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SpaceX Took a Big Step Toward Reusing Starship’s Super Heavy Booster

SpaceX Took a Big Step Toward Reusing Starship’s Super Heavy Booster

Albert Wagner

SpaceX is having trouble with Starship’s upper stage after back-to-back failures, but engineers are making remarkable progress with the rocket’s ...

It’s Looking More Likely NASA Will Fly the Artemis II Mission

It’s Looking More Likely NASA Will Fly the Artemis II Mission

Albert Wagner

Late Saturday night, technicians at Kennedy Space Center in Florida moved the core stage for NASA’s second Space Launch System ...

An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself

An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself

Mickey Vernon

Last Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant ...

Texas Official Warns Against ‘Measles Parties’ Amid Growing Outbreak

Texas Official Warns Against ‘Measles Parties’ Amid Growing Outbreak

Albert Wagner

A Texas health authority is warning against “measles parties” as the outbreak in West Texas grew to at least 146 ...

Editors at Science Journal Resign En Masse Over Bad Use of AI, High Fees

Editors at Science Journal Resign En Masse Over Bad Use of AI, High Fees

Albert Wagner

Over the holiday weekend, all but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Human Evolution (JHE) resigned ...

Starship’s Next Launch Could Be Just Two Weeks Away

Starship’s Next Launch Could Be Just Two Weeks Away

Albert Wagner

Less than a month has passed since the historic fifth flight of SpaceX’s Starship, during which the company caught the ...

China’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starship

China’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starship

Albert Wagner

When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country’s first super heavy-lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked ...

OpenAI Threatens Bans as Users Probe Its ‘Strawberry’ AI Models

OpenAI Threatens Bans as Users Probe Its ‘Strawberry’ AI Models

Mickey Vernon

OpenAI truly does not want you to know what its latest AI model is “thinking.” Since the company launched its ...

The Polaris Dawn Spaceflight Was More Than Just a Billionaire Joyride

The Polaris Dawn Spaceflight Was More Than Just a Billionaire Joyride

Albert Wagner

A white spacecraft, lightly toasted like a marshmallow and smelling of singed metal, fell out of the night sky early ...

Strange Noises Are Coming from Inside Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft

Strange Noises Are Coming from Inside Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft

Albert Wagner

On Saturday NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore noticed some strange noises emanating from a speaker inside the Starliner spacecraft. “I’ve got ...

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