. With NASA’s focus shifting toward deeper space exploration through its Artemis Program, which aims to return humans to the Moon and eventually reach Mars, LEO remains a critical frontier for scientific research and technological development.

In a groundbreaking experiment at CERN, particle physicists are on the brink of uncovering new physics beyond the Standard Model. The NA62 experiment, led by a team of researchers including Cristina Lazzeroni from the University of Birmingham, has successfully observed and measured a rare particle decay event that scientists have long sought to witness. The event? The decay of a charged kaon into a charged pion, a neutrino, and an antineutrino—a channel so rare that it has earned the status of a "golden" event in particle physics.

The brain of a fruit fly, while far from being the most sophisticated in the animal kingdom, has just provided scientists with an unprecedented opportunity to learn more about how brains function.This groundbreaking work, led by a consortium of scientists from the FlyWire project, offers a new window into the intricate web of neurons and synapses that form the building blocks of cognition and behavior.

Thousands of listeners were left without access to music and podcasts on Sunday after the music streaming service Spotify was down temporarily on Sunday.

Once formidable garden walls dividing China's biggest tech companies are slowly crumbling as Alibaba Group plans to tap on to the logistical services of JD.com.

Radian Aerospace has taken a major step toward achieving what has long been considered the "holy grail" of spaceflight: the development of a fully reusable space plane capable of taking off from an airfield and landing on a runway like a conventional airplane.

In a groundbreaking medical achievement, a 25-year-old woman from Tianjin, China, has effectively reversed her type 1 diabetes following a transplant of insulin-producing cells derived from reprogrammed stem cells.