RocketStar presents the first nuclear fusion electric thruster
RocketStar introduced FireStar Drive, the first nuclear fusion-powered electric spacecraft thruster, successfully demonstrating the technology.
RocketStar introduced FireStar Drive, the first nuclear fusion-powered electric spacecraft thruster, successfully demonstrating the technology.
2024 will mark a real historical turning point in various fields, also opening up new ethical and social challenges. Let's take a look.
Some news expected in 2024: progress in AI, advanced robotics in the factory, new frontiers between space and telecommunications and more
Loss of bone density, erectile dysfunction, nail loss: research highlights more and more problems for the human body in space.
Stoke Space receives a 100 million dollar investment to realize the dream of a "sustainable" rocket: will it usher in a new direction?
Pulsar Fusion is building the largest practical nuclear fusion engine ever, with speeds that could exceed 800.000 kilometers per hour.
3D printing is about to enter our kitchen, revolutionizing the way we prepare and eat meals.
Investing in the future can be risky, but in the long run it will bear fruit: especially if you focus on emerging technologies.
Is freezing your way into the future a good idea? Where are we with the "resurrection" after cryonics?
The judicial soap opera of Musk's acquisition of Twitter is not over: the one staged on Friday is only the last episode of the first season of a legal drama.
Cyanobacteria could help humans breathe in space by turning carbon dioxide into oxygen.
A startup develops a system of orbital mini containers to deposit goods off the planet for up to 5 years, and deliver them quickly.
The dreaded (even by me) solar geoengineering: controlling the Earth's climate from space. Some resources to start understanding each other more.
China and Russia join forces by signing a pact for the construction of a common moon base. Big trouble for NASA?
The Chinese Academy of Sciences "forced" to deny strange documents online. A joke, yes, but the question remains: is it possible to travel in a space-time tunnel?
The future may be dominated by superintelligences that we cannot control. Can we influence them in any way? Nick Bostrom reflects on the implications of the technological singularity.
Neuroscience on the shields in 2020: in the year in which "science" rhymed with "virus", there was a lot of crucial research that often went unnoticed.
There is no shortage of existential threats to life on Earth. How could a modern Noah's Ark be to save our species?
The data from the Chang'e 4 lunar probe are not comforting. The news from the Moon is clear: it is radioactive. Very radioactive.
The English company Pulsar Fusion has built a miniature prototype of a plasma engine: when fully operational it will be 10 times more efficient than traditional engines, halving the duration of trips to Mars
In Chernobyl (and other contaminated areas) there is a multitude of fungi capable of growing in spite of radiation. Science tries to explain it, to find medical applications.